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Overview of Hallucinogens

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

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

2 Contemporary Issues Confronting Our Country

just too large a bureaucracy to be able to deal with the myriad problems the people face today that cause them to turn to drugs or...

The Effects of Pre-Natal Drug Use and Addiction

in one literature review, it was estimated that more than 1.4 million women of childbearing age currently use opiod-derived drugs,...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Neuroleptic Drugs and Schizophrenia

which to help both patient and family cope with associated stresses. Music therapy may prove only marginally effective depending ...

Pharmacological Properties of the Drug Prinivil

in the assessment phase is the electrolytic balance which exist for potassium, sodium, and chloride (Bartersite.com, 2002). The a...

Common Medications and Their Patient Information, Procedural Recommendations, and Side Effects

In forty two pages this paper examines drugs that are commonly prescribed for various conditions in a consideration of monitoring ...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

Nazi Medical Experiments

pain and often humiliation, and the experiments would usually be fatal (Cohen, 2002). The justification for the research was ide...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

A Clinical Overview of Depression

experts agree that clinical depression is a depression that does not go away with accompanying feelings of worthlessness and despa...

Latin American Drugs, Children, and the National Political Influence of Global Organizations

which they have had to beg, steal or sell themselves simply to stay alive. Street Children and Drugs Scanlon, Tomkins, Lynch, an...

Minor Drug Offenses and Incarceration Alternatives

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

Spiritual Assistance from Hallucinogenic Drugs or Does Their Use Threaten Nontraditional Cultures?

useless in allowing any type of spiritual connection, useless in allowing a non-traditional person to connect with their spiritual...

Diethyl Ether Drug

1996). The state of the carbon that is used is worked out in the traditional manner, for example the state of oxygen is calculate...

Human Health and Environmental Impacts of Alachlor

state agencies are responsible for the oversight and/or regulation of chemicals in drinking water as well. Under the terms of the...

Cocaine's Chemistry and its Impact

Erthroxylon coca. The active ingredient was first isolated by Westerners by a man named Albert Niemann in 1860. The drug soon beca...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Illegal Use of Drugs by Teens

of problems including increased risk of serious drug use later in life, school failure and poor judgment which could put teens at ...

Social Performance and the Rave Culture

acceptance the all-night gatherings generate. Its a state of peace and unity kids say they cant find in the real world," though mo...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

Drug Addiction Mock Assessment

for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

Case Study Career Counseling Evaluation

Her best friend Becky who has known her most of her life, continues to be supportive, but has broken off much of the contact they ...

Can the War on Drugs be Won?

to further global policies under the guise of another name; global policies which would never have been supported by the American ...

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...