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  • Drug Addiction Of Tobacco
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    Page 1. I think that society should permit the use of drugs for recreational purposes. After all, over twenty years of troop sweeps, police actions and military rhetoric, the evidence is all around us. The war on drugs has flopped. It has been more then ineffective and has actually made things worse. We as American citizens have to wake up and realize that there will never be a "drug free" utopia that we have been promised. People will always be willing to experiment with their bodies and use dr...
  • Drug And Alcohol Abuse Among Adolescents
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    Adolescent Drug Abuse.) Introduction:' Crack, booze, pot, crystal- from the inner city to the suburbs to small towns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When 'a little harmless experimentation' becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and clinicians are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditional substance abuse programs simply are not enough' (Nowinski, inside cover). Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our parents never had to...
  • Drugs And Steroids In The Athletic World
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    Performance-enhancing drugs are a topic in todays society which is currently under hot debate. Performance-enhancing drugs are substances which are used to stimulate certain areas of the body to make an athlete excel in a certain event. The most common form of performance-enhancing drugs are called steroids. According to Hank Nuwer in his book Steroids, steroids are... compounds that are necessary for the well-being of many living creatures, including human beings. These include sex hormones, bi...
  • Drug Checkpoints
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    Unreasonable traffic search Particular Case When police set up traffic checkpoints looking for signs of drug use, walking a narcotics detecting dog around the car, and examining drivers licenses and registration does that practice violate the Constitutions protection against unreasonable searches From August to November of 1998, police in Indianapolis set up six traffic checkpoints to look for signs of illegal drugs transported on city streets. Officers stopped cars, checked each drivers license...
  • Schreiber 5 Physical Effects Of Cocaine Use
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    Gateway Drugs and Common Drug Abuse The oldest known written record of drug use is a clay tablet from the ancient Sumerian civilization of the Middle East. This tablet, made in the 2000's B.C., lists about a dozen drug prescriptions. An Egyptian scroll from bout 1550 B.C. names more than 800 prescriptions containing about 700 drugs. The ancient Chinese, Greek and Romans also used many drugs. The Greeks and Romans used opium to relieve pain. The Egyptians used castor oil as a laxative. The Chines...
  • Irresponsible Marijuana And Other Drug Use
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    In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miamis demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug sei...
  • Greater Force On The Adversary's Side Teenagers
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    Evil Forces of Drugs The use of illegal drugs among today's teenagers is rampantly increasing. Drugs are going from the undergrounds to the hallways of America's schools; nevertheless, they are corrupting America's youth. Those that are fighting the war against drugs are using the wrong weapons to defend teenagers from this enemy. For example, education and drug abuse programs are being used as weapons, but, ironically, they are merely arousing curiosity in the adolescents. Although teenagers ar...
  • Drug War As Ronald Reagan
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    Have we lost the War on Drugs The War on Drugs officially started in 1972 with President Nixon declaring that drug law enforcement was not strict enough. To enforce the laws of the original Harrison Act, a new and intensified plan was to be enacted. The war reached its peak during the Reagan and Bush administrations, in which $67 billion was spent in enforcement of drug laws. The plan had worked relatively well until near the end of the Bush administration and drug use overall was down. But the ...
  • Drugs Like Ecstasy
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    Article 1 C) Source of Article: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Title of Article: Navy Medicine Steps Up to Help Prevent Ecstasy Abuse Date: 1/17/2002 Author: Bryan Badu raA) Talks about how the military is not protected by ecstasy abuse. They may have a zero tolerance mentality about it but that still does not stop people from accessing it. The Navy found a medicine that makes hiding of having the trace of ecstasy on a person harder to hide. They found a better way to detect ecstasy with a certa...
  • Trivial Drug Like Cannabis
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    Should cannabis be legalized? While it would be nice to think that the current drug laws are working, you only have to go into a school to find that this is emphatically not the case. Clearly, despite the money spend on keeping Britain clear of drugs, only a fraction of imports are ever uncovered, and something has to change. The case for legalizing cannabis can be based around two arguments. First off is the obvious argument, and that it is impossible to stop people from importing cannabis ille...
  • Inhalants And Other Drugs
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    For a long time, Native Americans have had problems with substance abuse. They are among the highest of all ethnic groups in drug abuse with an estimated 7.8% prevalence of a need for drug treatment. Some of these substances include alcohol, marijuana, crank, cocaine, LSD, and inhalants. Inhalants include gases and sniffing drugs which can be found in household items as common as glue, nail polish, and spray whipped cream. The prolonged use of these solvents entails significant risk of brain dam...
  • Issue On The War On Drugs
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    Drug-related Death Columnist Jacob Sullum's article Drug-Related Death of March 30, 2000 dealt with the issue on the war on drugs and how it is not working. He starts out with a heart-tugging story that leads into the politics in fighting drugs. Sullum catches the reader's interest with a heart-tugging story of an innocent man, Patrick Dorismond that the police mistakenly identify as a pot dealer. When in actuality he is an off-duty security guard hailing a cab with a friend. Dorismond was appro...
  • Parents Use Drugs
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    Many people have distorted views in this day and age. One of which, I believe, is the way people look at drugs, as well as, drug users. Being that it is now the year 2000, drugs have been around quite a long time. We should all know whats going on, and I think most do. However, I think most are too ignorant to admit the obvious. Like, why teenagers use drugs. Most try to come up with excuses such as, theyre depressed or peer pressure. This is wrong, a distorted view. Teenagers get bored very eas...
  • Problem In South Florida
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    Cocaine-a powerful central nervous system stimulant-has been a big problem for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in south Florida since the 1960's. Drug cartels ship coke to the United States frequently, Miami being the main port. Cocaine has several nicknames: C, cream, snow, powder, and blow. This drug doesn't only affect the user but can also affects who ever is around the user. Cocaine isn't just a problem in south Florida, but it's a problem worldwide. Through an investigation a solution wi...
  • Mdma To Other Therapists
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    The History of X MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, beans, rolls, or just plain X. This drug has a long history, which began almost 90 years ago. In 1912 Merck, a German pharmaceutical company, first synthesized MDMA (Erowid). MDMA was then patented in 1913 or maybe 1914 (patent #274.350) by the same German company supposedly to be sold as a diet pill (The Invention). The patent has no mention of any intended uses of the drug. There are other urban legends associated with Ecstasy, such as in 1953 the ...
  • Drug Use
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    Legalization of Drugs Such an issue stirs up moral and religious beliefs; beliefs that are contrary to what America should "believe". However, such a debate has been apparent in the American marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's. With the illegality of alcohol the Mafia could produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those who wanted their substance and service. The role that the Mafia played in the 1920's has transformed into the corner drug ...
  • Students Use Drugs
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    Teenage Drug Addictions Teenaged addicts live in a world much different from the world of the other teenagers. It is not a small world. There are millions of teen addiction cases in the world because of drugs, which include heroine and cocaine and also, alcohol. Their lives are filled with violence and powerful emotions. Their fears and their tears are hidden from those people around them. According to the research of The Health and Human Services, drug use by adults rose from a low of 5.3% in 1...
  • Mother For Drug Abuse
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    Should pregnant women who use illicit drugs be prosecuted? At first glance, these words leave a terrible taste in your mouth. Any healthy and sane human being will most certainly agree that the use of any such dangerous drug during pregnancy is an issue that demands action. The unborn child is helpless and unable to take part in any decision that directly affects their well-being. It is only human to feel that a woman who robs her child of the right to live a normal, healthy life should be prose...
  • Proteomic Analysis In Drug Development
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    Prototeomics Assignment Part 1: Proteomics is defined by one web site as the "complete set of proteins encoded by the genome of a given organism". 1 However, further research finds that a set of encoded proteins is actually called a proteome. Whereas, proteomics refers to the sequencing, labeling of proteins, and involves the recognition of both their "physiological and pathophysicalogical functions". 2 It is the labeling and sequencing of the genomes that is, therefore, said to revive the inter...
  • Use Of Drugs And The Legalization
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    Should Drugs Be Legalized? For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. Drug abuse is a killer in our country. Some are born addicts while others become users. The result of drug abuse is thousands of addicts in denial. The good news is the United...

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