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- 751: Port Phillip Prison
- ... They must get rid of all the intergral hanging points in the prison to try and stop some of the deaths. They must change their management also. They must crack down on the prisoners using drugs and the people who bring them into the prisoners must be told that NO drugs are allowed. Port Phillip prison is a sham at the moment and it must be fixed.
- 752: Teen Suicide
- ... adolescent suicide is based on drug abuse. According to Johnston O’Malley, and Bachman, 1997 the percentage of high school senior drug use is currently at an incline. The earlier an adolescent starts to use drugs the more likely they are to progress into "the most severe forms of drug use". This elicit drug use alters the teenagers state of mind and eventually takes control of their life. With this in ... mind, imagine how confused and lost a young person may be if they are a drug user? Out of all teenage suicides as of 1997; drug related suicide alone has tripled from 20% to 60%. Drugs have many effects on teens but the most detrimental of them all would be fatality self- inflicted. Finally, the focus is on Abusive Relationships and how much they effect a growing child’s life. It ...
- 753: Aids 5
- ... is uncertain, but it may have originated in Central Africa. The first AIDS patients in the Americas and Europe were almost exclusively male homosexuals. Later patients included those who used unsterilized intravenous needles to inject drugs; hemophiliacs (persons with a blood-clotting disorder) and others who had received blood transfusions; females whose male sexual partners had AIDS; and the children of parents with AIDS. However since 1989, heterosexual sex was found ... or DDC, became the third approved drug to treat people infected with the AIDS virus. It was, however, approved for use only in combination with AZT to treat adults with advanced HIV infection. Several other drugs and treatments have been approved to treat P. carinii pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma, and other AIDS- related conditions. Several vaccines against AIDS are being developed and tested. Efforts at Prevention Since there is no cure ...
- 754: Calculated Captivity
- ... bits of “ultra violence” and engaging in the old “in-out in-out”. He beats the elderly, fights other gangs with his “britva”, robs stores, breaks into houses, rapes young girls, drinks milk laced with drugs (moloko) and is eventually convicted of murder. Burgess portrays the immature Alex, as a mixture of good and evil possibilities with evil taking the upper hand. As the reader is taken deeper into Alex’s ... all that society deems ‘bad’ - and to provide him with a new artificial conscience. Alex is given injections and is forced to watch films of rape and violence. Through the mixture of these images and drugs, the treatment causes him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. ConsequentlyAlex becomes his own walking prison! He is conditioned by physical sickness to refrain from fulfilling the evil he desires to accomplish ...
- 755: Nature Vs. Nurture
- ... prone biological factors are often brought out through that environment that they live in which leads them to commit a crime is shown through Clifford Boggess. While Boggess’s mother was pregnant she often did drugs, and as Clifford grew up his personality was described as being a little crazy, and he did not act like normal people acted. He craved attention and had a very explosive temper, showing that Clifford had biological factors similar to that of a criminals. As Clifford grew up his mother did drugs had a alcohol problem, and frequently abused them. He was then adopted, but his adopted mother abandoned him when she divorced. Clifford felt he had no real connection with his town, and because of these ...
- 756: Assisted Suicide
- ... 1980. The organization advocated active euthanasia, or aiding the death of a hopelessly ill individual."(Long 76) This society was responsible for several deaths because of their "listing of lethal doses of eighteen commonly prescribed drugs and a manual on suicide, which quickly became a best-seller."(Long 76) Dr. Kervorkian is probably the most famous man in America when it comes to assisted suicide. His cases and his defiance of ... even a friend or family member at times and asks them to help end their life. There are several different ways to assist someone in suicide, you can inject them with a lethal amount of drugs, you can turn off their machines that is helping keep them alive, there have even been cases where the friend has put a bullet in the person's body. The big question in America is ...
- 757: Kevorkian Essay
- ... with grief following his mother's death. Many of Kevorkian's "patients" had options other than death. Janet Adkins, who died on July 4, 1990 at the age of 54 from a lethal dose of drugs, had many other options other than death. She was only in the early stages of Alzheimer's, and her own doctor said she had at least ten years of productive life ahead of her. Janet ... did not want to be a burden on her family, and thought that her death would be a gift to her family. Marjorie Wantz, who died on October 23, 1991 of a lethal dose of drugs, also had many options other than death. Marjorie suffered from pain in her pelvic area. Although doctors believed the pain was manageable, she did not follow their recommendations. Also, Marjorie was taking large doses of ...
- 758: Euthanasia
- ... And as far as experimenting goes, no experimental drug or procedure is forced upon any patient, including the elderly and incompetent. And what do they have to lose anyway? Most don't mind using experimental drugs because it just may be the cure they're looking for. There is nothing "Nazi" about testing drugs and cures in hopes of saving a life. There is no torture or direct result of death. So, in actuality there is no physical agony or pain saved in euthanasia because that's not what ...
- 759: Steroids
- ... illegal drug because all they do is help people gain strength and size. They feel that even though they might cause a few side effects they should be legal because even some over-the-counter drugs cause side effects similar to the side effects of steroids. On other side of this argument is the person who thinks that enhancing a person’s performance by building strength and muscle tissue gives him ... and maintain the female reproduction system. These are also not thought to be addictive. Male sex hormones, or testosterone, lead to the development of male secondary sexual characteristics and maintain the male reproductive system. Testosterone drugs have just recently been thought to be addictive (Anabolic Steroids). As I mentioned before there are two ways to take steroids. Orally in pill form or by injections in to the muscle. Oral steroids are ...
- 760: Drinking And Driving Offences
- ... will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a straight line or pick up objects. The ... from him for 20 years instead of 10 years. BIBLIOGRAPHY Highway Traffic Law, (Copyright January 1986: Community Legal Educ ation Ontario) p.17-32 Government Document, Canada Law Reform Commision Report on Investigative Tests: Aclohol, Drugs, and Driving Offences (1983). Erwin,Richard E. M.Bender ,Defence of Drunk Driving Cases, Crimina l Civil (Albany 1986) p.79-81 Purich, Donald John, Drinking and Driving:What To Do If Your Caught (International ...
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