These important people in society are responsible to transport people to different places. ... Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) helps people facing emotional, health, financial or substance abuse problems that can affect job performance. ... The idea of drug testing employees has good reasons. If employees are explained the reasons for testing and random testing to done fairly, I think not too many people would find a problem with it. ... Drug companies that do not test will go bust. ...

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The other side maintains that drug testing for welfare would be a positive change because some people believe that it would be in the best interest of the children who have parents who are using drugs, others think that drug testing welfare recipients would ensure them to use the welfare for a temporary time and get themselves back to the working field, and drug testing would give welfare to the people who really need it, rather than abusing our system. The people who oppose drug testing for welfare think that it is a violation of the 4th amendment; because it clearly states that you need pro...

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October 30, 2002 Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients In November 1999 the state of Michigan became the first state in the United States to execute a program of random drug testing for welfare recipients. Under this program, people who test positive for drug usage will be required to enter a treatment program in order to receive Family Independence Assistance benefits; those who refuse to take the required drug test or refuse treatment will be denied Family Independence Assistance benefits. Mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients has been debated for quite some time. ... People who us...

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The belief that drug testing welfare recipients would reduce the amount of people on welfare and save tax dollars is a wise idea. ... " The word welfare means different things to different people. ... Mandatory drug testing is a way to deter drug use and lower the number of people abusing the welfare system. ... Conversely, other claims state that since welfare is "earned" government aid for which people apply and are approved, that drug testing does not violate constitutional rights, especially if individuals at the time of application understand and accept drug testing as a c...

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People who wish to spend the 'experience' or the high thinking about their personal problems also use ecstasy. ... Regardless of what Ecstasy looks like, you cannot determine its contents without running a test on it. Ecstasy testing kits are portable and discreet testing kits, which are quick, easy to use, relatively simple, and inexpensive products that allow people to test unknown pills to help determine their contents. ... Ecstasy testing kits cost around thirty dollars and consist of enough solution for 150 tests (which comes in a child-safe bottle), comes with a scraper, a colo...

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Amongst the people that have scientifically investigated this particular drug, it has been suggested that it will take many years to understand its effects. ... All patients were given test in regards to memory, behavioral memory and planning abilities. To determine the statistical differences between the patients the Chi-Square test, the Student-T test and the Non-Parametric Mann-Whitney tests were used. ... All people that contacted the researches where interviewed to see if they met the criteria to be able to do the study (Topp et al, 1999). ... What this means is that they informed people ...

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Whether providing criminal penalties for illegal steroid use is the proper and most effective way of dealing with the "steroid problem" has been debated for quite some time, but the Control Act has been found to deter trafficking, protects young people, and preserves fair competition in sports. ... Still the most effective way to remove anabolic steroids from competitive sports is through systematic drug testing. Athletes who fail the steroid test will be prohibited from competing. While testing for anabolic steroids is not perfect, it does remove, or at least identified steroid-users in th...

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However, not all athletes are tested for taking high performance enhancing drugs and many athletes feel extremely unhappy, confused and disadvantaged due to this. ... This provides the foundation for fair play, enjoyment, personal satisfaction, and admiration from the younger people of Australia who are encouraged to look up to our sporting heroes and possibly follow in their footsteps. ... If drug testing stopped, or if drugs were allowed to enhance an athlete's ability, it would create a negative effect on society due to a "fake" competition, taking the fun and excitement from...

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The United States now incarcerates more than 450,000 people for nonviolent drug offenses - more than the entire European Union (with roughly 100 million more people) incarcerates for all criminal offenses combined. ... Additionally, tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of non-drug offenders on probation or parole are imprisoned or re-imprisoned each year for nothing more than testing positive for drug use or an arrest for simple drug possession (Brownsberger, Aromaa 2001) Treatment has broad and growing public support and a recent survey by Peter Hart Research Associates found that more than...

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People who are against SEPs argue that the threat of arrest and lack of needle resources will motivate users to quit. ... At any given exchange center you will find HIV and STD testing on site, HIV/AIDS education and counseling, condom distribution, Drug Rehabilitation access in addition to safe disposal of used syringes. ... By reducing the number of infections in the most vulnerable population we can reduce the number of deaths, help IUDs get testing and treatment as well as reducing the overall health costs associated with infected persons in the population....

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So with continued use of drinking, kids performance level in school on tests will start to decline due to many effects that alcohol has on different regions of the brain. ... Tapert found a noticeable gender difference in the brain, she says, "For girls who had been engaging in heavy drinking during adolescence, it looks like they're performing more poorly on tests of spatial functioning . . ." However Tapert "For boys who engaged in heavy drinking during adolescence, we see poor performance on tests of attention . . .... The hippocampus is what was affected in the longit...

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Perhaps the greatest danger posed by psilocybin as a mycotoxin is that people hunting for mushrooms, may find themselves consuming something different and a lot more dangerous. ... Many people actually find that their desire to use mushrooms goes down for a period of time after use. ... The detection period for psilocin in the urine is unknown although it is usually not tested for in standard drug tests. ...

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He counters that argument by saying that the nauseous sensations that patients feel are almost impossible to measure in experiments; that what is the far more important than mere test results is whether the patients feel relief when using the substance. ... According to him this is what the people of this country as a majority want to happen. To back this up he states that the people of Arizona and California have already approved legislature to this affect. Yet, because the DEA has continually dismissed the wishes of the people and has rejected all requests to reschedule the drug, he belie...

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When people are smoking marijuana together, its easier for them to bond and find things in common, just as when people are drinking men find it easier to talk to women and dance with them. ... In fact, according to animal testing, forty thousand times as much THC as you need to get high would have to be consumed to overdose. ... However for people with sound health, there is no cardiovascular risk. ... What actually shows up on the tests days later is a fat soluble metabolite that is a by product of the breakdown of THC. ... People who do hard drugs would do hard drugs whether pot existed or n...

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Most everyone thinks of racial discrimination first and foremost, but there are many other "categories" by which people are judged upon. ... Because of these startling figures, many businesses have set up drug policies and some even have their employees take random drug tests. ... It wasn't until the early 1990's that people began to file law suits against their harassers. ...

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The RAVE Act puts clubs and concert venues under the threat of prosecution if they allow organizations such as Dance Safe to provide drug testing for users to verify what they are about to ingest or to provide more basic interventions such as providing chill rooms where users can avoid hyperthermia from the body temperature raising effects of club drugs such as MDMA (Poindexter 2015). ... Crack cocaine is predominantly used by African Americans whereas powder cocaine is more commonly used by white people (Conyers 2013). ...

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These include: the institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Bar Association; American Public Health Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; AIDS Action Council; British Medical Association; California Academy of Family Physicians; California Legislative Council for Older Americans; California Medical Association; California Nurses Association; California Pharmacists Association; California Society of Addiction Medicine; California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church; Colorado Nurses Association; Consumer Reports Magazine; Kais...

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But there are some researchers that believe that people who have been sexually abused as a child may need more than treatment depression or substance abuse. They also believe that these people may need psychological or pharmacological interventions. ... Researches also tested their theories of drug dependence, depression and alcohol abuse. ... One of the top reasons that people who are abused as a child turn to substances is because they can't find a positive outlet. ... But this research does not prove that people who are sexually abused as a child have to be depressed or dependent of...

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Drug prohibition removes the possibility of resolving drug disputes through a legal process and leaves people to their own violence oriented solutions. ... It would reduce drug prices and hence make it un-necessary for people to steal or resort to theft in order to buy drugs. ... The war on drugs has led to what people often refer to as the "war on drugs exception to the bill of rights." ... The war on drugs also permits and encourages random drug testing without probable cause. ... Prices will go down, drug related crime will dissipate, people will be able to seek the medical attention th...

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According to Ron Kadden, "A lot of people think it's not addictive. ... The Director at Haight-Ashbury Detox Center, Darry Inaba, asserts: The main problem we"re dealing with today is that today's potent form of marijuana is causing a lot more problems than we saw in the 1960s...by the late "80s, we started seeing people coming in, everyone of them on their own volition saying, "Help me, I want to stop smoking pot. ... So many who claim that marijuana is harmless have to sit down and listen to those people who are the wounded, what we call the walking wounded or the casualties from m...

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In our Transportation program we work with helping people commute to work, and group travel. ... Also we work with Greyhound bus agents as a shuttle bus to people in rural areas. ... Drug testing is required prior to employment. ...

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Prohibitionists rejected the idea that people could be trusted to drink in moderation, arguing that alcohol use inevitably led to moral corruption and undesirable behavior. ... Tests performed on mice have shown that the ratio of cannabinoids (the chemicals in marijuana that make you stoned) necessary for overdose to the amount necessary for intoxication is 40,000:1. ... Adding the jail and prison estimates gives a total of 59,300 people incarcerated for marijuana offenses. Using the adjusted estimates for "marijuana only" gives a jail-plus-prison total of 37,500 people incarcerated for mariju...

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While people in Hawaii continue to have fun using this drug, they don't know the other potential side effects of what this harmful drug can do to their body. ... But of course, people in Hawaii are taking advantage of recent changes in Hawaii's laws and using marijuana for recreational purposes. ... Growers had hired people, with guns, to protect their crops. ... People out hiking were also shot at. ... People who smoke marijuana are two to five times more likely to move on to harder drugs. ...

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In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a steadily increasing number of our people." ... Moreover, because everything in history cannot be tested for its falsifiability, you must view everything within a critical lens....

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When people think of addiction they often think of alcohol or drugs. ... The question of whether or not gambling can be classified as an addictive disorder has been debated for years, but the DSM adopted gambling in its third edition with little testing and based it off of very limited clinical experience. ...

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