The new dangers of synthetic drugs by Arnold‚ Carrie. The Lancet 382.9886 (Jul 6‚ 2013): 15-6. I ’ve selected to talk about synthetic drugs because it ’s one of the fastest growing drugs in the world. Drugs like spice which is a synthetic form of marijuana has been growing. In the military we ’ve had serious issues trying to detect the chemicals use in a monthly urinalysis. The problem with synthetic drugs is each person that produces it uses different products. It ’s hard to determine what ’s
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Prosecution of Pregnant Drug Abusers Drug abuse is an epidemic in our country. While substance abuse is commonly thought to be a plague of the poor‚ the fact is that it is widespread and has no demographic preference. It can affect anyone regardless of age‚ sex‚ race and economic status. A group of illicit drug abusers that may be largely overlooked are pregnant women. This group of people not only harms themselves‚ but also their unborn children. A woman must be held accountable for the health
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The drug recognition experts(DRE) are certified officers that are trained to determine if drugs are present in the body and if the substance that they have taken impaired them in any way during an incident or altercation. While police and other public service officers are able to perform some tests for alcohol and drug levels. the DRE program investigates whether drugs were involved and what effects they may have caused physically or mentally. By way of the 12 steps of the Drug Recognition Process
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Drug Use in Sports (Editorial sports) The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) has always been a controversial topic in sports. It is considered illegal because those drugs give athletes some sort of super powers that make them perform better over others. Athletes who will be caught drug cheating will face penalties or a ban once caught. But it seems that those punishments don’t threaten drug cheaters because the number of athletes who use those drug is still the same or higher. But have they
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Drugs are all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Right? Isn’t that the way the saying goes? It’s all fun and games‚ it is all good and dandy‚ until drugs overtake someones life. When someone is getting pushed down constantly‚ the solution is not to depend on drugs. The solution is to stand up‚ be strong‚ fight for themselves. In life‚ it is hard to truly block out what other people say. It is truly hard to make themselves feel better when they have felt nothing but the worst. Drugs take them
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Should recipients of welfare be forced to take drug tests? States have been proposing this very thing since the federal welfare reform in 1996. Sentiments from many who are supportive of the legislation seem to be in agreement that they do not want tax dollars spent on drugs and that if you have enough money to buy drugs then you don’t need public assistance. One popular belief is that this will save wrongfully spent tax dollars and shift it to those who need it and are trying to do the right thing
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37‚000 people died from drug related overdoses.” Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. Substance abuse is a growing problem that not only affects the person who is abusing alcohol or drugs but also affects the lives of those who are close to the abuser. Substance abuse is the abuse of any substance. A drug is a substance that modifies one or more of the body’s functions when it is consumed. It is often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles
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all resolutions passed during the committee session will be deemed binding. History of the Topic: The War on Drugs is a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention undertaken by the United States government‚ with the assistance of participating countries‚ and the stated aim to define and reduce the illegal drug trade. This initiative includes a set of drug policies of the United States that are
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Drug trafficking is getting more serious everyday that if we do not make an attempt to stop or slow it down‚ deadly consequences will occur. There have been so many articles about this issue and the rate of deaths of people using drugs is increasing rapidly. Everything has a start and so do drugs. The drugs come from traffickers who don’t care about the result of people using it; therefore‚ they only care about how much money they gain. That is why I chose this topic; I chose it because I want to
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Unit 1 Short Paper Psychoactive Drugs I believe was designed to be used for medical purposes‚ which I also fee that people who use them are in danger of harming their body and mind. According to news briefs People like Michael Jackson and Jerald Levert also others known people have abused drugs for what reason I can only guess for depression or the stress of being celebrity. Whatever the reasons were they are no longer living due to the drug abuse‚ so I can only imagine the people who are
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