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Drug Use and Vulnerability

and a culture that seemingly perpetuates drug use through its music, television content, and other lifestyle elements are extremel...

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...

Comparing How Self Esteem is Influenced by Drug Treatment Programs

examined to see which one is best as it respects the enhancement of self-esteem. II. Methadone Programs and Effect on Self-Estee...

Prescription Drug Cost Controls

they are initially very expensive. Drug companies undertake lengthy and costly tests to create the drug. Once it is able to be pre...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

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

Schools and Mandatory Psychotropic Drug Use

as analyzing and evaluating the issues involved. This examination will show that the new legal directives in regards to Ritalin us...

Literature Review of Overdose Effects of Safe Injection Houses for Street Drug Users

not many studies have really dealt in such a singular issue, but rather, lump potential drug overdose as one of the many problems ...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

An Argument For the War on Drugs

as criminals who should be locked up, drug users in Europe are more likely to be invited to participate in society...Heavy users a...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Drug War and Economics

Case Study A case study submitted by a student suggests that the government is concerned about the increasing incidence of armed...

Looking at Drug Testing Philosophically

trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Heath Benefits of Aged Garlic Extract

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

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...

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...

Human Health and Environmental Impacts of Alachlor

state agencies are responsible for the oversight and/or regulation of chemicals in drinking water as well. Under the terms of the...

Latin American Drugs, Children, and the National Political Influence of Global Organizations

which they have had to beg, steal or sell themselves simply to stay alive. Street Children and Drugs Scanlon, Tomkins, Lynch, an...

Minor Drug Offenses and Incarceration Alternatives

In ten pages this paper discusses the alternatives to incarceration that might be available to minor drug offenders in the crimina...

Spiritual Assistance from Hallucinogenic Drugs or Does Their Use Threaten Nontraditional Cultures?

useless in allowing any type of spiritual connection, useless in allowing a non-traditional person to connect with their spiritual...

Serzone as a Treatment for Depression

moderate to major depression. One reason for this may be that major depression is a longer term condition whereas mild depression...

Sports and Drugs

we may wish to consider, for instance, if the testing of an athlete may be seen as ethical, and why bother with the testing anyway...

University Environment and Drug Addiction

elaborate the description of a college campus as a community...] Major drugs used for addictions can be arranged in four categori...

Young People and Increasing Use of Drugs

drug use and the criminal and deviant behavior to which it all too often leads. In effect, drug use is a deviant behavior and one...

Ephedrine Use Pros and Cons

be sold over the counter and get by legally as long as a certain amount is printed on the label and a warning given not to overdos...

Illegal Use of Drugs by Teens

of problems including increased risk of serious drug use later in life, school failure and poor judgment which could put teens at ...

Social Performance and the Rave Culture

acceptance the all-night gatherings generate. Its a state of peace and unity kids say they cant find in the real world," though mo...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...