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Drug Abuse and the Influences of Psychology and Sociology

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

Dangers of Crack Cocaine

cocaine use. According to Petitti et al (1990), cocaine is "an important risk factor for low birth weight in the black population...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Laws and Drugs

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

Recovery Program Support Research Proposal

seen as worthwhile there is almost an attitude that spending money on the addicts is a waste of resources as they have little hope...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

The Effects of Pre-Natal Drug Use and Addiction

in one literature review, it was estimated that more than 1.4 million women of childbearing age currently use opiod-derived drugs,...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

A Clinical Overview of Depression

experts agree that clinical depression is a depression that does not go away with accompanying feelings of worthlessness and despa...

Nazi Medical Experiments

pain and often humiliation, and the experiments would usually be fatal (Cohen, 2002). The justification for the research was ide...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

Common Medications and Their Patient Information, Procedural Recommendations, and Side Effects

In forty two pages this paper examines drugs that are commonly prescribed for various conditions in a consideration of monitoring ...

Recidivism and Drug Treatment

to the threats to internal validity are an important component of any research design. The first threat to internal validity is...

Pharmacological Properties of the Drug Prinivil

in the assessment phase is the electrolytic balance which exist for potassium, sodium, and chloride (Bartersite.com, 2002). The a...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Teenagers and Drug Abuse from a Social Perspective

associated with drug abuse can indeed be quite severe. In "Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review" authors Mich...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

An Examination of Addiction and Recovery

provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...

Employee Drug Testing in the Workplace

be a problem or that the individual they are considering hiring may be abusing prescription drugs, but most strive to ensure that ...

Public Service Campaign on Drug Abuse

but they are not unreachable if the firm does their homework. Sixteen to twenty-five year olds will not respond, research has show...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

Drug Legalization and Economics

campaign ("To decertify," 1998). That alone is reason to note that the cost of fighting this losing war is quite hefty. Aside from...

Can the War on Drugs be Won?

to further global policies under the guise of another name; global policies which would never have been supported by the American ...

Analyzing Blowback The Costs and Conseqences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson

of our imperial stance may be for the rest of the world and for ourselves" (Johnson, 2001, p.16). Johnson explains that America th...