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Japanese Organized Crime Syndicates, the Yakuza

hatamoto-yakko cannot truly be seen as the forebears of that yakuza. Instead, the yakuza see the machi-yokko ("Servants of the tow...

A Novel Method of Eliminating Organized Crime from the Illicit Drug Trade

This essay lays out a novel and unique plan for eliminating organized crime and subsequently much of the violence from the illegal...

1980s' 'Rave Culture'

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the 1980s' rave culture in a consideration of the detrimental aspects of using re...

Prison System and Drug Programs

In ten pages prison systems and drug use are examined in a discussion of penal system drug addiction program implementation. Four...

Use of the RU 486 Abortion Drug

In seven pages mifepristone or the RU 486 abortion drug is examined in an overview of its uses, advantages and disadvantages, and ...

Illicit Drug Use in the United States and Control Efforts

In eleven pages this paper discusses US illicit drugs and the crime associated with them in an overview of what is being done to c...

Drug Abuse Historical Overview

identify, and treat deviants" (Indiana.edu, 2001). Conflict theory and its variants - Marxism/radical sociology/critical theory an...

Generics, Ethics, and Law in the Pharmaceutical Industry

the public is the loser when the release of a generic drug is thwarted. The thesis can be presented, however, that:...

Hydrocodone: An Overview

2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...

Incarceration, Probation, and Rates of Recidivism

is a more certain way to monitor the offenders and also serves to result in a higher rate of those who do not return to a life of ...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

Overview of Dietary Supplement Ephedrine: Dietary Supplement or Dangerous Drug

In five pages ephedrine is examined in terms of its legitimacy as a dietary supplement and considers the Food and Drug Administrat...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Colombia - Foreign Policy

by the 1970s, mostly left-wing groups (International Crisis Group July). By the 1980s, right-wing groups emerged and by then, the ...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Antisocial Behaviors and Misuse of Drugs

For an adolescent just beginning to develop sense of himself and his social significance, peer groups provide that measure of acce...

School Infiltration by Crack Cocaine

In five pages increased youth usage of crack cocaine is examined in terms of the 'cool' perception of drugs that suggest school dr...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

Depression Treatment: Annotated Bibliography

This also is a literature review, one that focuses on an evidence-based approach to determining the value of prescribing psychoact...

U.S. Drug Offenders and Laws

cocaine prosecution between 1988 and 1994, no whites in Los Angeles County were prosecuted in federal court for crack cocaine offe...

Case Disposition and Drug Offenders

of drug case is processed across the state (OSCA, 2004). For instance, a drug offender might be assigned to a treatment program du...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

Drug- Resistant Gonorrhea, An Overview

This research paper pertains to the public health problem of drug-resistant gonorrhea and relevant issues are described. Five page...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...