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Drugs and Alcohol as 'Gateway Drugs'

The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 pag...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Drug Crimes and Immigration

This paper links drug trafficking to drug cartels and the immigrants they sometimes sponsor. This has a multitude of affects on t...

The Most Destructive Illegal Drugs - A Ranking

unable to feel pleasure or function normally without meth (National Institutes of Health, 2012b). Moreover, the potential to overd...

Labeling Theory and Drugs

This paper, first of all, reports on a representative example of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs. Then, the writer ...

Strategic Plan for Johnson and Johnson

A strategic plan has been developed for Johnson and Johnson based on an assumed desire to increase revue and support better reven...

DRUG TRADE IN LATIN AMERICA: TRANSNATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES

reduction tools and, to an extent, education on the evils of drug use (Seelke et al 2010). The results have been mixed to not-so-g...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Reaction Paper on Joshua Marston’s Film Maria Full of Grace

perfect mule to travel from Bogota to New York because no one would dare X-ray a pregnant woman. Of course, by ingesting the 62 h...

Japan as a Destination Market for an Orphan Drug

on the attractiveness of the market. The Japanese pharmaceutical market in 2006 the market accounted for approximately 11% of th...

Alcohol and Drug Use/Juvenile Crime

health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Erectile Dysfunction

Men who have problems getting or sustaining a penile erection suffer from erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction can be the r...

Issues With Antipsychotic Medications

You provided a good explanation of first-generation and second-generation antipsychotics. To add to the discussion: A number of st...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Generics, Ethics, and Law in the Pharmaceutical Industry

the public is the loser when the release of a generic drug is thwarted. The thesis can be presented, however, that:...

Hydrocodone: An Overview

2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...