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War on Drugs, An Overview

This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...

Raves, An Overview

This paper describes rave parties, their nature and drug use that characterize these events. Three pages in length, three sources ...

Drug Supply/Demand Reduction, an Overview

This paper pertains to Supply Reduction and Demand Reduction as policies in fighting the War on Drugs. Three pages in length, two ...

AA Meeting, Long Island Council

This research paper provides an example paper that describes what it was like to attend an AA meeting that occurred under the ausp...

Monitoring Valporic Acid and Clozapine Levels

This paper considers the applications and potential problems associated with this drug regimen. There are six sources listed in t...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Power Point presentation

This paper presents the speaker notes for a Power Point project, khspnmedD.ppt, that describes the gap in prescription drug covera...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

Cause and Effect Drugs and Crime

This paper explores the relationship between drug addiction and criminal activity. There is a cause and effect relationship in pl...

Baseball and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use

This paper offers an overview of performance-enhancing drug use within the context of professional baseball. Six pages in length, ...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

Comparing Drug Policies

This paper offers an analysis of drug policies in England, Canada and The Netherlands, and contrasts them with policy in the US. T...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

Argument: Taking Antidepressants Does Not Lead to Suicide

over whether or not SSRIs increase suicidality since 1990, when a paper appeared discussing "6 cases in which intense suicidal pre...

The Drug Economy of Peru

the network also includes those who may never come in contact with the drugs, such as pilots, lawyers and bankers and others who m...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

Phenytoin: Pathophysiological Condition

its efficacy and easy dispensability by pill, liquid or injection. In addition, its side effect rating is better than the other a...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

Personal Application of Criminology: The Son’s Friend

as possible, or simply explaining what hes done. Maybe hes bragging and inviting the son to join him in his next robbery. Or perha...

The Dangers of Methamphetamine Use

the incredibly negative impact that meth has on these individuals health and welfare and, in fact, on the health and welfare of so...

The Ethics of Using Cognitive Enhancing Drugs by Healthy People

Kerouac scrawled out the infamous story within a three week period and he credited that accomplishment to amphetamines (Foer, 2005...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Chemotherapy and Side Effects

it may be used to reduce tumors ("What is Chemotherapy"). The chemotherapy drugs used in this way destroy the cancer cells "by st...

Cattle Market and Marketing

that requires the largest amount of time spent with them. However, if we look at the way the marketing is taking place, with the v...

Harm Reduction Theory and Drug Addiction

Alternatives, 2001). "Harm reduction" first arose in Great Britain, under the premise that use of illicit drugs should be ...

Science Advancement or Animal Rights

only way that to be sure that new drugs will actually be beneficial. An opinion poll conducted in the UK in 1999 showed that onl...

Asthma Management and Drug Therapies

reduce hyper responsiveness and inflammatory changes in the airways. Patients with daily symptoms tend to benefit more from regula...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...