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Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

United States, Crime, and Drugs

a large proportion of its budgetary resources enforcing drug laws. Drug-related arrests have gone up 50 percent over the last ten ...

Importance of Supply and Demand on Drug Policies

want answered is: on what evidence is the medical analyst basing her conclusions? The migraine pain drug has only recently been in...

Proposed Study Concerning Adolescent Drug/Alcohol Use

drugs has been determined to contribute substantially to the disease burden and mortality rate of young people between the ages of...

Brief Overview of 3 Drugs

a form of anemia and also to aid men whose bodies do not produce the normal level of testosterone (NIDA "Anabolic"). Slang...

ARTICLE REVIEW: REORIENTING DRUG POLICY

hours that typical young people spend with peers, listening to music, watching television and so on," Caulkins and Reuter note. No...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Drugs and Dr. Andrew Weil

worship and spirituality was heathen and evil. Dr. Weil wrote in his book, THE NATURAL MIND - An Investigation of Drugs and the Hi...

Pricing Controls and Price Equilibrium

is, it represents the price where both sellers and buyers are happy with both price and quantity (GCSE economics, 2004). For examp...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Zero Tolerance and Harm Reduction/Drug Policy Formation

best way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence from drugs is the best policy....

Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Comments from Patients

2004). this symptom is sufficient for a diagnosis (HealthyPlace.com). Schizophrenia is treated with both drugs and therapeutic i...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

Drug Policies in California

under federal law" (Anderson, 2004). The California law allowing the medical use of...

Drug Offenders and Criminal Justice Planning

interaction competencies has been found to be effective (Office of National Drug Policy, Principles, 2003). There are many differe...

Ethics, Methods, and Legalities of Drug Testing

in that two of her neighbor states and nine states in the U.S. as a whole (specifically Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Ar...

Workplace Rights of Employee Privacy

write policies regarding e-mail usage - this can also help protect against legal problems (York, 2000). When companies are open an...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Jersey City and the Availability of Street Drugs

that became known as "crack" cocaine, which is cocaine in its purist form (Marcocci, 2002). After its first appearance, crack quic...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Children and the Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs

in the past (Goode, 2003). Research reveals pediatricians and child psychiatrists seem to be turning to pharmacological interventi...

Overviewing the Common Drugs Niacin, Thiamine, Revia, Ibogaine, Librium, Methadone, and Antabuse

the medicine (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Other side effects include nausea, dizziness, decreased appetite, irregular bowel movements...

Employment Drug Testing

based on a contractual agreement for economic means and the obligations only reach as far as what is agree upon in the contract of...

Anxiety Disorders and Anxiolytic Drugs

addiction and withdrawal symptoms, most of the current data suggests otherwise. The metabolic half-life of these drugs tend to cyc...