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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...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

Issue of Controlling Drug Prices in Healthcare

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

'War on Drugs' and its Negative Societal Impact

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

U.S. Drug Offenders and Laws

cocaine prosecution between 1988 and 1994, no whites in Los Angeles County were prosecuted in federal court for crack cocaine offe...

Pharmaceutical Industry, Prices, Returns, and Generic Drugs Competition

or tested will never make it to market due to ineffective results, the development of side effects or other influencing criteria. ...

The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Impacts of Methamphetamine

demand because it is cheap and easily available. It is cheap and easily available because it is so easy to manufacture. Methamph...

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 ...

Scientific American Article 'Does Race Exist?' Reviewed

five different groups of people whose ancestors were typically isolated by oceans, deserts or mountains" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003)...

Effects and Treatment of Phenylketonuria

(Erlandsen, Patch, Gamez, Straub, and Stevens 385). Some four hundred mutations, in fact, are currently linked to Phenylketonuria...

The Importance of Serotonin

primary research article that looked at the manifestation of serotonin and the abnormal neuroendocrine results in serotonergic cha...

Metabolites and Methadone

Once indigested the methadone is metabolised by the liver. This is mostly by demethylation and followed by cyclization (cytochro...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Renal Toxicity and Inhalation Anesthetics

Convention: renal toxicity may occur at concentrations above 50 um/L; not absolute indication, e.g. renal toxicity is not observed...

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 ...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Measuring the Toxicity of Chemicals with LC50 Bioassays

toxicity of certain chemicals that have not otherwise come to light through tragic means such as accident poisoning. Moreover, by ...

Addressing Drug Abuse

Drug addiction is one of societys most concerning problems. Whether the addiction is to a prescription drug or a street drug, the...

Drug Related Crimes

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