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Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

The Effects of Drug Use

younger users, however, more frequently than it does older users. Some 2.8 percent of adults between eighteen and twenty-six year...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

Steroid Use in Major League Baseball

steroids enhance performance; or rather, there is sufficient doubt about it to suggest that it might not be true in all cases. In ...

Controversy of Drug Legalization

One of the first things that would be addressed is the Mafia and drug lord hold on the industry. We have all seen on television ho...

Article Review/Sex, Drug Behavior

a venipuncture for HIV and hepatitis C virus, accompanied by pretest counseling. The participants returned two weeks later to rece...

Drug Supply/Demand Reduction, an Overview

This paper pertains to Supply Reduction and Demand Reduction as policies in fighting the War on Drugs. Three pages in length, two ...

Comparing Drug Policies

This paper offers an analysis of drug policies in England, Canada and The Netherlands, and contrasts them with policy in the US. T...

Baseball and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use

This paper offers an overview of performance-enhancing drug use within the context of professional baseball. Six pages in length, ...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

The Use of Drugs in Society

For example, in Clermont, a 28-year-old man raped a twelve year old girl ; in the report, it notes that this suspect admitted to s...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

The Drug Economy of Peru

the network also includes those who may never come in contact with the drugs, such as pilots, lawyers and bankers and others who m...

Phenytoin: Pathophysiological Condition

its efficacy and easy dispensability by pill, liquid or injection. In addition, its side effect rating is better than the other a...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

Poor Decisions by African Americans

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

The Ethics of Using Cognitive Enhancing Drugs by Healthy People

Kerouac scrawled out the infamous story within a three week period and he credited that accomplishment to amphetamines (Foer, 2005...

Personal Application of Criminology: The Son’s Friend

as possible, or simply explaining what hes done. Maybe hes bragging and inviting the son to join him in his next robbery. Or perha...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...

The Dangers of Methamphetamine Use

the incredibly negative impact that meth has on these individuals health and welfare and, in fact, on the health and welfare of so...

Specialized Offender Programs (Case Study Analysis)

2006). With many available programs for offenders, what might be done with a particularly problematic criminals? II. Case Study: ...

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

rat droppings, parts from workers who were hurt, and almost anything imaginable, went into the meat people were eating. This led t...

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Performance Enhancing Drugs and Their Alteration of the Baseball Playing Field

April 8, 1974, everyone knew what they were doing on that memorable moment. By the 1990s, however, it appeared that baseball "had...