Community Nursing
Substance abuse as a community health problem.
Violence and nursing response.
- Discuss the historical trends and current conceptions of the cause and treatment of substance abuse.
- Describe the ethical and legal implications of substance abuse.
- Identify factors that influence violence.
- Identify at-risk populations for violence and the role of public health in dealing with the epidemic of violence.
Present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font .A minimum of 3 evidence-based references besides the class textbook no older than 5 years must be used. A minimum of 800 words is required.
Answer preview
Substance abuse is a conundrum that has haunted our lives for an untold number of years. Pain and suffering experienced by those actively taking the drugs and those that have to be around the drug users have never dwindled with time. Substance abusers of yesteryears and those in our current set up are driven towards such drugs for almost similar reasons. What has changed is the type of drugs consumed. Most of the drugs that such people have grown…
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