Unit 3 Individual Project Reason for Substance Use 4

Unit 3 Individual Project Reason for Substance Use 4

You are working in a rehab center for teenagers who tell you that drugs get them through the day because school is boring, their families are dysfunctional, and that they use them because their friends pressure them. Some tell you that their parents, aunts, and uncles gave them their first exposure to marijuana, cocaine, and meth. Others say they just like how some drugs calm them down and others speed them up.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 4–5 pages:

What are four common reasons why people begin to use mood altering substances? Explain.

Briefly describe and summarize the four selected reasons.

With regard to your selected reasons, answer the following questions:

Once started, why do people continue to use mood altering substances? Explain in detail.

What are recreational drugs? Explain.

Since teens are most at risk for recreational drug use, what can be done to divert them away from recreational drug use? Explain.

What does current research suggest with regard to persuading teens to not partake in drug use?

Are the reasons for teen drug use and abuse different than those of adults? Explain.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.