Nur 443-Discussion: Specific drug-taking experiences

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The nature and meaning of specific drug-taking experiences have a profound effect on drug users. It is the primary reason that people initiate and continue their drug taking. You are asked to identify and to analyze a particular drug-taking experience from your life, and to prepare a short paper discussing it.

Learning Activities

Select an interesting drug-taking experience from your own life; it can be medical or non-medical in nature (e.g., your first experience with a new medication; or experiences with nonprescription drugs or herbal remedies or your first experience with alcohol, tobacco, or other social-recreational drug; an unusual experience with a drug that produced effects, positive or negative, that you were not expecting, etc).

Describe in as much detail as possible the physical and mental effects that occurred during your experience, placing each effect in the time-order in which they occurred, your response to those effects, and the social or behavioral circumstances under which the experience transpired. Also, include information about the ritual and setting of use, dose, route of administration, and other pharmaceutical factors.

Speculate and discuss the sociological as well as the pharmacological aspects of this experience and what specific social factors influenced the effects that did occur.

This assignment should not exceed four (4) pages. It should be written in 12-point, Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, and reasonable margins.

Grading

This assignment will be graded on your depth of reflection, relevance, readability, and promptness. I am looking for unique and interesting expression of drug experiences, especially those to which you had a strong response (found it very positive, did not expect it and were surprised, found it negative, etc.) and, as a result, you definitely would or would not use the drug again, and you would have strong opinions about the drug in making recommendations to patients or others.

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.

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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