In 1998, the states paid a little over seven dollars a day per inmate for healthcare (Kinsella, 2004). You can imagine that in the last thirteen years, this cost has continued to increase and will only get worse with the aging prison population, the occurrences of communicable disease and
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
Would you want them <br>working for you? Plus, the financial impact on business is severely staggering <br>because of drug using employees (Psychemedics, 1). <br> According to federal experts, ten to twenty-three percent of Americans <br>have used or currently using dangerous drugs while on the job, and forty-four <br>percent of drug users even admit to selling drugs on the job. Drug abusers cost an <br>employer on average $7,000 to $10,000 per employee annually (Jussim, 14) <br>(Psychemedics,1). Today, millions of workplaces have begun giving test, hoping <br>to eliminate drugs from the employees and the workplace.
It is still devastating jobs, bankrupting businesses, and forcing homeowners into foreclosure. “Approximately 2.8 million properties had foreclosure actions taken against them in 2010, about 1 in 45 US households in all and an increase of 2 percent over 2009.” The economic contraction is causing pain just about everywhere. There are similarities, but according to the experts,
For instance, many homeless individuals struggle with substance abuse. A person could infer that a homeless individual turns to substance abuse because he or she wants to numb the feelings of pain and failure he or she has because he or she cannot provide adequate housing or perhaps because they are feeling isolated from their friends and family. To make this inference one would have to assume that being homeless makes an individual believe they are inadequate and causes distance between the homeless individual and his or her family and friends. This may be true for some people, but not all homeless people believe that being homeless is a bad thing. Many of these homeless individuals may have had a pre existing substance abuse problem and became homeless because family members were no longer willing to enable self-destructive behavior.
Bad moods can also be intensified by using this stimulant ( Parrot 45 ). Chronic use can result in violent behaviors, anxiety, depression, confusion, hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia. When the addict stops using the drug, these side effects are more severe. Brain damage caused by meth abuse is similar to Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy ( USDOJ “Meth…” ). These moods and behaviors can lead to social and occupational deterioration ( NIDA “Meth…” ).
Leonardo Zambrano English 1302 B.G Guitierrez February 25, 2012 Study or you Dishonor this Family!! Suicidal thoughts can get to any person. All you need is a depression topped off with deep remorse of yourself and a little bit of hopelessness. “It has been estimated that more than 20,000 people commit suicide in the United States each year” (Parrish 1). This is just a rough idea of the numbers.
(APA, 2000) People with this disorder have an increased risk of suicide and physical illness. Many studies regarding socioeconomic paradigms have shown that the poor classes are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than the wealthy class; this idea is called the downward drift theory. There are three phases when schizophrenia is unmistakable are called: prodromal, active, and residual. The leading stage would be the prodromal stage, where individuals slowly start to mentally deteriorate; they develop strange ideas and speak, express their ideas in an atypical way. The second phase would be the active stage, symptoms become apparent; often elicited by a loss or a tragically event in their lives.
Cigarettes are also one of the top purchased items in the world. “Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis” (Martin). Smoking is harmful to smokers and even the people and environment that surround them. The smoke from tobacco contains over 4,000 chemical, 450 of those chemicals are very harmful and even deadly to humans (“Tobacco”). Cigarette smoking should be banned because they are harmful to the smokers’ health, they’re harmful to nonsmokers’ health, as well as, being harmful to our environment; however, banning the use cigarettes could be very detrimental for our economy.
A victim of rape (primary victimisation), for example, may be subjected to victim blaming and ostracism as the result of the attack; those who become disabled (primary victimisation) may be subjected to non-accommodation, medicalization, and segregation; and those who develop mental disorder (primary victimisation) may be subject to institutionalisation, that in each case may be far more victimising to these individuals and limiting of their life opportunity than the primary victimising stigmatic condition itself, and are thus called secondary victimisation. The disregards of victims’ needs following a crime against them can sometimes be so traumatic that it is called the “second rape” (in the case of rape) or “second assault”. Victims will feel let down and isolated by the criminal justice body, the medical body and any other institution that is meant to help them, but instead causes the victim in certain cases to start believing that it was in fact their fault or that they had a hand in causing the crime. During the court process, secondary victimisation takes place at various levels. Examples of this are where the victim is not afforded private waiting or report-taking facilities.