Substance abuse affects and costs the individual, the family, and the community in significant, measurable ways including loss of productivity and unemployability; impairment in physical and mental health; reduced quality of life; increased crime; increased violence; abuse and neglect of children; dependence on non-familial support systems for survival; and expenses for treatment. The physical and mental health and social consequences of alcohol and other drug use by women can seriously affect their lives and those of their families (HHS/SAMHSA, 1997a). Not only are women, especially young women, beginning to close the gap between female and male consumption of alcohol and other drugs, they suffer earlier and more serious consequences. Women become intoxicated and addicted more quickly than men and develop related diseases earlier (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 1996).
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Answer:
The Founding Fathers founded America upon the basis that the government exists to protect and defend people’s basic rights and that if the government fails to do so, the nation has the right to form a new government.
With that, the Framers created a series of mechanisms that make that possible. It is a broad system that makes it possible for all citizens to participate in a certain way. There are many ways to participate:
The main one is to vote in local, state and national elections.
Citizens can influence their representatives by signing petitions defending a certain point or asking something.
Another way to influence representatives is to lobby for laws that are of interest.
Citizens are also allowed to protest as a way to participate politically, protests can be in a form of marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and other forms.
And also, the citizen can run for office or hold public office.
All of these methods are important, citizens have to vote and make their voices heard through their representatives or directly by protests. Democracy is made by all of us.
Explanation:
I think war is justifiable
- if there is an attack on one's territory: so when Germany attacked Poland in 1939, it was justified for Poland to lead a war against Germany
- if NOT leading a war would lead to more victims... so for example sometimes a war to stop a genocide is justifiable
