SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Drug Abuse Historical Overview

Essays 2131 - 2160

Studies on Drug Addiction and the Roles of Classical Conditioning and Importance of Environmental Clues

most positive effect on the needs of the organism. Schwartz and Robbins (1995) for instance, found that injection of morphine prod...

Tragedy Associated with the Drug Thalidomide

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

Drugs for First-Aid

This essay describes five medications that a healthcare practitioner might choose to meet first-aid needs as a castaway on a deser...

Drugs for Different Conditions

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the use of diffrent medical interventions for specific conditions. There are th...

Women and Using Drugs

Can convergence theory be used to discuss the increase in the use of substances among women? The writer of this paper does that. T...

Relative Therapy in Drug Addiction

Alcoholism and other types of drug addictions impact not just those that suffer from the disease but also their relatives. Drug...

Cultural Factors Affecting Drug Counseling

The United States is becoming progressively more multicultural over time. Social diversity is, in fact, something that must be ta...

Perceptions to Drug Addiction

the argument of Levine (1978) that disease approach to addiction was not a discovery that resulted from true medical research or s...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

FARC and the Drug Wars in Colombia

to a situation in which enemies fight each other in one place and make deals in another, "as is the case with the Fuerzas Armadas ...

Sports, Crime, Drugs And Gambling

has not been lost on organized crime, whose historic presence has been both looming and lucrative. Casino sports books is where a...

Do Drugs, Get Banned Forever

(Albergotti). Some steroids apparently give a "boost" to performance that last for life, giving these athletes a permanent advanta...

US Tobacco Industry and the Food and Drug Administration

the legal product that is promoted by the tobacco industry should be better regulated. But understanding the rationale for the fu...

U.S. Government Involvement in Prescription Drugs

the "government should subsidize prescription drug spending for all 40 million Americans over the age of 65 - whether they need it...

Comparative Analysis of Two Antifungal Drugs

in the sterol biosynthesis pathway that describes the pathway from lanosterol to ergosterol (Ketoconazole Information). There is s...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Case Study on the Workplace and Drugs

by speaking with these individuals who seem to stay out late, arrive to work late and look disheveled, a new situation presents it...

Mothers And Drugs: How A Child's Life Is Impacted When She Is An Addict

of crack cocaine overwhelmingly demonstrate that premature delivery, low birth weight and retardation as three of the primary affl...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

Heart Failure and the Drug Enalapril

tightening of blood vessels. While Enalapril is effective in its application, there are a number of concerns with which the healt...

Article Review on Canada's Resistance to US Drug Sales Pressure

article provides a polite, superficial look at the problem. 4. This is a financial issue. IV. Conclusion This article should...

Sexual Hallucinations Induced by Drugs

drugs will cause an effect that renders patients less likely to remember events. Midazolam is one drug that can create this effec...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

RU-486 and Controversies Surrounding the Drug

This research tutorial examines mifepristone which is called RU486. This paper is argumentative in style. This five page paper has...

Drug Offenses and High School Undercover Law Enforcement

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

Cross Membrane Transport and Molecular Mixtures in Joe Alper's Article 'Drug Delivery Breaching the Membrane'

The passage of drugs through the bodys membranes is affected by the process of osmosis and the osmotic pressure which builds up on...