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A Clinical Overview of Depression

experts agree that clinical depression is a depression that does not go away with accompanying feelings of worthlessness and despa...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Workplace Random Drug Testing

expectation that an applicant has to privacy. Obviously, an employer cannot force a prospective employee to take a drug test, but ...

Prescription Drug Costs and Medicare

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Can the War on Drugs be Won?

to further global policies under the guise of another name; global policies which would never have been supported by the American ...

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

Case Study Career Counseling Evaluation

Her best friend Becky who has known her most of her life, continues to be supportive, but has broken off much of the contact they ...

Hispanic Immigrant Treatment Regarding Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less believe in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be cou...

Drug Legalization and Economics

campaign ("To decertify," 1998). That alone is reason to note that the cost of fighting this losing war is quite hefty. Aside from...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

An Examination of Addiction and Recovery

provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Employee Drug Testing in the Workplace

be a problem or that the individual they are considering hiring may be abusing prescription drugs, but most strive to ensure that ...

Drug Addiction Mock Assessment

for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Hiring Practices of Foxtrots Drug Store

American." The company readily admits that none of the new pharmacists hired in the past year is Hispanic. Employee demographics...

Homeless Man Case Study Assessment

his liver as that is the organ that processes such substances. He is currently taking several medications including but not limite...

Prescription Drugs and Medicare Controversy

that a means test would be supported by Democrats but that is far from the case. The article points out that Medicare is embraced ...

Society of Thailand and the Effects of Drugs and Prostitution

the people are traditional and spiritual. Yet, the nation is entrenched in an atmosphere of sex and drugs. The sex trade thrives...

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...

Drug Culture of America

of recreational drugs became popular in the 1960s, due in large part to Dr. Timothy Leary who coined the phrase, "turn on, tune in...

War on Drugs Argument and Rebuttal

needed for the nations poor and undereducated. Drugs should be legalized as the war against them is not winnable, and more importa...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Jersey City and the Availability of Street Drugs

that became known as "crack" cocaine, which is cocaine in its purist form (Marcocci, 2002). After its first appearance, crack quic...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...