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Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Urban Violence and Drugs

outbreaks of violence are seemingly spontaneous, but may in fact actually be the end result of a long chain of events that began m...

Recreational Drugs and Their Negative Impact

Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Children and Drug Addiction

dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

Crimes and Drugs

according to Tonry, "fugitive," that is, it is carried out by private sector research firms, independent research agencies and non...

The Use of Mifeprex (RU 486) in the Second Trimester

been some complications with this drug, including several deaths. These however seem to be attributable to the fact that there is...

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

The Ethics of Coerced Treatment for Addiction

crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...

Workplace Necessity of Employee Drug Testing

productivity and employee motivation, they need to be a permanent practice in the American workplace. How safe is the American w...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed

fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Principal & Curriculum Design

use of steroid drug abuse among athletes has arisen, this principal has brought a recommendation before the school board that has ...

Colombia - Foreign Policy

by the 1970s, mostly left-wing groups (International Crisis Group July). By the 1980s, right-wing groups emerged and by then, the ...

The Use of Drugs in Society

For example, in Clermont, a 28-year-old man raped a twelve year old girl ; in the report, it notes that this suspect admitted to s...

Crime, Justice, Law and Politics

principles (Bohm, 2006). The question is, if these sentencing guidelines are acceptable for drug users, why are child molesters no...

Downsizing - Hypothetical Case Study

That means they have a direct impact on each other and change in one area will result in changes in the other areas. Summary of A...

Morphine (An Overview)

or pill form to relive pain after surgery" (Kuhn, Swartzwelder and Wilson 178). It is also used sometimes in other instances to co...

Differential Association Theory and Drug Use: A Literature Review

to peer influences related to drug abuse. The review of literature begins with information directly from Sutherland and his peers....

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

Pizza Operations

from being properly recorded and accounted for. The manager will need to ensure that s/he orders quantities sufficient for ...

Growth Strategies at GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca; a Comparison

would have undertaken a careful analysis of the current position of the company, and where they want to be along with the market o...