Hi dear, can you help me to finish this assignment with good quality and be on time please? t   e research and critical thinking to describe a contemporary drug use issue, including legislation, policies, messages, attitudes, affected populations and prevalence of use.t There is a example of the assignment attached. A. Drug Use Issues  Choose a current issue in the news or new or proposed legislation regarding a drug discussed in Chapters 1-4.  For example, the city of San Diego decided to allow both cultivation and distribution of recreational marijuana. In another example, the federal Department of Health and Human Services is investigating why insurance companies make opioids more accessible than other pain treatments by making opioids less expensive. Use what you learned from the article/news report, from Chapters 1-4 in your textbook and from at least two additional academic sources to answer the following 8 questions. You need to obtain information from your additional sources to be able to answer these questions and not just use the one article you chose.   1. ARTICLE/NEWS REPORT: Give a very brief summary of what the article says. 2. MESSAGES:    A.What messages is this article/report giving?   b. What conflicting or mixed messages are being given about this issue to the public? 3. RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION: What restrictive legislation or policies exist regarding this issue? (Cite your source) 4. ATITUDES: What are the present-day attitudes related to this issue? (Cite your source) POPULATIONS: See handout below on how to report on populations. (Cite your source) a. Does this issue have a greater impact on certain population?  b. Which ones (age, region, ethnicity, socioeconomic level or other)?  5. PREVALENCE: What is the prevalence of use of this substance (most recent year available) in your city or state? You will need to look up the prevalence. See handout on how to report on prevalence, below. (Cite your source) 6. VIOLENCE: Is this substance associated with violence or crime (pharmacological, economically compulsive or systemic – see pages 38-39 of text book)? (Cite your source) 7. OPINION: What is your opinion on this issue and why? (For example, do you agree with the proposed legislation or policy change? What do you think about increasing or decreasing access to the substance?) You do not need any citations here but you may include them if you want. FORMAT: Use these headings to make sure you don’t leave anything out (See sample post) 1. ARTICLE/NEWS REPORT: 2. MESSAGES: 3. RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION: 4. ATITUDES: 5. POPULATIONS: 6. PREVALENCE: 7. VIOLENCE: 8. OPINION: Sources: · Because this is college, you need to use at least TWO academic sources: from government reports or scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles. This will give you experience doing academic research. You can use the course textbook or other sources as additional sources, but they will not count a ...

1. Hi dear,
can you help me to finish this assignment with good quality and
be on time please?
t
e research and critical thinking to describe a contemporary drug
use issue, including legislation, policies, messages, attitudes,
affected populations and prevalence of use.t
There is a example of the assignment attached.
A.
Drug Use Issues
Choose a current issue in the news or new or proposed
legislation regarding a drug discussed in Chapters 1-4. For
example, the city of San Diego decided to allow both cultivation
and distribution of recreational marijuana. In another example,
the federal Department of Health and Human Services is
investigating why insurance companies make opioids more
accessible than other pain treatments by making opioids less
expensive.
Use what you learned from the article/news report, from
Chapters 1-4 in your textbook and from at least two additional
academic sources to answer the following 8 questions. You need
to obtain information from your additional sources to be able to
answer these questions and not just use the one article you
chose.

2. 1.
ARTICLE/NEWS REPORT:
Give a very brief summary of what the article says.
2.
MESSAGES:
A.What messages is this article/report giving?
b. What conflicting or mixed messages are being given about
this issue to the public?
3.
RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION:
What restrictive legislation or policies exist regarding this
issue? (Cite your source)
4.
ATITUDES:
What are the present-day attitudes related to this issue? (Cite
your source)
POPULATIONS:
See handout below on how to report on populations.
(Cite your source)
a. Does this issue have a greater impact on certain population?
b. Which ones (age, region, ethnicity, socioeconomic level or
other)?
5.
PREVALENCE:
What is the prevalence of use of this substance (most recent
year available) in your city or state? You will need to look up
the prevalence.

3. See handout on how to report on prevalence, below.
(Cite your source)
6.
VIOLENCE:
Is this substance associated with violence or crime
(pharmacological, economically compulsive or systemic – see
pages 38-39 of text book)? (Cite your source)
7.
OPINION:
What is your opinion on this issue and why? (For example, do
you agree with the proposed legislation or policy change? What
do you think about increasing or decreasing access to the
substance?) You do not need any citations here but you may
include them if you want.
FORMAT: Use these headings to make sure you don’t leave
anything out (See sample post)
1.
ARTICLE/NEWS REPORT:
2.
MESSAGES:
3.
RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION:
4.
ATITUDES:
5.
POPULATIONS:
6.

4. PREVALENCE:
7.
VIOLENCE:
8.
OPINION:
Sources:
· Because this is college, you need to use at least TWO
academic
sources: from government reports or scholarly/peer-reviewed
journal articles. This will give you experience doing academic
research. You can use the course textbook or other sources as
additional sources, but they will not count as one of the two
required sources.
Read the handout (below) on scholarly sources.
· Use the NU library to find your sources. If you don’t know
how, contact the NU library for help.
· Use your OWN WORDS (e.g., do not cut and paste from an
article).
· Do NOT use any quotations.
Paraphrase
(use your own words) to report the information.
·
Use in-text citations.
Write the source of your information at the end of the
applicable sentences using APA 6th edition format. This will
give you practice using APA to cite references.

5. · List all the references in APA 6th Edition format at the end of
your post in a References list.
NOTE: If you are new to APA, I recommend that you use an
online citation builder such as APA Style Central
http://apastylecentral.apa.org.nuls.idm.oclc.org/
or the NU library database to automatically format your
references correctly. You can also get help from the Writing
Center
https://nu.mywconline.com/
and the NU library on how to use APA to cite references.
READ THE DISCUSSION RUBRIC
BEFORE
YOU START. COMPARE WHAT YOU WRITE WITH THE
RUBRIC. READ THE SAMPLE POST BEFORE YOU START.
IMPORTANT: Do NOT submit your first draft. First, read what
you wrote out loud. Check for:
- Missing words or letters
- Missing or misplaced periods, apostrophes, commas
- Incomplete sentences
- 2 or more sentences strung together that should be made into
separate sentences
- Putting something is past tense that should be in present tense
or vice versa
- Plural words that should be singular or singular words that
should be plural
- Making the verb and subject match (plural or tense)

6. AFTER you make these corrections, then post your discussion
.
Then post 2 responses to other student posts, at least 5-6 full
sentences long. You do not need to include any citations in your
responses, but you can if you would like.
HOW TO REPORT ON PREVALENCE AND POPULATIONS:
Those of you who are not majoring in public health may not
have had experience reporting about prevalence or populations.
When you are asked to report the prevalence of use of a certain
drug, it means something specific. You will need to look it up.
Below are some sources where you can find this information.
For statistics on drug, alcohol or tobacco use in your city,
county, state and region, or nationwide:
· The University of Michigan Monitoring the Future Study
http://monitoringthefuture.org
- Results of an annual survey of adolescent drug use appear in
mid-December of each year.
· The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
http://samhsa.gov
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-illegal.htm
· Healthy People 2020 - Healthy People 2020 (select the topic
area of interest, e.g., substance abuse or tobacco.)-
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/Search-the-
Data#topic-area=3500
What is Prevalence?

7. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/what-is-
prevalence.shtml
· Prevalence is the proportion of a population who have a
specific characteristic in a given time period.
How is Prevalence Estimated?
· To estimate prevalence, researchers randomly select a sample
(smaller group) from the entire population they want to
describe. Using random selection methods increases the chances
that the characteristics of the sample will be representative of
(similar to) the characteristics of the population.
· For a representative sample, prevalence is the number of
people in the sample with the characteristic of interest, divided
by the total number of people in the sample.
# of people in sample with characteristic
Prevalence = ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Total # of people in sample
· To ensure a selected sample is representative of an entire
population, statistical ‘weights’ may be applied. Weighting the
sample mathematically adjusts the sample characteristics to
match with the target population.
How is Prevalence Reported?
· Prevalence may be reported as a percentage (5%, or 5 people
out of 100), or as the number of cases per 10,000 or 100,000
people. The way prevalence is reported depends on how
common the characteristic is in the population.

8. · There are several ways to measure and report prevalence
depending on the timeframe of the estimate.
o
Point prevalence
is the proportion of a population that has the characteristic at a
specific point in time.
o
Period prevalence
is the proportion of a population that has the characteristic at
any point during a given time period of interest. “Past 12
months” is a commonly used period.
o
Lifetime prevalence
is the proportion of a population who, at some point in life has
ever had the characteristic.
How is Prevalence Different from Incidence?
· Incidence is a measure of the number of new cases of a
characteristic that develop in a population in a specified time
period; whereas prevalence is the proportion of a population
who have a specific characteristic in a given time period,
regardless of when they first developed the characteristic.
· Researchers may study incident (new) cases of illnesses to
help identify causes and prevent additional cases. Incidence is
often reported for infectious diseases.
I want to point out an excellent example of reporting on
prevalence from one of the Discussion 1 posts:
The following is a good example of how to report on

9. prevalence:
MDMA is most commonly used by teens and young adults,
although the overall percentage of the population who have used
in their lifetime is relatively small. In a 2002 study, 80-82% of
10th-12th grade students said that they did not condone the use
of MDMA, and ~9% of 12th graders had used the drug in the
past year (Landry, M., 2002, p. 164, 166). Recent numbers
suggest that this rate has dropped significantly, with the 2016
NIDA survey reporting that only 2.7% of 12th graders had used
the drug in the past year. In 2014, approximately 17 million
people over the age of 12 reported using the drug in their
lifetime (NIDA, 2017)
HOW TO REPORT ON POPULATIONS: (see example below)
MDMA is used mostly by young adults between the ages of 18-
25, and is more commonly used by Whites than Hispanics or
Blacks. While at its peak in the 1990’s and early 2000’s it was
thought to be used predominantly by men, some studies found
that women were more likely to use the drug in certain
geographic regions (Wu, P. et al.). It is frequently used at
electronic music festivals (raves) and in the nightclub scene,
and research shows that it is more commonly used by
homosexual men and women than heterosexuals (NIDA, 2017).
Between 1980 and 2000, MDMA was mainly used by middle-
class Whites, with the western United States showing the
highest usage; however, due to increases in availability, other
demographics appear to be catching up (Bahora, Sterk &
Elifson, 2009).
ACADEMIC SOURCES

10. An important step in writing a term paper or in completing
many assignments includes finding information in periodicals.
In general, information in
periodicals
is more timely, current, and up-to-date, than information in
books. When professors and/or librarians speak of the periodical
literature, they may use several different terms, such as,
magazines, serials, or scholarly journals.
In order to look for the right kind of information in the right
places, you first need to understand the assignment. Does your
professor want you to look for papers in
scholarly journals
, or will recent articles from substantive, general interest or
popular magazines
be more appropriate? Once you understand the assignment, you
need to know how to distinguish one kind of periodical
literature from another. Here are some rough guidelines:
• A
serial
or
periodical
is any publication that appears at regular intervals (weekly,
monthly, quarterly, and annually) and is intended to continue
indefinitely. Magazines, journals, newspapers, yearbooks,
proceedings, and indexes are all serials.
•
Magazines
are commercial serial publications intended for any of a wide
variety of readers. Some magazines provide news and general
information to a popular audience, while others are aimed at
professionals in various fields.
•

11. Newspapers
are commercial periodicals that are issued daily, weekly or
biweekly, featuring cover age of news and current events as
well as opinion and advertising. Newspapers seek to inform,
explain, influence and entertain readers. Some papers such as
the
New York Times
,
USA Today
or the
Gainesville Sun
target the general public, while others aim for a more defined
audience.
•
Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals
GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES
August 2007
Journals
, or
scholarly, scientific journals
, are periodicals generally published by an institution,
professional association or learned society, and contain articles
that disseminate current information on research and
developments in particular subject fields. Before an editor of a

12. journal publishes a manuscript, the editor and a team of
specialists on the journal editorial board examine the
manuscript carefully, to be sure that the article will contribute
to the knowledge of the field. Because of the rigorous
evaluation process, these publications are also referred to as
refereed
or
peer-reviewed
journals.
Sources of information
For statistics on drug, alcohol or tobacco use in your city,
county, state and region, or nationwide:
· The University of Michigan Monitoring the Future Study
http://monitoringthefuture.org
- Results of an annual survey of adolescent drug use appear in
mid-December of each year.
· The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
http://samhsa.gov
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-illegal.htm
Healthy People 2020 - Healthy People 2020 (select the topic
area of interest, e.g., substance abuse or tobacco.)-
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/Search-the-
Data#topic-area=3500