485 Search Results for Illegal Drug Use Implications
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...
Illegal Drugs in U.S.
Annotated Bibliography
Annotate Bibliography on Illegal Drug Laws and Issues in the U.S.
Annotate Bibliography on Illegal Drug Laws and Issues in the U.S.
This work will develop a concept that is associated with the history Continue Reading...
The web site gives kids a definition of drugs and then goes on to discuss the difference between legal and illegal drugs. Written in a way that children can understand, this web site makes it easy for children to gain a positive attitude toward taki Continue Reading...
, 1995).
Some of laws and restrictions imposed by USA between 1960 and 1997 are as follows:
1) "Drug Abuse Control Amendments-- referred to amphetamines, barbiturates and LSD as dangerous drugs and allowed for FDA to recommend to Department of Heal Continue Reading...
Drug abuse of both legal and illegal substances has a devastatingly negative impact on American society as a whole.
Definition of Drug Abuse
Legal Drugs
Illegal Drugs
Prevalence of Drug Use
Impact of Drug Use
Financial Costs
Impact in the Work Continue Reading...
In most cases, recreational drug use is seen as a victimless crime and a harmless activity. This attitude changes in the workplace if the drug use impairs performance to the detriment of other workers or if the work involves public safety, in which Continue Reading...
drug use and abuse in the United States and presents differing approaches that are used (or proposed) to get a handle on the problem. There is no doubt that the drug abuse issue is not new and it is not being reduced by any significant amount. This Continue Reading...
Anabolic Steroid and Performance Enhancing Drug Use
Among High School Athletes
Anabolic steroid use has, at least in the past, been prevalent among major college and, especially, professional sports. Major League Baseball implemented a drug testin Continue Reading...
Research MethodologyIn the research on the menace of drug addiction and wanton drug abuse in Hong Kong, the use of literature hitherto formed a central part of the entire process. It was seen to be one of the key sources of information since the inte Continue Reading...
Drugs and Addiction
Prolonged drug use produces compulsive seeking of the drugs. Drugs affect the functioning of the brains' functioning, and that has behavioral implications on the drug addict. Drug addiction leads to chronic relapses, which may le Continue Reading...
Drugs and Alcohol Effects on College / Campuses
Current Literature On Drugs And Alcohol On College Campuses
Drugs and Alcohol Effects on College Campuses
The number of college students using the drug and alcohol in the United States of America has Continue Reading...
Drugs, Rock Music and Developing Countries
Examining the effects of imported rock music on developing countries and its impact on violence and drug abuse is by no means a simple or straightforward task. One important factor is that this type of musi Continue Reading...
(Cussen, 2006, pp. 39 -- 48)
The Role of the Church, Family, Community and Nonprofits
Like what was stated previously, our focus will be on those organizations that are through: the church, family, community and various nonprofits. The basic idea Continue Reading...
Economists are concerned with the impact that the sale of drugs has on both individual and economic freedoms and frame their argument from this perspective. Others argue that reliance on the criminal justice system has not produced significant resul Continue Reading...
What further makes interpretation of results difficult to precisely define quantify is that the amount of drug stores depends on the nature of the drug itself, the duration of the ingestion of the drug, and the composition of the tissue holding the Continue Reading...
Drug Addiction: A Social Problem
DRUG ADDICTION
The drug addiction has radically increased throughout the world over the past few years. This research study aims at analyzing the problem of drug addiction, its individual and social implications and Continue Reading...
The legalization of cocaine in any field would only make it easier to get, and therefore raise levels of illicit use. Cocaine should continue to be a fully illegal substance.
2a. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines are usually administered at first in Continue Reading...
"The program offers a unique advantage over many traditional surveys of drug use through its collection and testing1 of a urine sample from respondents to verify answers about recent drug use (Abt Associates Inc., 2009))."
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Drug-testing in schools has been shown to reduce the use of drugs as well as reduce other negative activities and occurrences known to be associated with drug use among students. There are critical components of a drug testing program and this study Continue Reading...
At present, Al-Qaeda is known to finance its terror operations through drug-trafficking. "[the New York Times reported] that 'militants linked to Al Qaeda also established connections with Bosnian organized crime figures. The officials said Al Qaeda Continue Reading...
All too often, the human stories of how and why certain people get involved in such rings are avoided. Tobon looked past this, and has become a valuable person to the Colombian community. The police even call him now, when they find the body of a mu Continue Reading...
(Fletcher; Inciardi; Tims, 1993)
This may be the reason that there is today a new concept in the treatment of drug abuse, and this is the creation of 'Mobile Health Services'. In Maryland, for example, this mobile clinic has successfully treated ab Continue Reading...
14). Soon, Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which was signed into law in 1937. Like the Harrison Act, the Marijuana Tax Act placed marijuana into the same category as the cocaine and opium drugs. It was now illegal to import marijuana into the Continue Reading...
And they can often escape into substance abuse and addiction" (Study reveals rise in drug, alcohol abuse during economic downturn).
One of the most important ways in which an increasing rate of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction affects the econo Continue Reading...
Thus, the hospital went against its own purpose of successfully treating all patients. By ignoring alcoholic addiction, they showed their main concern was illicit drugs, rather than treating all patients with addiction problems effectively.
In conc Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Upon a Fetus
Women's Issues
The Effects of Substance Abuse upon a Fetus
The Effects of Substance Abuse upon a Fetus
The ideas and consensus regarding what is appropriate behavior for pregnant women has changed in the world over t Continue Reading...
An addiction can be considered a physical and psychological incapability to avoid the consumption of drugs, chemicals, substances, or even taking part in an activity even when doing so causes both physical and psychological harm (Nutt, 2018). The Add Continue Reading...
Drug Laws
The Shortcomings in our Current Drug Law Policy: Research Proposal
As a major policy issue in the United States, the War on Drugs has been one of the most monumental failures on modern record. At a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars, th Continue Reading...
Drugs in Federal Corrections
Corrections issues
One of the issue faced by the criminal justice system is offenders with drug problems. Research has indicated that almost 70% of criminals entering the correctional institutions have injected drugs 12 Continue Reading...
Drug Testing in the Workplace
Most employers in the United States are not required to do drug testing on either current or potential employees, although the majority have the right to do so (United States Department of Labor, 2010). Drug testing is Continue Reading...
Social issue alcohol drugs consider a social issue interested. It human freedom, sexuality, deviance, crime, social mobility, poverty, education, aging, similar issues. Select a specific social issue investigate assignment.
Social issue: Drug abuse
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Workplace Drug Screening
Testing for drugs has developed into a significant security concern in places of work for management. The purpose of screening is to diminish the effects that illegal substance abuse has on the places of business, comprising Continue Reading...
In Germany it is still an offence under the drug laws to posses the drug but the laws are some what more liberal. For example the prosecution may not press charges where the drug was found to be in 'low quantity 'and was for personal use. Thus patie Continue Reading...
Adolescent Substance Use Screening Instruments: 10-Year Critical Review of the Research Literature
Over ten million teenagers in the United States admit in a national survey that they drink alcohol, although it is illegal under the age of 21 in all Continue Reading...
Solution to Stop Drug Trafficking and Terrorism in the United States and Abroad
Drug trafficking and terrorism in the U.S. And abroad
Simply put, illegal drugs appear to be one of, if not the most lucrative sources of funds for terrorist activities Continue Reading...
Although the cost of these successes can be tabulated in billions of dollars, money was also recovered from these arrests, and there is no way to measure the human lives that were not lost or affected due to the apprehension of dangerous drug lords. Continue Reading...
If they can figure out a way to manipulate the system, they will. Urine samples can be switched if the monitoring is not close enough, and there are also many "masking" products available that advertise their ability to mask the testing results of c Continue Reading...
Intervening With Juvenile Drug Crimes
Researchers are now focused on developing and evaluating programs designed to break the drug-crime cycle that is common in juvenile delinquents. This paper will summarize existing literature about programs desig Continue Reading...
Human Trafficking National Security Implications
The objective of this study is to conduct an analysis of how policy on human trafficking emerged relating to U.S. national security policy-making processes and politics. Included in this study will be Continue Reading...
School Drug Testing
The use of illicit drugs as well as the use and abuse of prescription drugs have both become rampant problems in the United States. Of course, any societal concern of that size extends into the school realm. Obviously, it is good Continue Reading...