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Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Relative Therapy in Drug Addiction

Alcoholism and other types of drug addictions impact not just those that suffer from the disease but also their relatives. Drug...

Cultural Factors Affecting Drug Counseling

The United States is becoming progressively more multicultural over time. Social diversity is, in fact, something that must be ta...

Drugs for First-Aid

This essay describes five medications that a healthcare practitioner might choose to meet first-aid needs as a castaway on a deser...

Drugs for Different Conditions

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the use of diffrent medical interventions for specific conditions. There are th...

Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sports

This research presents a thorough overview of this topic, describing its historical context, prevalence, attraction, detection and...

Women and Using Drugs

Can convergence theory be used to discuss the increase in the use of substances among women? The writer of this paper does that. T...

Tragedy Associated with the Drug Thalidomide

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

Overview of Drug Cymbalta

drug one author notes that it has not been studied in pregnant woman. They claim that "Duloxetine should only be used during pregn...

Article Review on Canada's Resistance to US Drug Sales Pressure

article provides a polite, superficial look at the problem. 4. This is a financial issue. IV. Conclusion This article should...

Perceptions to Drug Addiction

the argument of Levine (1978) that disease approach to addiction was not a discovery that resulted from true medical research or s...

FARC and the Drug Wars in Colombia

to a situation in which enemies fight each other in one place and make deals in another, "as is the case with the Fuerzas Armadas ...

Do Drugs, Get Banned Forever

(Albergotti). Some steroids apparently give a "boost" to performance that last for life, giving these athletes a permanent advanta...

Sports, Crime, Drugs And Gambling

has not been lost on organized crime, whose historic presence has been both looming and lucrative. Casino sports books is where a...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Pregnancy, Drug Use, and Nursing

In six pages this research paper discusses substance addicted pregnant mothers and the positive impacts of nursing practice and nu...

RU-486 and Controversies Surrounding the Drug

This research tutorial examines mifepristone which is called RU486. This paper is argumentative in style. This five page paper has...

Food and Drug Administration Accelerated Approval Problems

the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) drug approval process ("On the right," 1997). It was not legislation without controversy. ...

Pregnant Women on Drugs Combating Stereotypes and Stigma by Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum

or no more than six months postpartum, who had used "heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine" during their pregnancies and were not in ...

Studies on Drug Addiction and the Roles of Classical Conditioning and Importance of Environmental Clues

most positive effect on the needs of the organism. Schwartz and Robbins (1995) for instance, found that injection of morphine prod...

Cross Membrane Transport and Molecular Mixtures in Joe Alper's Article 'Drug Delivery Breaching the Membrane'

The passage of drugs through the bodys membranes is affected by the process of osmosis and the osmotic pressure which builds up on...

Drug Offenses and High School Undercover Law Enforcement

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

Comparative Analysis of Two Antifungal Drugs

in the sterol biosynthesis pathway that describes the pathway from lanosterol to ergosterol (Ketoconazole Information). There is s...

U.S. Government Involvement in Prescription Drugs

the "government should subsidize prescription drug spending for all 40 million Americans over the age of 65 - whether they need it...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Case Study on the Workplace and Drugs

by speaking with these individuals who seem to stay out late, arrive to work late and look disheveled, a new situation presents it...