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Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Erectile Dysfunction

Men who have problems getting or sustaining a penile erection suffer from erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction can be the r...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Strategic Plan for Johnson and Johnson

A strategic plan has been developed for Johnson and Johnson based on an assumed desire to increase revue and support better reven...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

Overviewing the Common Drugs Niacin, Thiamine, Revia, Ibogaine, Librium, Methadone, and Antabuse

the medicine (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Other side effects include nausea, dizziness, decreased appetite, irregular bowel movements...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Personal Essay Alcohol and Drug Resistance

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at saying no to drugs and alcohol. A college admissions paper provides anecdotal exper...

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, ...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Scandals in Law Enforcement

This essay discusses two large events of police corruption. One has to do with ticket fixing and the other was more involved with ...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

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....

LSD's History

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

Workplace and Mandatory Drug Testing

In eight pages this paper examines the constitutionality of mandatory workplace drug testing and considers how the current procedu...

Analgesia and Anesthesia Uses in Infants

In twelve pages this paper analyzes using the drug fentanyl on neonates as a pain reliever during surgery or painful medical proce...

Dieting Dangers

In five pages diet fads are discussed in terms of their medical dangers with such issues addressed as social and psychological inf...

Drug Use and Psychosocial Motivations

In ten pages this paper discusses the psychosocial motivations people have for using and abusing drugs. Six sources are cited in ...

Nongeneric v. Generic Drugs

In eight pages this paper examines using generic drugs that are less costly and the issues associated with this use. There is the...

Controlled Release Systems of Drug Delivery and the Role of Polymers

to degradation at the site of administration whether administered by subcutaneous, intramuscular, intestinal, buccal, rectal, nasa...

3 Speeches and the Uses of Rhetoric

In six pages this paper analyzes how rhetoric is used in three speeches delivered by President Bill Clinton including 'We're Losin...