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    is not recommended that you preprint your Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number on the prescription pad. It becomes too easy for drug abusers to lift a few prescription forms for illicit use if that number is easily available. The DEA number is not required on noncontrolled prescriptions; however‚ many pharmacies may request the DEA number with a prescription to help when filing the patient’s medication insurance claims. For those who do not use their DEA number: Prescriptions are often counted

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    ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN MALAYSIA According to the Dictionary.com‚ immigrant is an act of a person who coming to another country‚ usually for permanent residence. There are many reasons for a person to migrate to another country‚ including economic [pertaining to the production‚ distribution‚ and use of income‚ wealth‚ and commodities]‚ political‚ family re-unification‚ natural disaster‚ poverty or the wish to change one’s surroundings voluntarily. Illegal immigration is the migration of foreign

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    DEVIANCE: DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE Regulation of Deviance: Drug and Alcohol Use among Adolescents and Young Adults Nikkee L Payne University of Nebraska at Lincoln Abstract This paper explores the overall affects that peers‚ family members‚ and religious affiliations have among adolescents and young adults when it comes to the use of deviant substances such as drugs and alcohol. Here we will examine the specific affects that peers tend to have on individual adolescents and how subgroups can

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    Effects of Drugs on Adolecents Drug use is the increasing problem among teenagers in colleges today. Most drug use begins in the preteen and teenage years‚ these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity‚ clarifying their sexual roles‚ assenting independence‚ learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives meaning. Drugs are readily‚ adolescents are curious

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    How to Work with Dummy Independent Variables Chapter 8 is devoted to dummy (independent) variables. This How To answers common questions on working with and interpreting dummy variables. Questions: 1) How to include dummy variables in a regression? 2) How to interpret a coefficient on a dummy variable? 3) How to test hypotheses with dummy variables and interaction terms? 4) How to create a double-log functional form with dummy variables? 5) How to interpret a coefficient on

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    Restorative Justice and the Community Restorative Justice is a somewhat different approach to justice. It is different from Punishment justice in the fact that it focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders‚ rather than punishing the offenders with little to no consideration of the victims or the community. Victims take a more active role in the process while offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions and figure out ways to restore the community to a better state. In the

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    Illegal Immigration Cory A. Dick SUNY Brockport Department of Social Work SWO- 311 Professor M. Saunders May 8‚ 2012 Description of Social Problem/Human Need The social problem and/or need that I am going to discuss is illegal immigration. However‚ before I can begin‚ I need to define terms that will be used in this paper. First is the work alien. Alien refers to any individual who is not a citizen of the United States (Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office

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    The Effects of AIDS on Sub-Saharan African Communities “Two-thirds of all people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa‚ although this region contains little more than 10% of the world’s population” ("The impact of HIV & AIDS on Africa"‚ 2010‚ para. 1). “During 2008 alone‚ an estimated 1.4 million adults and children died as a result of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa…[that is] more than 15 million Africans [who] have died from AIDS…since the beginning of the epidemic”("The impact of

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    Household drugs are one of the many stimuli that can affect an individual physiological function. Such functions are the circulatory system. It is known that caffeine and Nicotine can cause a change physiological. It is known that caffeine can affect an individual ability to sleep‚ focus; it also can cause other symptoms such as rapid heart rate and trembles. Nicotine if ingestion can cause severe problems from dizziness‚ headaches to even death. The amount of intake can vary in the effect on an individual

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    to become criminals in order to get their drug‚ being able to get drugs for which they ’re sure of the quality." Isn ’t it a gateway drug to harder substances? "The effect of criminalization is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs... Crack would never have existed in my opinion if you had not had drug prohibition. It was drug prohibition- why was crack created? Because cocaine was so expensive." [Cocaine was so expensive because of drug prohibition.] But what about the morality

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