Question

Answer the following in paragraph form (minimum of 4-5 sentences):

Identify a social problem that is occurring today. Explain the issue and give three possible solutions to help this issue.

Answer 1

1. American drug use/abuse is very high.Quest Diagnostics,one of the nation's leading providers of employee drug testing positive for drugs had reached a 10 year high.Women,affluent,baby boomers are taking more drugs compared to other class of American people.People addicted to painkillers are 40 times more likely to abuse heroin.Being stressed out may be other cause to take drugs for people.
2. War on drugs will achieve results.Parents and community leaders can play a big role to reduce drug use.This includes recognising the risk factors for developing an SUD and the signs of abuse,among many other things.Common risk factors are::

• poor education
• mental illness
• poverty
• parental substance abuse
• environment

Signs of substance abuse :::

• problems at school or work
• physical health issues
• neglected appearance
• behavioural changes
• unexplained money spending.

Answer 2

Social Problem: Xenophobia

Today's world is a more open field for communication, so it's easier to learn and be informed about global and international problems, xenophobia and racism are one of these, the case of Honduras is a clear example happening today, people migrating looking for a better quality of life in another land due to their own country's state of social decay and abandon, and even though the reasons for racism and xenophobia are rooted deep down in a country's social history and culture there are measures that we can take and put into practice to erradicate racism. Take for example these three:

1. Travel, experience migration, not for tuoring and relaxation but rather for opening your own mindset to new and strange places that can be very different.

2. Inform-self. Learn and read about international migration problems and it's causes in papers and objective media.

3. Get involved. Talk to inmigrants in your own community, let them into your life in someway, offer support and try to relate to people from other places in an open and friendly attitude.

By doing this we can learn what the term world citizen really means and imagine a world that truly lives as one.