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Date Rape
When people hear the word "rape" they might imagine a stranger leaping out from the shadows of a dark alley and attacking someone. Although this is partly true, most rapes are committed by people who know their victims. When intercourse is unwanted and forced upon by someone you know, it is known as " date rape." It occurs daily and is prevalent on virtually all college campuses across the nation and in cities all over
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Date Rape
Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people, in God...The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed. (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992) 2 What type of crime can have that type of effect on a person, a crime that is often the most under reported. A crime that does not affect just one person, but a whole family.
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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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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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Drug Abuse Among Teens
A commercial once aired on television describing the effects of smoking on the brain. It began with a person holding an egg and saying, “This is your brain”. The person then cracked the egg into a frying pan and as the egg sizzled the voice was heard saying, “This is your brain on drugs”. The message was powerful while at the same time informative. Smoking not only affects a person physically, but mentally as well.
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Drug Abuse
The use of and abuse of illegal and prescription drugs are a health, social, and law enforcement problem that is affecting Americans across the country. Drug abuse is destroying the lives of many teens and adults and is also destroying families in the United States. The use of drugs is a major problem in the United States among all Americans, but drug addiction is the main cause for America's troubled teens today. Exactly what is
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War on Drugs
War on Drugs It is no secret to most people that drugs are a big issue in our country. Whether it is the pharmaceutical companies trying to sell a cure for anything you can think of to the sale and distribution of illegal substances. Even though I feel that it is a crime how much the big pharmaceutical companies are making off of their products, the drug trade is definitely a more pertinent topic to
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Rape
Rape is the shallowest and most disgusting thing that anyone could ever do to someone. Anyone who would have the gall to do that doesn't deserve to live. I have no respect for anyone who has done that. I also believe that the penalty for rape should be stricter. It is pathetic what rapists get now; they get like two to three years. It really angers me when I think about it. One of my
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Drugs and Abuse
Psychology: 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
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Club Drugs and Teens
Introduction In today's society, teens are a common target of anti-drug campaigns and government advertisements. The goal of these campaigns is to make teens and young adults aware of the dangers associated with drug use. While these campaigns are generally effective, teens are still greatly tempted by the dangerous, exciting, and fast-paced world of club drugs. Despite the information they are constantly receiving from their teachers, parents, and government media, some teenagers will still adamantly
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Drug Addicted Mothers
Drug Addicted Mothers More than 1 million children are exposed to drugs or alcohol during pregnancy according to The National Institute on Drug Abuse. Each year about 221,000 of the women who become pregnant consume illegal drugs and most of these children are born addicted to the drugs themselves. These mothers cannot give their children the proper care. Many drug-dependent parents abuse their children both mentally and physically. There is action that needs to be
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Marijuana: Abused Narcotic or Wonder Drug?
Marijuana: Abused Narcotic or Wonder Drug? I. Introduction A. History of marijuana B. Pros C. Cons II. History of Marijuana A. Scientific Information and various uses B. History of use III. Pros of Marijuana A. Nausea and cancer patients B. Usage for other medical conditions IV. Cons of Marijuana A. Immunosuppressant B. Mind altering substance. C. Gateway drug V. Conclusion Marijuana is one of the oldest known cultivated plants. It has been used for recreational
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Legalize Hard Drugs
Believe If the state and federal government legalized hard drugs it would save a lot of money spend on the war on drugs. The government would tax it, like they do alcohol and tobacco. The money they would save could be put into creating better rehab programs. I feel that those addicted would then have no reason to avoid treatment. We could offer real help to addicts rather than prison. If hard drugs were legal
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Drugs and Crime
In today’s society the war against drugs has become one of the biggest concerns of all law enforcement officials. One of the main reasons behind stopping the distribution of drugs is the fact that the use of drugs is directly related to crime. According to Drugs in American Society (2005) users of drugs are extremely more likely to participate in criminal activity and engage in more violent and serious crimes. It also states that “The
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Should We Favor Drug Legalization
SHOULD WE FAVOR DRUG LEGALIZATION? In the article “Drug Policy and the Intellectuals,” William J. Bennentt, 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 several
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