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legal principle of at-Will employees is one that I feel has both good and bad ramifications. On the good side, it allows employees to quit at any time and seek employment somewhere else. This can be a positive step if the employee feels that the job Continue Reading...
Alcoholics Anonymous: A Personal Account of my Experience at an AA 12-Step Meeting
A Personal Account of my Experience at an AA 12-Step Meeting: Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics anonymous groups are groups where recovering alcoholics, and alcoholics Continue Reading...
Marijuana From the Psychosocial Perspective
Perceived Risk
We know that the concept of perceived risk is demonstrated most clearly by use trends related to marijuana use by adolescents. Use has fallen and risen over the course of modern history bas Continue Reading...
Drug Abuse in America
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Looking at drug abuse in America, what are the most important predictive factors in drug abuse? Why does it matter and how does it inform American understanding of drug related issues in society? How d Continue Reading...
Audits
There are several different types of audits: sponsor, IRB and FDA. A sponsor audit is one where the company sponsoring the trial pays for and organizes the audit. An FDA audit is conducted by the FDA, and an IRB audit is an institutional rev Continue Reading...
Psychology: K2 Drug Use and Addiction
K2 Drug Use and Addiction: Psychology
K2 use and addiction has, in recent years, grown to become one of the leading social concerns for policymakers in the U.S. It is estimated that approximately 11% of the cur Continue Reading...
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the primary psychoactive component in marijuana. Chief qualities of THC include its high solubility and bioavailabilty, rapid absorption rate, long-term storage in fatty tissue, leading to a lengthy elimination process ( Continue Reading...
Drug Trafficking
The author of this report is to answer a few questions relating to drug trafficking. The primary focus of the questions and answers will be on two sources in particular, those being the movie Traffic and the class text authored by T Continue Reading...
High Fructose Corn Syrup
There has been some discussion in certain quarters about the idea of banning high fructose corn syrup from the food supply. Before such a determination can be made, one must understand what high fructose corn syrup is and wh Continue Reading...
Product Accountability
This failure in drug accountability is an issue. One of the purposes of a closeout visit is to determine that all of the investigational product is accounted for, so when ten pills are missing, that means that not all of the Continue Reading...
Properties, Abuse Patterns, and Effects of Methamphetamine
Characteristics of Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine also referred to as "meth" describes a powerful man-made drug that adversely impacts the central nervous system. Common terms used to refe Continue Reading...
Policy Issues on the Legalization of Drugs
The law on drugs differs among countries. The differences are in terms of the degree and the magnitude of the penalty given. It is the responsibility of those in leadership to ensure that there is a specifi Continue Reading...
International Drug Trafficking
One of the most prominent international issues regarding drugs is the ways in which these substances are illegally moved across borders. It was originally believed that the drug trade could be adequately controlled by Continue Reading...
Human Ecosystem & Technological Change
Drugs should not be legalized
Drug policy in the United States has been on the forefront of polarizing issues in the political spectrum. The United States has been regulating and criminalizing the use of d Continue Reading...
Drug addiction manifests in many ways, but drug and alcohol dependency are by far the most pervasive of all kinds of drug addiction (Marks, 2009). Not less than 125, 000 Americans lose their lives to drug addiction and alcoholism every year (Marks, 2 Continue Reading...
Drugs and Behavior
What are drugs exactly and what are some ways drug users get away with illegal usage?
Defining drugs use is a surprisingly difficult proposition. The definition as stated in the session II review is as follows: "any substance tak Continue Reading...
Top-Most Dangerous Drugs
Criterion of Ranking
Presently, the globe is struggling to ensure that children in the teen and pre-teen do not abuse drugs. This is premised on the notion that some drugs are more dangerous than others are. In this study, Continue Reading...
Narcotics Intelligence
Transnational criminals and organization are active in many parts of the U.S. and they make use of illicit cross-border tunnels, parcel services and other means to unlawfully smuggle and distribute drugs and narcotic substance Continue Reading...
DRUGS & SOCIETY
The author of this report has been asked to offer an opinion on what should be done in terms of marijuana and the laws that surround it. The four general options are keeping the status quo, decriminalizing its possession or legal Continue Reading...
Treating and Coping With Pancreatic Cancer
Although significant progress has been made in diagnosis and treating many types of cancers, one type of cancer that remains highly intractable to treatment is pancreatic cancer. In fact, pancreatic cancer Continue Reading...
Bone is very fragile and rock slides, cave-ins etc. could cause damage to the bones after the demise of the skeleton's owner. Trinkaus maintains that among the examples of supposed violence, only a few exceptional cases stand up to scrutiny. This wo Continue Reading...
What this author disagrees with Shipman upon is the issue of hominids being exclusively hand-graspers while apes are necessarily foot graspers. A couple of common observations would indicate that this is based upon circular reasoning. We say apes m Continue Reading...
Examination of female Neanderthal pelvic bones in conjunction with skulls of Neanderthal infants illustrates that among Neanderthals, birth was a more difficult and dangerous process than in humans. It can be presumed that the rate of Neanderthal mo Continue Reading...
According to Economic Darwinism principle, people will prefer to replace the alternative with the lowest potential (in terms of return, profit, solvability, etc.) with another random solution, which may it could turn out to be more successful than t Continue Reading...
Moreover, all the men serve the upper classes upon the Ocean Liner, like the young woman Mildred and her aunt. Mildred, a child of a wealthy industrialist, idealistically talks about helping men like Yank. But Mildred faints and calls Yank a filthy Continue Reading...
Homo Erectus: Who was the earliest modern ancestor of today's homo sapiens?
Homo Erectus was a species of mammal that was, in form and function, a modern foreshadower of today's human being. Homo Erectus lived from about 1,900,000 years to about 400 Continue Reading...
Probability -- Subjective, relative frequency, and probabilistic propensity
According to the academic definition of probability, the concept of probability involves a choice of some class of events (or statements) and an assignment of some meaning t Continue Reading...
Darwin's Finches And Natural Selection
Polymorphism pertains to the existence of two distinctly different groups of a species that still belong to the same species. Alleles for these organisms over time are governed by the theory of natural selectio Continue Reading...
Nazi Germany
Nazi Propaganda and the Spread of Fascism
World War II was precipitated by the rise of fascism throughout Europe. As the mores of socialism began to take root in many parts of the continent, fascism emerged as a powerful counterpoint. Continue Reading...
Home-schooling can be a safe alternative to normative schooling. For decades, across the country, there is an abundance of statistical data demonstrating that national averages including tests scores, frequency of student suspension, and occurrence o Continue Reading...