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  • Why Do So Many Athletes Feel That They Need to Use Performance Enhancing Drugs?

    Why Do So Many Athletes Feel That They Need to Use Performance Enhancing Drugs?

    Paul Walsh Dr. Aziz Psychology 1000 WHY ATHLETES FEEL THE PRESSURE TO USE STEROIDS Why do so many Athletes feel that they need to use performance enhancing drugs? Our society loves to place athletes on an iconic status they expect to see a good show day in and day out. They want to see bigger athletes playing, bigger home runs in baseball, bigger hits in football, and faster times ran in track meets. Our

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Mandatory Drug Sentences Opposing Viewpoints

    Mandatory Drug Sentences Opposing Viewpoints

    This significance of this paper is to summarize and evaluate the debate on whether the petty drug offenders should be crowding our prisons, and also if some drugs should be legalized or at least decriminalized to reduce our prison populations. This issue is linked to Parenti’s discussion on drugs and the “War of Drugs”. Many of prisons in the United States are over crowded because of the petty offenders and the first time offenders that

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Vika
  • What Are the Effects of Drugs? and Why They Are Bad for Your Body

    What Are the Effects of Drugs? and Why They Are Bad for Your Body

    George Wells Beadle was born at Wahoo, Nebraska, U.S.A., October 22, 1903, the son of Chauncey Elmer Beadle, a farmer, and his wife Hattie Albro. George was educated at the Wahoo High School and might himself have become a farmer if one of his teachers at school had not directed his mind towards science and persuaded him to go to the College of Agriculture at Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1926 he took his B.Sc. degree at

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Top
  • What Is the Difference Between Psychoactive Druggs and Nonpsychoactive Drugs?

    What Is the Difference Between Psychoactive Druggs and Nonpsychoactive Drugs?

    What is the difference between psychoactive druggs and nonpsychoactive drugs? A Psychoactive drug is a substance that affects brain functions, mood, and behavior and are subdivided primarily on the basis of physiological and pychological effects. Nonpsychoactive drugs are substances that in normal doses do not affect the brain. Some examples of nonpsychoactive drugs include vitamins, anitbiotics, and topical skin preparations (Fields, 79). What are the classifactions of psychoactive drugs? Psychoactive drugs can be classified into

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Drug Legalization

    Drug Legalization

    Drug Legalization Most Americans want to feel safe at home, and when they are out in the streets. This security everyone dreams of is hardly ever a reality. One reason why we live in fear is because of the many problems that arise as a result of drug use. The drug problem that our country is facing is bringing violence and addiction to many people. Large amounts of crime result from drug use. Drug addicts

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Anna
  • Every “rockefeller Drug Laws”

    Every “rockefeller Drug Laws”

    “Rockefeller Drug Laws” In May of 1973, New York’s Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, made a set of strict anti-drug laws for the state legislature. The purpose of these laws was to stop the drug abuse epidemic that was occurring in New York during the early 1970’s. It was the most severe law in the nation; the drug laws were to punish those who possessed and sold heavy amounts of narcotics like cocaine and heroine and to

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Max
  • Gateway Drugs and Common Drug Abuse

    Gateway Drugs and Common Drug Abuse

    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.

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Drugs

    Drugs

    Kamy Pennon English Essay 2 The discourse used in classrooms today is institutionalized and establishes not only what is said but the way in which we say it. It gives those in a classroom an integrated set of words, metaphors, and symbols that enable attendants to create and converse consistently. The discourse in a class is undoubtedly different from the discourse used in the real world. After being a staple in the college classroom, I

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    Essay Length: 1,365 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Rockefeller Drugs Law Argument

    Rockefeller Drugs Law Argument

    Introduction: Crack cocaine first hit the streets over twenty years ago, in 1983 (Ammerman 1999). No one had seen anything like it. The drug was cheap, easy to get and incredibly addictive. This one type of drug destroyed families, even whole neighborhoods. The communities that were most affected were the black and latino communities. These types of problems are what brought about the Rockefeller drug laws. These laws demonstrate that the punishment for the sale

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Jack
  • Drugs

    Drugs

    Drugs They are in every home, school, and hospital in the nation. Everywhereyou look people are affected by them, but as common as they are it doesn't make them harmless. It is one of the most popular past-times of junior high and high school aged kids these days, and the fad is rapidly increasing. A drug is any chemical taken into the body that alters normal body processes. The proper use for a drug

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • The War on Drugs

    The War on Drugs

    The War on Drugs For more than a hundred years, our nation has had to face a war that can=t be stopped. An unbeatable illegal market that has affected millions of families around the United States. This country has spent more than fifty billion dollars in the past year fighting against the illegal drug trade. During their time at war, it seemed as they were making progress; but in reality, they haven=t made the slightest

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Testing in Schools

    Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Testing in Schools

    Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Testing” The procedure of testing student for drugs, alcohol and tobacco before every school day should be allowed. The fact that the subject of drug testing has even been brought up is a sign that illegal substances have become troublesome in high school environments. Therefore, school officials should be allowed to use any means necessary to discourage the use of these illegal substances, even if it means that the school officials

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Rising Prescription Drug Prices: Warranted or Unjustified?

    Rising Prescription Drug Prices: Warranted or Unjustified?

    Rising Prescription Drug Prices: Warranted or Unjustified? U. S. citizens pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world. This is an injustice that must be corrected. The "U.S. forbids the import of prescription drugs by anyone other than the original U.S. manufacturer, and even then only when the drugs meet all the approval requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)" (Barlett & Steele, 2004). Prescription drug prices are outrageously high in the

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon
  • College Drug Use

    College Drug Use

    On most college campus, drug and alcohol use is very heavy. Most individuals believe that drug and alcohol use begins in college when students are away from their parents, but in most cases, that is not always true. Many individuals who consume alcohol and drugs started at very young ages, usually between thirteen and seventeen. Between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, children in middle school and high school are very vunerable and more prone

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: July
  • Sex, Drugs and Alcohol: Same Topics, New Issue

    Sex, Drugs and Alcohol: Same Topics, New Issue

    In society today, people of every age have issues they need to deal with. Some issues for one age may differ from the issues of another age, or they may be the same. High school students, in particular, face many issues. Our society is run in a fashion that makes it difficult for high school students to make good choices, and use good judgment. The three biggest issues facing high school students today are having

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Bred
  • Should Companies Test for Drugs?

    Should Companies Test for Drugs?

    Should Companies Test for Drugs? The idea of drug testing at the work place has gained much support, as well much resistance, in America over the past decade. In two conflicting essays, authors Debra R. Comer, an adviser at Hofstra University, and Peter B. Bensinger, the CEO of Bensinger-DuPont Associates which promotes healthy outcomes in the workplace, present the negative and positive effects of drug testing in the working environment. Bensinger, author of “Drug Testing

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    Essay Length: 1,612 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Drugs and Alcohol

    Drugs and Alcohol

    One of the biggest problems people cope with today is the addiction of drugs and alcohol. The effects of taking these drugs are dangerous: domestic violence, crimes, accidents, sexual assault or becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Different studies of domestic violence show a big involvement of high quantities of alcohol and other drugs. These increase the level of aggression. Alcoholism and child abuse, including incest, seem tightly intertwined as well. Parents, being under alcohol influence, abuse

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Jack
  • War on Drugs

    War on Drugs

    War on Drugs There are many persons concerned about the drug problem we are facing today in America. The drug war that is been fought appears to be a losing battle. The United States has spent billions of dollars in an effort to keep drugs off our street, out of businesses, and out of our schools, and communities. The ‘just say no” movement led by the former first lady Nancy Reagan produced some results with

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs

    Performance Enhancing Drugs

    I’m pretty sure you all have engaged in some sort of athletic competition that could be classified as a sport. If you can say that you have, most of you could not keep up with some of the more naturally athletically gifted people you were competing with or against.. If you are sitting there remembering that feeling of being inadequate, thinking back when your parents told you all that mattered is that you tried

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Edward
  • Drug Testing

    Drug Testing

    The use of drug testing by companies to screen applicants and employees is not an invasion of privacy and a necessary practice to ensure a safe working environment. Removal of drugs from the workplace is more important than an employee’s right to privacy. Once the employee accepts the position in a company the company has the right to test for drugs to guarantee the safety of other workers, and potential consumers. The company must

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: July
  • Stem Cells: The Building Blocks of Our Future

    Stem Cells: The Building Blocks of Our Future

    Blake Icabone Ms. Pechek Honors English 10 15 January 2007 Stem Cells: The Building Blocks of our Future The issue of stem cell research has been one of the most controversial topics of our time. The critics will tell you that scientists are killing unborn humans in order to further move us towards cloning (Wikipedia 4). Those in favor of stem cell research are more concerned with the promise that it shows in the development

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Drug Use in the Home

    Drug Use in the Home

    Drug Use In The Home Drug use has become a major issue around the world. As the drug use problem grows we see it affecting us in many ways. One of the ways drug use affects us the most is when children become victims of its’ deadly effects. As children are exposed and affected by drugs at a young age it is the responsibility of parents to protect them from the many dangers of drugs.

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Ritalin: A Miracle Drug, or Another Cocaine?

    Ritalin: A Miracle Drug, or Another Cocaine?

    Ritalin: A Miracle Drug, or Another Cocaine? If the term “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”(ADHD) is mentioned, the first thing that comes to many people’s minds is a drug called Methylphenidate, commonly referred to as “Ritalin”. Most people know Ritalin is prescribed for ADHD, and they most likely know at least one person who is currently taking it. However, in the 1960s, Ritalin and many other amphetamines were recognized as abusive substances, so many new controls

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Autism: To Treat, or Not To Treat

    Autism: To Treat, or Not To Treat

    Carefully wrapped in a white blanket, a new born baby meets his mother for the first time. The baby is sleeping while the mother loving counts ten fingers and ten toes. The baby is healthy and the future of this young family looks bright. For the parents, this child is a miracle as well as a dream come true. The mother went through numerous birth complications and her health, as well as the baby’s, was

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    Essay Length: 674 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Drug Testing in the Workplace

    Drug Testing in the Workplace

    Drug Testing in the Workplace “Since Boston police started annual drug testing in 1999, officers have failed the tests, and 26 of them flunked a second test and were fired. Of the officers, 61 tested positive for cocaine, 14 for marijuana, two for ecstasy, and one for heroin, according to the figures, obtained by the Globe through a public records request. Some officers had more than one drug in their system,” (Smalley 2006).

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Monika

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