Wake Up Call Essay

According to DrugAbuse.gov, long-term studies of drug use patterns show that most high school students who use other illegal drugs have tried marijuana first. Teens are often peer pressured into doing drugs; they get to comfortable with them they inevitably reframe to harder and more potent drugs. In Cole Meyer’s short story, “Addiction” the narrator is a struggling teen addict and his addiction continues to worsen as he ages. Meyer uses setting, character and conflict to illustrate the devastating effects of addiction on the individual.

Alarm fatigue is a growing national problem within the health care industry that links medical technology as a serious hazard that poses a significant threat to patient safety within hospitals across the country. Alarm fatigue occurs when nurses encounter an overwhelming amount of alarms thus becoming desensitized to the firing alarms. Alarm desensitization is a multifaceted issue that is related to the number of alarming medical devices, a high false alarm rate, and the lack of alarm standardization in hospitals today (Cvach, 2012). Desensitization can lead to delayed response times, alarms silenced or turned off, or alarms adjusted to unsafe limits, which can create a dangerous situation for the patient. Alarm fatigue

Substance abuse is a tragedy that touches many lives. Abuse begins with a single use event that, with continued use and overindulgence, transforms into a battle. The abuser most always loses that battle. Personal relationships, social ties, and employment suffers. Irresponsible and erratic behavior becomes the norm, and though the abuser is aware on some level of the reckless and thoughtless acts that they commit, they continue to use and abuse their drug of choice. What starts as experimentation often ends in addiction. The best hope for a person in the grips of substance abuse is immediate,

Ok where should i start...it all started when i was 15 i started smoking pot and after awhile it was not working so i started doing acid but that stopped working so i found this kid downtown and he introduced me into coke man i was living the life than well that's what i thought, i always had money and i was always able to get high right thats what its all about...no it's not i got kicked out of my mom's house and i never went home to my dads so one morning i woke up and i didn't have money and i was freaking out so i went to my mom's when she was at work and stole 100 dollars from her dresser went out got high went back to my friends and it

The misuse of prescription drugs among college students has become an important public health concern over the past years due to increases in its’ widespread presence since the mid 1990s. In the article “A Rising Epidemic on College Campuses: Prescription Drug Abuse,” Clinton’s editorial team mentions that the epidemic has now spread to college campuses because students are being exposed to these drugs, using them for a variety of reasons. Xanax and Adderall are specifically the main drugs being used on these campuses. Xanax is a pill that treats anxiety and panic disorder, and Adderall is used to treat ADHD and make studying easier. A Miami student himself spoke upon his experiences with drugs on campus, “ I tried to study and put my all into this, but I surrendered and

There comes a time, in most citizens’ lives when they must stand against their government to produce change. Change can only be acquired if people take the necessary actions for it to take place. Nelson Mandela was a historical revolutionist who helped his people in Africa, to revolt against the government, in order to bring about change. As a result, he was sentenced to prison for 27 years for trying to overthrow the government. Many revolutionist, such as Arundhati Roy and Martin Luther King Jr., explain in their essays how the role of the citizen is to stand against injustice, and how the government labels them as anti-national because of it.

Both Harper Lee, in her 1959 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Maya Angelou, in her 1993 poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” induce profound claims on society and prejudice. Despite the notion that the authors wrote this prose over thirty years apart, both Lee and Angelou exhort society into ameliorating their ideologies and claim that despite people’s differences, humanity can accomplish celebrated triumphs.

Prescription for change starts off by talking about America and the epidemic of addiction. Addiction is such a struggle for all these people each day. Every day we are faced with people addicted to drugs, and dying all throughout the world. This video talks about what we need to change that, how we can change, and the effects of doing this for stopping addiction.

Teens and young adults realize when they have taken to many pills until it’s too late. “Some of the signs or symptoms they may poses are an altered mental state, confusion, slurred speech excited delirium or agitation, sweating and out of control.”(Knudson) They may be unable to breathe on their own. If you notice any of these symptoms you should take them to the emergency room immediately. It is better to have them looked at by a physician than not at all.

Then something assured me something was going on. I was doing laundry one day in our three bedroom trailer in Urbana. I had separated all of our clothes and thrown them into different baskets. I picked up the last pair of jeans in my uncle’s basket, and there in the bottom, was a used needle with no cap. My thoughts spun around me like I was in some sort of tropical storm, and I began to vomit and cry. I didn’t want to have to deal with it, nor did I want to tell my mom. I found an empty Pepsi can and stuck the needle in the bottom of it. Then I stepped on the can sideways and threw it away. No one knew about that. I had started to put two and two together with the other items I’d found, and started to realize what we were dealing with, a meth addict.

To have known so many people that have struggled with drug addiction in their teenage years it has become very apparent what a vital time in one’s life it is to know the dangers of abusing drugs as a teenager. Even though not all teens abuse drugs, it is an epidemic in the United States because more teens are turning to drugs to escape or use out of boredom. Take my younger brother for instance; he has struggled with drug addiction from the time he was a teenager into his early twenties. My brother Matthew started off smoking pot and drinking socially out of boredom. Then he found the

Life changing events can sometimes be difficult. In the stories “I Never Had it Made,” By Jackie Robinson Warriors Don’t Cry By Melba Patillo Beals and “The Father of Chinese Aviation.” By Rebecca Maskel. Melba Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all experienced life changing events that impacted their lives. If you did not know these people went through danger to break segregation. Melba Beals and Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by playing on a white ball team and going to a white school as blacks.

What is social justice and how does it relate to liberation theology? How do sin, love, grace, and human freedom affect social justice? What restricts freedom and social justice? And how does all of this play a role in the Kingdom of God?

Trying to fall asleep that night was near impossible. I tossed and turned for over three hours, and my sheets were in a labyrinth at my feet. I grabbed my pillow and pressed it over my head as hard as I could. All I wanted to do was block the thoughts and leave my mind in some sort of nirvana. No such luck. My thoughts kept spinning around and crashing into each other, knocking things around inside my head. I yearned for the vacancy of sleep but knew it was unattainable. I kept replaying in my head what a fantastic job I was doing at evading reality--until now. I had mastered the art of denial. It was exhausting, but it had worked so well. I had every natural skill it took to escape, elude, and side-step past a problem I did not want to face. There was nothing I hated more than being forced to see the sharpness and look life straight in the eye. I was aware of the flaws in this approach to life and dealing with certain situations, but for some reason the realization that my master plan had its failings only made me emerge myself in it more entirely. Now there was no faking it anymore. It was real and it was happening. I could not tip-toe past the truth this time.

‘Motivation’ is derived from the Latin term ‘movere’ that means ‘to move’. Thus, motivation is a process that starts with a physiological or psychological deficiency or need that activates a behaviour or a drive that is aimed at a goal or incentive (Luthans). Broadly speaking, motivation is willingness to exert high levels of efforts towards organizational goals, conditioned by the efforts’ ability to satisfy some individual needs (Robbins). Need means some internal state that make certain outcomes appear attractive. An unsatisfied need creates tension that stimulates drives within the individual. These drives generate a search behaviour to find particular goals, that if attained,