Ritalin And Abortion

Heather was addicted to painkillers for eight years. She grew up extremely close to her grandfather and after

He was constantly high on heroin, and when he was not, he was grumpy and abusive towards her. Eventually in times of lonesome, Baby got a hold of drugs on her own. First, she tried magic mushrooms. At first, getting high was a way for Baby to entertain herself. However, she eventually tried her father’s drug of choice, heroin. She quickly becomes addicted to the feeling she gets when high off this drug. Heroin entwines itself into Baby’s day-to-day life and begins to impair her normal decision making, “There wasn’t much, but there was enough to make all my anger dissipate. As soon as I was high, I couldn’t even remember what my escape plan had been (569).”Her quick addiction allows Baby to find an escape from her reality. Turning to drugs to fill the void her parents left within her childhood is not only temporary, but it is dangerous. People close to Baby demonstrate first-hand the dangers that this coping mechanism can pose. Her pimp, Alphonse, even died of an overdose with her in the room, “As soon as I looked at Alphonse’s face, I knew that he was dead, even though I had never seen a dead body before (604).” Baby’s method of coping from her father’s negligence is to turn to the exact thing that she witness ruin him, heroin. However, as a child of her age, she would not know any better. Her father is happier and more affectionate towards her while he is high, so it would only make sense to her to think that she would be the

Lauren’s mother succumbed to the troubles of the world and was addicted to drugs while she was pregnant. Her mother’s addiction caused the severity of Lauren’s

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

They had plans to have children and to move from California. Once she completed college the marriage went downhill. He decided he did not want to move or have children. She believed she started developing symptoms of schizophrenia because of unhappiness and disappointments. She later experience delusions of people plotting against her. The symptoms became more complicated and her husband committed to a psychiatric facility.

“It is possible that the use of certain drugs occasionally generates what we call selflessness. Such experiences are temporary, as they depend on the psychopharmacological actions of the substances” (Dambrun & Ricard, 2011, p. 151). There is a man sleeping in the bed and she goes out onto the balcony, climbs up on the railing and prepares to jump. She changes her mind but is obviously distraught and has a mental breakdown, crying. Sometime afterwards, she goes back to Greenbow, Alabama and Forrest. They are happy for a short time; Jenny even confronting the house she was born in and lived with her father but one night Forrest asks her to marry him and she rejects him saying she is not the kind of girl he wants to marry. “Researchers found those with a history of abuse experienced greater symptomatic distress, poorer interpersonal functioning, and lower self-esteem compared with a clinical sample with no abuse history” (Price, et al., 2004, p. 379). Hurt and angry, Forrest walks away but later that night Jenny comes to him, tells him she does love him and they have sex. The instinct to flee rears its head and by the time Forrest wakes up in the morning, Jenny has left. “Individuals who experience emotionally abusive attachment relationships in childhood are at a distinct disadvantage in interpersonal contexts because they develop a distorted understanding of what loving and caring relationships

She is then introduced to marijuana and is now using as well as selling it.

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

The book overall to me was a very interesting book, from her own perspective she doesn’t view addiction a sin nor a chronic brain disease but a learning disorder because it showed her how to connect and deal with people and the other inabilities she dealt with growing up. Like your husband his addiction helped fill a void of his imperfections which is close to the same thing for Maia. For Maia when she started using marijuana and LSD than in college she got exposed to heroin and cocaine. When she used she felt liberated and all her imperfections went out the window, she felt like she may have had Asperger’s due to the things she was going through. When she used the various substances, she felt like she could get along with people without feeling strange, they made her feel more open.

While in foster care she adapts to new dysfunctional homes and with new rules. She had an unhealthy relationship with her first foster’s mom boyfriend and that foster mom shot her in the shoulder. She was starved in another foster home and began using

In today’s society people are talking about babies being born to drugs, and how could a mother do that to their unborn child. Drug addiction is a very serious issue that needs more research. We are still learning the effects of substance abuse. One problem that needs to be looked at is are there enough Rehabilitation Centers, to help the women who are addicted to these different street drugs. Also doctor and nurses should not judge these women but instead give them the best prenatal care that can be provided. We need to see what harm and side affects it has on the mother and baby, so that we can be able to understand better how to treat these women and get them off drugs before they do harm their babies.

At 11 years old she saw her mother deceased in a casket. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 16 and had five more children to relieve issues of feeling empty and alone. As the pressures of teen pregnancy, poverty and motherhood mount Diane turns to crack cocaine and neglect her then young children. Her eldest daughter reports her drug use to her teachers which results in the removal of all six of Diane’s children into foster care for a period of 10 years. During that time Diane turns to her community drug rehabilitation center, Child welfare services, her religion and her therapist for help in recovering from her addictions and for help in reuniting with her children.

She explained her mother acted as a friend more than a mother. Her mother would randomly hand her pills which Rhonda would take consistently. She didn’t understand the consequences and thought it was okay because her mom was doing the same thing. Drinking, smoking marijuana, and taking pills became more frequent, she said, “Pill taking became common. I struggled with depression and anxiety. I began to act like a typical teenage drug addict. I began to steal and sneak out at night, but my mom never noticed because she was always high.” You could tell it still affected her as she

For the most part, Elyn had a normal childhood with loving parents. However, as early as the age of 8 years old she began to experience some early symptoms such as intense compulsions, night terrors and even believing that houses were putting thoughts into her head. At twelve years old she stopped eating properly and lost a lot of weight. Even at a young age, Elyn believed that there was something terribly wrong with her and did her best to hide her condition from her family. As a teenager Elyn briefly experimented with drugs and was sent by her parents to an intense drug rehab after-school program which taught her that psychotropic drugs of any kind are bad and that any personal obstacle can be overcome with sheer force of will. In part due to this lesson that Elyn learned early on, she spent decades resisting medications outright or secretly reducing her dosages after agreeing to take medications. This reminded me of the importance of assessing the meaning behind taking medications with clients.

Once this girl started with the drugs, she could not stop. As soon as she tried the first drug, it lead to all of the other drugs and things that she did. Her first time doing the drug was an accident, and she did not know, but she made the wrong choice in continuing to do them. She said it gave her a feeling of belonging and love that she had never felt before. If her parents or her close friends had paid more attention to her, then some of the events that happened would not have happened. Her heavy drug use lead to her runaway from home to the streets, involvement in crime, her prostitution, and her visit to the insane asylum. She found a "best friend" (Chris) - one that would give her drugs - and they decided to runaway and leave their family and friends to start their own shop in San Francisco. They thought they could not handle their parents telling them what is right and what is wrong, but that is what they needed to hear. They were naive in thinking they could live their lives alone without any rules or any authority.