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Primary Prevention Teenage Drug
1,716 wordsOne of the goals of the City of Chicago's Health Department is to develop ways to decrease teenage drug use. Since the number of adolescents who use illegal drugs is growing rapidly, new and innovative prevention methods must be experimented with in order to solve the problem. Approaching the issue of teenage drug use from Gerald Caplan's prevention perspective will bring about the new and innovative results needed to effectively address this issue. Gerald Caplan (1964) is known as the individua...
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Teenagers Drugs And Peer Pressure
1,269 wordsDrug use is an increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the teenage years, these years are the most crucial in the maturing process. During these years adolescents are faced with the difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority figures and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily available, adolescents are curious and venerable...
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Death Penalty Drug Addiction
2,406 wordsPROPOSAL ON DRUG ABUSE PROGRAMS Introduction Drug addiction is considered as a gnawing problem because of its persistent negative effects not just to individuals but also to society. This paper looks at this problem exhaustively and proposes solutions as to how this can be remedied. There are different approaches that have been explored with regard to this matter. Tougher measures are encouraged here. However, death penalty for drug-related gang killings simply would not work too well in the lon...
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Depression And Suicide Attempted Suicide
903 wordsDrug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in todays high schools. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily, adolescents are curious and venerable, there is peer ...
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Side Effects Include High School Students
2,120 wordsA drug is a substance that alters the mind, body or both. Drug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in colleges today. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process (Shiromoto 5). During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs...
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