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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...

Using Drugs and Social Deviance

who may then need assistance from the government. They put a burden on society if they steal and harm others in an attempt to get ...

LSD's History

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

Drugs and Dr. Andrew Weil

worship and spirituality was heathen and evil. Dr. Weil wrote in his book, THE NATURAL MIND - An Investigation of Drugs and the Hi...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

Analyzing the Merck Corporation and the River Blindness Cure

refused to contribute financially and so Merck continued to kick in more and more money. In summary, according to the case study, ...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

Harm Reduction Theory and Drug Addiction

Alternatives, 2001). "Harm reduction" first arose in Great Britain, under the premise that use of illicit drugs should be ...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Chemotherapy and Side Effects

it may be used to reduce tumors ("What is Chemotherapy"). The chemotherapy drugs used in this way destroy the cancer cells "by st...

Cattle Market and Marketing

that requires the largest amount of time spent with them. However, if we look at the way the marketing is taking place, with the v...

Pricing Controls and Price Equilibrium

is, it represents the price where both sellers and buyers are happy with both price and quantity (GCSE economics, 2004). For examp...

Science Advancement or Animal Rights

only way that to be sure that new drugs will actually be beneficial. An opinion poll conducted in the UK in 1999 showed that onl...

Asthma Management and Drug Therapies

reduce hyper responsiveness and inflammatory changes in the airways. Patients with daily symptoms tend to benefit more from regula...

Drug Courts and Processing of Cases

process. The court creates a contract and a scheme for the assessment procedure (2005). Next, the judge will refer the defendant...

Private Practice and Counseling That is Solution Focused

the counselor will try to understand the clients personal construction of the problem and help him to construct different meanings...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

Senior Citizens and a Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract

by Pennsylvania State Representatives Dombrowski, Cappabianca, Bowser, Boyes, Merry and Rudy. It was first referred on January 24...

Performance Enhancement Drugs and the Risks They Pose

a "six pack" of rippling abs, has led to "a new body image known as muscle dysmorphia, or reverse anorexia, a condition in which m...

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...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...

Prescription Drug Problems

plan, while several public and private sects continue to fight for prescription drugs coverage. Election 2002 revisited the issue...

An Argumentative Essay on Using Marijuana

argument against marijuana legalization. Califano specifically focuses on the issue of marijuana as a gateway drug and cites sta...

Toxicity and Drug Absorption Impacts and Enzymatic Polymorphism

natural selection and the "accumulated mutations, deletions, duplications, and other changes" incurred by CYP families, they now a...

Criminal Justice VI

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...