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- 471: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... by police officers. Sherman Jones, also 15, was accosted with a police officer's hands around his neck after putting the last bit of pizza crust into his mouth. The police suspected him of hiding drugs. PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES: Rounding out the attacks on the first amendment, there is a sword hanging over the right to petition for redress of grievances. House Resolution 4079, the National Drug and Crime ... secure from seizure. Entire stores of books or videotapes have been confiscated based upon the presence of some sexually explicit items. Bars, restaurants, or houses are taken from the owners because employees or tenants sold drugs. In Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff Robert Vogel and his officers stop automobiles for contrived violations. If large amounts of cash are found, the police confiscate it on the PRESUMPTION that it is drug money -- even ... raid, they will list weapons as things to be searched for and seized. This is done not because the police know of any weapons and can particularly describe them, but because they allege people with drugs often have weapons. Both of the above apply to the warrant the Hudson, New Hampshire, police used when they broke down Bruce Lavoie's door at 5 a.m. with guns drawn and shot ...
- 472: Youth Violence
- ... all crimes are committed by high school dropouts (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.18). Furthermore, these children will have few social skills, psychological problems, and most likely will turn to drugs. Former surgeon General, Everett Koop reported that about one third of youth committing serious crimes consumed alcohol or drugs just before the offense (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.20-21). Drug abuse combined with negative family factors greatly enhances the chances of an individual to become violent and aggressive ... starting with early treatment to prevent the path towards violence, we must become involved as a community to address this serious problem of violent behavior among the youth of America. Bibliography Currie, Elloit (1993). Reckoning: Drugs, the cities, and the American future. NY: Hill and Wang. Edelman, M.W. (1995). United we stand: A common vision claiming children Chicago, IL. Oxford University Press. Felner, R.D., and Felner, T.Y. ( ...
- 473: Commercial Vices
- Commercial Vices The commercial vices are gambling, prostitution, and drugs. The appeals of the commercial vices are so strong and widespread that attempts to prohibit them in western countries have always failed. The evils of these vices are threefold: Those who practice them suffer, the ... regulation. These are the particular drug, alcohol, and gambling. Ethyl alcohol, the drug in beer, whiskey, and wine does more harm is causing accidents, overdose deaths, job failures, broken homes, and violence than all other drugs combined. The United States attempted to prohibit alcohol and failed. The Mafia made its money by bootlegging alcohol. The gangsters of the twenties and thiries were in the alcohol business just as the drug peddlers ... enough to motivate bootlegging, became a source of public revenue. Consumption of legal alcohol became only slightly greater than the consumption of illegal alcohol had been. If we follow the alcohol example with all other drugs, the benefits will obtain. Much more than that, the temptation of the forbidden fruits will disappear. The jailing of petty drug pushers will stop, together with their training as future serious criminals in the ...
- 474: Marijuana Abuse
- ... impaired abilities. Workers under the influence of marijuana suffer from cognitive disorders that hampers their productivity. Further, as a social problem, marijuana costs society billions of tax dollars every year in an effort to obliterate drugs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that drug abuse costs the United States as much as $246 billion each year (Torr 12). Functionalist theorists would see marijuana abuse as a social problem in ... the problem of marijuana abuse by suggesting legalization. When considering the underlying current of a major power struggle between the groups who control the drug supply and the groups who are in need of the drugs, legalizing marijuana would virtually eliminate this. Control of this illegal substance would no longer be in the hands of the huge drug cartels, but would be readily available to anyone. Additionally, the power struggle between ... the schools and treatment facilities, thereby decreasing the drug demand. This would cover all the levels of society. Functionalists perspective focuses on micro, middle, and macro levels in society, thus a full-scale war on drugs would be their ideal solution. Bibliography Works Cited Baum, Joanne, PH.D. Its Time to Know. Minneapolis: Johnson Institute, 1996 Grolier Electronic Encylopedia. Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1995. Herman, Nancy J. Deviance. Dix Hills, ...
- 475: The Controversial Issue of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
- ... some people are choosing death over life. Doctor assisted suicide has been a very controversial subject in the past few years. Some states such as Oregon have passed laws which allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients who have less then six months to live.(Henin 1) Other state have taken the opposite side. I believe that if you are able to reason and think rationally you should decide whether ... take away next? One problem people fae when they are seriously ill is the lack of money. There always weems to be one more bill waiting to be paid. They need money to buy prescription drugs, pay for the doctor appointments, tests, and in some cases lenghty hospital stays. Some insurance companies will refuse to pay for certain test, or drugs, or even refuse treatment altogether. Many patients can't aford to pay for these treatments, and even if they coulld, most of the treatments only prolong life for a short amount fof time. There ...
- 476: Basketball's Greatest Players
- ... had the talent to be all pro and lost it in the streets. Probaly the two most famous to fail are Lloyd Daniels and Earl Manigult. Both could of been all-stars but let the drugs and inner city life destroy there chances. It's been said that Earl Manigult's best feat was being able to jump up to the top of the backboard and take a dollar bill and ... Lloyd Daniels, said to be the best basketball player ever to play in New York he was heavely recruited and signed with UNLV despite never graduating H.S. His biggest downfall was his addiction to drugs since he was twelve years old. Despite having anything he wanted and UNLV he was caught buying drugs and kicked off the basketball team and out of school. Next, the player who did make and continues to rock the up and rising basketball world. The most famous and most known of the ...
- 477: Euthanasia
- ... why would people end their life. There is always hope , miracles such as a Sydney man in 1990 with cancer was predicted to die in months ,but instead he was cured of cancer. Also new drugs are been invented each year. Drugs these days relieve pain and suffering .. How about if a person has to much pressure to deal with and can't cope, they might want to end their life ,can euthanasia be used? So where ... to the whole of Australia. In my heart I truly hope this is the case. Human's are never vegetables and should never be considered as vegetables. If they are in pain there are always drugs that can relieve that pain. So euthanasia should not be legalised throughout the rest of Australia. They have already made one mistake letting the N.T .Remember we were not the one to decided ...
- 478: Growth Dynamics of E. coli in Varying Concentrations of Nutrient Broths, pH, and in the Presence of an Antibiotic
- ... 9.0 required for growth. Bacteria obtains it nutrients for growth and division from their environment, thus any change in the concentration of these nutrients would cause a change in the growth rate (Atlas 330). Drugs/Antibiotics are another very common tool in molecular biology used to inhibit a specific process. Chloramphenicol, used in this experiment, inhibits the assembly of new proteins, yet it has no effect on those proteins which ... with additional an 5.0mM of glucose and another with 5.0mM lactose. There were also nutrient broths of varying pH levels: 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. The last of the medium contained drugs/antibiotics, a very common tool in molecular biology used to inhibit a specific process, chloramphenicol 200mg/ml. Each solution had a corresponding blank used to zero the spectrophotometer. These blank consisted of the medium before ... antibiotic/drug inhibits translation and prevented the cells from growing and dividing. This experiment could be examined further through the use of different nutrient enhanced media, media containing induce lac operons, temperatures changes, and different drugs/antibiotics at different concentrations. References Atlas, Ronald M. 1995. Principles of Microbiology, St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Year book Inc. Benson, Harold J. 1994. Microbiological Applications 6th edition, Debuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers. Edick, ...
- 479: Dietary Supplements
- Dietary Supplements Some manufacturers are marketing supplements that have substances and effects similar to drugs. The FDA is attempting to impose drug status on these supplements and is being challenged in the courts by supplement manufacturers. In this article, I examine the legal debate surrounding the definition and regulation of substances - whether as a drug or a dietary supplement. First, I outline some key differences in the regulation of drugs and supplements and examine the two provisions of DSHEA that blur the distinction. Second, I describe recent attempts by the FDA to clarify the guidelines for defining supplements and their associated health claims, as well ... regarding the drug or dietary supplement debate and its implications for marketers, consumers, and policy makers. Supplements are not required by the FDA to have premarket approval or safety testing, as are necessary for new drugs and food additives. For example, prior to release, a new drug must obtain FDA drug approval through an extensive process that involves preclinical testing on animals, three phases of investigational new drug testing, a ...
- 480: Ovarian Cancer
- ... is the total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingoophorectomy. This surgery may be done with aortic and pelvic lymph node sampling, omentectomy, and, if necessary, resection of the rectosigmoidal junction (Barber. 182-183). The concept of administering drugs directly into the peritoneal cavity as therapy of ovarian cancer was attempted more than three decades ago. However, it has only been within the last ten years that a firm basis for this method of ... of the taxanes, is cytotoxic to ovarian cancer. Approximately 20% of platinum failures respond to standard doses of paclitaxel. Studies are in progress of dose intensification and intraperitoneal administration (Barber, 227-228). This class of drugs is now thought to represent an active addition to the platinum analogs, either as primary therapy, in combination with platinum, or as salvage therapy after failure of platinum. In advanced stages, there is suggestive evidence ... treatment of ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma and ovarian cancer in general has seen remarkable improvements in the response rates of patients with advanced stage cancer without dramatically improving long-term survival. The promises of new drugs with activity when platinum agents fail is encouraging and fosters hope that, in the decades to come, the endeavors of surgical and pharmacoogical research will make ovarian cancer an easily treatable disease. Bibliography Altchek, ...
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