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Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

The Drug Approval Process

get a drug that is not yet approved through illegal means. It makes sense for someone who only has days to live perhaps, but safet...

Anti-Drug Legislation On A Federal And State Level

property and possessions if found to be associated with such criminal activity as drug smuggling and racketeering. The Act states...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

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

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Flunking Out of College, the Causes

Prickhart (2009) writes that what happens to make young people associate in bars and drink, especially in college, is that the per...

Proposed Study Concerning Adolescent Drug/Alcohol Use

drugs has been determined to contribute substantially to the disease burden and mortality rate of young people between the ages of...

Drug Use, Abuse and Treatment in a Social Interactive Approach

difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...

Pharmacological Approaches to Treating Hypertension

This cost combines with the severe physiological impacts of the disease to emphasize the point that treatment should be as efficac...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

Internet Information about Psychiatric Drugs

(Boyles). Moncrieff argues that there is no "real evidence" that the drugs are effective: "We have been treating all comers with a...

Tobacco and its Unacceptable Impacts to Human Health

Tobacco should be regarded as one of the most dangerous drugs currently being utilized in contemporary society....

PROPOSAL FOR DRUGGIE PHARACEUTICALS TO INTRODUCE ORGANIC VITAMINS

Over the years, Druggie Pharmaceuticals has built and maintained a good brand name and recognition for quality pharmaceuticals. Bu...

Internet Information on Cardiovascular Drugs

of heart-related problems. This paper uses Internet sites, specifically WebMD and Medscape to find information on these drugs. Di...

Drug Testing and the Invasion of Privacy

Pre-trial drug testing applies to those accused of federal crimes. The theory...

Zero Tolerance and Harm Reduction/Drug Policy Formation

best way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence from drugs is the best policy....

Pregnant Women's Rights and Fetuses' Rights

In five pages this paper discusses the abuse of drugs in this consideration of pregnant women's rights versus the rights of the fe...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

RU 486 and Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals Inc.

not in conflict with models of corporate governance such as Milton Friedmans shareholder wealth maximisation model. Other interest...

Infertility Causes and Treatments

the womb. In total, more than $1 billion (Greenberg, 2003, p. C3) is spent each year on such infertility treatments. With this ne...

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 ...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...

Children and the Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs

in the past (Goode, 2003). Research reveals pediatricians and child psychiatrists seem to be turning to pharmacological interventi...

Employment Drug Testing

based on a contractual agreement for economic means and the obligations only reach as far as what is agree upon in the contract of...