Project Annotated Outline and Bibliography

“The Effect of Drug Addictions on Juveniles”

General Outline

Introduction

Drug abuse and addiction affects society in many ways; directly or indirectly, it is one major reason why juveniles are being thrown into jail.

Drug abuse and addiction are implicated in four out of five crimes committed by juvenile arrestees.

Many teenagers in state juvenile justice systems are under the influence of alcohol or drugs while committing their crimes, test positive for drugs, are arrested for committing an alcohol or drug offense, admit having substance abuse and addiction problems, or share some combination of these characteristics.

Points of Discussion

The community incorporates attitudes and reciprocal behavior patterns of groups of individuals, guided by established culture standards, and designed to fulfill specific human objectives and needs; the community itself may be a factor as to why many youths are into drug addiction.

Drug addictions in the juvenile population push them to do a variety of crimes; aside from that, their functioning in society is severely affected.

In some neighborhoods, teenagers and younger children are recruited as lookouts and helpers for drug pushers because of the lighter sentences given to juvenile offenders, and guns have become commonplace among children and adolescents.

Drug use, abuse, and addiction in adolescence undermines motivation, interferes with cognitive processes, contributes to debilitating mood disorders, and increases risk of accidental injury or death, and contributes to several major health problems such as lung cancer and AIDS.

Because mental health and substance use problems often co-occur, there is a more general need to raise awareness regarding the risk and protective factors that can predict drug use and addiction in adolescents.

Conclusions

The consequences of substance use can influence multiple domains in the lives of adolescents. Functioning in society can be severely affected. Aside from affecting the lives of these youth, there is also a large chance for this specific population to commit crimes. Literature shows that there are many juvenile delinquent youths that are in jails because of drug use and addiction. There is a serious need to raise the level of awareness of people in the society regarding this problem.

Bibliography

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Corrections Compendium is a peer-reviewed, journal of the American Correctional Association. It is a journal that is research-based. This journal is published six times per year and contains research findings and trends and examines events in corrections and criminal justice. In this particular topic, juvenile arrests are discussed based on a report released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse in California University.

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(2005). Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Alcohol, Cigarette and Marijuana Use During Adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

This journal is a publication which provides a medium of communication for psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, biologists, criminologists, and other professionals who wish to know and be aware of any subject relating to the youth and adolescence. It publishes mostly research papers which can be used by the readers. The reading which is selected as bibliography for this article is a research dealing with alcohol, cigarette, and drug use in the adolescent population.

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Courts in the Face of the Onset of the Co-occurrence of Mental Health Issues and Substance/Alcohol Abuse. Journal of Law and Health.

The Journal of Law and Health is a periodical with a scholarly format that contains readings regarding legal aspects of medicine and health sciences. It is a student-run publication wherein the students are selected for membership and they are the ones to gather and select articles to be published in the journal. In this specific article used for this paper, the focus is on the theories of therapeutic evolution for juvenile drug courts in the face of the onset of the co-occurrence of mental health issues and substance or alcohol abuse.

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The Merck Manual is a book that serves as a guide and a helping companion useful for health care professionals and patients or caregivers alike. All health care professionals need ever more information, and review of large areas of subject matter covered succinctly and completely is increasingly required. The Merck Manual continues to meet these needs, excluding mainly details of surgical procedures. The simplicity and the detailed account of conditions of which the book has been written makes it useable for individuals outside the health care profession.

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This book, Fundamentals of Nursing, provides a contemporary approach to nursing practice, discussing the entire scope of primary, acute, and restorative care. This textbook is useful for nursing instructors, nursing students, and other health care professionals. But basically, this book is designed for beginning students since it has a comprehensive coverage providing fundamental nursing concepts, skills and techniques.

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This book contains selections of carefully selected writings by specialists in the area of juvenile delinquency. Parts of the book reflect the principal divisions of the field of juvenile delinquency.

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