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The way in which using alcohol and drugs like marijuana serve as a gateway to harder drug use and abuse is the focus of this 5 pag...
health and well-being (Neff and Waite, 2007). While illicit substance usage peaked in the late 1970s, recent statistics indicate t...
funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...
of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...
Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...
population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...
bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...
The issue of drug use and abuse at City Ice and Cold Storage is not always an easy situation to manage; however, regardless of rec...
challenge easily, but it is not so much if a drugs can challenge easily it matters if a drug is taken in a certain way to present ...
ABSTRACT This paper explores the manner in which...
fewer people able to afford the goods. The converse is also true, as process fall then there is usually an increase in demand, as ...
consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...
it is taken up and released again, a process called re-uptake (Ogbru and Marks, 2008). A balance is reached when the re-uptake and...
in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...
Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...
about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...
In ten pages this paper examines various perspective regarding the legalization of drugs in the US. Twelve sources are cited in t...
Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...
coupled with physical exertion, something that has been responsible for a number of deaths (1997). Long term effects of this dru...
In a paper consisting of nine pages a nationwide plan for prescription drugs is examined in terms of economic feasibility and the ...
2005; Risperdal Side Effects, n.d.). The very long list includes gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting and a digestion ...
life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...
symptoms similar to alcohol intoxication (Drugs of abuse - 2004). They can also cause impaired judgment, violent bvehavior, and h...
while drugs are regarded today as a social problem that encompasses both objectivist and functionalist perspectives, it was not al...
and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...
focus to intervention and rehabilitation. Others oppose this view, arguing that the War on Drugs is working and that to decriminal...
This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...
use as of the early 1980s and continues to be one of the most commonly abused street drugs (Methamphetamine). Results from the 20...