Posted in Substance Abuse on Dec 29th, 2009
Substance abuse can and does kill people every day. A person can succumb to alcohol poisoning, take an overdose, get some bad “stuff”, anything can happen. For teens, substance abuse can affect their growth, their grades, their mental ability. They can become withdrawn, hostile and end up losing out on many wonderful memory making opportunities by missing out on school events, sports, dances. At one, a student can end up with grades dropping so bad that he or she could lose out on a scholarship or not getting accepted into the college of his dreams
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Posted in Substance Abuse on Dec 22nd, 2009
In the majority of cases, these two conditions co-exist.
It is difficult to tell which came first; the depression or the drug addiction but they are often found together. Substance abuse is capable of causing depression because all substances directly affect the brain. This off sets the chemical balance within the brain and depression occurs.
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Posted in Substance Abuse on Dec 15th, 2009
Every day in America and throughout the world, babies are born already addicted to drugs. This is because the mother was a substance abuser during pregnancy. Newborns are taken away from their mothers, perhaps put in intensive care, possibly even dying because illicit drugs were taken during pregnancy.
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Posted in Substance Abuse on Dec 8th, 2009
Substance abuse among nurses is difficult to gauge since not all doctor’s offices and hospitals require regular drug screening. There are, however, nurses who get caught taking medications that should have gone to patients. While there doesn’t appear to be a wide spread epidemic, there are certainly nurses who abuse substances and endanger not only themselves and other hospital staff, but patients.
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