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Drug War in Mexico

to internal corruption. Therefore, Calderon turned to the military and declared war on drug traffickers (Bonner 14). This policy...

Psychology Questions on Mental Disorders and Medication Use

practitioners with information to determine whether a patients symptoms can be explained organically as a result of an actual heal...

Death of a Wonder Drug: The Vioxx Recall

answer, additional sources were consulted. In the documentary, several of the experts who were interviewed make the point that s...

Illicit Drug Users and Reality Therapy

Our society is facing a very formidable enemy when it comes to substance abuse. Individuals can be addicted to alcohol, illicit...

Demonstration of Simple Data Analysis

CIGEVER 34.7 32.3 ALCEVER 41.1 40.5 MJEVER 19.7 17.1 COCEVER 7.2 5.1 CRKEVER 13.9 8.6 HEREVER 0.9 0.5 Question 5 When looking at ...

Legalizing Drugs: The Benefits

such groups turn to drug use as a way to mitigate the pressure and stressors of living in such a fundamentally fragmented and unju...

Court-Ordered Rehabilitation

is drug use after program completion (or release from incarceration). Method The research design to be used in this project ca...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

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...

Controversy of Drug Legalization

One of the first things that would be addressed is the Mafia and drug lord hold on the industry. We have all seen on television ho...

Steroid Use in Major League Baseball

steroids enhance performance; or rather, there is sufficient doubt about it to suggest that it might not be true in all cases. In ...

The Effects of Drug Use

younger users, however, more frequently than it does older users. Some 2.8 percent of adults between eighteen and twenty-six year...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

Personal Application of Criminology: The Son’s Friend

as possible, or simply explaining what hes done. Maybe hes bragging and inviting the son to join him in his next robbery. Or perha...

The Ethics of Using Cognitive Enhancing Drugs by Healthy People

Kerouac scrawled out the infamous story within a three week period and he credited that accomplishment to amphetamines (Foer, 2005...

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...

Argentina and the Radical Social Divide that Has Emerged

OUTLINE I. Introduction A. 2001 Financial Collapse...

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...

The Dangers of Methamphetamine Use

the incredibly negative impact that meth has on these individuals health and welfare and, in fact, on the health and welfare of so...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Social Work Film Analysis, Requiem for a Dream

This essay analyzes Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream" and discusses how its characters illustrate the effects of ...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Rationing Scarce Resources Catholic Ethics

We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

Joint Interagency Task Force and the War on Drugs

This paper argues that the war of drugs is being won thanks in part to the Joint Interagency Task Force (North and South). There ...

Heath Care Ethics and Values

This research paper pertains to various aspects of ethics, such as the subject of autonomy, drug company advertising policies and ...