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- 91: History of the American Drug War
- ... a licensing law which required sellers to obtain a license if they were going to handle opiates or cocaine. The law contains a provision that nothing in the law would prohibit doctors from prescribing these drugs in the legitimate practice of medicine. The people who wrote the Harrison Act and Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, agreed that a prohibition on what people could put into their bodies was an unconstitutional infringement ... had stated that the AMA was all for it. When the law had passed, the AMA protested, but the law was never repealed. It is difficult to determine how many people in the US use drugs. The Federal Government's Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is the most common set of statistics on the use of drugs. According to the latest surveys, conducted by the DEA, there are about 12.7 million people who have used an illegal drug in the past month, and about 30 - 40 million people who have ...
- 92: Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem
- ... use has begun a serious investigation into its causes, a massive investment of social efforts to contain it, and a mobilization of medical and par- medical resources to treat its victims. Why do people abuse drugs? Many people continually use drugs because they want a pleasurable change in their state of mind. This pleasurable change may range from a mild lift to an increased psychoactive effect. People use such drugs as alcohol and weed to gain a sense of well- being. A number of people start to experiment with drugs out of curiosity, for the thrill, as an expression of rebellion, or because their ...
- 93: Illegal Drugs
- Goals - In order to solve the problem of drugs in this country, supporters want to inplement programs by stepping up enforcement of already existing drug laws and enforcing new ones. The war on drugs, should eventually become a responsibility shared by the federal, state, and local governments, along with every citizen of this country. This approach wants to eradicate drugs completely from the United States. Strategies - The first thing that should be done using this approach, is to strengthen criminal laws so that law enforcement officials can do the job they've been hired ...
- 94: Illegal Drugs
- Goals - In order to solve the problem of drugs in this country, supporters want to inplement programs by stepping up enforcement of already existing drug laws and enforcing new ones. The war on drugs, should eventually become a responsibility shared by the federal, state, and local governments, along with every citizen of this country. This approach wants to eradicate drugs completely from the United States. Strategies - The first thing that should be done using this approach, is to strengthen criminal laws so that law enforcement officials can do the job they've been hired ...
- 95: Decriminalization vs. Prohibition
- Decriminalization vs. Prohibition The idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugs by the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavy costs while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive. I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some of my friends that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to get high with them. At the time, I didn't ... a crazed addict, who would stop at nothing to get a hit. I was not going to be dodging the law my whole life. I was going to be everything I wanted to be, and drugs were definitely not going to get in the way. I promised myself I would not end up like Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, both found dead after overdoses, because I had the power to ...
- 96: Legalization of Drugs
- Legalization of Drugs It is clear that most of the serious problems the public associates with illegal drug use are, in reality, caused directly or indirectly by drug prohibition. Let's assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The day after legalization goes into effect, the streets of America will be safer. The American citizens will no longer have to worry ... their community. One year after legalization, 1,600 innocent people who would otherwise have been dead at the hands of drug criminals will be alive. In many cities, half or more of arrests are for drugs or related crimes. Within days of legalization, thousands of judges, prosecutors, and police will be free to catch, try, and imprison violent criminals, criminals who commit 50 to 100 serious crimes, including robbery, rape, ...
- 97: Warner-Lambert
- ... CPI) measures price change from the purchaser's perspective. The Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers rose 0.2 percent in October, following no change in September. The index for medical care commodities -- prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs and medical supplies increased 0.1% during October. The Producer Price Index is a group of indexes that measures the aggregate changes over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and ... a measure of price change from the perspective of the seller. The PPI for prescription pharmaceutical increased 22.3% during the period of July 1997 to July 1997. During January 1997-1998 the overall prescription drugs index rose 3%, the rest of the increase was attributed to a drastic rise in psychotherapeutics. This drastic increase also effected the aggregate PPI by 0.3%. Introduction: Warner-Lamberts principal line of ...
- 98: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- The Push For Legalizing Marijuana Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us - users and non-users. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. After 130 years of being legal, ...
- 99: Anabolic Steroids Just The Facts
- ANABOLIC STEROIDS JUST THE FACTS Report #5 - 6/28/00 Anabolic steroids are widely abused drugs that promote protein synthesis and decrease protein catabolism in muscle cells. They have been also called performance enhancing drugs because of their ability to dramatically aid the increase of strength, endurance and recovery in athletes. Recent statistics report that over 3 million athletes and bodybuilders in this country alone have used anabolic steroids. A recent Sports Illustrated article has stated that 90% of professional athletes have taken some form of illegal performance enhancing drugs. This is amidst a vast array of scare tactics, steroid testing, new anti anabolic steroid legislation, and education programs which have been designed to directly put an end to their usage. The efforts that ...
- 100: Marijuana
- ... 1). It is the second most popular drug among teens in the US (Encarta, 1). Teens, ages 12-17, that use marijuana weekly are nine times more likely than non-users to experience with illegal drugs and alcohol (Fed. Study, 1). More 13 & 14 year olds are using drugs, fifteen percent of them use marijuana (Teen Addiction, 63). From 1991-1997 the number of eight grader teens using marijuana went from 11% to 28%(Teen Detox, 1). About fifty-seven percent of the young people in the US have used drugs before they graduate from high school (War on Drugs, 116). One Million teenagers start smoking and doing drugs each year, 3,000 a day, despite the fact they arent old enough to purchase ...
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