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The Pharmaceutical Industry

obtained from economies of scope and scale had been a major driving factor behind the level of mergers and acquisitions which are ...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Impacts of Methamphetamine

demand because it is cheap and easily available. It is cheap and easily available because it is so easy to manufacture. Methamph...

Drug Testing in the Workplace

coming up "dirty" that the cost of the process is not effective (Holding, 2006). However, one must clearly stop and consider, wi...

Detection of Date Rape Drugs

have to look quickly" (Date Rape Drugs, 2007). As can be seen, the drugs are often all but impossible to detect for the...

Epidemiology; Intravenous Drug Users in New York

users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, makin...

Differential Association Theory and Drug Use: A Literature Review

to peer influences related to drug abuse. The review of literature begins with information directly from Sutherland and his peers....

Article Review/Sex, Drug Behavior

a venipuncture for HIV and hepatitis C virus, accompanied by pretest counseling. The participants returned two weeks later to rece...

The Use of Drugs in Society

For example, in Clermont, a 28-year-old man raped a twelve year old girl ; in the report, it notes that this suspect admitted to s...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Forced Drug Testing

"those who were tested for heroin use and placed in drug treatment in addition to other supervision services, and those who were s...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed

fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...

Crime, Justice, Law and Politics

principles (Bohm, 2006). The question is, if these sentencing guidelines are acceptable for drug users, why are child molesters no...

Downsizing - Hypothetical Case Study

That means they have a direct impact on each other and change in one area will result in changes in the other areas. Summary of A...

Colombia - Foreign Policy

by the 1970s, mostly left-wing groups (International Crisis Group July). By the 1980s, right-wing groups emerged and by then, the ...

Morphine (An Overview)

or pill form to relive pain after surgery" (Kuhn, Swartzwelder and Wilson 178). It is also used sometimes in other instances to co...

Performance Enhancing Drugs and Their Alteration of the Baseball Playing Field

April 8, 1974, everyone knew what they were doing on that memorable moment. By the 1990s, however, it appeared that baseball "had...

Should Defendants Be Forced To Take A Drug Test?

the least of which includes cost, actual impact on criminal behavior/drug use. Contrarily, supporters maintain provide critical d...

Principal & Curriculum Design

use of steroid drug abuse among athletes has arisen, this principal has brought a recommendation before the school board that has ...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

United States, Crime, and Drugs

a large proportion of its budgetary resources enforcing drug laws. Drug-related arrests have gone up 50 percent over the last ten ...

Importance of Supply and Demand on Drug Policies

want answered is: on what evidence is the medical analyst basing her conclusions? The migraine pain drug has only recently been in...

Government Should Not Legislate Morality

stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...

Drug Offenders and Criminal Justice Planning

interaction competencies has been found to be effective (Office of National Drug Policy, Principles, 2003). There are many differe...