Tag: Drugs
Why Should We Team Up Against Drugs
The answer to that question is very simple. Drugs can absolutley do nothing to help you in your life. The only sure thing that...
Substance Abuse in the Workplace
As widespread drug use is on the rise, many employers have begun to worry about the performance of their employees. Absenteeism, injuries, loss of...
Drugs and Crime
The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse...
Ecstasy, or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Ecstasy, or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, was first synthesized and patented in 1914, by the German drug company Merck. The original purpose of the drug...
Project Mkultra Essay
When many Americans think about Germany, they automatically think of the Nazis and the experiments they did with the Jews. But what they dont...
Is Ritalin the Answer to ADHD
The tousled brown hair that weaves so mischievously around his head may hint at the way he feels inside. He is seven-years-old and has...
Ritalin – the wonder Drug or the Monster Creator
It never gets all the way across the road because of all the distractions. You could say growing up was hard; everyday I had...
The War on Drugs
Since the early 1960s, there has been an alarming increase in drug use in the United States. In 1962, four million Americans had tried...
LSD (Lysergic Acid Dyethilamide)
A Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye, 1992, p. 2). Hoffman...
The Performance-enhancing Drug Controversy
Performance-enhancing drugs are a topic in todays society which is currently under hot debate. Performance-enhancing drugs are substances which are used to stimulate certain...
An Objection to Mandatory Drug Testing in High Schools for the Participation of Extra-Curricular...
With the recent steroid a scandal in Major League Baseball, debates over mandatory drug testing polices have sparked interest across the country. One issue...
Ecstasy and You
Ecstasy is Methylene Dioxymethamphetamine, often abbreviated as MDMA. This drug is a member of the same family of drugs that include amphetamine and LSD....
LSD (Lysergic Acid Dyethilamide)
A Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide -or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye, 1992, p. 2). Hoffman...
Drug Dependence Essay
In order for a chemical to be considered a drug it must have the capacity to affect how the body works--to be biologically active....
Marijuana Legal or Illegal
Cannabis, sold as marijuana, hashish and hash oil, is the most frequently used illicit drug in Canada. Roughly one in four Canadian adults report...
The Result Of Drug Abuse
For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs...
Substance Use and Abuse Among Children and Teenagers
During the past several years, there has been a renewed national concern about drug abuse, culminating in the current "war on drugs. " In...
Drugs In The Workplace
Drug Addiction in the School and Work Place How has work efficiency changed as a result of drug addiction in the sch a couool...
History of the American Drug War
The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco...
Should Drugs Be Allowed In Sports
Drugs have been around for thousands of years but their reasons for being used has changed. Drugs were originally intended for medical uses. In...
Ritalin and Its Uses
In recent years, more and more kids seem to be on a prescription drug called Ritalin(methylphenidate). This drug is being handed out more and...
LSD (Lysergic Acid Dyethilamide)
A Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye, 1992, p. 2). Hoffman...
Crime And Drug Use
Throughout my time as a criminal justice student, I have been interested about the relationship between drugs and crime. I have also been amazed...
Marijuana, a cure for anorexia as well as glaucoma
To toke or not to toke that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of society...
LSD (lysergic Acid Dyethilamide)
A Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hoffman first produced lysergic acid Diethylmide or best known as LSD in 1938 (Dye, 1992, p. 2). Hoffman...
Effects Of Marijuana
The use of marijuana is widespread by all classes, races, and cultures. Marijuana has been used for a multitude of purposes over thousands of...
The War On Drugs
In todays society, the war on drugs has become a major issue in our cities and the business community. Many cities have started programs...
Morphine, A Narcotic Analgesic Drug
Morphine is a narcotic analgesic drug, which means that it is a downer painkiller. It is most commonly given intravenously (by injection) for more...
Marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States
A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, it usually is smoked as a cigarette...
All Addicted To Heroin
It was a sunny June morning in 1996. Jimmy Chaimberlin walked into Jonathan Melvoins hotel room. He found him lying unconscious in his bed...
Narcotic Distribution
The topic which I am now exploring for this essay is an immigrants success through the black markets narcotic distribution. After listening to many...
Ecstasy, or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Ecstasy, or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, was first synthesized and patented in 1914, by the German drug company Merck. The original purpose of the drug...
Ritalin, a mild CNS stimulant
Ritalin (Methylphenidate) is a mild CNS stimulant. In medicine, Ritalin's primary use is treatment of Attention Deficit /Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The mode of action...
Is Drug Testing the Answer
Why do humans seek an alternate reality? An alternate reality being a place or frame of mind that is somehow separated from actual reality....
Drugs and Alcohol
One of the biggest problems people cope with today is the addiction of drugs and alcohol. The effects of taking these drugs are dangerous:...
Dangers Of Ananbolic Steroids
In the past three decades, steroids has been becoming a serious problem more than ever in the athletic field. Steroids are anabolic drug "to...
Marijuana and Hemp, The Untold
The purpose of this brochure is to expose the numerous facts about marijuana and hemp that have been suppressed-facts the government does not want...
Drugs And Their Effects On Business
Drugs are used heavily for recreational purposes. It is becoming more common for addicts to get high at work. Stoned workers are inefficient and...
History of the American Drug War
The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco...
War on drugs
The U. S. Constitution once counted Black slaves as worth three-fifths of Whites. Today, Black per capita income is three-fifths of Whites. Thats an...
Should The United States End Drug Prohibition?
The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. At the...
Drugs in the clubs of Britain
Drugs work by changing chemicals in your brain that control your mood. Most drugs boost or imitate the behavior of chemicals (like adrenaline, dopamine...
Marijuana Legalisation
Marijuana is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis, it can be smoked or eaten. Marijuana use...
Correlation Between Drug Use and Suicide
Americas on-going drug abuse epidemic continues into this millenium, and there are many social problems linked to drug use, including suicide. The disparity of...
Drugs, Crime and Prohibition
Do drugs really cause crime, or is it our governments way of controlling the communities? Many people blame drugs for every problem in our...
Legalization of Drugs
Man, as a creature, is inherently bored. Since the dawn of time, it has been the natural instinct of man to find alternative methods...
Hemp or the plant called “cannabis sativa”
Hemp is the plant called "cannabis sativa" which is more commonly called marijuana. Marijuana has been illegal in the U. S.. ever since the...
Drug Scandal
An August, 1996, series in the San Jose Mercury News by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the...
Activists hope ballot questions signal support for marijuana bills
BOSTON (AP) When researchers launched the nation's most ambitious heart study 50 years ago, they chose Framingham, a middle-class town west of Boston and...
Social Issues – Heroin
Heroin related deaths and arrests among young pop culture musicians has not been this visible for decades. We observe pop culture making this drug-...
