Abuse of Street Drugs

Focus on the context in which the human psyche emerges, including the social and personal relationships that it encounters, is the starting point of analysis in developmental psychology. The traditional assumption is that human psychology has universality by reason of "central processing mechanism" and that there is "a fundamental division" between that mechanism and the "context," or external environment in which the psyche is made to function (Shweder, 1990, p. 5). Human development does not discard the individual central processing mechanism but also does not valorize it. Rather, context per se is the point of analytical departure.

According to Erik Erikson, an individual experiences stages of psychosocial development based on successive crises of ego development that are successfully or unsuccessfully navigated, according as individuals appropriately identify with or liberate themselves from external influences (society, family). Erikson (1968, 1980) puts young adulthood between the ages of 18 and 30, a stage of cognitive and ego development at which the personal focus is on forming rela

. . .
of "pseudo patients," or con artists who "are well-dressed, affable, and apparently middle-class" and who "do their homework" on symptoms, then visit doctors to obtain prescriptions for barbiturates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, beta-blockers, and other narcotics that are then sold on the street. Especially popular as a street-drug conversion is OxyContin, an addictive pain-killing opiate properly prescribed to cancer patients, and in some communities arrests for trafficking in that drug have become as routine as those for trafficking in crack cocaine (Roche, 2001). Department of Justice guidelines for dealing with drug offenders who have entered the legal system tend to favor treatment over incarceration. However, even though so-called "drug courts" are a medium of exchange, providing substance-abuse offenders access to treatment while minimizing jail time, "they depend on the quality and quantity of services and resources . . . within their local communities" (Office, 2001). Treatment is not always an option, however. Adult substance offenders who are arrested for drugs and who have other charges outstanding are programmatically excluded from rehabilitation programs and instead are funneled into incarceration. Young-adult d
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
Fox Miller, Kandel Raveis, Miller Kessel, Department Justice, Jenkins Zunguze, According Brook, , Implicit Erikson's, Erik Erikson, Yamaguchi Kandel, et al, young-adult drug, drug abuse, kandel raveis, kandel raveis 1989, raveis 1989, drug adolescence, marijuana cocaine, drug adulthood, brook et, substance abuse, brook et al, weaver et al, et al 1999, js whiteman finch,
Approximate Word count = 2956
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)

More Essays on Abuse of Street Drugs