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Japan as a Destination Market for an Orphan Drug

on the attractiveness of the market. The Japanese pharmaceutical market in 2006 the market accounted for approximately 11% of th...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Reaction Paper on Joshua Marston’s Film Maria Full of Grace

perfect mule to travel from Bogota to New York because no one would dare X-ray a pregnant woman. Of course, by ingesting the 62 h...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

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...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

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...

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...

Optimizing Emotional Health Benefits and Opiates

health effectiveness to the treatment of depression and the dependence upon heroin. Depression is likely the most common malady e...

Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Level

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...

Complementary Medicine and Psychology

impact (Kinrys, Coleman and Rothstein, 2009). Passionflower is another plant that has been used since ancient time because of its...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Mothers And Drugs: How A Child's Life Is Impacted When She Is An Addict

of crack cocaine overwhelmingly demonstrate that premature delivery, low birth weight and retardation as three of the primary affl...

Abuse Reporting Barriers and Disabled Women Victimized by Abuse

recognized when organizing relevant material on this topic is that there may not be adequate source material on the subject of the...

Analyzing an Article on Child Abuse's Cognitive Effects

what protects children who are exposed to abuse (Martin, 2002). The article begins with a formal definition of domestic violence...

Pharmacies and Medicare's Part D Impact

require under the new program, still not sure about who is eligible, having not yet been assigned to a plan or having proof of enr...

The Pill and Pharmacists Case Study Analysis

say that birth control pills are also used for other purposes. Some state legislation allows pharmacists some leeway if they do no...

The Debt Structure of Walgreens

having such impressive amounts of cash to use at its discretion is that it is building its store-a-day on revenues of current oper...

Pharmacists and the Issue of Prescriptive Authority

This has been a privilege which has made them an even more integral part of the overall health care system of these agencies. Unf...

Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In six pages this paper supports the legalization of marijuana sale by prescription in the U.S. for serious medical conditions wit...

Prescription Rates and Side Effects of Antidepressants

treatment as well. Peter Jensen, a professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University reports that "pediatricians and family pra...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Future Prescriptions Expenditures' Calculation Through Regression Analysis

consider why there is this cost increase, there are many factor we can look for to account for this increase. Costs for any good ...

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

The One Best System by David B. Tyack

In five pages urban education as examined in Tyack's text is analyzed within the context that despite the notion it is 'wise to be...

APRN Working to Their Full Extent

This paper offered a position paper on the topic of allowing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to practice up to their knowledge...

Questioning Cholesterol Guidelines

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at cholesterol guidelines recently published. The tendency of the guidelines to result...

NY Nurse Practitioners, Prescriptive Authority

This paper pertains to prescription authority for New York State nurse practitioners. Three pages n length, four sources are cited...