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Cocaine's Chemistry and its Impact

Erthroxylon coca. The active ingredient was first isolated by Westerners by a man named Albert Niemann in 1860. The drug soon beca...

Bomb Dogs and Drug Dogs Compared

likely be able to handle the pressures of police service; these characteristics can even be established from puppyhood. DIFFEREN...

Use of the RU 486 Abortion Drug

In seven pages mifepristone or the RU 486 abortion drug is examined in an overview of its uses, advantages and disadvantages, and ...

1980s' 'Rave Culture'

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the 1980s' rave culture in a consideration of the detrimental aspects of using re...

Pediatric Patients and the Use of Drugs Like Tetracycline

In seven pages this paper examines pediatric patients in a consideration of research regarding the uses of such drugs as tetracycl...

Problem of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.

In eight pages this paper discusses the growing American problem of prescription drugs in a consideration of how they are used leg...

Ventricular Tachycardia and Treatment Modality For Ventricular Tachycardia And/Or Ventricular Fibrillation: Antiarrhythmic Drugs, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Or Both?

if one approach is, indeed, more beneficial than the other or if there is a need to administer both in certain circumstances, a co...

Veterans Affairs Benefits' Essay on Self Reflection

as they are today. For example, it was important to note how the GI Bill was an invaluable program for decades; however, I felt i...

The Time for Acupuncture

the skin (Kuhn, 2000). Then, the practitioner may flick, manipulate, or rotate the needles to achieve the desired effect (Kuhn, 20...

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...

Steroid Use in Major League Baseball

steroids enhance performance; or rather, there is sufficient doubt about it to suggest that it might not be true in all cases. In ...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

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...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

The Marketing Of Prescription Drugs

A five stage model looking at problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post- pu...

MLB Hall of Fame and the Use of Drugs to Enhance Player Performance

The stringent voting criteria are based on "a players record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributi...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

Overviewing the Common Drugs Niacin, Thiamine, Revia, Ibogaine, Librium, Methadone, and Antabuse

the medicine (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Other side effects include nausea, dizziness, decreased appetite, irregular bowel movements...

Crack in the Box, A Critical Perspective

every single time she went to the library it would rain, but there can never be a cause and effect relationship. Similarly, there ...

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...

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...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

Teen Drug Use and Its Effects

people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

Prescription Drugs' Rising Costs

high price of drugs is not justifiable on the basis of creating such things. Also, when using Nexium for example, one can argue t...

Major Drugs' Decriminalization

to legalizing drugs. But these days it isnt mob criminals that are the problem, but international terrorists that are benefiting f...