Assignment 9/11 Research Paper

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CAVINESS ASSIGNMENT J.D. WEEK # 11
Methamphetamine is a schedule II controlled substance that is made with highly flammable poisonous chemicals. Methamphetamine is a stimulant that works on the abusers central nervous system and the brain by releasing dopamine giving the user a sense of exhilaration and energy. Methamphetamine has four methods of usage two that do not produce a rush and are not as addictive are oral ingestion and inhaling into the nostrils. The second two that are considered highly addictive are smoking Methamphetamine and injection because of the rush of effects.
Methamphetamine addicts can quickly become dangerous because of what is known as tweaking. This high usage binge keeps them awake for as many as 5 to 15 days followed
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This view tells us that the way in which a youth is socialized will help determine if they become delinquent or not (2015).
Siegel and Welch also teach us that social learning theory suggest that non-delinquent children who are exposed to delinquent children are more likely to become delinquent (2015). In the assigned article, Author Fox Butterfield wrote titled Home Drug-Making Laboratories Expose Children to Toxic Fallout, he gives an example of two girls who were placed in foster care. After a home drug, making lab was found in the girl’s bedroom. Their Grandmother with whom the girls were placed gave them back to their parents from where they were removed (2004).
This action did nothing to reduce the girl’s risk of delinquency, let alone their safety. In fact, in Butterfield’s 2004 article states that the third grade girls were suffering symptoms of headaches, colds, and coughs on a daily bases (2004). This would have made learning that much more difficult for them. Siegal and Welch cite research in the text which tells us that children who fail in academics are more likely to become delinquent