INTL 4997: The Mexican Drug trade | Reading Response #3 | | | Audrey Robert | 10/31/2012 | | David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed‚ he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible‚ and proves that if something
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people who despite using these drugs‚ in the future do not suffer any serious damage to their body so I do not see as bad to use them if the damages will not be so serious in the future. This would come to give you many benefits if used in the right way and so in the future have very minimal damages that you would not realize. This was the part for which I did not feel very convinced that this was something as bad as they said. They only say that if they use these drugs you can damage your health completely
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HSM Law Profile Kay Wehner HSM/230 June 29‚ 2014 Kimberly Cowburn HSM Law Profile Americans with Disabilities Act “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment‚ transportation‚ public accommodation‚ communications‚ and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services‚” (Perez‚ T. E.). The ADA was developed in 1990 to stop any form of discrimination against anyone
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prescription medications quickly becoming the most abused drug throughout today’s youth. Dr. Nora D. Volkow‚ director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ estimates that forty eight million people misuse prescribed medicine. That is about twenty percent of the United States population (1). Maybe because these medications are fairly easy to posses‚ no matter of the age trying to acquire them. It is less expensive than street drugs such as ecstasy‚ marijuana‚ or cocaine. A thought of prescription
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Overview Prescription drug abuse and addiction is a growing problem in our society. In 2007 an estimated seven million Americans abused prescription drugs‚ and almost twenty-eight thousand people died as a result of accidental drug overdose. In the United States drug overdoses are the second leading cause of unintentional deaths (CDC‚ 2010). Medication prescribed by physicians killed more people in that same than illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine combined (Harvard‚ 2011). Many members
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Conclusion on the three gateway drugs. Name all Three 1)Please include what type of Drug all three are? 2)Analyze and inform major components of the three drugs. 3)Please make sure you add or talk about any key vocab words that we discussed in class. 4) Lastly‚ report the short or long term effects of the three gateway drugs on the body. The three gateway drugs in order are tobacco‚ alcohol‚ and marijuana. They are in order of how most people are exposed to the drug. They all have negative effects
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Prescription drug abuse happens whenever someone is using a medication in a manner other than for the use for which it was prescribed‚ for the experience provided by the medication‚ or without a proper prescription. Painkillers are by far the most commonly abused prescription drugs‚ and they’re relatively easy to obtain. Consequently‚ prescription drug addiction is not all that uncommon. About one in five Americans (https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/prescription-drugs/director)
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Kremlis Lopez September 21‚ 2011 Speech Informative Speech Outline Drugs and Alcohol General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: to inform my audience about all the bad things it brings people. Thesis Statement: Drugs and alcohol play a huge role in a person’s life and it could destroy them. We all know that drinking and doing drugs is bad for your health. So why do we decide to do them? Some people say it’s because “peer pressure” others say to “feel good”
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of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes‚ use of these substances must be banned from competition because it damages the honesty of athletic competition‚ provides an unfair advantage to athletes who train clean‚ and can have numerous detrimental effects to the user. Ultimately‚ it is imperative that stricter limits are put on athletes which bans the use of performance enhancing substances by any athlete regardless of sport. The use of performance enhancing drugs is damaging the integrity
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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 taken to prevent this on
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