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MLB Hall of Fame and the Use of Drugs to Enhance Player Performance

The stringent voting criteria are based on "a players record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributi...

Internet Information about Psychiatric Drugs

(Boyles). Moncrieff argues that there is no "real evidence" that the drugs are effective: "We have been treating all comers with a...

Anti-Drug Legislation On A Federal And State Level

property and possessions if found to be associated with such criminal activity as drug smuggling and racketeering. The Act states...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

The War on Drugs

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

Pharmacological Approaches to Treating Hypertension

This cost combines with the severe physiological impacts of the disease to emphasize the point that treatment should be as efficac...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

The Drug Approval Process

get a drug that is not yet approved through illegal means. It makes sense for someone who only has days to live perhaps, but safet...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

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...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

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 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...

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...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Corrections Facilities and Programs for Juvenile Drug Abusers in Cedar City, Utah

be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...

Argument: Taking Antidepressants Does Not Lead to Suicide

over whether or not SSRIs increase suicidality since 1990, when a paper appeared discussing "6 cases in which intense suicidal pre...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

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...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

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...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

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...