prescription drug abuse

What Is a Good Attention Grabbing Speech Ending for Teen Drug Abuse?

Question by chica: What is a good attention grabbing speech ending for teen drug abuse?
can anyone give me a really good ending to a teen drug abuse speech that will definitely make people actually care

Best answer:

Answer by ?
“CRACK IS WACK!” – Whitney Houston, a timeless classic.
Or “DONT SMOKE WEED KIDS”-Britney Spears, another classic.

Or Just show them a graphic slideshow of what drug users look like, then end it by saying something like you dont want to end up like this etc. etc.

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Prescription Drug Abuse Program Expands

Prescription drug abuse program expands

Filed under: drug abuse help

An Illinois medicine-monitoring program has joined a national data-sharing network to help prevent prescription drug abuse. The Department of Human Services will link its prescription monitoring program to a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy …
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Obamacare Provides Significant Reform On Substance Abuse Treatment

Filed under: drug abuse help

The Center for Disease Control has categorized this type of abuse as an epidemic. The Obama administration has included a specific prescription drug abuse prevention plan to the National Drug Control Strategy to help educate, monitor, and enforce …
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Safeguard Prescription Drugs to Stop Abuse

Safeguard Prescription Drugs to Stop Abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

When people hear about drug abuse, the image many conjure up is of back alley deals, skid row streets, and little baggies full of white powder. While those images are real, the new drug of choice is being handed out as freely as aspirin. Prescription …
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AAFP Outlines Strategies for Combating, Curtailing Prescription Drug Abuse

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Investigation: Vets Fight War at Home

Investigation: Vets fight war at home

Filed under: drug abuse help for veterans

They fought for our country, put their lives on the line but many veterans are returning to a battlefield at home. Suicides are surging and prescription drug abuse has nearly tripled in recent years. Many families blame the Veteran's Administration for …
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MSU is part of first Veterans Treatment Court in Kentucky

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Marijuana's Health Effects: Memory Problems, Addiction

Marijuana's health effects: Memory problems, addiction

Filed under: national institute on drug abuse

THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, "hijacks and corrupts" the natural process of endocannabinoids, a key family of chemicals that help guide the brain in proper maturation, says Ruben Baler, a neuroscientist with the National Institute on Drug …
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Needham Public Health Department offering guides on marijuana for residents

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Racial Statistics on Poverty, Alcoholism and Drug Addiction?

Question by N. in ATL: Racial statistics on poverty, alcoholism and drug addiction?
In the United States is race a factor for African Americans with respect to poverty, alcoholism and drug addiction? I’m looking for statistics to prove it exists.

Best answer:

Answer by Joss
You’ll have to research to find statistics worth using. Search on the topic and you might find a few articles that mention statistics and a source. You might have to look to trade journals to find this info; something credible in the field of drug and alcohol addiction or poverty.