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Drugs, Gangs, and Philadelphia's 'Badlands'

city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Literature Review of Overdose Effects of Safe Injection Houses for Street Drug Users

not many studies have really dealt in such a singular issue, but rather, lump potential drug overdose as one of the many problems ...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

Looking at Drug Testing Philosophically

trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...

United States, Crime, and Drugs

a large proportion of its budgetary resources enforcing drug laws. Drug-related arrests have gone up 50 percent over the last ten ...

Heath Benefits of Aged Garlic Extract

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

An Argument For the War on Drugs

as criminals who should be locked up, drug users in Europe are more likely to be invited to participate in society...Heavy users a...

Drug War and Economics

Case Study A case study submitted by a student suggests that the government is concerned about the increasing incidence of armed...

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...

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...

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 ...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Drug- Resistant Gonorrhea, An Overview

This research paper pertains to the public health problem of drug-resistant gonorrhea and relevant issues are described. Five page...

Do We Own Our Bodies

This paper considers separate and distinct issues. The first section discusses what the Food and Drug Administration does and what...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Rationing Scarce Resources Catholic Ethics

We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...