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Elasticity and the Price of Prescription Drugs

In six pages this paper discusses the need for elasticity regarding the cost of prescriptions drugs because of the significant imp...

Problem of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.

In eight pages this paper discusses the growing American problem of prescription drugs in a consideration of how they are used leg...

Australia and the Regulation of Prescription Drugs

In five pages this paper discusses how the government of Australia is involved with the pharmaceutical industry in terms of prescr...

Human Body and the Impact of Drugs

been ingested (1997). While ecstasy can last in the body for many days, what are the long term effects of this dangerous substan...

Prescription Drug Costs and Medicare

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Prescription Drugs and Medicare Controversy

that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...

Prescription Drug Cost Controls

they are initially very expensive. Drug companies undertake lengthy and costly tests to create the drug. Once it is able to be pre...

Medicare Donut Hole, An Overview

This research paper offers an overview of the gap in prescription drug coverage that is a component of Medicare Part D. Ten pages ...

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...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

Child Abuse and Its Social Causes

In nine pages 3 student submitted case studies examine child abuse in terms of their social causes with alcoholism, pedophilia, ...

The Expensiveness, Seriousness, and Commonality of Alcoholism

the social costs." The remedy has been to treat the victims of alcohol abuse rather than to challenge the strong economic and poli...

Alcohol Use of Polices Among the Indigenous Population in Australia

(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...

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...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

Mexican Women's Health and the Impact of Oppression

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the Mexican patriarchy oppression of women impacts their health in a considerati...

Generic Equivalents of Prescription Drugs

The writer examines the usage, origin and contraindications of the drug albuterol, which is branded under the name Proventil but i...

U.S. Government Involvement in Prescription Drugs

the "government should subsidize prescription drug spending for all 40 million Americans over the age of 65 - whether they need it...

Causative Factors Alcoholism Environmental and Genetic

In a paper consisting of eight pages alcoholism's causative factors are discussed in terms of the correlation between genes and en...

Alcoholic Parents and Children's Alcoholic Development Tendencies

In fifteen pages alcoholism is examined in terms of its effect on children with a current literature review featured in this resea...

The Impacts of Alcohol

For the purposes of this paper the term "alcohol" will be used as it pertains to any sort of distilled or fermented liquid that...

The Consequences of Alcoholism

that drink. The fact that alcoholism is an illness like cancer of diabetes should serve as a warning that something ought to be d...

Sexual Abuse as a Cause of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

Abuse Cases, Elder and Child Abuse

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

House Bill 250: Analysis

context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...