Sydney Chong's List: annotatedbibliography

• • Children are affected even if they're not the users of drugs.
• For the pre-born and for infants, parental drug use is the issue. Pre-natal damage, born addiction, child abuse and neglect are all caused by drug abuse.
• the drug was involved in 80% of child abuse cases and in half of all child abuse fatalities. Less than 3% of the population used the drug regularly.`
• Neglect, abuse, and accidents are all caused by drug use.
• Intoxicated and doped parents do not make for good caretakers.
• • Drugs affect non-users.
• For young adults drug use is the main threat that they face. Date rape, violence, accidents, and suicide are all highly correlated with drug use.
• harassed by an intoxicated male and see what response you receive.
• Parents fear for their children and most desire that their youth avoid drugs and drug intoxicated users.
• • They don't want their kids to get hooked.

• No child wants a stoned parent.

    
• • These children aren't taken care of well and many are neglected.
• (NORML) originally wanted legal cocaine and pot, with no age limits,
• • Some want to legalize drugs.

• At least this group admitted it was a lobby for marijuana users.

    
• • They need to think of the affect on non-users.
• the interests of youth and children were not at the core of the harm reduction philosophy.
• • Why make drug peace?

• The first is that the drug problem cannot be solved so we must accommodate and accept drug use, minimize the costs of use, and learn to live with drug use. As the legalizers put it, we must ``make drug peace.``

    
• In Michigan a young baby died ingesting the mother`s take home weekend methadone dose,
• • Small children cannot lookout for themselves when placed in those situations.
• The government provided the weekend dose. Who is responsible for the baby`s death?

• The U.S. tried medical distribution of cannabis, cocaine, and opiates in the early 1900`s and addiction and abuse was not abated. Laws were passed making the drugs illegal and treatment and education efforts were implemented to reverse the epidemic.

    
• • This has been tested, and failed.
• In 1979

• The result was world record drug use rates among youth with one in ten high school seniors stoned on marijuana every day of the week.

    
• • This is a major problem and results in jail time for many people.
• Drug violators make up half the prison population.
• Children and youth often suffer the most dire consequences.
• • Drugs impair good choices and result in some very bad consequences.

• Drugs impair the ability to make safe decisions on child care, driving, sexual and other behavior, and private and public safety.

    

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• • Teens start abusing at a young age.
• Among youth who are 12 to 17 years old
• according to the 2010 Monitoring the Future Survey, prescription and over-the-counter medications are among the most commonly abused drugs by 12th graders, after alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco.
• they were given the drugs or bought them from a friend or relative.
• • There are many reasons that teens decide to abuse drugs.
• Teens abuse prescription drugs for a number of reasons, including to get high, to treat pain, and because they think it will help them with school work. Teens often don't realize prescription drugs can have dangerous short- and long-term health consequences when used inappropriately
• teens may not know that using prescription medications that are not prescribed to the user is illegal.
• • PEERX is a great organization that set up a way to educate with science-based information about harmful effects of prescription drugs.
• PEERx was created to provide educators, mentors, student leaders, and teens with science-based information about the harmful effects that prescription drug abuse has on the brain and body

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• Oxycontin is just one form of the drug oxycodone
•  Oxycodone is available in many forms
• a mixture of oxycodone and aspirin is prescribed under the brand name Percodan, while a mixture of oxycodone and acetaminophen is prescribed as Percoset. 
• Oxycontin is formulated specifically as a time-released medication
• • This is what makes it addicting!
• If someone wants a euphoric "rush," they can scrape off the enteric coating or crush the pills so that the oxycodone in an oxycontin tablet affects them immediately.
• they risk becoming addicted very quickly.
• the person needs more oxycontin to get the same rush
• the respiratory system can become severely depressed, leading to coma or death.
• danger of overdose
• • Symptoms of oxycontin overdose:
• • Slow or shallow breathing
   
  • Dizziness or clumsiness
   
  • Confusion
   
  • Fatigue
   
  • Small pupils
   
  • Clammy, cold skin
   
  • Nausea and vomiting
• it was hailed as a valuable tool against severe and chronic pain.
• • Don't increase or double doses.
• this is because they feel they will get more pain relief if they increase the dose.
• there is a chance that an individual will take more than is prescribed
• begin taking the prescribed doses closer together to make sure they won't run the risk of pain breaking through between doses. Both of these behaviors are extremely risky.
• The more oxycontin a person takes, the more they will need as they develop a tolerance.
• overlap is particularly dangerous because the medication is time-released
• you are essentially putting twice as much in your system for a period of time.
• Once individuals become addicted to oxycontin, they usually begin looking for ways to get more of the drug into their system faster. They crush or break the tablets and smoke, ingest or snort the powdered oxycontin to get the heroine-like high.
• oxycontin is much stronger and more concentrated than any other form of oxycodone, the high is immediate, intense and extremely dangerous.
• Oxycontin is readily available by prescription to anyone who has undergone major surgery or sustained a major injury, which increases the potential for misuse.
• teens will get their hands on oxycontin for the first time because their parents or another relative or friend keeps leftover oxycontin
• wasn't prescribed for them and they aren't aware of the risks, teens may abuse the leftover prescription and quickly become addicted.
• Never break a tablet in half so that you can give someone else just a small amount for pain.
• a broken tablet is actually extremely dangerous because the drug will hit their system immediately, rather than being released over time.

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• created Choices, a district-wide program
• • If the whole community helps its possible.
• As a result, Batesville significantly reduced students' reported use of alcohol.
• we often had to deal with intoxicated students at school dances and discipline students for alcohol-related offenses at our middle and high school
• Batesville's rate of student alcohol use was higher than both state and national averages, with 27 percent of our students reporting that they used alcohol at least monthly

• The program includes three key components: a parent pledge, parent and student education events, and supervised social gatherings for all teenagers in the community.

    
• All households with middle or high school students receive the parent pledge early in the school year.
• Those who sign commit to talking with their children about alcohol abuse and providing a home environment where teenagers have no access to alcohol or drugs.
• • This would help to give fewer options for kids to go do drugs or drink.
• Names of signers are displayed in our middle and high school newsletters and on each school's Web site. This lets parents check whether a family who is hosting a teen party, for example, has pledged.
• At least once each quarter, our secondary schools host some type of mandatory, engaging presentation that gets students talking about teen drinking and its consequences.
• • Show and tell them first hand the consequences of their actions.
• an individual speaks to all students about the day that — while drunk — he crashed the car he was driving, resulting in a passenger's death.
• • Fun activities for kids that they would actually want to play.
• We hold dodgeball, euchre, and poker tournaments.
• • This is a cool, unique idea that would be effective in problem schools.
• after-prom event early to go drinking
• "Choices dollars" throughout the evening but can't redeem them for prizes (including cash and electronics equipment) unless they stay until the end.
• the percentage of seniors drinking monthly decreased from 53.6 percent to 40.8 percent.

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• young adults 18 to 25 are using more prescription drugs illicitly.
• about 20 million people 12 and older reported using illicit drugs in the past month.
• • WOW! Kids 12 years old are abusing drugs.
• • There is more information about illegal drug use...
• abusing far fewer illegal drugs than any generation before them
• • This issue needs to be addressed
• "prescription drugs are a problem."
• don't recognize prescription drugs as a problem because they're legal
• can be as dangerous as any street drug when taken without a prescription for non-medical reasons.
• • Parents and guardians need to talk to their kids about the consequences of abusing prescription drugs.
• "the number of kids abusing prescription drugs dwarfs the number of kids using all other drugs combined except marijuana and alcohol,"
• • Based on this information this issue and data there needs to be more information about prescription drug abuse.

• continuing to see significant increases in prescription-drug abuse."

    

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• • This graph shows the number of teens the fuse the various different types of drugs. The most popularly used drug is marijuana. 

• • This graph shows that the most abused drug is marijuana, with pain relievers as the distant second. This means that programs, parents, and adults should put more of a focus on talking about the issues and effects of using marijuana.