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argument against marijuana legalization. Califano specifically focuses on the issue of marijuana as a gateway drug and cites sta...
which represent minority populations. Nationally, "less than 37% of doctor of pharmacy graduates are under-represented minorities...
a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...
cocaine use. According to Petitti et al (1990), cocaine is "an important risk factor for low birth weight in the black population...
addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...
seen as worthwhile there is almost an attitude that spending money on the addicts is a waste of resources as they have little hope...
are responsible for the physical and psychological wounds. People have often heard that if drugs were no longer a problem, ...
attempting to curb activity until such a time as when other social policies provide a more amenable application? Indeed, the stud...
to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...
the incredibly negative impact that meth has on these individuals health and welfare and, in fact, on the health and welfare of so...
Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...
the network also includes those who may never come in contact with the drugs, such as pilots, lawyers and bankers and others who m...
its efficacy and easy dispensability by pill, liquid or injection. In addition, its side effect rating is better than the other a...
province, " as well as eleven affluent landowners (FBI, 2008). He was taken into federal custody in New Orleans in 1881 and sent b...
computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...
but was selected by the Board for his experience in the long-term care that appeared to be the next hurdle for the pharmaceutical ...
strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
be remanded to locked detention; among the offenses that result in detention is the "sale and use of drugs" (Locked detention, 200...
over whether or not SSRIs increase suicidality since 1990, when a paper appeared discussing "6 cases in which intense suicidal pre...
create more problems for the nation. In one respect, people who purchase, sell or use marijuana are put in prison and exposed to...
would have undertaken a careful analysis of the current position of the company, and where they want to be along with the market o...
a venipuncture for HIV and hepatitis C virus, accompanied by pretest counseling. The participants returned two weeks later to rece...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
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...
is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...