Many nurses are weak with drug calculations of all sorts. This article will help to review the major concepts related to drug calculations‚ help walk you through a few exercises‚ and provide a few exercises you can perform on your own to check your skills. There are many reference books available to review basic math skills‚ if you find that you have difficulty with even the basic conversion exercises. Common Conversions: 1 Liter = 1000 Milliliters 1 Gram = 1000 Milligrams 1 Milligram = 1000
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The problem of alcohol and drug abuse is of high importance nowadays. It is especially acute among young people and this fact horrifies most of all. Today the statistics shows deplorable numbers of young people‚ drinking and taking drugs. What is more terrible is that more and more young people start drinking and taking drugs. It is high time to stop this epidemic if our society does not want to loose its future. Alcohol abuse is itself very harmful for a human organism‚ especially for a young
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Nowadays the use of drugs is very common in our life. There is no precise definition for drug‚ as the meaning of it follows according to how the users intend to use it. Some may called it medicine but some may called it death‚ but the main purpose of drugs is actually to reduce pain or kill some cancer cells in our body. Unfortunately‚ many people especially those uneducated teenagers tend to misuse drugs. They have no idea how it can both harm them physically and mentally. I would say that the
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The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1‚ 1973‚ by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973‚ signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28.[2] It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government’s drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal‚ as they were concerned with the growing availability of drugs.[3] As a result‚ the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)‚ the Office of Drug
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Is t.v. a drug? After a long‚ hard day of school‚ I trudge up the driveway to my house. As I approach the door‚ I can already hear the incoherent mumbles of the television. I open the door and am not surprised to see my sister on the couch‚ hand on remote‚ flipping through channels. I am now accustomed to this picture. My sister could be crowned queen of the couch potatoes. She watches television day and night‚ so much that my cousins and I now refer to her as the human T.V. Guide. She knows
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overcome their Drug Addiction is to forgive them‚ love them and allow them to screw over the entire family again. And lets not forget the rehabilitation‚ court costs and police that the taxpayer must foot the bill for many times. Some are far more critical of these issues and say that Drug Addiction is too readily accepted and too many people are coddled too often for it. We have recidivism rates‚ which would make anyone cringe. If we as a society were to say it is okay to do drugs and legalize them
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The drug court is a unique effort that uses the occasion of a drug offence arrest as an intervention opportunity for drug offenders even though historical problems in criminal justice diversion and referral programs the Dade County success rates have shown that these problems can be overcome through unique collaborative relationships‚ innovative treatment design‚ and the elimination of conventional gaps in the referral- treatment-monitoring process. It is the purpose of this paper to explore the
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11/10/12 The Mexican Drug War There has been a lot of hype surrounding the War on Terrorism overseas‚ but what if there was a similar war being waged close to home? The Mexican drug war is an ongoing‚ armed conflict between rival drug cartels fighting for regional control and against the Mexican government forces. It has claimed almost 50‚000 lives since 2006‚ and accounts for over ninety percent of all illegal illicit drugs entering the United States. The Mexican drug war should be of concern
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Drug Addiction Among Young People Many young people today get addicted to drugs – they become dependant on various types of mind-altering or stimulating medicines or illegal ones. Addiction often comes hand-in-hand with narcotic effects‚ whether they are strong or light. It is only a question of time when you get addicted. You gradually become destroyed on all the levels of your health. And this is sad. It turns out to be sadder when you come to know that typical age range of drug addicts is
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Pass Hair Drug Testing Analysis It used to be at one time that hair drug testing would catch only the drug addict or habitual user of drugs. The cut off levels‚ or the level that they can first detect drugs in your hair‚ were at a point where it would only detect the habitual user that could be considered a liability as an employee.In the present day‚ as technology has advanced‚ cut off levels are now near zero‚ or no tolerance levels. This means that even the casual user can fail a hair drug test. One
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