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  • 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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    Essay Length: 745 Words / 3 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 891 Words / 4 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 269 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 1,378 Words / 6 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 1,133 Words / 5 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 1,309 Words / 6 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: July
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,595 Words / 7 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 798 Words / 4 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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    Essay Length: 4,535 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • War on Drugs Should Focus on Traffickers

    War on Drugs Should Focus on Traffickers

    15 April 2002 WAR ON DRUGS SHOULD FOCUS ON TRAFFICKERS The War on Drugs is a never-ending struggle that appears to have no end. The problem with fighting the supply and demand sides of the war is that the suppliers often do not appear to play by the same rules of engagement. In order for the United States to successfully battle the War on Drugs, the focus should be centered on activities within American borders.

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    Essay Length: 699 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jack
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport

    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport

    Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sport. Performance enhancing drugs have become such a big issue in modern sport. It has been the headline of the world’s athletic events for the past decade, and is still a current problem being disputed. In this paper I will argue that the use of Steroids, or any performance enhancing drug is both illegal and cheating, and that by no means should be allowed in sports at any competitive level. Before

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    Essay Length: 1,612 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Drug War Solution: Opposite of the Current Drug War

    The Drug War Solution: Opposite of the Current Drug War

    The Drug War Solution: Opposite of the current Drug War Pharmacologically every drug has its positives and its negatives, it is based upon the individual’s choice to determine what one out weights the other. for example a extreme drug user rather live his life the way he/she wants with the feeing that he/she wants for his/her life, but with that choice there comes consequences: like not living as long of life due to heavy drug

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    Essay Length: 4,088 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Janna
  • Legalization of Drugs

    Legalization of Drugs

    The legalization of drugs. Legalization of drugs is a subject that shouldn’t even be discussed. The problems that this country has with drugs will still exist if they are legalized, but most likely those problems will increase and cause many illnesses and deaths among our citizens. Legalizing drugs is a way for the government to give up. “Illegal drugs are illegal because they are harmful” Drug dealers are experts on how to market to children.

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    Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Vika
  • War on Drugs: A Waste of Tax Dollars

    War on Drugs: A Waste of Tax Dollars

    War on Drugs: A Waste of Tax Dollars Illicit drug usage is a serious problem facing the U.S.; so far the government has been unsuccessful in finding an effective solution to this national crisis. As of now, the vast majority of governmental funding to solve the issue is going towards military operations in South America to stop the problem from the source, the growers and traffickers. This might seem like a reasonable ploy, to stop

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    Essay Length: 1,874 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Psychological Effects and Developmental Effects of Drug Abuse on the Brain

    The Psychological Effects and Developmental Effects of Drug Abuse on the Brain

    Drug abuse can take its toll on the body, but more importantly on the mind. Why do drugs act on the brain the way they do? And why do some drugs have different effects than others? These and other questions will be answered throughout this paper. Every day scientists are finding new information on the brain and how it reacts to the main drugs of abuse. The Brain; four pounds and several thousand miles of

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    Essay Length: 1,289 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Anna
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports 1 Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports Angie Holmes Axia College University of Phoenix Effective Persuasive Writing COM 120 Roseanne Robinson 24 September 2006 Performance-Enhancing drugs 2 Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports Although athletes are good enough to play in professional sports, many of the players feel pressured into using performance drugs to enhance their athletic skills. Athletes take these drugs believing that it provides a competitive advantage. They also take these drugs because

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    Essay Length: 1,414 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Drugs Should Their Use and Sale Be Legalized

    Drugs Should Their Use and Sale Be Legalized

    Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized? Within the last 50 years, drug legalization has been a very hotly debated topic in the United States society. It almost seems that every “street drug” was once legal, but banned soon after its introduction in society. Illegal substances that one sees today were once synthesized and created by chemist such as LSD, ecstasy, methamphetamine, cocaine, and etc., and at some point used for medical reasons, however

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    Essay Length: 1,039 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Drug Testing in the Workplace

    Drug Testing in the Workplace

    Drug Testing in the Workplace: A Costly Mistake Abstract The issue of drug testing in the workplace has sparked an ongoing debate among management. There are many who feel that it is essential to prevent risks to the greater public caused by substance abuse while on the job. However, others believe that the costs far outweigh the benefits and that it is an invasion of privacy. Putting all ethical issues aside, evidence presented in this

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    Essay Length: 1,742 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Yan
  • Animal Testing in Drug Industry: Is It Appropriate or Not?

    Animal Testing in Drug Industry: Is It Appropriate or Not?

    Animal Testing in Drug Industry: Is It Appropriate or Not? Millions of people were killed by incurable diseases, such as smallpox, rabies, et cetera before the 18th century due to lack of knowledge in developing drugs and vaccine at that time. People caught by the diseases were hopeless because they knew that no one could help them. In the mid 1800s, animal testing was introduced to drug industry by Edward Jenner (Trueman, 2002). His brilliant

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Aids and Drugs

    Aids and Drugs

    Editor Critical Path Project, Inc. 2062 Lombard Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 Dear Sir: The article, The Nontoxic Path: Vitamins, Dietary Supplements, Adjunctive Therapies, part 1, shows that there is again some interest in the nutritional treatment of AIDS. Unfortunately, the vitamin C doses described in the article are too small and will not be of help treating an AIDS patient. Enclosed are miscellaneous articles and references I have written on ascorbate. I began utilizing ascorbate

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    Essay Length: 2,059 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Drugs and Sports - Athletes on Steroids

    Drugs and Sports - Athletes on Steroids

    Drugs and Sports - Athletes on Steroids As the use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more popular among athletes, many of them don't understand the risks involved in taking these drugs. Many people are looking for a quick way to build muscle, or to get stronger the fastest way possible. Using these performance aids may very well be a quick fix for many athletes, but taking these supplements is unethical and dangerous. Using special

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    Essay Length: 1,567 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Rockefeller Drug Laws: America’s War on Drugs: A War We Are Causing, A War We Can Solve

    The Rockefeller Drug Laws: America’s War on Drugs: A War We Are Causing, A War We Can Solve

    Since the Rockefeller Drug Laws were passed in 1973 under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York State has had the harshest sentencing for low-level, non-violent drug offenders of any other state in the nation. Under these laws, those convicted of drug offenses face the same penalties as those convicted of murder, and harsher penalties that those convicted of rape. (Sullum, 1) Though the laws were first enacted to curb the late-1960s-early-1970s psychedelic drug epidemic, New York's

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    Essay Length: 1,965 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jessica

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