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to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...
cocaine prosecution between 1988 and 1994, no whites in Los Angeles County were prosecuted in federal court for crack cocaine offe...
to legalizing drugs. But these days it isnt mob criminals that are the problem, but international terrorists that are benefiting f...
the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...
high price of drugs is not justifiable on the basis of creating such things. Also, when using Nexium for example, one can argue t...
the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...
matrix, which contains mostly cholesterol and phospholipids (Merck, 2005). The composition of lipids not only determine the permea...
legal status have no supportive precedents to cite (Moffitt et al, 1998). In the United States, Alaska briefly legalized the use ...
In five pages this issue is examined from both sides. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...
is a concept that seems to serve no other purpose than to relegate sexual expression to the level of shameful acts, except within ...
Research has confirmed that nicotine addiction is at least as strong as heroin addiction. This means that it is at least as hard t...
no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents - all these situations contribute to the lack of a childs moral an...
addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...
are admitted sex addicts and "shopohaulics." No one would want to outlaw shopping or sex, but of course, sex and shopping are regu...
dosage will make them increase this aphrodisiac sensation will only experience acute nausea, seizures and eventual unconsciousness...
should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologica...
to throw a game. Greed is often at the crux of sports gambling. Players, even if they are doing rather well, may be lured by easy...
This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...
wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...
lines of demarcation shaped by race, socioeconomic status, gender, or age. It was at it height in the late 1970s. In fact, 1979...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...
simply a money making venture that serves to create a larger divide between social classes. Alexander and Roberts note that the...
for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...
also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...
(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
then it should be remembered that not all smokers become addicted; some are able to quit easily and never take up the habit again....
substance no matter what the consequences that led societies to research the issue and develop the disease concept. What is addi...