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San Francisco Mental Hospital
1,432 words1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known. Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor. Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather. Roger, a schoolmate with who she is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with who Alice goes to San ...
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1,265 wordsThe so-called war on drugs has long been an issue in the national press. As long as I can remember, campaigns like "just say no" have been encouraging children to stay away from illegal drugs. In the last few years, however, simple slogans have mutated into aggressively and often erroneously exaggerated media assaults. The purpose of such messages is to frighten drug users and prospective drug users into abstaining from use and to turn the public eye onto drugs in general. Two television commerc...
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War On Drugs Legalizing Drugs
1,028 words... term or dangerous effects scissors or drinking or drug taking may have on them. By making drugs legal, it would help to eliminate those who are drawn to them by the elusiveness, the sexiness or the risk. Next is the problem of demand. Judge James P. Gray in speaking out in favor of legalizing drugs said, making drugs illegal amounts to an attempt to repeal the law of supply and demand, an impossible task. The prohibition raises the price of the goods, and with so much money to be made, peasa...
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1,673 wordsIntroduction One point on which almost everyone interested in drug prohibition agrees is the existence of a connection between drugs and violent crime. The disagreement is on the form of the connection and the sign of the correlation. Supporters of drug prohibition typically argue that drug use leads to violent crime and should be illegal in part for that reason. Critics of the war on drugs argue that the attempt to prohibit drug use leads to violent crime and that that is one of the reasons dru...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,769 words... st most young men had sex with women of their own age or younger, over 28 % of young girls said they has sex with older men. As a result, HIV rates are five times higher in girls than boys aged 15 - 19 in Trinidad and Tobago, and at one surveillance centre for pregnant women in Jamaica, girls in their late teens had almost twice the prevalence rate of older women. AIDS is now high on the agendas of many governments in this region, as they are beginning to notice the significant impact of the...
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1,356 wordsPrisons in the United States are overcrowded. The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world. There are more than one million people in the United States that are in a correctional facility. The causes for overcrowding include little attention given to social problems, glorification of violence, an epidemic of drug abuse, and mandatory sentencing guidelines. The average cost to house a prisoner in a correctional facility is approximately $ 25, 000 per year. There is also...
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Drug Testing Drug Abuse
1,369 wordsDRUGS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON BUSSNESS Drugs are used heavily for recreational purposes. It is becoming more common for addicts to get high at work. Stoned workers are inefficient and are costing companies millions in accidents and lost productivity. Searches to catch users have raised questions of the right to privacy. The problem has become so big that companies have banded together to form rehabilitation programs to help the affected workers. Drug use affects employees for one reason or another ...
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7,991 wordsDrug Abuse Among American Teenagers Drug abuse in America is a major problem. Especially among teenagers. Drugs have hurt the lives of nearly 40 percent of all teenagers in America. Either with health problems, Dwi's, highway crashes, arrests, impaired school and job performance. These drugs that teenagers use range from Alcohol, LSD, Marijuana, and even Cigarettes. Most of the teenagers that are involved in drug abuse have either, broken families, parents that are drug abusers, a unstable envir...
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Drug Abuse Illegal Drugs
1,118 wordsIn Drug Abuse DRUG ABUSE In the United States of America, we, the people value several things, some of which are freedom, expanding and taking care of our families and our financial security. We, the people, take such things for granted. We also discourage some behavior, such as crime, laziness and use of illegal drugs. Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country. Use of illegal drugs is harmful to the user and all those with whom the user comes in contact. There are over ...
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1,735 wordsThe United States of America has been contending with adverse social and economic effects of the drug abuse, namely of heroin, since the foundation of this country. Our initial attempt to outlaw heroin with the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914 resulted in the U. S. having the worst heroin problem in the world (Tooley 540). Although the legislative actions regarding heroin hitherto produced ominous results that rarely affected any individuals other than the addict and his or her family, the late twe...
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Health Care Providers Welfare Recipients
1,576 wordsAlthough many people think that drug testing is a nescience, it is essential improve the workplace. Seventy-four percent of all drug users are employed, and one out of every six has a serious drug problem! Would you want them working for you? Plus, the financial impact on business is severely staggering because of drug using employees (Psychemedics, 1). According to federal experts, ten to twenty-three percent of Americans have used or currently using dangerous drugs while on the job, and forty-...
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School Age Children War On Drugs
1,502 wordsThe negative connotations that surround the issue of drug use have been perpetuated by the media and have created a very unhealthy societal fear of drugs. Improper drug use is dangerous, not the chemical compound itself. A major factor in one s drug experience is the users personality. A person with psychological problems who takes LSD will most likely have those problems magnified when under the influence of the drug. However, psychologically healthy people who are knowledgeable and prepared fo...
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Christian Science Monitor Drug Abuse
2,114 wordsDrugs And Their Effects On Business Drugs are used heavily for recreational purposes. It is becoming more common for addicts to get high at work. Stoned workers are inefficient and are costing companies millions in accidents and lost productivity. Searches to catch users have raised questions of the right to privacy. The problem has become so big that companies have banded together to form rehabilitation programs to help the affected workers. Drug use affects employees for one re as or another i...
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5,593 wordsDrug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country. Use of illegal drugs is harmful to the user and all those with whom the user comes in contact. There are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for drugs. There are more drug dealers in this country, than there are dentists. Illegal drug abuse must be stopped. Every type of insurance goes up because of drug abuse, including auto, health and homeowners. Worst of all, the crime rate...
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York Franklin Watts Hundred Fifty
1,440 wordsTHE EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON SOCIETY In the United States of America, we, the people value several things, some of which are freedom, expanding and taking care of our families and our financial security. We, the people, take such things for granted. We also discourage some behavior, such as crime, laziness and use of illegal drugs. Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country. Use of illegal drugs is harmful to the user and all those with whom the user comes in contact. There ar...
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Past Few Years Drug Addicts
1,187 wordsAMSTERDAM: FACTS AND FIGURES 13. Drugs The Amsterdam policy on drugs is a purely pragmatic one. The capital has a population of more than 700, 000, including approximately 6, 200 hard drug users. The policy is mainly focused on discouraging the use of hard drugs and combating the drug trade. In addition, every effort is made to restrict the risks run by addicts themselves and the drug-related problems they confront the rest of society with. In the Amsterdam policy on drugs, a distinction is draw...
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Effects Of The Drug Heroin Addicts
1,858 wordsThe use Heroin HEROIN The use of heroin continues to climb in most areas. The number of varieties and sources of heroin available, combined with an increased domestic demand make the heroin market the fastest growing drug market reported. While there are indications of increased use of heroin among younger, suburban users, it is the cadre of older, inner-city heroin users that drive the heroin market (DEA 1996). Almost all areas report that the majority of heroin users are older drug users (over...
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5,337 wordsHistory of the American Drug War The first act of Americas anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that Chinese men had a way of luring white women to their dens and causing their ruin, which was the association with Chinese men. Later, other Federal laws such as trafficking in opium was illegal for anyone of Chinese origin. The opium laws were directed at the smoking of opium. The law didnt...
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3,007 wordsLegalization: Problem or Solution to the War on Drugs Legalization of drugs is a very controversial topic that is being discussed in the United States. Currently there is an intense debate to legalize marijuana as a medicine. To most people, legalizing drugs seems like something insane. They probably ask how can they legalize something that the government furiously tries to eradicate. The problem is exactly in what the government tries to do. Eliminate drugs. The drug problem will never go away....
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War On Drugs Drug Prohibition
4,902 wordsShould America Legalize The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. These policies seemed simple enough: imposition of penalties on those who use substances illegally, interception of drugs coming from other countries while ending all drug cultivation in the States, and prevention of foreign governments from growing these substances. The idea of the Drug Prohibition surely made sense: lower deman...
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