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Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

Substance Abuse and Burlington Northern Railroad

because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

International Drug Trafficking

symptoms similar to alcohol intoxication (Drugs of abuse - 2004). They can also cause impaired judgment, violent bvehavior, and h...

The War on Drugs in America and Whether or Not a Problem Truly Exists

while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Air Force and the Drug Ecstasy

coupled with physical exertion, something that has been responsible for a number of deaths (1997). Long term effects of this dru...

Nationwide Prescription Drug Plan Approaches

In a paper consisting of nine pages a nationwide plan for prescription drugs is examined in terms of economic feasibility and the ...

Dependence and Addiction

There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...

Risperidone / Risperdal

2005; Risperdal Side Effects, n.d.). The very long list includes gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting and a digestion ...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

In Favor of Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in High School

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

Zoloft

it is taken up and released again, a process called re-uptake (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). A balance is reached when the re-uptake and...

Program/Aiding Adult Female Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse

research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...

Drug Related Crimes

Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...

The Problem of Drug Addiction

about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...

U.S. and Abuse of Senior Citizens

This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...

Legalizing Drugs

In ten pages this paper examines various perspective regarding the legalization of drugs in the US. Twelve sources are cited in t...

Young Victims of Suicide and Depression

and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...

Sociology's Debate Regarding Nature versus Nurture

In five pages this paper examines this controversy in terms of which is most responsible for the development of personality, inter...

Analysis of Sociology's Feminist Views

ignored. Suddenly, the Industrial Revolution swept over Europe and America, and Western societies were never quite the same. Wom...

Substance Abuse and Psychology

In five pages this paper discusses various psychosocial components as they relate to substance abuse issues. Thirteen sources are...

Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized?

focus to intervention and rehabilitation. Others oppose this view, arguing that the War on Drugs is working and that to decriminal...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...