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Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

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...

A Review of Monster

A 5 page discussion of the novel by Walter Dean Myers. This book recaps the problems encountered by a sixteen year old black yout...

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...

Economic Principles Applied to Pharmaceutical Companies

fewer people able to afford the goods. The converse is also true, as process fall then there is usually an increase in demand, as ...

Addiction And Substance Abuse: Comorbidity

likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Dependence and Addiction

There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Drug Abuse, its causes and effects

they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

The Vicious Circle of Child Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Future Abuse

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

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...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

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...

Drug Abuse and the Influences of Psychology and Sociology

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

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...

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...