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  • Used Drugs Opium
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    Introduction Many different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey lig...
  • Their Babies To Hard Illegal Drugs Cause
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    Innocent Victims The news came one late afternoon. My girlfriend told me that Naomi had given birth. Instead of feeling joyous over the birth of my one time friend's child, I felt both saddened and angry about this occasion. So I asked the inevitable question, "Is it OK?" The response to my question was just what I had hoped would not happen. Naomi is a heroin addict. She had just given birth to a premature baby boy that was addicted to the same drug his mother was shooting up. This innocent lit...
  • Contra Figure Oliver North
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    An August, 1996, series in the San Jose Mercury News by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government during the 1980's. Webb's series, "The Dark Alliance", has been the subject of intense media debate, and has focused attention on a foreign policy drug scandal that leaves many questions unanswered. This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassifie...
  • Legalization Of Illicit Drugs
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    Whether Bill Clinton "inhaled" when trying marijuana as a college student was about the closest the last presidential campaign came to addressing the drug issue. The present one, however, could be very different. For the fourth straight year, a federally supported nationwide survey of American secondary school students by the University of Michigan has shown increased drug use. After at least 10 years in which drug use had been falling, the major concern that is already rising is that the large ...
  • War On Drugs In America
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    Losing the War on Drugs America is spending millions of dollars to run ad campaigns with teenage waifs smashing up the kitchen with frying pans, brain fried egg commercials, and other inaccurate and misleading ads put fear into our nations youth and adults alike. One such ad showed a flat line brain scan purportedly hooked up to a drug user. It was later proven that it was hooked up to nothing and most of our nations kids now know it. Seeing the "Land of the Free" turn into a nation that impriso...
  • Hallucinogen And Cocaine
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    Drugs are one of the biggest problems in society today. The use of these illegal substances have increased over the years at an alarming rate and can all be fatal to a person's health, and life. In this report, I have chosen to look at Acid, a hallucinogen and Cocaine, a fatal stimulant. Acid, also known as LSD or Trips comes as tiny pieces of card and it is a mind drug. Being a hallucinogen, it distorts the mind and how a person thinks. The are minimal as it works on the psychological part of t...
  • Use Barbiturates
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    Barbiturate. Now where would you think of a name like that? Legend has it that this drug was derived when a 29 year old research assistant, Adolph von Baeyer, was working in his Belgian laboratory in 1863 when he took the condensation of masonic acid and combined it with Urea. Von Baeyer went downtown to a local pub to celebrate where some army officers where celebrating Feast Day of Saint Barbara. So he took the name Barbara and combined it with the chemical that mostly made up this new acid an...
  • Frightening Reality Of Brave New World
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    Brave New World vs. Reality In many cases when you read a novel you may find comparisons between the 'fictional's society and your realistic one. The author may consciously or unconsciously create similarities between these two worlds. The novelist can foresee the future and write according to this vision. In Brave New World, Adl ous Huxley envisions the future of our society and the dangerous direction it is headed in. Brave New World is greatly dependant upon soma, as in our world where prescr...
  • Exchange Of Morphine Addiction
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    MORPHINE Morphine is a narcotic analgesic drug, which means that it is a downer painkiller. It is most commonly given intravenously (by injection) for more rapid results, but it can also effectively be given orally. It has a remarkable ability to reduce physical distress, and its calming effect protects against exhaustion in traumatic shock, internal hemorrhage, and several other conditions. This drug is truly a miracle worker. Morphine is an opiate, coming from the poppy seed. It was first isol...
  • Side Effects From Codeine
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    Codeine: Codeine is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. It is rapidly distributed from the intra vascular spaces to the various body tissues, with preferential uptake by organs such as the liver, spleen and kidney. Codeine crosses the blood-brain barrier, and is found in fetal tissue and breast milk. The plasma concentration does not correlate with brain concentration or relief of pain; however, codeine is not bound to plasma proteins and does not accumulate in body tissues. Treatm...
  • Prison For Drug Law Violations
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    Drugs and crime over the last ten years have increased for women, at about twice the rate of drug use in men. In 1999 a survey of inmates in state correctional facilities, the percentage of women in prison for a drug offense exceeded that of men. (2000, Bureau of Justice statistics) Drug usage is the grounds for many women going to prison. Drug use is on the rise among women. Seventy-five thousand women are serving prison sentences in the United States; most of them are in prison for drug law vi...
  • Very Dangerous And Addictive Drug
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    ... ns produced when tobacco leaves are smoked. The chemicals found in a cigarette are by far more detrimental to one's health than the nicotine itself. Long term use of nicotine by smoking can lead to coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema), and cancers of the mouth, throat, and lung (Perrine, 1996). Nicotine can be ingested by other means that are not as bad as smoking tobacco; some of these methods are the nicotine patch, chewing tobacco, and betel. Another!...
  • Personal Research Hemp And Marijuana
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    Illegal drug use is a major problem in the world today. Million of dollars are spent ever year to prevent the trafficking and distribution of these drugs. Virtually all Drugs is smuggled into the United States concealed in false compartments, fuel tanks, seats, tires of private and commercial vehicles, pickup trucks, vans, mobile homes, and horse trailers. Large shipments usually are smuggled in tractor-trailer trucks in false compartments and among legitimate bulk shipments, such as agricultura...
  • Brave New World
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    Brave New World is a classic novel by Aldous Huxley that tells of a prediction for the future. The events that occur throughout the story are quite frightening if one thinks that this could actually occur. From the time this book was written up until present day, some of the things Huxley predicted have happened. One thing widely discussed in brave New world is soma. Soma, in the novel is a drug that people are on constantly. This drug can be compared to alcohol, in a pill form and there are no ...
  • Drug Cause Learning Problems
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    English 103-05 Ms. Denise A. Pani 4 September 2001 Exstacy is Downfall The drug Ecstasy is dangerous for not only our people, but also a menace to society. With my own experiences in college and people I am closely bonded to, or used to be, I have seen this highly used club drug invade our campuses of America by leaps and bounds. I can tell you more than one story about young college friends that had 4.0 Gas and promising careers ahead and now have nothing because of this drug. I remember a doct...
  • Drug Use Behavior
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    For this final paper project I choose a very interesting topic known as a Substance-Related Disorders. In one word for some people using alcohol, smoking cigarettes or other drugs is apparently a harmless pleasure. For others it is extremely destructive for their health. The main point why I choose this topic is my own addiction to cigarettes. For long time I have tried a lots of different things to quit this nasty habit, but nothing worked for me so far. I think of cigarettes as a type of drug ...
  • Pcp's Bad Psychological Effects
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    PCP or Phencyclidine is a very deadly drug in today's society. PCP was developed in the 1950's as an anesthetic. Use of PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was found that patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its effects. PCP is illegally manufactured in laboratories and is sold on the street by such names as "diabolic"wet" and "digital". The variety of street names for PCP reflects its bizarre and irrational effects on those who use it. ...
  • Importation Of Unapproved Versions Of Fertility Drugs
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    Alcohol and drugs -- including marijuana, nicotine, and certain medications -- can temporarily reduce sperm quality. Also, environmental toxins, including pesticides and lead, may be to blame for some cases of infertility. Drugs and Surgery Depending on what the tests turn up, different treatments are recommended. Eighty to 90 percent of infertility cases are treated with drugs or surgery. Therapy with the fertility drug Clomid or with a more potent hormone stimulator -- Pergonal, Metrodin, Hume...
  • L.S.D. Users Experience Flashbacks
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    L.S.D. In the 1938, Dr. Albert Hofmann working in the Swiss Pharmaceutical Company called Sandoz, produced L.S.D. (lysergic acid diethylamide) for the first time. He was hoping that this new drug could be used to stimulate circulation and respiration. However, the tests he conducted were all failures and he forgot about L.S.D. for five years. In April of 1943, Hofmann accidentally ingested or somehow absorbed a bit of L.S.D. and experienced some of the psychedelic effects of this chemical; dizzi...
  • Aftermath Of Marijuana Legalization In America
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    Legalization: Anti-Legalization Thesis Ben Evenchik Legalization: Wrong for America "Drugs enslave and take the individual's rights to knowledge and a clear conscience away. ' -Thomas Lefkowitz Throughout history, various drugs have played a pivotal role in a vast array of cultural practices, both religious and recreational. The Native Americans used to ingest peyote to aid them on their "spirit quests'. The ancient Incas freely chewed cocaine leaves to help relieve the altitude sickness that wo...

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