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Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)

Drug Abuse Resistance Education, the program most commonly referred to as D.A.R.E. targets kids in the classroom with information ...

Issues in Juvenile Crime

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

The Use of Meth by Homosexual Popuations

In a paper of three pages in length, the author assesses methods for evaluating the data collected in studies on drug use, specifi...

Marijuana Propaganda verses Fact

Our society has changed radically over recent history. One of the reflections of this change is an evolution in the way that...

The Harm Reduction Model

than before the treatment started. Obviously, the harm reduction is controversial in a world where the most acceptable paradigm is...

A Legal Brief

rapid movement in the apartment, indicating what they believed to be the suspects attempt to flee the building. The officers forc...

Court-Ordered Rehabilitation

is drug use after program completion (or release from incarceration). Method The research design to be used in this project ca...

Legalizing Drugs: The Benefits

such groups turn to drug use as a way to mitigate the pressure and stressors of living in such a fundamentally fragmented and unju...

Demonstration of Simple Data Analysis

CIGEVER 34.7 32.3 ALCEVER 41.1 40.5 MJEVER 19.7 17.1 COCEVER 7.2 5.1 CRKEVER 13.9 8.6 HEREVER 0.9 0.5 Question 5 When looking at ...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Relative Therapy in Drug Addiction

Alcoholism and other types of drug addictions impact not just those that suffer from the disease but also their relatives. Drug...

Obesity and the Development of Pharmaceuticals

airplanes. It is hard to live in America without seeing many obese people every day of their lives. What is obesity and how is it ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

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...

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...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Acme Hospital Project Plan Forecast

As scheduled, the project will begin on June 27, 2006 and end on August 10, 2006, for a duration of five weeks. No more than...

Vehicles and Probable Cause

a checkpoint that limited driver access to a part of New York City known for its high crime rate (Crawford 27). Only "residents, d...

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...

High School Strategic Plan

the system. Solutions of course are to enlarge the building and hire more teachers, but in order to do this, the money has to be t...

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 ...

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...

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...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Children and Drug Addiction

dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...

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...