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- 411: Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side of a Golden Girl
- ... a separation, Jessica meets Mel Korn, a successful advertising executive eighteen years older than her. He gives her the encouragement and love that she craves, but she still loves Ron Kershaw. She is introduced to drugs, and she begins to use them to dull her pain. She has also had two abortions, both Ron Kershaw's children, because she is afraid that her children will develop the same kinds of mental ... age thirty. Jessica's celebrity immediately boosts the ratings. The public love her, but her co-workers do not. They find her too demanding and caught up in herself. Meanwhile, her private life is deteriorating. Drugs are now an everyday thing, and she often gets into fights with Ron. It seems as if the only thing that they have in common is Chewy, their dog. To add to it, in November ... a live feed of footage shot by a crew who have been gunned down. She loses control on air and mutters the word "unbelievable." This devastates her, and when she goes home she turns to drugs once more to take her mind off of the incident. That month, she is named NBC's "Golden Girl." All goes well until a reporter uncovers Jessica and Ron's abusive relationship. To protect ...
- 412: Trouble With Bill Clinton's Character
- ... make Clinton look bad by insulting his character, but in doing so, Dole is revealing a lot about his own. Take for instance the issue of Clinton and his playful attitude regarding his use of drugs. Dole is using a personal attack on Bill Clinton to make the constituents think that Clinton is a drug user saying that he used drugs during the '70s. I think the real issue here is not Bill Clinton's problem, but the question of what we are going to do to stop drugs. Dole made such an effort to attack Clinton, but I never heard what Dole had to say about the issue, and what he is planning to do about it. Looking from his family's ...
- 413: What Is the Price Knowledge
- ... I have found many examples where humans were used as "guinea pigs" or killed. One example of this misconduct was in 1959 it was a common practice for drug companies to provide samples of experimental drugs, to physicians, who were then paid to gather data on their patients taking the drugs. Physicians throughout the country prescribed there drugs to patients without their knowledge or consent as part of this loosely controlled research. Example of this was the drug sedative thalidomide was given to vast number of pregant women and caused thousands of ...
- 414: Alcohol And Drug Control
- ... Prevention and Control Program. they are as follows: prevention, education, identification, rehabilitation, treatment, program evaluation, and research. There are nine objectives of ADAPCP: · Reduce the abuse of alcohol and the availability and abuse of other drugs within the Armed Forces. · Prevent alcohol and other drug abuse. · Identify alcohol and other drug abusers as early as possible. ADAPCP 2 · Restore both military and civilian employee alcohol and other drug abusers to effective ... civilian personnel assigned to ADAPCP staffs are appropriately trained and experienced to effectively accomplish their mission. · Achieve maximum productivity, reduced absenteeism and among DA civilian employees by preventing and controlling abuse of alcohol and other drugs. The rehabilitation program of the Alcohol Drug Abuse Prevention and Control program consists of two phases; the active phase and the follow-up phase. The active phase usually lasts for sixty (60) days while the ... and other drug abuse. · Provide military members of the community with the information that is needed to make responsible decisions about their personal use of alcohol and to avoid the misuse or abuse of other drugs. This program helps the clients (soldiers) gradually deal with their substance or alcohol abuse. Detoxification involves withdrawing an individual from drugs of abuse including alcohol, and treating the physical symptoms of that withdrawal, and ...
- 415: Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... of Marijuana, take a mechanistic view of one symptom of a much larger social problem. You cannot talk about legalizing marijuana without getting into discussions of other "Social problems". I am talking about all other "drugs"-- prostitution, health care, social security, or just about any other issue that we as a country, and as a people are dealing with. For the purposes of this paper, I will confine, or rather use ... to curb your habit from becoming obvious or debilitating to your life. Now what does this have to do with legalization? I'll tell you. As long as the government is waging the war on drugs, in a poor manner I might add, society won't. Society won't because it doesn't have to, the government takes care of it for us, so rather than discuss these issues with your child you can spend that time working, in order to pay the government to keep protecting your child for you. The problem with government intervention, stretching past drugs, is that the government is not a community, it is a large beaurocratic mess of forms, protocols, and so on. The reason for this is nothing more than the simple fact that the government ...
- 416: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... three different neurotransmitter systems have been targeted as areas of action of antipsychotic treatment. The three neurotransmitters are dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine (British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, 1997). The primary focus of action of most antipsychotic drugs is on the dopamine system. This has been identified as the most involved system in the abnormalities of the brain found in schizophrenics. It is hypothesised that deficiencies in this system affect mood and other mental processes. The actual dopamine receptors that these antipsychotic drugs act on are D2 receptors - relieving some of the symptoms, but are no way curative. However, Japanese researchers, led by Yoshiro Okubo of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University of Medicine, using positron emission tomography ... as well as those of post mortem brains of schizophrenics. Not until the 1970s were brain imaging techniques reintroduced as reliable sources of information into the aetiology of schizophrenia. This was the time when antipsychotic drugs came into use and it became clear that their effects were related to the activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Eve Johnstone et al. (cited in Benes, 1996) reported the first computed tomography (CT) scans ...
- 417: Money Laundering
- ... to use a three-stage model which encompasses an ideal money laundering scheme. The three stages are as follows: * Placement Stage This is where cash derived directly from criminal activity (e.g. from sales of drugs) is first placed either in a financial institution or used to purchase an asset. * Layering Stage The stage at which there is the first attempt at concealment or disguise of the source of the ownership ... Bureau de Change, cheque cashers, money transmission services, commodities brokers etc. The law is, as in so many areas, complex and set out in various different statutes and regulations. It deals with the proceeds of drugs trafficking, terrorist crime and non-terrorist crime slightly differently, but the thrust of the law for each is similar. Offences are created for those who launder the money and those who assist them in any ... reasonable grounds to suspect to be the proceeds of drug trafficking or criminal conduct and have acquired at less than full value. The Act now makes it a specific and separate offence in cases involving drugs or terrorism not to report a suspicion if the information came to the person's attention in the course of his trade, profession, business or employment. Effectively the duty to report is extended to ...
- 418: Society's Problems and My Role In Helping It
- ... the opportunity to receive an education will be able to. There are many other changes I would like to see instituted. I am for more radical programs such as the legalization of gambling, prostitution and drugs. It sounds like I am suggesting a total moral defabrication of our society, but in reality, past the negative perception, such programs would be very beneficial. Legalized gambling, under state control, would allow the state ... of HIV. An educated businessman could run the brothel allowing an honest individual to make the profit. It would also lower the instances of physical abuse between the prostitute and the patron. The legalization of drugs would put the dealers out of business. Young children would no longer have the option of selling drugs and would be forced to get an education. Without drug dealers, there are no turf wars and fewer gun related murders. The drugs could then be sold in a pharmacy where upon an honest ...
- 419: College Application Essay: Influence of My Academic Interest in Education
- ... in-tune with their students. If teachers cared more about their students and wanted to make a difference in their lives, then maybe my uncle would be here today. My uncle started showing interest in drugs when he was about sixteen. He was living with my parents and going to high school in Houston. He lived with my parents because his parents had divorced the previous year and my grandmother thought ... still young and were totally oblivious to the fact that something was changing in my uncle’s personality. He started using illegal substances occasionally and then he was introduced to more harmful and more addictive drugs. He would read books about becoming a pharmacist and it was very obvious that his knowledge of drugs would either get him into trouble or make him successful. He was a full time student, but he was on the wrong road and his teachers had no idea. If only one teacher had ...
- 420: Music Censorship
- ... Advisory” stickers placed on the music package. People in this society want to purchase music that isn’t censorsed. Do you want to listen to what you want, even if it talks about violence, sex, drugs, and alcohol? Well, this is where the First Amendment: free speech comes in. The first Amendment reads as follow: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAWS REPRESENTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBTING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF ... kill cops. Although, the Arts Censorship Project says, “ no direct link between anti-social behavior and exposure to the contents of any form of artistic expression has ever been scientifically established”. Kids can learn about drugs, violence, sex, etc.… through many sources. We have the first amendment to help protect censorship of music, but to offer even more help to people not buy music with unsuitable lyrics the music industries offers “Parental Advisory” stickers on all CDs which contain lyrics about drugs, violence, sex, etc.… This sticker doesn’t enable children under the age of 18 to purchase these CDs. If parents do not want there kids to buy these CDs then. Parents say that even ...
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