Substance Abuse Outline

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a substance (drug) in which the user consumes the

     During the 1040's and 50's smoking was popular and socially acceptable. Movie stars, sports heroes, and celebrities appeared in cigarette advertisements that promoted and heavily influenced teens. Influence also came from Television and other media sources. The desires to be accepted and to feel grown up are among the most common reasons to start smoking. Yet, even though teenagers sometimes smoke to gain independence, and to be part of the crowd parental influence plays the strongest role as to whether or their children will smoke, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 1991. Children are exposed to and influenced by the parents, siblings, and the media long before peer pressure will become a factor. Mothers should not smoke during pregnancy, nicotine, which crosses the placental barrier, may affect the female fetus during an important period of development so as to predispose the brain to the addictive influence of

"Chemical dependence is used to describe the compulsive use of chemicals (drugs or alcohol) and the inability to stop using them despite all the problems caused by their use." (http://www.health.uab.edu)

Whereas having a psychological dependence is a sense of need for a specific substance, either for its positive effects or to avoid negative effects. (Shultz, 2003).

O’Byrne, Haddock, Poston, and Mid America Heart Institute (2002) investigated whether parenting style was a risk factor of smoking initiation and experimentation among adolescents and whether there was a relationship between parenting style and readiness to quit, and nicotine dependence among smokers. O’Byrne et al. (2002) defined current smokers as those who smoke regularly, experimenters as individuals who have smoked on one or two occasions, but have not smoked in the past month. Initiated smokers were considered both current smokers and individuals who smoked regularly in the past and then quit. Readiness to quit was categorized into four stages: precontemplation, for those who had no intent on quitting, contemplation, for those who may quit but not within the next 6 months, preparation, for those who will quit within the next 6 months and action, for those who will quit next month. Parenting style was measure by the Family of Origin Scale (FOS) which measured family intimacy and autonomy. This scale

With the young female, the proportion of girls interested in smoking experienced the same increase as the male counterpart in the first 20 years of the given period, which rose from 5% to 37% in the year of 1990. In the last 10 years of the surveyed period, which was from

It is important to define fine lines among the terms mainly considered as synonyms with substance use. The substance use describes the occasional usage of the illicit drug or consuming alcohol, which has the potential to get converted into drug addiction if the person starts using illegal drugs/substances regularly (8). So it is relatively easy to link substance use with the substance abuse that further lead to addiction, some time described as substance dependency (9). From psychological and sociocultural perspectives the substance use is the mother of further issue associated improper use of drugs and other products harming people lives.

This behavior includes a person having a deep craving for the drug, spending an excessive amount of time seeking the drug and prefer to give up important (pleasurable) activities in order to obtain/use the drug. Other symptoms may also include the uncontrollable use of the drug along with a person having unsuccessful attempts to cut down or control the substance use as well. While the factors of substance dependency and substance abuse are a great concern for one’s health and well-being, it is also important to consider their differences when a treatment plan is being

Possible causes that can contribute to someone becoming a substance abuser include, depression, stress or peer pressure. Depression could come from a death or loss, social isolation, past physical or sexual abuse. Stress could

In this paper I will focus mainly on the question of, do peers and parents have an influence on tobacco use among adolescents? The core concepts I will be exploring

If there was a clear understand between substance-related and addictive disorder this might help experts in the field to help their clients treatment and the outcome might be better. Individuals sometimes choose to use substances to enhance the perceived rewards or other experiences. When used for these reasons, the substance

This paper will discuss the effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) or known as Second Hand Smoke (SHM) among children. In addition, it will focuses on the how ETS becomes a problem for Children in American household as well as in other well developed nations. It will describe the effects that has among children living in contaminated environment by Second Hand Smoke. One of the health effects can be Asthma, which is provoked by their parents who smoke in their vicinity. Furthermore, there will be a discussion where as a public health practitioner trying to improve the health of these children and to educate their parents to lessen their cigarette consumption near children.

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a substance (drug) in which the

The side of smoking that is rarely published will be explored in this paper. The side that only a smoker knows, not the side the governments and health agencies provide the news media with. This information is valuable because it is not very well exposed to the world. This essay will answer the question, “Why do you smoke cigarettes?”.

ABSTRACT. Today, smoking behavior is not only dominated by the adults, but also has penetrated the teenagers, especially young men. In the neighborhood often find the sight-teen boys gathered while smoking, which is often seen are usually idle moments they assembled in the shop, cafe or other public places