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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...

The Phenobarbitone Processes of Excretion, Metabolism, Distribution, and Absorption

might experience toxicity under a pharmacological regime containing phenobarbitone or other drugs that they cannot metabolize due ...

Possible Solutions to the Problems Associated with the 'War on Drugs'

the displacement and abuse of the impoverished in the world. Turnipseed (2000) notes that in order to help many of the people in f...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

The Film Traffic as a Statement on U.S. Drug Policy

editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...

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...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

Public Schools and Drug Testing

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

Policies of Criminal Justice and Drug Issues

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Japan as a Destination Market for an Orphan Drug

on the attractiveness of the market. The Japanese pharmaceutical market in 2006 the market accounted for approximately 11% of th...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

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...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

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

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...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

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...

Living With AIDS

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

Reaction Paper on Joshua Marston’s Film Maria Full of Grace

perfect mule to travel from Bogota to New York because no one would dare X-ray a pregnant woman. Of course, by ingesting the 62 h...

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...

Hydrocodone: An Overview

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

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:...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...