caffeine
Caffeine According to many different doctors and their different studies, caffeine addiction is a mental disorder. Researchers have shown that someone who uses caffeine regularly triggers a physical dependence from the body, which is a mild form of addiction. The addiction isn....

Dr. Jefferey MacDonald
Debated as one of the most misrepresented cases in American legal history, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald still fights for innocence. Contrary to infallible evidence, prosecution intentionally withheld crucial information aiding MacDonalds alibi. Such ratification included proof of an outside attack that....

Drugs and Abuse
Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topi....

drugs in sports
Sports And Drugs The Sports World Should be Drug Free This article was derived on the question: Why the sports world should be drug free? Barry McCaffreys answer to this question is based on a simple assumption that drug usage in sports has a direct impact on children which will ultimately ....

From Combating the Poor to Curtailing Substance Abuse
Targeting the poor through Crime Reduction policies against substance abuse in the US must give way to Dynamic Harm Reduction, which addresses the issue at its core, if it truly wishes to alleviate the international ï¿½drug problem.ï¿½ In the early 1970s, the realization of the wide spread c....

Heroin and its effects on the body.
Heroins effects on the body are some that are very startling and makes you wonder why anyone would want to do that to themselves. Why would they want to take such a risk? I am writing this essay to both educate and inform you on the dangers of heroin use. I will be discussing the side effects, sho....

Infectious Diseases among Inmate Populations
Today, well over two million persons are imprisoned in American and, we as a country, have the highest percentage rate than any other country (Jacobi, 2005). One of the major issues, past and present, is managing infectious diseases among the inmate population. The health of inmates has not alway....

methadone
The use of Methadone Maintenance to treat addiction to heroin and other opiates was developed in the mid-1960 and has become the most widely employed treatment of opiate dependence in the United States. Consistent with its origins as an intervention to curb heroin addiction, methadone maintenance....

Methadone
Is Methadone use an Effective way to treat Heroin Addiction? For many years, methadone has been use as a substitute to heroin, to quit a persons addiction to heroin while lessening the pangs of withdrawal from it. Recently, the subject of methadone use to treat heroin addiction has been extreme....

Methods of Drug Use
Drug addiction is an illness that many people face every day. They are compulsive drug seekers that cannot control their cravings. It affects the way your brain functions, including learning, memory, and behavior. Pharmokinetics which is the process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabol....

Performance Enhancing Drugs
For many years sports have played huge roles in humans everyday lives. From entertainment, political, financial and to actually competing in them. The task for the sportsmen or women, especially in the top rank, is to beat the other competitors and get a good result from it. Here there is a high amo....

SOAP Case Study - Substance Abuse
Client is a 36 year-old, African-American, single female with four (4) children. Client has three (3) daughters (aged 16, 15, and 13). She also has one (1) son (aged 9). Client reports that their relationship is "getting better" because she no longer abuses opiates. Client's children were ....

The Lennard Clinic
The Lennard Clinic, Incorporated¡Agency Visit On Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Ms. Fatima Oliveira, MA, CCJS, CCBT (Director of AIDS services) of the Lennard Clinic was interviewed at 2:00pm. This Lennard Clinic is based at 461 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07114. The telephone number....

Workplace Drug Screening Opinion
Substance abuse affects employee health and workplace safety. Drug testing in the workplace sparks debate and controversy based on privacy issues, reliability and ethical or legal reasons. The methods and procedures used vary depending on what drug a tester is looking for. The procedures can ....

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