Substance Abuse and Poisoning

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the abuse of alcohol, marijuana and tobacco and describes the alarming increase in the use of prescription-type of psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical uses. The paper looks at the abuse of volatile substances such as hydrocarbons, paints, gases, air fresheners and adhesives. The paper then considers solutions and approaches to these problems.

Outline:
The Substance Abuse Problem
Volatile Substance Abuse and Poisoning Problem
Proposed Solutions and Approaches to These Problems

From the Paper:

"Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at the Columbia University Joseph A. Califano, Jr. called for a down-the-line and complete change not only in attitudes towards substance abuse and addition (Manchikanti 2007). He also called for a radical change in the nation's systems in healthcare, criminal justice, social service and education in addressing the drug abuse issue. He backed his position up with the statistical revelation on the stealthily rising incidence in prescription drug abuse. This, he said, was the hidden reality to the publicized success in the control of alcohol and illicit drug use and the decrease in the incidence in teen smoking, the abuse and addiction to controlled prescriptions and stimulants. He stressed that prescription drug abuse had accounted for increasing emergency hospital visits and unintentional deaths (Manchikanti)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Tips to Prevent Poisonings. Injury Center: Department of Health and Human Services, 2008. Retrieved on April 21, 2008 fromhttp://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/poisonprevention.htm
• Finkelstein, Gale. Inhalant Abuse: It is Right Under Your Nose. Vermont Nurse Connection: Vermont State Nurses Association, Inc., 2007
• LaRosa John. Substance Abuse and Its Dangers. Substance Abuse Report. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 2005. Retrieved on April 21, 2008 from http://www.hschklyn.edu/bhr/substance_abuse.pdf
• Manchikanti, Laxmalah. National Drug Control Policy and Prescription Drug Abuse: Facts and Fallacies. Health Policy Review: Pain Physician Journal, 2007
• Spiller, Henry A. Epidemiology of Volatile Substance Abuse Cases Reported to US Poison Centers. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2004

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