Substance Part 1

Hello. My name is Sarah Ruth and welcome to my

TMP project.

Substance use disorder.

Let's start with the investigation.

This section will help us answer key questions about substance

use disorder, which will help us better understand why does

the problem in the severity of the problem?

So let's first look at the y why is it

a problem?

Substance use disorder is not just a problem for the

individual, but for their families, Children, taxpayers, the economy, police

and the justice system and etcetera.

People with substance use disorder often make criminal actions to

get their drugs or to get money for their drugs.

They often put their drug needs above their family needs.

DCs often gets involved if there are Children in the

home, police gets involved.

If individual commits a crime like stealing a range upon

it for drugs or if the individual is using an

illegal substance, many people with substance use disorder end up

in jail or prison.

This directly affects the economy and the taxpayer dollars.

The effects of substance use disorder has its ties in

every aspect of our society.

Let's look at the research behind that Substance abuse and

addiction represents an enormous threat to human health.

With approximately 246 million people between the ages of 15

and 64 years old worldwide estimate to have used an

illicit drug in 2013, including the use of cannabis, opioids,

opiates, cocaine, amphetamine type stimulants and other drugs.

Of those, 246 million users, more than one out of

10 can be considered a problem.

Drug user And drug use can be attributed to approximately

187,000 deaths in 2013 alone.

So with those numbers right there, we can understand why

this is such a huge issue.

246 million people Between the ages of 15 and 64

years old admitted to using illicit drug in 2013 and

one out of 10 of those can be considered a

problem. Drug user, that is a lot of people and

then drugs can be attributed to 187,000 deaths alone in

2013. That's a lot of deaths over something that could

have been prevented.

How that we looked at the y let's look at

the who, who is it affecting?

Who is involved.

Substance use disorder can affect anyone.

This disorder does not discriminate people with mental or physical

issues, will also use substances in an attempt to self

medicate substance use as, as stated in my last slide,

affects everyone, but mostly the individual themselves, menace stated The

environmental effects on substance use are particularly troubling for adolescents,

given the vulnerability of the used to contextual environmental influence

on substance use, initiation in the multiple negative health consequences

of early substance use initiation throughout adulthood.

In addition, early drug use and adolescence is associated with

the increased likelihood for later substance dependence.

So this right here shows us that substance use is

directly affecting our youth in our community.

So the more that they see that and they're around

that, um they're more likely to have a substance use

disorder later on in life.

I've got a few research topics over this.

Start with this.

11 article I found discusses the motives for alcohol use.

The article states people use for many different reasons, negative

emotions, boredom, coping, chronic pain and avoidance.

So we can see right here that it can affect

many people because many people start using for different reasons.

People don't all begin using drug drugs for one common

reason. Um it states right here, five or six different

reasons why someone can begin using substances.

Look at this research, according to menace, substance use is

more abundant among people in lower educational attainment.

Those who are unemployed in those living in urbanized regions,

alcohol use was more commonly used among whites.

People who are employed have a higher educational attainment and

those who live in urbanized regions.

So those two groups of people are almost polar opposite,

yet they're still being affected by substance use disorder.

and one last research topic, I found a research article

discussing the relationship between substance use and general strain theory.

Among adolescents, General strain theory is about negative emotions losing

something or not being able to obtain something and how

that makes one feel.

This article describes how substance uses one poor coping mechanism

to deal with negative emotions of general strain theory.

The environment around an individual sets expectations in common goal,

assess achievements they believe everyone should meet when one is

unable to meet those goals, or or those achievements have

been stripped from them.

This is when General Strain theory comes into play.

When one feels this general strain, one coping mechanism they

may use this substance use.

So this is another reason why someone may begin using

substances. So yet again, is another different reason for the

use of substance, for the use of substances and why

someone may develop a substance use disorder.

So as far as who is it affecting?

It's affecting nearly anyone and everyone at the same time.

So now that we looked at the why and the

who? Let's look at the how, so how big is

it? I stated in my previous slide out of 246

million people who admitted to use an illicit drug in

2013, 1 out of 10 of those people can be

considered a problem drug user.

So that's a big number.

And that's just how that puts into perspective, just how

big this problem is that we're really looking at.

So let's look at some more research.

So, Friedmann explained, despite legal actions taken to deter addicts

from using the amount or from using the amount of

arrests made for drug-related crimes rose from 1.2 million in

1990 to 2.2 million, 2006.

Also arrest made for manufacturing, drugs stealing or selling drugs

or possession of drugs rose from one million to 1.7

million. So this shows us how many arrests are being

made within that time span for just drug use or

selling drugs or possession of drugs.

And this is how many people are tied into Drugs

2.2 million in 2006 were arrested for using a drug.

1.7 million people were arrested for manufacturing drugs or possession

or selling drugs.

That's a lot of people that are tied into drug

use. So that shows us just how big this problem

really is.

Now, let's look at the where substance use disorder occurs

all over the world, according to menace, substance use disorders,

affect people of all regions, races and socioeconomic status.

This, as I said in my last slide, this disorder

does not discriminate.

Um, anyone can have a substance use disorder or develop

a substance use disorder despite the place that they grew

up, the race that they are, whether the rich poor,

it doesn't matter.

So now that we've done the investigation, let's look at

the legality now that we know how severe substance use

disorder is, What is being done about it?

How does the criminal justice system handle substance use?

So what happens legally and how is it viewed?

So whenever it comes to substance use disorder, it can

be inconsistent when it's being handled legally.

There are a lot of factors that can go into

deciding the sentencing for people who struggle with substance use.

Examples of these factors are the type of substance that

was found where it was found, who was around when

it was found, if there was a school nearby, if

it was in a car, how many times has happened

before in the age of the person.

Overall substance use disorder has a negative stigma that can

be hard to break even in the justice system.

So there's a lot of things that go into sentencing,

whatever it comes to substance use, um whether it's close

to a school, you can get more sentencing if you're

within so many feet or miles from school, if you

have Children in the home as you're actively using, DCs

can get involved, you have more legal problems, you can

even get more sentencing um if it was found in

a car and the car was turned on, you got

a bigger issue there.

So there's a lot of things that can go into

the case itself whenever it comes to substance use.

So let's look at some legal deterrence.

Many people believe if there were stricter laws on substance

use, it would decrease according to Lauren and Marzouk, despite

harsher penalties for crack versus powder, cocaine, crack use decline

less than powdered cocaine and even less than drugs not

included in the sentencing policy.

Um So this research shows us despite the legal deterrence

made, you know, crack was used even more with these

laws being in and the laws showed that it had

no effect on the use of crack.

So now let's look at how it's being handled.

Substance use disorders have typically been handled through jail time

or prison time here.

Recently, more courts are deciding to go with treatment if

a person refuses to go to treatment or continues to

use after treatment than jail time or prison time will

be enforced.

So courts are coming to more conclusions that treatment, it's

a better option than just throwing someone in jail.

I'm so a lot of people get court ordered to

treatment, which means they must go and they must graduate

or else will be put in jail if they don't.

Um This is trying to force someone to get treatment

hoping that something will work, that something will click.

Let's look at treatment statistics though.

Look now that we're talking about treatment.

What are the statistics behind

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