Drug Abuse Research Proposals Samples For Students

Drug abusers can act as good ambassadors in the society by them informing their experiences concerning drug abuse. Drugs become dangerous to people’s lives when taken outside the controlled environment of a profession. The process of drug abuse is gradual that begins with the consumption of drug as a form of recreation or ecstasy. Is it possible for the society to experience the demise of drug abuse?
My Uncle Ahmad began taking prescription tablets to relieve him of stress due to his predisposed issue of depression. Ahmad develops an addiction to the prescribed tablets and experiences withdrawal symptoms as ...

The war on drugs is an effort to regulate the drug market in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is an agency under the United States Department of justice and was created in 1973 (Rabkin, 1999). The agency’s overall goals are to stop drug smuggling within the United States. The major efforts which the DEA cover are tracking down any drug related activity of any major organizations, nationally and internationally. The main focus of the DEA is to dismantle any efforts of organizations which deal with drug related crimes; this largely involves drug trafficking within the ...

Introduction

The problem of substance abuse among pregnant women continues to be a national health issue. Estimates indicate that about 4 percent of all live births in the United States occur in women who abuse illicit or prescription drugs such as barbiturates, opoid pain relievers, benzodiazepines and stimulants during pregnancy. In addition to abusing prescription and illicit drugs, women also use tobacco and alcohol during pregnancy. Of course this has effects. According to Economidoy et al (2012), maternal drug abuse can have an effect on pregnancy outcomes as well as childhood development and health. Children who are born to women who ...

Introduction

The harmful and illegal use of drugs posts a major global warning to the existing generation and other generations to come. The use of illegal drugs is a developing issue that affects different communities each and every day. To eradicate the problem placed by this drugs people need to join hard and effectively fight against the use of illegal drugs. The society should also create awareness about the consequences of drug abuse and addiction. All parts of domestic and international communities need to integrate strengths to curb the drug abuse usage and effects to lead the world into a healthier situation.
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Abstract
In the recent past, family structures have become complex, shifting from the traditional form of nuclear family to stepfamilies, foster families, single families and multiregional families. As such, whenever a family member engages in activities of abusing drugs, the impact has different effects. Substance abuse contributes to these problems that are experienced in families. This research seeks to discuss the issues that are likely to arise in families where substance abuse is rampant. In achieving this, a comparison will be made with families where substance abuse is not practiced. ...

The research question that needs to be answered in the study is what is the correlation between depression and substance abuse among college students?
The main reason for doing this research is to explore the correlation of depression and substance abuse among college students. College students are under a lot of stress that causes them to have depressive symptoms. Some of them deal with these symptoms by using drugs and alcohol. Numerous studies indicate that there is a correlation between depression and substance abuse among college students. It is believed that going to college brings about positive outcomes. However, ...

Proposal for Change Paper” - Drug & Alcohol Abuse Introduction

There are quite a number of problems that usage of drugs have on the well being of teenagers. The main concern is addiction of drugs whereby the affected parties end up having problems coordinating their mental stabilities. From the foregoing, it is imperative that effective measures be taken to address this issue since the future of the nation is primarily dependent on them. As such, it is important that these groups of individuals be educated on the effects of addiction and how to live a purposeful life.

Going by the current statistics, it is evident that indeed there is ...

Abstract

Drug use is a major public health problem in society affecting everyone in society either directly or indirectly. The cost of drug abuse in society is very high, with many illnesses, accidents, crimes and deaths associated with drug abuse. Drug use is influenced by a number of factors, especially during adolescence. This is the stage in a person’s life where they are more likely to expose themselves to risky behavior and experimentation. Furthermore, peer pressure is high during this developmental stage with many adolescents seeking to fit in with their peers. In order to reduce drug abuse, it ...

CHAPTER I

I. INTRODUCTION A. Conflict Theory and Racial Profiling in Drug Related Cases
The problem of racially biased arrest is getting more serious. According to the New York Times Editorial Board (2013), updated federal data show that this problem “is far more extensive that was previously known — and is getting worse.” On a national average, the Blacks are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana as compared to the Whites. This disparity is even more pronounced in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, states where Blacks are eight times as likely to be arrested compared to other ...

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Introducing a Youth Sports Program to My Community
The project involves starting a basketball club as a program for the youths aged between 14-19 years. The program is to be implemented in three phases as follows; the first stage is introducing the youths to the program together with their parents, next will be training of the youths on the game and the final stage will be ensuring a well maintained team (Botvin, 1995).
The initial amount of money required to start the program is $200,000. This will be acquired from the ministry of sports and from fund raising from the ...

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is to find the connection between depression and suicide among youth, identify the percentage of young people that are affected by the depressive disorder and the percentage of those suffering from depression that have suicidal intentions.
It is important to study this issue because mental illness and following suicide attempts is a wide-spread complicated problem all around the world nowadays.

Research Question/Hypothesis

Research questions of this study are as follows:
What is the percentage of young people that suffer from depressive disorder?
What is the percentage of depressed youth that have thoughts of suicide?
Can depression ...

A growing number of probation officers, judges, prosecutors as well as other juvenile professionals are advocating for a juvenile justice system which is greatly based on restorative justice. These groups of people have been frustrated by the policy uncertainty between retribution and treatment as well as unrealistic and unclear public expectations. As a primary mission, the balanced approach or policy allows juvenile justice systems together with its agencies to improve in their capacity of protecting the community and ensuring accountability of the system and the offenders. It enables the youths to become productive and competent citizens. This guiding philosophical framework for ...

Ideally, sleep out isn’t about participants the idea of what it feels like to be homeless or to paint the idea of homelessness to the participants although the situation leaves some little feel of how the situation could be and the challenges involved in the entire situation. We have to admit that there is no particular way that the attempt of single night, despite the situation of how cold or wet the night could be, can replace the helpless despondence and the harsh personal pain of being a true homeless person in any part of this globe.
Therefore, ...

Imagine suffering from an unbearable pain and discomfort and being denied the medication you need for relief because it is a controlled substance. Medicinal marijuana is a term used to define derivatives of marijuana that can be used to treat various ailments. Marijuana is an illegal substance in all but 16 states in the United States. This means majority of American citizens who are willing to choose medicinal marijuana are unable to consume it as acceptable therapy for their ailments.
This proposal will advance the argument for the legalization of medicinal marijuana. The thesis statement is that the United States ...

Introduction

An intense debate usually revolves around the legality of Cannabis within the United States as well as other countries of the world. Numerous arguments are utilized to legalize or ban the trade of Cannabis under law and constitution of every country. It has been widely believed that Marijuana has undesired effects on users and society for promoting the use or more harmful drugs such as Methamphetamine and Heroin. However, recent arguments have caused disruption in this argument as many supporters of the drug argue that Cannabis does not promote the consumption of more harmful substances. The paper argues the ...

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Rehabilitation of mentally ill in prisons and jails: issues and concerns

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) in 2005 added the term “rehabilitation” as a part of the agency’s official title, becoming the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or the CDCR. However, the change in title did not result in a change of philosophy in the treatment of prisoners in the United States. Though the reintegration of the methodology of rehabilitation officially entered the regime of the CDRC, there is little or no evidence that the methodology has significantly changed (Berkeley- University of California, 2009, p. 277).
Berkebile (2010, p.1) reported that by 2009, California’s penal facilities ...

Measuring the effectiveness of mandatory sentences among drug-related offenders

Applicable Sociological Concepts
One of the sociological concepts that impact drug abuse is culture. Culture refers to the way of life of an individual. This includes how they live, how they dress, how they work among other things. The sociology of culture is the intersection between sociology and culture. There is a huge difference between society and culture and yet not one can exist without the other.
Studies show that drug use and abuse varies with cultural diversity. Different races and ethnicities have a higher propensity for abusing drugs more than others. Mandatory incarceration would affect other members of ...

Outpatient Program

The Florida House Experience is an Outpatient Treatment (IOP) Program, with an average stay of 90 days – 6 months – 1 year. Clients who are admitted to Substance Abuse Outpatient programs are normally able to attend treatment 3 to 5 times per week, and maintain employment. Clients who are enrolled in an Outpatient Program can also continue to live at home and function within their day to day environment.
When a therapist refers a client to Outpatient treatment they have either completed an inpatient program, or their addiction / alcoholism is considered manageable by first attempting outpatient, in a less structured environment ...

Major global crimes and criminal issue affecting international justice systems

The rise and growth of global crimes is dated back, after the cold war, where people adopted a capitalism and individualism way of conducting their operations. They include, money laundering, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, extortion, fraud schemes, human tracking bribery among others. These crimes have hit highest levels because of the post-cold war effects, which criminal have capitalized; lessened political and economic barriers. In addition, the advancement in new technology has also played a vital role in enhancing their criminal activities.

Bribery

International bribery usually involves economic and political leaders over privileges or favors from one group; they are based on selfish ...

Purposes

This research aims to conduct an extensive review on driving habits in our students so as to help curb the increased rate of road accidents on our roads. Both good driving and poor driving habits which unfortunately most of our students have fallen victim to shall be discussed. Also, an extensive research now focusing on poor driving habits shall be carried out and unveil the start and causes of these poor driving habits, the consequences to this poor driving habits and finally how to break these habits. This research aims at establishing how one can break his/her poor driving ...

Introduction

The aim of this study is to assess whether drug use in a domestic violence situation alters perception of who is at fault in the situation. The anticipated results of this study believe that drug use among the victims in a domestic violence situation will lead outside individuals to believe the victim had some sort of fault in the situation. In other words, researchers believe that drugs impact outside perception of the victim in a domestic violence situation and whether or not they are actually at fault.

Literature Review

There is extensive research when it comes to the relationship between drugs ...

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Returning to prison for paroled inmates: Introduction

The prison population in the United has steadily risen over the past three decades. Since 2008, the prison population has slowly been decreasing; however, as of 2012, there were still more than 2 million confined in US jails and prisons. The report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) aver that since 1990, more than 590,000 convicts are discharged yearly from the correctional system in the Federal and state jurisdictions, and more than 5 million former inmates are under community based monitoring programs. It is expected that upon release from prison or community based programs, these will ...

Today day by day the use of the internet and other modern technologies is increasing constantly. Since 1995, the use of the internet has increased from 0.4% to 40.9% of the world population (“Internet Growth Statistics”). People start to implement it in every sphere of their life, making it easier for them and more convenient to cope with daily tasks. In this situation, it is important not to forget that technology is not all about convenience and comfort in life, but rather it is a double-edged sword. Using it more and more, people can become lazy, more and more passive, ...

ON A NATIONAL HEALTH ISSUE

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ROLE OF MEDIA IN SHAPING PARENTS’ ATTITUDE

“One of the most egregious outcomes of marijuana prohibition is that many sick people cannot legally access the medicine that works best for them. For many seriously ill people, medical marijuana is the only medicine that relieves their pain and suffering, or treats symptoms of their medical condition, without debilitating side effects. Marijuana has been shown to alleviate symptoms of a huge variety of serious medical conditions including cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma, and is often an effective alternative to synthetic painkillers.”
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Researchers believe that the marijuana can provide relief, even cure for numerously medical ...

Introduction

Substance abuse such as alcohol usage, tobacco smoking as well as others has been on mass media over the last two decades. Some of the popular mass media platforms where substance abuse is common nowadays may include music industry, TV series and now it has been rampant in the movie industry. American movie industry’s exposure on marijuana usage in on the rise as the USA government stand against the issue is changing every moment. This has facilitated the rise in usage of marijuana in movies such as Pineapple Express and Requiem For A Dream as well as others.

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Drug testing in the workplace is a widely contested concern that continues to gain importance among various groups including employers, professional bodies, worker associations and government. There are multiple ethical and legal issues surrounding this practice. Existing literature on this issue presents mixed results as regards its desirability (Carpenter, 2006). The prevalence of drug abuse among workers in the U.S alone is alarming. The National Survey on drug Use and Health observed that in 2004 for instance, 75% of drug abusers in the country are workers (Cholakis & Roger, 2007). The implications of such findings are likely to be of significance ...

Introduction

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) defines burglary as the unlawful entry into a structure in order to commit theft or a felony. The term structure refers to offices, apartments, houseboats used as homes, barns or railroad cars. It however does not refer to cars or ships. This entry need not be forceful. Burglary is classified into three forms; forcible entry, attempted forcible entry and non-forcible unlawful entry where no force is applied.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) reports approximately 2,199,125 burglaries in 2009. This is less by 1.3% in comparison to 2008. This is however higher ...

An Investigation of the Problems Encountered by Child Protection Services Agencies

Introduction

Child abuse and neglect is one of the prevalent problems that the children of our society suffer today, with about 2,400 children being victimized on a daily basis (Whitaker, Reich & Reid, et al., 2004). They experience physical and emotional abuse from both their families and the other people around them – neighbors, friends, or even strangers. With the growing number of incidents of child abuse and neglect, it becomes ever more important to determine ways to reduce its occurrence, if not completely eradicate it.

In this regard, child services protection (CPS) agencies are one of the first groups ...

Introduction

Alcoholism has been a persistent problem affecting the American family, with approximations of up to 18 million Americans going through alcohol related problems (O’Farrell, et al, 2003). There are many cost effects accompanying the alcoholism problem, both physical, emotional and economic. The vastness of the costs of alcoholism cannot be over emphasized, as they affect not only the alcoholic but close family members, friends, colleagues and even the state. Statistics indicate that about 1 million adult Americans seek treatment for alcohol-related problems each year (O’Farrell, & Rotunda, 1997),

Specific aims

The most popular and widely used treatment method for alcohol ...