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Laws and Drugs

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

Recovery Program Support Research Proposal

seen as worthwhile there is almost an attitude that spending money on the addicts is a waste of resources as they have little hope...

Young American Adults from the Ages of Nineteen and Twenty Five and Prescription Drugs

psychological incidents requiring prescription drugs, have a tendency to misuse the drugs to a greater degree than their male coun...

Legalization of Illegal Drugs

children would be exposed and tempted too often and for many different types of drugs all it takes is one try and a serious addict...

California Schools' Drug Testing, Ethics, and Law

no evidence that suspicion is the case, is not overly approved of. However, there are schools where testing and active security is...

Research Proposal Regarding Early Adolescence and Drug Use

criminality (Davies, 1998). Recent studies, including those by Davies (1998) suggest that there are mitigating factors that deter...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Drug Therapies

of critiques of drug therapy versus the use of other treatment measures are the central themes of this paper. Background of Psych...

issues Relating to Drugs and Racial Injustice

All of these flyers point to the truth that drugs and drug use are not presented honestly in the media. Arguments The first fl...

Law and Drugs

are responsible for the physical and psychological wounds. People have often heard that if drugs were no longer a problem, ...

Crime, Drugs, and California Legislation

attempting to curb activity until such a time as when other social policies provide a more amenable application? Indeed, the stud...

Drug Abuse and the Influences of Psychology and Sociology

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

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...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

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 ...

Controversy of Drug Legalization

One of the first things that would be addressed is the Mafia and drug lord hold on the industry. We have all seen on television ho...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

The Effects of Drug Use

younger users, however, more frequently than it does older users. Some 2.8 percent of adults between eighteen and twenty-six year...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

The Marketing Of Prescription Drugs

A five stage model looking at problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post- pu...

Pros And Cons Of Interstate Compact, AA Approach, Drug Testing And Restitution For Sex Offenders

erroneously employed as the stand-alone solution of a much more complicated issue. Moreover, there are conflicting findings wheth...

MLB Hall of Fame and the Use of Drugs to Enhance Player Performance

The stringent voting criteria are based on "a players record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributi...

Drug Abuse, its causes and effects

they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...