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Overview of the Drug LSD

and punishment, or that it would eventually, at least in one country, be considered the most serious of all criminal behavior (Nic...

LSD's History

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

Overview of Hallucinogens

LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide LSD or LSD-25, known as lysergic acid diethylamide, was first synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hoff...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

Criminal Justice System and Organized Crime

international scope quite considerably since the spread of Internet communication. In addition, international travel has itself gr...

The United Nations' Efforts to Control Drug Trafficking in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and Korea Commission On Narcotics & Drugs

at the same time ensures the availability of the drugs for legal purposes. According to U.N. drug organs, opium production has in...

The Impacts of Caffeine on Human Behavior

11 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the impacts of caffeine on human physiology, with a specific view of t...

Economic Principles Applied to Pharmaceutical Companies

fewer people able to afford the goods. The converse is also true, as process fall then there is usually an increase in demand, as ...

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...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

LSD and the Central Intelligence Agency

In a report consisting of six pages the ways in which the CIA took advantage of its power in order to inappropriately test LSD on ...

Substance use in the Boroughs

Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

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

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 ...

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...

Drugs and Alcohol as 'Gateway Drugs'

The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 pag...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Risperidone / Risperdal

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

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...

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...

Legalizing Drugs

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

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 ...

Drug Related Crimes

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