The impact that the media in the United States has on the minds of the youth has changed into an increasingly dangerous issue. While the media has many positive influences there are still yet many negative behaviors exercised by many teenagers and young adults. Amongst these behaviors is the acceptance of how sex is ok amongst teenagers. The media has become a pool of promiscuity which has led to the spread of many STD’s including HIV and AIDS. This essay describes how the media has led to the rise in promiscuity and thus leading to the continuous growth of the HIV Pandemic giving other countries a reason to believe that the people in the United States have poor cultural values.
One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990). Children with a history of neglect or physical abuse are at risk of developing psychiatric problems, or a disorganized attachment style. Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including dissociative symptoms, as well as anxiety, depressive, and acting out
A person will be diagnosed with AIDS after they reach a CD4 count lower than 200. A person may also be diagnosed with AIDS if they experience Pneumocyatis jiroveci pneumonia, Cytomegalovirus, Tuberculosis, Toxoplasmosis, or Cryptosporidiosis (Staff). In simpler words, HIV/AIDS weakens a person’s immune system making them susceptible to different types of infections and other diseases. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS (Staff). Other infections that are not so well known may also cause death in people who have HIV/AIDS.
These under age prostitutes are just at risk of catching and spreading other sexually transmitted diseases to their babies and to other johns-not to mention each other. These children are also subjected to mental abuse from both the johns and the pimps which can lead to serious long term mental illness. These illness include everything from anxiety to depression to thoughts of suicide and even post-traumatic stress disorder. In the United States, 25 of 61 pregnant prostituted adolescents reported that they had seriously considered or attempted suicide within the past year( Pro- stitution and Sex Trafficking pg 54). The child prostitute has to endure feelings of hopelessness, abandonment, insomnia, nightmares and constantly being degraded by the johns and the pimps.
This results in extreme and inaccurate views of the activities of young people, that often relies upon scare tactics and the over exaggeration of rare news stories in order to make such activities seem worse than they are. This leads to youth being constructed as folk devils, which occurs after the resulting moral panics. Examples of this include the mods and rockers of the 1960s. Although relatively few youths identified as either of these labels, as the media pushed the story of the 'war between mods and rockers' onto the public, this in turn led to more youths choosing to identify as a mod or rocker. This is known as the deviancy amplification spiral, in which the media makes a relatively small problem much worse, thus presenting young people as a problem group.
HIV and African American women It is imperative to determine what is perpetuating the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American women and what unique challenges they face? Do the available prevention techniques consider the everyday realities that befall African American women? Some of the risk factors include childhood sexual abuse, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse, relationship conflicts, such as fear of intimate partner violence (IPV) external stressors, such as poverty and lack of access to HIV prevention services and more importantly their belief system, social norms, their attitude toward sexual activity and safe sexual practices. The lack of attention in these areas of prevention strategies poses a major
In the gay community it is known that sex and drugs go together. The use of drugs increases their sexual drive. Being under the influence of drugs and alcohol increases the chances of having unprotected sexual activities and needle sharing. This can cause the virus to spread along with other sexually transmitted diseases. The use of drugs also decreases the adherence to medications and medical adherence.
No matter how is the injury, you would be scared to get other complicated diseases from infection to AIDS. Sexual abuse is also a form of violence. On one hand it is a physical abuse that is occurring probably in every city in Morocco. On the other, it is a moral exhaustion. Children, especially, are victimized by those sexual predators for reasons such as child’s availability, anonymity, physiological sicknesses, and the lack of child-protection laws.
Among these populations HIV/AIDS, Female, and Gang populations offer unique challenges in the prison system. Incarcerated populations are more at risk of catching HIV than people outside of prison. Drug use and rapes are the most common ways to pass the disease. Injecting drug users cause HIV to be higher in prisons. These people are often more likely to contract the disease from sharing dirty needles.
In the essay “Against the Legalization of Drugs,” James Q. Wilson writes: “Women are much more likely to use crack than heroin, and if they are pregnant, the effects on their babies are tragic.”….”Cocaine harms the fetus and can lead to physical deformities or neurological damage. Some crack babies have for all practical purposes suffered a disabling stroke while still in the womb,” (645). If that the case, its common sense that this is one of the many reasons why we should not legalized drugs. We would be harming every newborn at a really young age and eventually as they get older they will be drug addicts as well. The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain.