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Issue of Controlling Drug Prices in Healthcare

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

Overview of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

In nine pages this paper examines the use and abuse of drugs in America in this consideration of the role of the federal governmen...

Drugs Decriminalization

In six pages this paper discusses how the U.S. war on drugs might be more successfully fought through drug rehabilitation rather t...

High School Athletes and Drug Testing That is Mandatory

high school athletes, has come to public attention again in recently in light of a report which was released by the inspector gene...

The Most Destructive Illegal Drugs - A Ranking

unable to feel pleasure or function normally without meth (National Institutes of Health, 2012b). Moreover, the potential to overd...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Drug Crimes and Immigration

This paper links drug trafficking to drug cartels and the immigrants they sometimes sponsor. This has a multitude of affects on t...

Labeling Theory and Drugs

This paper, first of all, reports on a representative example of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs. Then, the writer ...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

Drug Rehabilitation v Prison

pockets of those buying. Incentives exist for each of these groups. For one group the economic incentives are a positive factor ...

Business Plan for AccuDiagnostics

AccuDiagnostics is a company specializing in employee drug testing and offering additional services including background checks an...

Generics, Ethics, and Law in the Pharmaceutical Industry

the public is the loser when the release of a generic drug is thwarted. The thesis can be presented, however, that:...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

A Theory Explaining Illicit Drug Use

congenital biological or psychological factors that lead so many others to addiction. It might be because of a combination of upb...

Drugs and Prohibition

as long as they are not killing or harming people, as long as they are not damaging the life of other people. There is no real log...

Curbing Drug Use in North Idaho

The people in the home that they were taken from were killed, and one of those individuals was their mother. Yet, one has to wonde...

Depression Treatment: Annotated Bibliography

This also is a literature review, one that focuses on an evidence-based approach to determining the value of prescribing psychoact...

South America and United States Drug Trafficking

Department report the spokesperson states that in little than two years the War on Drugs in Cartagena has been successful. He says...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...

Senior Citizen Universal Prescription Coverage Plan

they need. While everyone hurts with high prescription costs, senior citizens tend to rely more on prescription drugs for their ov...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Prescription Rates and Side Effects of Antidepressants

treatment as well. Peter Jensen, a professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University reports that "pediatricians and family pra...

U.S. Policing, Racial Prejudice and 'the War on Drugs'

the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Complementary Medicine and Psychology

impact (Kinrys, Coleman and Rothstein, 2009). Passionflower is another plant that has been used since ancient time because of its...