Also located in local drug stores are optional natural supplements than can be used as a safe alternative to restricted drugs. ... There are healthier alternatives such as creatine and protein. ... My personal experience with performance enhancing drugs started back when I was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. ... Eventually by the end of my junior year in high school, I found that using wasn't such a good idea, when I put my best friend in the hospital. ... There may be a healthier and legal alternative. ...

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(Drug abuse resistance education) witch have been taught in both public and private schools. ... Three alternative solutions for this problem can be considered. ... Teens spend more time at school then at home; therefore, they see more of what goes on at school than at hoe. ... It's no crime to have random drug tests at schools or at the work place. ...

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It seems that high school and college basketball players have not been doing a very good job of setting this example. A record 37 underclassmen, plus three high school students, made themselves available for the recent National Basketball Association draft, adding to the growing concern of many that more and more young men, particularly black men, will abandon educational pursuits for hoop dreams. ... Ike Reese said, " We go to school just like they do. ... "Fighting, taunting ,and trash-talking among the pro and college players, shown repeatedly on television, lead to similar actions in footb...

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Anti-drug programs have popped up wherever school children are present, and one is asked for identification when buying alcohol or tobacco products if they look even remotely close to the age limit. ... Finally, a successful alternative to combating specific drugs in specific areas must be implemented. ...

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Department of Agriculture's 1992 yearbook of agriculture, it states: "it's important for America to lead in the research and development of alternative uses for agricultural products." ... In a 1986 article in the pharmacological review, Leo Hollister of the Stanford University School of Medicine said that: "Compared with other licit social drugs, such as alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, marijuana does not pose greater risks." ...

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In this case it is necessary to re-evaluate the situation and explore any alternatives that may offer a more fathomable solution. ... These circumstances then encourage children and teenagers in these poor neighborhoods to neglect or totally drop out of school, which leaves a mass group of people uneducated, unskilled, and committing crime. ...

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(4) Sandra Lacar, executive director of the Coalition for a Drug Free Hawaii says, "The legalization of marijuana as a medicine and the abandonment of our science-based FDA testing and approval process are irresponsible as long as proven, positive alternative treatments are in place... And the Department of Education Children survey conducted at all schools in the state showed 25% of all 11th graders had used marijuana in the previous 30 days...

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Why do drugs like cocaine and steroids that you can get in trouble for when you can eat some wheaties or take an alternative substance that you cannot get in trouble for? ... Tens of thousands of these people who use them are males who graduate out of high school. ...

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Rather than supporting the 'zero tolerance' message that they are most likely receiving from home and currently in school, NEPs send the message 'if you do decide to take drugs, we'll help you with clean needles''(5). ...

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Whereas ingesting marijuana is a common practice in the Middle East as with the drink "bhang", or even when people bake the drug into their food, one has a safe alternative to smoking with marijuana. ...

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I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. ... The term "therapeutic community" has been used in many different forms of treatment, including residential group homes and special schools, and different conditions, like mental illness, alcoholism, and drug abuse (Lipton 1998, pp.106-109). ...

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