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  • Drugs and Miles Davis

    Drugs and Miles Davis

    Throughout America's music history, the use and abuse of illegal drugs has been widespread, and some great musicians' lives have been utterly devistated and ruined by drugs. Often times it seems as though, in studying their histories, many musicians are falsely led to believe that if they use certain drugs, their playing will improve, or become more creative. Many great musician's lives have been tragicly cut short because of their drug use, and God only

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    Essay Length: 1,410 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Jon
  • Should Electroconvulsive Therapy Ever Be Used to Treat

    Should Electroconvulsive Therapy Ever Be Used to Treat

    SHOULD ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY EVER BE USED TO TREAT MENTAL DISORDERS? A. Thesis Statement Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment for severe mental illness in which the brain is stimulated with a strong electrical current which induces a seizure. The seizure rearranges the brain's neurochemistry and results in an elevation of mood. This essay asks: Is ECT any safer and more effective in treating mood disorders than drug therapies? This treatment has a controversial history ever

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    Essay Length: 357 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    The use of enhancments cause a particularly loss of autonomy because it is ultimatly futile. If everyone had to use enhancmentsto be competitive, enhancments would not offer anyone any advantage. An athlete might hope by using enhancments he or she would achieve a greater advantage than the next person.If we are primarily intrested in preventing harm, we ought to invest our money in research on developing safer enhancments, rather than preventing their use. Athletes are

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    Essay Length: 322 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Dangers of Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    The Dangers of Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    The Dangers of Enhancing Drugs in Sports From basketball to football to gymnastics, enhancing drugs have changed the face of sports as we know it. Performance enhancement drugs, like anabolic steroids, may help athletes perform better by giving them greater muscle strength; however, these athletes may not realize that these illegal drugs are highly dangerous. Is it rally worth risking ones life or health just to win that game or medal? Performance enhancing drugs are

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    Essay Length: 918 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Anna
  • Isolation of the Active Ingredient in an Analgesic Drug

    Isolation of the Active Ingredient in an Analgesic Drug

    Isolation of the active ingredient in an Analgesic Drug from extraction, filtration and melting point. Chm237 Abstract: Acetaminaphen was crushed then extracted for the active ingredient by mixing it with methanol. Then separated from the binders by centrifugation and a filtration technique using a Pasteur pipet packed with alumina. The remaining solvent was then evaporated to yield the solid analgesic(.2295g, 45.9% yield) which was collected by filtration and tested for the purity of the drug

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • With Reference to Both Legal and Illegal Drugs, Critically Assess the Casual Relationship Between Drugs and Crime?

    With Reference to Both Legal and Illegal Drugs, Critically Assess the Casual Relationship Between Drugs and Crime?

    With reference to both legal and illegal drugs, critically assess the casual relationship between drugs and crime? The role of drugs in crime causation is a regular feature in public and political debate and plays a considerable role in UK drugs policy. There are numerous questions to be asked when considering the drugs-crime link, the first and perhaps most puzzling question is, do drugs cause crime or does criminality come first? However, it can be

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Insurance Differences and the Resulting Effects on Patient Care

    Insurance Differences and the Resulting Effects on Patient Care

    Insurance Differences and the Resulting Effects on Patient Care Medicaid vs. Private Insurance 2 Insurance Differences and the Resulting Effects on Patient Care The discussion between private insurance and Medicaid is an ongoing debate. The number of physicians accepting forms of state-funded insurance is decreasing as the gap between those who can and cannot afford private insurance is growing. The amount of research regarding this problem is prominent; however, most of the research is conducted

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    Essay Length: 987 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Jon
  • Drug and Alcohol and Pregnant Woman

    Drug and Alcohol and Pregnant Woman

    DRUGS AND PREGNANCY When a woman becomes pregnant, it is very important to follow a healthy way to eat a lot of nutritious food, get lots of rest, and exercise regularly. It is also vital that she avoid anything that might harm her or her baby. It is especially important to give up alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. For a pregnant woman, drug abuse is doubly dangerous. First, drugs may harm her own health, interfering with

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    Essay Length: 336 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Crime and Drug Abue in Camden, Nj

    Crime and Drug Abue in Camden, Nj

    November 2, 2006 Mayor's Office 520 Market Street City Hall, Fourth Floor P.O. BOX 95120 Camden, New Jersey 08101-5120 RE: Crime and Drug Abuse in Camden Dear Mayor Faison, My name is Jeffrey Ho. Currently I am a student of Rutgers University. I grew up in Pennsauken, and then moved out to the Voorhees Area. I am very aware of the conditions in Camden, NJ, and am writing you today to propose a joint project

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    Essay Length: 979 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Artur
  • Crime and Drug Use

    Crime and Drug Use

    Crime and Drug Use Throughout my time as a criminal justice student, I have recognized the relationship between drugs and crime. I have also been amazed by the statistics having to do with the amount of prisoners returning to a correctional facility after their time served. The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of

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    Essay Length: 3,146 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Steve
  • Learning to Enter Flow in Interacting with Potential Patients

    Learning to Enter Flow in Interacting with Potential Patients

    In this final analysis of two interviews, I would like to examine the obstacles and mistakes that I encountered during the first interview and the improvements in the second interview by evaluating the levels of self-disclosure of each interviewee and the natures of the messages-both mine and the subjects’, as well as the quality of expressions, such as body languages. The interviewees exhibited drastically different levels of self–disclosure; while the first interviewee, Ms. Jun, indicated

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Jon
  • Drug Dealers

    Drug Dealers

    This world has three things in it, drugs, drug dealers, and cops. That's were I come in Jack W. Slouts. I was twenty years old when one I was visiting my parents. Dani slouts, my dad was all was much unorganized and skitersh. Ashley slouts, my mom was all ways nervous the floor would barely creek and she would jump. I never knew why till one day I was cleaning up my dad's desk, there

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Liberal Views on Drug Legalization

    Liberal Views on Drug Legalization

    There has been a debate on legalizing drug use for quite some time now. Most legalizers are liberals, and their views on drug policy are consistent with liberal views on other issues. This paper will outline the liberal view of legalizing drugs. Liberals do not generally trust individuals to make reasonable choices about drug use, and they think government should adopt policies that attempt to discourage drug use. But liberal legalizers do not like using

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    Essay Length: 1,173 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Crime and Drugs

    Crime and Drugs

    Crime and Drug Use The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice have funded many studies to try to better understand the connection. One such study was done in Baltimore on heroin users. This study found high rates of criminality among users during periods of active drug use, and much lower rates during

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Teenagers and Drugs in High Schools

    Teenagers and Drugs in High Schools

    Drug use is an increasing problem among teenagers in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in the teenage years, these years are the most crucial in the maturing process. During these years adolescents are faced with the difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority figures and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily available, adolescents are curious and

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    Essay Length: 1,258 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Jack
  • Drug Effects on the Community

    Drug Effects on the Community

    Do people ever think about the consequences about drug abuse? Not many of us do but we all know what it does to us. Drugs are harmful to the brain and the body system itself; they affect the heart in many ways and because of that people become unconscious as to what their actions are. They do not realize how badly they can harm the community around them. Drugs are normally used by those

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Athletes for centuries have been using enhancement drugs to achieve greatness(Burdick,2003) A Sixty Minutes interview of Jose Conseco conducted by Mike Wallace clearly shows how widespread and popular these drugs are. Athletes who are on them deny there use fully and denounce the drugs(Newsday.com,2005) Performance enhancing drugs are necessary in order to make the playing field fair and even. In order to to understand why enhancement drugs are used, the

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    Essay Length: 1,487 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Artur
  • Drugs and Abuse

    Drugs and Abuse

    Drugs and Abuse Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topic of drug abuse very difficult. From the most recent studies only can one find data that is presently

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    Essay Length: 3,016 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Violence and Drugs Abuse

    Violence and Drugs Abuse

    There are many challenges that the youth of today’s world are facing. Among these, one of the greatest obstacles is the spread of illegal drugs, and also rapid increases in violence and the creation of gangs. These needless activities cause harm to high schools around the world and to the students who attend them. Peer pressure, the media, and need of independence are just some of the reasons drugs and violence rates have increased over

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Max
  • Budgetary Politics and the War on Drugs

    Budgetary Politics and the War on Drugs

    Budgetary Politics and the War on Drugs The United States of America has long grappled with the problem of drugs and has from time to time initiated measures to combat the usage and trafficking of drugs. It is common knowledge that the various wars that have been part of the combat program of several administrations have failed miserably despite the availability of a great deal of resources, added to the colossal funding process. This is

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    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Vika
  • Drug That Cures but Experimental

    Drug That Cures but Experimental

    In what might be an act of great consequence for millions of people, the FDA has approved of a new drug to treat blindness in the elderly. The drug, Lucentis is manufactured by the California-based biotechnology company Genentech Inc. and has shown in trials to greatly help patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Since usually macular degeneration occurs in older people, it is termed age-related MD, with the dry form being more common and

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ways to Fight the Drug War

    Ways to Fight the Drug War

    Drug use has risen sharply in the United States in the past 40 years, with an estimated 23.6 million teenagers using illegal drugs within the past year. Preventing drug use has been a major issue in the area of politics, schools, or within families. Drug abuse occurs whenever the use of a drug causes physical or mental harm to the user. So far, society has been abusing drugs since the later nineteenth century, a time

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    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • Cancer Treatments and Discussion of Possible Drug Functions

    Cancer Treatments and Discussion of Possible Drug Functions

    Characteristics of Cancer Cells 1. They constantly and relentlessly reproduce. 2. The do not obey signals from other neighboring cells. 3. They do not anchor to other cells. 4. The do no specialize in any cell function. They remain immature. Surgery is one of the main treatments for cancer. It is a local treatment. This means it only treats one particular part of the body. Which is, of course, the part the surgeon operates on.

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Edward
  • Drugs

    Drugs

    Illegal and legal drugs, what is the difference between them besides the legalization issues? Why are they illegal in the first place and what does each of them do? What is one of the biggest issues in the US that involves with drugs? There are millions of drugs sold in the United States each year. It can range from Legal to Illegal Drugs such as Marijuana, Cocaine, and Alcohol. What are these drugs? How

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    Essay Length: 1,330 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Humor on Cancer Patients

    Humor on Cancer Patients

    There have been numerous studies done to show the effectivness of humor in patients undergoing treatment for cancer. The purpouse of the studies was to explore the therapudic use of humor as an intervention for patients with cancer and to examine the evidence for the use of humor as a coping tool. Using the steler model, in-depth literature reviews were performed that demonstrated a positive correlation between humor and comfort levels. The analysis was guided

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Tasha

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