As an introduction, Mairs attempts to gain sympathy and personal connection with her readers by describing her physical disabilities due to MS (multiple sclerosis). She surrounds this description with how she has never seen any representation of her in the media, her tone insinuating either annoyance or depression. Depending on how a reader “hears” the narration in their head, the next paragraph can cause a little angst or frustration. Mairs turns from a sympathy-seeking cripple into a hostile contradicting writer. She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled.
It is good to know that there are effective treatment programs out there that can help handle people’s addiction. Some of the media out there does promote drug abuse. It makes us feel that we have to look and act a certain way and most teens often fall into the trap and find themselves under pressure. This leads to finding ways to numb their pain and often it is the illegal and/or legal drugs which come to their aid faster then their family. I believe drug use is a social
Doctors, physicians, people who may think that they are at risk of getting this hideous disease can also be great audience for this speech. People who do not have HIV can also read this speech, because it would amaze them and they could learn from it. Parents should also read this speech, so they can educate their children about this disease. They can tell them how to prevent getting it, and how important it is to stay safe. The hit television show MTV gets the most views when National HIV prevention week
Although many students rely on drugs for educational purposes, the true factor for the rapid growth amongst teen users is peer-pressure. As seen through an article that researched the use of marijuana, “Illicit drug use among teens remains high, largely due to the increasing popularity of marijuana. Among twelfth graders, 6.5 percent use marijuana on a daily basis (Drug Abuse). According to the article, the drug proliferated amongst teens due to its popularity and other students would be pressured into using marijuana. For the students that attempted to refuse to take the drug they would face feeling rejected from their peers or they would feel as if they would not be considered “cool”.
Some need words and pictures to accompany it to fully integrate it into their lives. Another example of something that has been viewed as obscene or profane for many years is the use of marijuana. Marijuana for the longest time has been perceived as a harmful narcotic. This obscene and profane substance has now come to light as being a beneficial and therapeutic substance. Anti drug programs have been implemented into schools to teach the youth that marijuana (and other illegal substances) is bad for them and that it projects the image of a criminal.
The Overview of the video “The Meth Epidemic” was about the history of meth use around America throughout the early 90’s and 2000’s, the pharmaceutical companies and their involvement, the crimes and effects the drug had on people lives. Implications for community health on the issue of the meth epidemic can be good. People within our field of work can try and help individuals who are having problems with the drug by trying to help them get off by hosting preventions classes especially in the west coast region where it’s most used out there. The class can talk about why the drug is bad backing it up with statistics and recent reports, physical and mental symptoms of the drug and how it affects people and their live to try and raise awareness. My personal impressions on this video were that it did a good job on presenting the viewers with statistics and critical information about meth and its findings nationwide.
When Lane says, “ Recreational use is not the smartest thing” I absolutely agree. A lot of adolescents start smoking marijuana because they are peer pressured. The more they do it, the more they seem to want to keep doing it to “fit in”. It seems that the earlier someone is to start smoking marijuana the more decided they are about legalizing it. Legalizing marijuana would make our government look terrible; because marijuana is a drug that most people use to “escape” or just because they like the feeling.
You would think if I could fight a Heroin addiction, I can quit smoking. One thing that I know that would benefit other people if smokers quit, is second hand smoke. “Secondhand smoke is associated with disease and premature death in nonsmoking adults and children. Exposure to secondhand smoke irritates the airways and has immediate harmful effects on a person’s heart and blood vessels. It may increase the risk of heart disease by an estimate 25 to 30 percent…” If we could ban cigarettes all together, I bet the amount of cancer problems we have will dramatically lessen.
This study is concerned with inconsistencies between parents' estimates and their children's reports of marijuana use, and children's subsequent usage later. The prevention and continuous caution toward the use of marijuana raise the questions and curiosity towards product. The chaos toward the product influences them to use it. The wrong belief about some behavior actually caused those to happen. Another evidence of self-fulfilling prophecy can be seen in field of sport.
Also, secondhand smoke could be a problem too. A couple solutions to this problem are to stop the media promoting smoking and to educate teens about smoking and how it's bad for you. Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke.