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  • Drug Policy And The Intellectuals
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    SHOULD WE FAVOR DRUG LEGALIZATION? In the article "Drug Policy and the Intellectuals", William J. Bennett, chides intellectuals who believe drugs should be legalize. Bennett challenges his audience, by attacking intellectuals. However Bennett tries to win over his audience of intellectuals in two ways: by calling upon their talents and by attacking on the arguments of intellectuals who favor legalizing drugs... He shows an understanding of others' viewpoints by addressing points of opposition se...
  • Lower Class Children Use Drugs
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    ... 570 The Controlled Substances Act states: (a) "Addict" means any person who habitually uses any drug, chemical, substance or dangerous drug other so as to endanger the public morals, health safety or welfare or who is so far addicted to the use of a dangerous drug or controlled substance other than alcohol as to have lost the power of self control with reference to his addiction. Illegal drugs are categorized into seven categories: stimulants, depressants, cannabis, narcotics, hallucinogens,...
  • Most Recent Epidemic Of Recreational Drug Use
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    Social Problems of Ecstasy and Raves Throughout American history drugs have posed a problem to society and lawmakers. Many attempts have transpired to try to prevent future problems associated with drugs. Many of the drugs threatening America were originally designed toward the improvement of human health. The most recent epidemic of recreational drug use is ecstasy. Ecstasy popularity is particularly in the possession of the nations youth. The institute of use is at all-night clubs and bars wit...
  • Legal Would Drug Use
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    Do drugs really cause crime, or is it our governments way of controlling the communities Many people blame drugs for every problem in our society, but is it the true evil in our society No one person can answer that question. There are only opinions and supposed theories on this issue. We have been taught over the years that drugs were bad and that they only affected the poor and less fortunate, and turned them into crazy criminals, but this isn t true to any extent. The laws controlling and pro...
  • Drug Including Marijuana
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    Marijuana Conflict In investigating the matter of California's proposition 215 and Arizona's proposition 200, I found out of many important issues that need to be discussed before making the decision of legalizing marijuana completely. In the run-up to November's elections, opponents of California's proposition 215 and Arizona's proposition, both of which allow doctors to recommend or prescribe currently illegal drugs drove home one basic point; These ballot initiatives were, in the words of Cli...
  • Funding Terrorism Through The Use Of Drugs
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    10 April 2002 WAR ON DRUGS SPEECH The following speech is to be presented to the youth of America currently enrolled as High School Students. The topic of the War on Drugs directly coincides with the War on Terrorism. In order to stop terrorism, the funding through drugs must be stopped. The presenter will be using first person speech to make for a more personable presentation. On September 11th the United States became the victim of terrorism on our own shores. Many of you here are very aware o...
  • Dangers Of Drug Use
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    Decriminalization vs. Prohibition The idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugs by the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavy costs while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive. I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some of my friends that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to get high with them. At the time, I didn't know what getting high meant, so I asked them. One of them pulled ut a ...
  • Illicit Drug Use Within Australia
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    Various international treaties and conventions (e.g. International Narcotics Control Board), has provided Australia with guidelines and regulatory measures that the Commonwealth government must put into action within the criminal justice system. Australia became a part of significant treaties and conventions to uphold strong alliances with other nations (Such as the U.S. ). The preparedness of Australian Governments to sign these various treaties, and modify domestic drug laws accordingly, seems...
  • People In Jail For Drug Use
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    ... This nation's so-called war on drugs has been a miserable failure. It hasn't'worked. The drug problem is getting worse. I think it is the number one problem facing this country today. I think that we as people and our politicians really need to put all of our options into perspective, and one of the things we need to talk about. Common sense or logic would dictate that when you take this issue on, when you talk about legalization or decriminalization, if you are going to talk about that, you...
  • Should Athletes Use Drug's In Sports
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    Many people believe that drug use in professional athletics is not a serious problem, however it is more widespread and serious than people think. In professional athletics the use of drugs is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but is also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while one might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of some outlawed drug, however this is just one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem to find no...
  • Increase In The Use Of Drugs
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    Crime Americas drug policy; a self destructive path. America has had a policy of prohibition when drugs are involved since the harrison act of 1914. Since that time we have seen nothing but a rise in the use of drugs, peaking off in 1979. Now that does not mean out drug policy has been working in recent times. In 1951 the "Boggs law" came into effect, witch required sever mandatory penalties for any drug offense. That law was modified by the narcotics control act of 1956 witch again raised the b...
  • Vioxx Rofecoxib Type Of Drug
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    Drug: Vioxx (Brand Name) Rofecoxib (Generic Name) Type of Drug: Vioxx is a new kind of painkiller used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, painful menstruation, and other types of acute pain. It is a member of the family of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Other drugs in this family include Celebrex and Bextra. Indications / Uses: Like older drugs in this category such as aspirin, Motrin, and Naprosyn, these newer drugs are believed to fight pain and inflamma...
  • Used To The Drug
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    ROHYPNOLByJenet Rohypnol is a drug commonly known as the date rape drug. According to the article "Drug-Facilitated Date Rape", by Erica Weir, Rohypnol is not a legal drug in the United States or Canada but it is legal in 62 countries in Europe, Africa, Latin American and the Middle East. It is one of the most commonly used sleeping pill or anti-anxiety drug (Benzodiazepine) in these countries. People can get Rohypnol by prescription. Its main function is to depress the central nervous system. R...
  • Effective Drug Use Prevention Programs
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    Critique Of Adolescents And Illicit Drug Use. Ann B. Bruner; Marc Fishman. Jama, Journal Of The American Medical Association Bruner, A., & Fishman, M. Adolescents and Illicit Drug Use. The Journal of the American Medical Association, August 19, 1998, vs. 280 n 7 p 597. This article discusses the increase in illicit drug use by adolescents between the ages of 12 - 17. The topics discussed range form the types of drugs which are increasingly being abused (methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and LSD) ...
  • Use Of Drugs And Alcohol
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    ... old can be severe, long, and interfere with all aspects of development, relationships, school progress, and family life (Janzen, & Saklofske, 1991). The existence of depression in school-age children was nearly unrecognized until the 1990's. In the past, depression was thought of as a problem that only adults struggled with, and if children did experience it, they experienced depression entirely different than adults did. Psychologists of the psychoanalytic orientation felt that children wer...
  • Use Drug
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    Drugs should be banned in all sports. They have been a problem for a long time. Athletes use them to enhance their body and for simply just the edge. There is nothing wrong with using some drugs to enhance your body as long as they are legal. The problems that come with drugs in sports are how to detect them. Some professional sports, such as the NHL, do not even use drug tests. The only sports that test for everything are the NBA and NFL. The Major League Baseball only tests for illegal drugs s...
  • Research And Positive Aspects Mdma
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    The popular rave drug, MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) or ecstasy, has had a fascinating history dating from the 1910's to the present. This designer drug was originally used as a diet pill and later in psychotherapy. The recent use of MDMA recreation ally has increased interest and research on the drug and its effects on humans. MDMA has been used for beneficial purposes in the past, and can also be in the present. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the history, uses, effects, res...
  • Drug Use Of High School Students
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    The street drugs that can be found by most any kid today have many severe consequences on both themselves and the world they occupy. No matter if you have children or not, it has become everybody's problem. From the expense of state dependant health care for the ones who suffer from the ill effects of drug abuse to the cost of thief and damages concurred by their acts to buy the drugs. Addiction can affect any age from the newborn to the elderly. Maybe some of the most vulnerable and easily mani...
  • Medical Use Of Amphetamines
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    The medical use of amphetamines was common in the 1950/60's when they were used to help cure depression and to help the user lose weight. An amphetamine is a drug that is a stimulant to the central nervous system. Amphetamines are colorless and may be inhaled, injected, or swallowed. Amphetamines are also used non-medically to avoid sleep, improve athletic performance, or to counter the effects of depressant drugs. Amphetamines are addictive. Because of this, when the user discontinues use or re...
  • Use Of The Drug
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    Drug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...

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