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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...

Urban Violence and Drugs

outbreaks of violence are seemingly spontaneous, but may in fact actually be the end result of a long chain of events that began m...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

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...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Workplace Random Drug Testing

expectation that an applicant has to privacy. Obviously, an employer cannot force a prospective employee to take a drug test, but ...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

Case Study Career Counseling Evaluation

Her best friend Becky who has known her most of her life, continues to be supportive, but has broken off much of the contact they ...

Prescription Drug Costs and Medicare

to be able to liberalize their policies, something that has made life difficult for many people, and not just seniors or the disab...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Hispanic Immigrant Treatment Regarding Drug Use

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

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...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

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

2 Contemporary Issues Confronting Our Country

just too large a bureaucracy to be able to deal with the myriad problems the people face today that cause them to turn to drugs or...

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...

Drug Offenses and High School Undercover Law Enforcement

however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...

American Universities, Colleges, Drug Abuse and Effects

their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...

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 ...

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...

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...

Older Adults and Substance Abuse

B. Abuse of illicit drugs increasing among seniors. C. Prescription drugs. 1. Seniors take many more drugs than younger adults. 2....

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...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Case Study on the Workplace and Drugs

by speaking with these individuals who seem to stay out late, arrive to work late and look disheveled, a new situation presents it...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...