Driving While on Drugs Summary: As the police departments in the U.S. get tougher on drunk drivers‚ some drivers find different ways to stay high while behind the wheel by using prescription pills and marijuana. A new report says drivers are nearly as likely to be high on pot or pills as drunk on alcohol‚ and it urges states to take steps to better monitor and control drugged driving (Schmitz‚ 2015). The states and federal government are working on figuring out the policies on recognizing high drivers
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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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Alcohol and drugs need to be monitored because of all the harm caused from use. Not only do these products provoke gang violence‚ crime‚ and abuse‚ alcohol and drug use are very dangerous to the user and our environment. Many people die from drug use each year‚ or are affected by them‚ legal or non-legal. Also the environment has to suffer because of our carelessness with these drugs. Alcohol and drugs use‚ legal and non-legal‚ need to be greatly monitored‚ because it is dangerous to the user‚ bad
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of narcotic drug should have been forbidden. It has been believed that they have got negative and harmful impact on person who uses them. But is that all behind the topic? People have been using drugs from centuries and first “written” information about it comes form the Sumerian civilization ideograms (dated 5000 B.C.) which shows using of opium for joy. Could they have been wrong with it? In this essay I will try to answer the question about risks and benefits of legalizing soft drugs. Firstly
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Drug Education Writing Assignment Currently being used in about eighty percent of schools in America is the DARE program. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and has taught over thirty-six million children. One of the recent debates in education is whether or not this program is actually effective in preventing the use of drugs and alcohol. On the official DARE website it gives success statistics based on if parents and teachers were satisfied with the program and if a child talked
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Government 4/12/15 Dr. Brent POLICY PROPOSAL II DRUG TESTING FOR WELFARE Most people would argue that drug testing for welfare would be a waste of time and money. I will say personally that is completely false. Drug testing randomly for welfare program‚ would be a wonderful‚ and probably one of the only good things‚ to this already corrupt government program. Ok‚ let’s all look at this as realistically as we can; if just 1 person failed a drug test for the welfare‚ that’s a whole extra few hundred
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Drug Courts came about as a result of a backlogged court system and a steady‚ rapidly increasing prison population. Drug courts are a form of diversion that helps the offender through rehabilitation and the community through an increased sense of protection‚ which serves the best interest of everyone. Drug Courts are community based intermediate sanctions that incorporate treatment principles into the Criminal Justice System and divert drug offenders from traditional punishments of probation and
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Neuroenhancing drugs are slowly becoming more popular in college students’ lives today. This increased use may be because of lack of focus or academic performance enhancement. Margaret Talbot‚ author of “The Underground World of ‘Neuroenhancing’ Drugs”‚ dives deeper into this finding by interviewing a series of college students and top professors who take a stance their side of the case. Talbot believes that college campuses have become laboratories for neuroenhancing drugs. By starting off with
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to young people. Some observers‚ including the head of a congressional crime committee that spent two years probing the problem of illegal drug trafficking‚’ believe that the drug manufacturers cannot be blamed if their products are put to illegitimate use. Do drug manufacturers have any moral responsibility to ensure that their products are not put to such use? In this paper I am going to discuss the six different ethical theories‚ including utilitarianism‚ kantian ethics‚ natural law theory‚ virtue
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Cody ENG.1301-334 15th February 2012 Is our country really on drugs? Has the United States of America become a country that seeks every ounce of better entertainment‚ no matter the effects that may hinder the entertainer? According to Carl Elliott ’s article‚ “This is Your Country on Drugs” ( Ramage 643-645)‚ we have subconsciously adopted the social theory of being less desirable if we do not consume performance-enhancers. Does Elliott make a reputable argument? First‚ we must
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