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    Cocaine is a bitter‚ white‚ odorless‚ crystalline drug. Cocaine has been classified as a Schedule II drug by the United States. Cocaine is extracted and refined from the Coca plant. A highly addictive stimulant that produces profound feelings of pleasure. Cocaine can be snorted‚ injected‚ smoked or eaten. The level and length of the effects depend on how the drug was induced. Cocaine usually tops the list when it comes to common illicit drugs. It is a powerful stimulant that is frequently abused

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    Drugs is a very big problem in the world many deaths are caused by taking drugs‚ over dosing and suicide. Drugs are a very big problem in the world. Everywhere you look people are affected by them but even though they are common it doesn’t make them harmless. A drug is a chemical which is taken into your body if you are in pain or have an illness which is legal‚ but other drugs such as heroin and ecstasy are illegal drugs which are used to make you feel good and give you a buzz. Some people think

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    strict diet. Those who are passionate about their sport are willing to do just about anything to improve performance‚ but just how far are athletes willing to go? With recent advancements in sports science‚ it has become possible to alter some elements of human physiology. The human body has been meticulously studied over the years‚ and as a result we are able to comprehend how complex systems function enabling the human body to perform simple everyday functions‚ as well as‚ impressive athletic performances

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    10th‚ 2012 Topic: My Neighborhood and its effect on me. D.O.B: December 24th‚ 1994 Unlike the suburbs yet a suburban mentality was instilled; the idea that how we appear to others and education is the key to social mobility‚ well‚ the legal key. Although I was born a child of the ghetto I learned that the ghetto is where I’m teenage mother in Kingston‚ Jamaica. I currently reside in Seaview Gardens a community that is said to be a ghetto‚ and don’t get me wrong‚ it is but it’s my suburb and it’s

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    Drugs and how it effected my life. As an Aboriginal and a recovering drug addict this is my point of view on this addiction with drugs. Drugs can cost you everything such as the trust and respect of loved ones‚ to some crime committing such as theft and breaking and entering. There are a lot of reasons why people turned to drugs today‚ some are ashamed of the pain and trying to bottled up from sexual and physical abuse‚ some doing it out of boredom and they are curious about drugs‚ and others do

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    Beatles Drug Use

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    The Beatles and Their Hidden Drug References Were the songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles hidden drug references due to them living in the sixties and seventies when drug use was very common? The songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles are some of the best songs ever written‚ but to many people’s surprise The Beatles have hidden references to drugs like marijuana‚ acid‚ heroin‚ LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)‚ and cocaine. Both Paul McCartney

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    Effects Of Illegal Immigrants In Malaysia Illegal immigrants are people who migrate across national borders without complying with legal requirements. In “Illegal immigrants in Malaysia‚” (2012)‚ it has been found that in Malaysia‚ they comprise a portion of the country population‚ numbering as many as two millions by some estimates. Most of them are from nearby Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia and Philippines. Hopkins (n.d.) acknowledged that 50 percent of illegal immigrants are people

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    Recreational Drug Use

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    Recreational drug usage consists of abusing psychoactive drugs for reason other then medical‚ work‚ or spiritual cause. These drugs can range from simple coffee down to heroin. These drugs are not healthy for the body‚ and have caused many deaths. HIV can be caused by non injected drugs. A United States poll‚ testifies that nearly two hundred million people use drugs at least once a year. This is truly what is wrong with our soceity today. No one can truly state each cause of drug use‚ because there

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    Research problem The century’s repeated crises surrounding illegal drug addiction have been‚ as always when addiction is at issue‚ an ongoing cycle of profit and damage in which narcopolitics has gone decisively global‚ on the one hand‚ and has become an affair of representations and words‚ on the other. The drug itself‚ as object of desire‚ is at once utterly coercive and nugatory: it’s junk‚ the broken residue of useful technology‚ the leavings of instrumental reason; as an object it no longer

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    The Effects of Drug Abuse

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    The Effect of Drug Abuse Jason Russ The Effect of Drug Abuse Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. It can be wrongfully assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs simply by choosing to change their behavior. In reality‚ drug addiction is a complex disease‚ and quitting takes more than good intentions. In fact‚ because drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse‚ quitting is difficult

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