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Adolescent Resilience, Gender, and Foster Care

media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...

Class, Privilege, and Maturity in 'A and P' by John Updike

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

Sexual Activity and Pregnancy in Adolescents

In six pages these two articles pertaining to the many aspects of sexual activity and pregnancy are presented 'Early adolescent se...

Adolescent Depression : Review Of Articles

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...

Shyness And Social Anxiety Disorder

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

Adolescence and Abstaining from Sex

In twelve pages this paper discusses how sexual abstinence can be encouraged for adolescents in a consideration of research studie...

Adults as Perceived by Adolescents

In fifteen pages this paper examines how adolescents perceive the roles of adults and how it is based upon various criteria and i...

Article Critique/Dating Study

previously tested instrument, indicates that issues of validity and reliability were also adequately addressed. The results are ...

Ecstasy And Its Effects

young masses. II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS The need for artificial stimulation has long been associated with the ...

"The Basketball Diaries" - Reaction

ability to register pain, anxiety and desire while at the same time enhances an artificial sense of contentment. As Jim becomes m...

One Transtion in Adolescent's Life

Children and adolescents make many transitions during their lifetimes, one of which is the transition from elementary to middle sc...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...

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...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

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...

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...

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...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

School Infiltration by Crack Cocaine

In five pages increased youth usage of crack cocaine is examined in terms of the 'cool' perception of drugs that suggest school dr...

DRUG TRADE IN LATIN AMERICA: TRANSNATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES

reduction tools and, to an extent, education on the evils of drug use (Seelke et al 2010). The results have been mixed to not-so-g...

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Erectile Dysfunction

Men who have problems getting or sustaining a penile erection suffer from erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction can be the r...

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...

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 ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

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...