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Crimes and Drugs

according to Tonry, "fugitive," that is, it is carried out by private sector research firms, independent research agencies and non...

The Use of Mifeprex (RU 486) in the Second Trimester

been some complications with this drug, including several deaths. These however seem to be attributable to the fact that there is...

Recreational Drugs and Their Negative Impact

Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...

Legal Issues in Education

the US courts in regards to public schools : The authority of the public educational system finds its origin within a "constitutio...

CBT & Drug Addiction/A Case Scenario

in which he or she is most vulnerable to drug use, avoid those high-risk situations whenever possible, and use a range of behavior...

Time to Surrender in the War on Drugs?

Mr. Knizely sees three major areas of concern with regard to the Constitution. First, the "war on drugs" violates the 4th Amendmen...

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...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Pharmaceutical Maketing Ploys and Viagra vs. Levitra

Advertising could be contended to be one of the most influential factors of our modern life. Advertising can, of course, take a v...

Choices and Consequences by Schaefer

notes that too many people feel they are responsible for a youths behavior but they are not and in being responsible "to" them the...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

Specialized Offender Programs (Case Study Analysis)

2006). With many available programs for offenders, what might be done with a particularly problematic criminals? II. Case Study: ...

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

rat droppings, parts from workers who were hurt, and almost anything imaginable, went into the meat people were eating. This led t...

Performance Enhancing Drugs and Their Alteration of the Baseball Playing Field

April 8, 1974, everyone knew what they were doing on that memorable moment. By the 1990s, however, it appeared that baseball "had...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

The Use of Drugs in Society

For example, in Clermont, a 28-year-old man raped a twelve year old girl ; in the report, it notes that this suspect admitted to s...

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 ...

Crime, Justice, Law and Politics

principles (Bohm, 2006). The question is, if these sentencing guidelines are acceptable for drug users, why are child molesters no...

Downsizing - Hypothetical Case Study

That means they have a direct impact on each other and change in one area will result in changes in the other areas. Summary of A...

American and Indian Youth and Drugs

as "early onset" was 20.76 years; those classified as "late onset" was 26.53 years (De et al, 2003, p. 339). Even though this is c...

Morphine (An Overview)

or pill form to relive pain after surgery" (Kuhn, Swartzwelder and Wilson 178). It is also used sometimes in other instances to co...

Should Defendants Be Forced To Take A Drug Test?

the least of which includes cost, actual impact on criminal behavior/drug use. Contrarily, supporters maintain provide critical d...

Principal & Curriculum Design

use of steroid drug abuse among athletes has arisen, this principal has brought a recommendation before the school board that has ...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed

fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

A Cycle of Abuse

all her fault. Early in their marriage she became pregnant, and he was extremely unhappy about the child. He wanted to become esta...

Effects of Child Abuse/Study Summary

various measures, the first step that the researchers took was to compare maltreatment items that were administered in the lab ses...