Drugs And Drug Abuse

Drug use is more likely to occur in areas in which people experience unemployment, poverty, housing instability, educational and health disadvantages, and crime (Pearson, 1993). Although these communities may face hard times, as reviewed in Righteous Dopefiend, the community members did not lack relationships, or a close-knit network with one another. Social support is their closest connection to family. With provisions to the city, and more social support, positivity from the network can be useful in maintaining through hardships of being involved with life in the streets of San Francisco (Barczyk Thompson, & Yew,

To illustrate the magnitude of the research problem and provide a frame of reference, this section begins with a brief overview of the increased use of pharmaceuticals and prescription drug abuse in the US. The section continues with the relationship between illicit drugs and prescriptions, adolescents’ abuse, personal and social factors; then concludes with the theoretical approach. The Social-Ecological Theory, will be applied in researching prescription drug abuse, possible influences and protective factors in adolescents in relation to prescription drug abuse, to develop focused intervention strategies and educational programs for this population, similar to other substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana.

This story is from a book “Righteous Dopefiend” by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, published in 2009 May. The introduction basically talks about the powerful study of anthropological plunges the reader into the world of homelessness and drug addiction in America. According to the study from the late 1990s to early 2000s, based on ago and gender profile of homeless men and women were mostly heroin injectors and they also smoked crack and drank large amount of alcohol. Many of the injectors were distressed and from poor families. In the study in 2008, many African-American and Latino who used drugs primarily smoked marijuana even while they were selling heroin on the street. Heroin effects the human bodies and daily routine, within couples of weeks of daily use, heroin creates a strong physiological dependence operating.

Crack users range from the Wall Street stockbroker to a homeless person living in Central Park, but by and large this evil drug called crack had its biggest impact on New York’s inner city minority population. A New York doctor, Dr. Mark Gold who is the person who set up and helps run the not for profit organization called 800-COCAINE, a hotline set up to help addicts and perspective users answer questions about the drug and also offers counseling and drug intervention services; suggested that his findings showed that, “occasional users of crack quickly increased, the amount and frequency of crack use until total dependency was achieved.” Men and women who were once law abiding citizens and honest people were now robbing and stealing to pay for the drug, and many who once enjoyed good health were now suffering from a variety of physical and mental aliments springing from their cocaine abuse. Crack brings along with its amazing high, some ominous dangers. Dr. Robert Maslansky is the director of New York City’s Bellevue Hospital

The issue of drug abuse and addiction in the United States has become much more relevant in the past few years. Drugs and the drug crisis were for the longest time something which was limited geographically, socially and racially. Which is to say that drugs were only a “problem” in the inner city. In the 1980s, this was symbolized by the so-called crack epidemic which ravaged the poorer and most fragile communities in the country. The issue of drug abuse in the United States is important because of how much it impacts the lives of people in all different ways and this problem seems to be increasing. Society must act to save these people in order to improve their lives and build strong communities for the future.

Based on data young women have a higher risk after a traumatic event to develop substance use disorder (Khorry, ). There also have been research that have identified that in men and women to have similar onset in age after traumatic event exposure the use of

Studies have shown that acute stress disorder has prevalence between 14 percent and 33percent in people who have experienced severe traumatic events in their lives. Anxiety disorders are often more common in women than men and genetic factors may play some role, but specific genes have not been identified. Of course, risk factors ultimately determine the diagnosis including the loss of a family member, bodily injury, being depressed, and losing your home. The severity of the trauma and nature can alter the statistics of the disorder. The majority of individuals experiencing acute stress disorder recover completely. As stated before, if the symptoms are not resolved, a possibility of progression to post traumatic stress disorder can occur. The chances that a person with the diagnosis of acute stress disorder will develop posttraumatic stress disorder are about 80 percent. But, if they receive cognitive behavior therapy, the chance is decreased to only about 20 percent (Lindemann 1944). Now, when looking at the epidemiology of cocaine: more than 14 million people use cocaine worldwide, about 0.3 percent of the global population age 15 to 64 years old. The use is more prevalent in North America and Central and South America. The United Kingdom and Spain’s current use has reached the levels of the US. Most cocaine use is by

A qualitative study was conducted in Brazil by researchers Seleghim, Marangoni, Marcon, and Oliveira (2011), who examining the effect of crack cocaine users’ relationship with their family members. All of the participants were patients of a psychiatric emergency clinic. The information collected were categorized into: family ties and facilitators of crack users. When analyzing the socio-economic status of the crack uses, Researchers found the the majority of these people were unemployed or homeless, had history of incomplete primary or secondary schools, separated or single, and mostly man age ranging from 20-49 (Seleghim et al., 2011). The interview reviled long term use of substances anywhere between 8-17 years, and almost daily compulsive

With $85 billion in the worldwide sales, and 21 million users, cocaine is still one of the top drugs of choice for many Americans. Even though the US market has fallen from the 1980’s crazy, $134 billion in market sales, to the lowly $35 billion in sales in 2008, Americas thrust for “THAT COCA” is still a major issue for the communities and societies as a whole, in 2015. In this paper, I am going to take you on my journey and experiences with the cocaine epidemic of the 80’s, 90’s, and all the way to the year 2015.

In today’s society, the defining moment of high-risk populations occurs on a daily basis due to unprecedented and precedent situations out of person’s control. The lives of individuals who are victims of substance abuse are running of the events of turmoil either from the past or at the present moment.

Drugs and alcohol are “commonplace words in our society” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 1). They are common themes at “celebrations, religious rituals, during recreation and for pain relief” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 1). Some people though abuse drugs. We see more instances of people “both young and old abusing drugs” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 1). We’ll discuss how “common drug abuse is, who it affects and how it correlates to violence, child and domestic abuse” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 1).

The usage of drug is unbiased when it comes to race and class. Anyone has an equal chance to get addicted to a drug of their choice. In the today’s society, the drug is viewed as horrible and those who are ‘dependent’ on it are either criminals and/or addicts. There are many researches that were done in the past that criminalized those who use, which bring the term to criminology. Today there are so many drugs that are being used by different people in varies age group and to each drug there is a technique on, how is it use and when is it comes to the usage of drug, it does not discriminate by race nor class. This is what many people tend to forget and with so many pieces published it is very accessible to anyone who is very interested in

The Overuse and Misuse of alcohol and or recreational drugs is a major problem throughout the youth of the world, and they change people, they change the way people think, they change the way people act, and through an improved awareness and economic funds to raise awareness, and help provided for those affected by drugs and alcohol. I will be exploring how drugs and alcohol affect men’s life due to the social, economic, and cultural factors. Many factors contribute to the misuse of Alcohol and other drugs in male health, these include social, cultural, and economic. “Drug Abuse costs the healthcare system about 11 billion with overall costs reaching as high as 193 billion” (Rehabs.com 2017). “Approximately 1 in 20 male adults, a quarter of a billion of people between the ages of 15 and 64 years, used at least one recreational drug in 2014” (UNODC 2016). “12 million people inject recreational drug, 1.6 million people who inject recreational drugs are living with HIV, and 6 million are living with Hepatitis C” (UNODC 2016). These scary facts can be hugely reduced by as little as a supportive family or a supportive friend.

Drug addiction within the healthcare has become a very important issue. Drug-addicted Doctors & Health Care Professionals (2015) studied that “doctors and other health care workers are addicted to drugs in the same proportion as the general population” (para, 1). Anesthesiologists, specifically, continuously shows an increase rate of drug misuse. There are many factors that contribute to the abuse of drugs to include: access to drugs, high stress environment, control-oriented personality. The main drugs that are being abused are fentanyl, sufentanil, merperidine, and morphine (substance abuse among anesthesiologists, 2012).

What does it mean to be drugged? It means losing your health. It means losing the ability to learn. It means losing your family and friends. It means losing free will. It means losing the joy of living. When a person does drugs, it is likely that they will lose more than what they gain by the drug’s effects. People who use drugs have only one desire in life, to get high. The attitude is now, what the hell do I care? Being drugged also means that there is the constant possibility of infection, disease, and even death, but that does not matter because an addict only wants their fix.