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Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Essay on Drug Abuse

Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...

Industry Competitive Position of Upsher Smith Laboratories

such that people are living longer, and when combined with the demographic changes now underway, the result is expected to greatly...

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...

Healthcare Definitions and the Retail Drug Sector

such the journey to one of these stores will often be more convenient. Value is also added with the use of own brands, differentia...

New Fast Track System of the FDA

some new medications would pass through FDA, it would be too late for the people who are dying of a fatal disease. Not too long ag...

Medicare Donut Hole, An Overview

This research paper offers an overview of the gap in prescription drug coverage that is a component of Medicare Part D. Ten pages ...

Heath Care Ethics and Values

This research paper pertains to various aspects of ethics, such as the subject of autonomy, drug company advertising policies and ...

NY Times Article Critique, Sulzberger (2011)

This essay is a critique of an article pertaining to the restriction that anyone who failed to pass a drug test cannot receive pub...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Rationing Scarce Resources Catholic Ethics

We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...

Canadian Drug Testing in the Workplace

Employers in Canada face legislative restrictions concerning their abilities to test employees for drugs. This foundation level p...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Scandals in Law Enforcement

This essay discusses two large events of police corruption. One has to do with ticket fixing and the other was more involved with ...

Cause and Effect Drugs and Crime

This paper explores the relationship between drug addiction and criminal activity. There is a cause and effect relationship in pl...

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Power Point presentation

This paper presents the speaker notes for a Power Point project, khspnmedD.ppt, that describes the gap in prescription drug covera...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

Joint Interagency Task Force and the War on Drugs

This paper argues that the war of drugs is being won thanks in part to the Joint Interagency Task Force (North and South). There ...