These professionals possess great skills and characteristics required to offer assistance to the patients to help them be better and function in society. Mental health is a severe problem that affects many individual’s way of thinking, their feelings, and how they behave in several different ways. Professionals need to acquire the right skills and characteristics to properly handle these mental health patients. Studying criminal justice at the University of Phoenix has opened up opportunities for me to learn more about working in the human services field. This will help me to gain employment in numerous state and federal level agencies.
A pressing question stands for illicit drug use in the United States: why are these drugs labeled illicit even illegal? Drugs such as marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and most pills are termed illegal simply because the United States government believes that these drugs affect our bodies in the most terrible ways. The problem occurs when we can connect social problems between crime and drugs. According to Drugs, Crime, & Contemporary Perspectives, the use of drugs is connected to crime rates in the United States and around the world. It is believed that people commit crimes because of the effects of drugs.
A comparison of the policy models used in the development and implementation of these federal acts addresses the government's response to this public disease. Understanding the efficacy of these policies is paramount to addressing this social crisis. CONTENTS Abstract 2 Introduction 4 The Social Problem of Methamphetamine 6 Scope of Problem 6 Causes 7 Consequences of Use 8 Target Population 10 Three Theoretical Perspectives Related to Drug Abuse 11 Availability-Proneness Theory 11 Psychosocial Theory of Drug Abuse: A Psychodynamic Approach 13 Self-Esteem and Self-Derogation Theory 14 Three Social Welfare Policies Relevant to Methamphetamine 16 The Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Control Act of 1970 17 The Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996 18 The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 19 Three Theoretical Perspectives on Policymaking 21 Conclusion 22 References 24 The Social Illness of Methamphetamine Abuse The manufacturing, trafficking, and abuse of the illegal drug,
There are lots of benefits for the department of defense when conduct drug testing. Substance abuse was a major problem for the military during and after the Vietnam War it contributed to drop in job performance, increased in accidents and injuries, violations of security and theft of military property. At the time there were many that would argue their right to physical privacy was and still is being violated by being subjected to these test. Utilitarian considerations In order to prove that the actions of federal government who enact mandatory drug testing policies are
I am going to focus on some of the good and bad points by critically appraising this article. Firstly, the aims of this research are clearly stated in the title, abstract and main body. This piece of research had stated the goal and its relevance of this research to future rehabilitation. The authors stated why the need for this research was in the introduction and explained the aims were to attempt to evaluate patients’ perceptions on cardiac rehabilitation. This research is also relevant to the authors and the London Teaching Hospital so they can build opinions and improve their rehabilitation service.
Introduction This paper serves as a brief introduction to addiction and drug use in modern society. It will touch on how people start to use, the disease model of addiction, it’s challengers and the withdrawal and rehabilitation period. By understanding the ways that we categorize and aim to treat addiction, we can hope to continue learning more about this major societal ailment affecting many of the people we will encounter in our life. Start Of Use/Disease Model of Addiction Addiction is a complex disorder that is caused and perpetuated by many factors. There are many theories and ideas as to what causes addiction which each follow different models of thought.
Drugs used in a way that is not medicinal can be deadly and have shown to be too large a temptation globally, and have been the source of many historic events. Recreational drug use should be monitored and individuals should be charged when felonies, like selling or owning recreational drugs, are committed. It is not wise to allow recreational drug use and these practices must be regulated and controlled to the best of the government’s ability in order to keep our cities safe and our population healthy. Recreational drugs include, but aren’t limited to, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, prescription pills, heroin, and more recently “bath salts”. These substances can cause serious damage to the central nervous system, internal organs and, most importantly, effect ones brain.
Abstract The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: drug defined offence, which are violations of law prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, drug related offenses, to which a drug’s pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user’s need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself and the drug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increased because drug users may not participate in the legitimate economy and are exposed to situations that encourage crime (ONDCP 2000).The effects of drugs and alcohol on our society are becoming more and more evident as the years pass. Even though drugs and alcohol have been around for centuries, they are becoming more popular. Along with the major drugs like cocaine, crack, and heroin, the alternative or
It is apparent to some that drug, alcohol, and tobacco use is glamorized on the big screen. This causes officials of the federal government to question where the downside to substance abuse is. There is an unglamorous side to substance abuse. People have slurred speech, hangovers, and getting into trouble with the police is a big problem with substance abuse (Riechmann 19A). If movies are going to portray drug use, they should also show the bad side to substance abuse.
Research indicates that pathways into crime and drug use are causally related because they both result from factors such as physical and sexual abuse, poverty, lack of education, poor mental health and unemployment. Globally, the rise in the illegal drug use is the main cause of domestic violence, depression, unemployment and the rising crime rates experienced by many countries. Addiction and drug-related crimes are the most intractable social problems facing the world today. Illegal drug use and crime do not have a direct causal link. The two are related by specific common causes which include temperamental causes, parental alcoholism, antisocial personality behavior and poor relationships with parents.