Alternative To the War on Drugs The illegal usage of drugs is very prevalent in our country today. The problem has gotten so severe, that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. ... Drug decriminalization would also lead to a decrease in drug related crime. ... It would move an underground economy to a legitimate economy, and provide a safe means for the buying and selling of drugs - taking the power back from professional criminals who now control the drug trade. ... To try to achieve this goal through prohibition merely puts control of a substance that can be pot...

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The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 70-80% of the common diseases killing Americans are preventable given a responsible diet and lifestyle. Drug testing on animals is inaccurate and does not benefit humans or animals at all. ... According to the General Accounting Office, more than half of the prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration between 1976 and 1985 caused serious side effects that later caused the drugs to be either re-labeled or removed from the market. ... The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 70-80% of the common diseases killing Americans are...

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("The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention: Depression ", 2013). ... They also use some medications that are normally uses as blood pressure treatment to control certain symptoms. ... In an editorial in 2002 John Walters, the administrator of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Stated, "Smoked marijuana damages the brain, heart, lungs, and immune system. ... Unlike cigarette smokers, most users do not take the drug on a daily basis, and usually abandon it in their twenties or thirties. ... Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day."...

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Why is a drug that has so many beneficial uses illegal? ... It is sad to think that a legal drug like alcohol, the drug of choice for most teens, causes so many fatalities on our highways each year, yet marijuana is the drug that is illegal. ... Marijuana is commonly used for controlling nausea and vomiting in cancer and AIDS patients that are being treated with chemotherapy or AZT. ... One way of controlling the nausea is to smoke marijuana, but the problem is that it is illegal. ... Marijuana helps control the eye pressure and keeps glaucoma from leading to blindness. ...

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Drug trafficking and crime in downtown Vancouver hadn't increased, nor had relapses by drug addicts, while lives had been saved.... One of the biggest diseases resulting from injection drugs is AIDS. ... The main purpose of safe injection sites is for users of injection drugs to have a safe place to do their drugs instead of doing it in an unsafe, unhygienic and public place. ... Safe Injection Sites save lives, by exchanging needles and syringes the reduction of drug related harms will reduce the number of deaths that occur, control the spread of diseases and offer other services to peop...

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He started to say that it is a great thing for the schools to be teaching the kids about marijuana since it is a very deadly drug. ... Marijuana has never been proven to lead to the use of harder drugs. ... One thing that has led to marijuana being classified as a gateway drug is the way the studies are conducted. ... The government should change marijuana's status from that of a Schedule 1 drug (considered to be potentially addictive and with no current medical use) to that of a Schedule 2 drug (potentially addictive but with some accepted medical use) and regulate it accordingly" (Ka...

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Today, marijuana is used fro a recreational drug. ... When taking into consideration the fact that marijuana is a mind-altering drug, the risk also arises that the person using this drug may be a hazard to others. ... First, marijuana is one of the most common recreational drugs. ... As with any controlled substance, there is a risk of abuse when it is prescribed. ... As with almost any drug, there are health risks involved. ...

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Since this time, performance enhancing drugs have been a hot topic for debate. ... Steroids like many other drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and nicotine is addictive. ... This argument holds water but if people are so concerned with protecting the athlete from harmful drugs then other drugs should be banned against athletes. Legal drugs such as alcohol then should be banned because they are harmful to the athletes health. ... Another drug that is harmful to the body that is not illegal is cigarettes which damages the lungs. ...

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These factors include unprotected sex, sexual contact with multiple partners, a history of STIs, abusing alcohol or using recreational drugs, injecting drugs and being an adolescent female. ... A person can have an STI transmitted to them from items such as needles from body piercings and tattoos, or injecting drugs into the system. ... A person can take control and avoid sexually transmitted infections in quite a few ways. ... Also, being under the influence of drugs or alcohol can increase your risk of exposure because judgment can be clouded during this time. ... Controlling the spread of S...

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Enabling viral genes can now control the host cell's process. ... If the drug AZT is taken during pregnancy, the chance of transmitting HIV to the baby is significanltly reduced. ... The use of Triple drug therapy also known as "cocktail" therapy has seen a 46% decline in AIDS related deaths.(6) Using this therapy, HIV infected mothers have given birth to uninfected infants. ... This therapy is a multi-drug therapy and consists of a drug called a protease inhibitor along with two other drugs, which are reverse transcriptase inhibitors. ... One or two lapses in treatment may cause the...

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The government has not yet approved the drug called Tipranavir and thus may not appear on pharmacy shelves for two or more years. Physicians conclude Tipranavir has proven to be effective in individual HIV/AIDS patients during the drug trial testing. ... Those drugs keep the virus at low or imperceptible levels in the blood. ... Drug abuse is a very widespread problem all over the world. ... Specially trained counselors help drug abusing HIV/AIDS patients as well as patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. ...

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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) hijacks the natural defense system of body, and can lead to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). ... Exchange of used needles by intravenous drug users, blood transfusions, unsafe sex, needles used for tattoos and body piercing are also modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS. ... According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 1.2 million individuals are suffering with HIV/AIDS in the United States, and 14% of them are not aware that they are infected. ... Altho...

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According to Joseph Califano, former United States secretary of health, "drinking and doing drugs often leads young people to engage in more sexual activity than they intended to partake in, and more importantly, to unprotected sex." ... According to a random survey, done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, of 1,200 adolescents and young adults, (ages 13 to 24) "29 percent of sexually active 15-24 year olds say they have "done more" sexually than they had planned while drinking or using drugs," additionally, "74 percent say their peers "often do not use condoms when they are drinking or using dru...

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Some do drugs, others deal drugs, but many engage in sex. ... In a study preformed it showed that among "the first time teenage parents on welfare, over one-fourth had never used birth control prior to having the first child". (The Cause Of High Birth Rate p88) there are many forms of birth control they can choose from such as the pill, the shot, condoms, spermacide, etc. ... In the beginning society accepted it now that it is out of control they want to condemn it but it is a little because too many teenagers are engaging in sex and they think it's alright because that is what society ...

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Due to this fact condoms became a form of not only birth control but also disease control. ... They were impregnated with antimicrobial drugs that would kill many sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. ... Of those 29, 18 said they use drugs intravenously and 11 were HIV positive (Sanders 23). ... Prior to 1987 and the increased regulation of the condom manufacturers, the FDA only certified the condom for birth control and bacterially sexually transmitted disease (Willis 33). ... ; "I didn't think I"d ever sleep with somebody who was bisexual or did drugs I was too good (Sudo 12...

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Due to this fact condoms became a form of not only birth control but also disease control. ... They were impregnated with antimicrobial drugs that would kill many sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. ... Of those 29, 18 said they use drugs intravenously and 11 were HIV positive (Sanders 23). ... Prior to 1987 and the increased regulation of the condom manufacturers, the FDA only certified the condom for birth control and bacterially sexually transmitted disease (Willis 33). ... ; "I didn't think I"d ever sleep with somebody who was bisexual or did drugs I was too good (Sudo 12...

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This will be used to see if correlations between tattoos, crime, drugs, and alcohol are relevant. ... HIV is commonly spread when "injection drug users" (IDUs) use medical syringes to inject their drugs. ... "According to CDC(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) no cases of HIV transmission through tattooing have been confirmed in the United States since tracking began in 1985"(Brown 5). ... The FDA ( Food and Drug Administrion) currently has no role in regulating the ink used for tattoos. ... During the course of questioning it became clear that we would not be able to analyze...

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The three most common ways to transfer HIV are through sexual contact, perinatal exposure, and intravenous drug use. ... Behavior is a risk factor and some common risks associated with that are having unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has HIV, having multiple sex partners, having sex with a IV drug user, sharing needles, syringes, or anything used to inject drugs into an HIV infected person, or using needles for piecing or tattooing that are not sterile (WebMD, 2014). ... Management The management of HIV is the use of antiretroviral drugs in the attempt to control HIV. Th...

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Cohen (2013) stated that development of many antiretroviral drugs has made HIV infection a treatable chronic disease. ... Post exposure prophylaxis, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and reduction of contagion of people who infected by HIV to their sex partners are the three ways in which these drugs can be deployed. ... Other way of prevention from infected by Genital Herpes are the treatment of vaccination, self-control or self-motivate on the must of using sexual prevention aid such as condom, and the use of long-standing, daily antiviral treatment. ... Sharing syringe needles, mostly among drug ad...

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To control the spread of AIDS, the economy needs to improve so that migration and prostitution are not necessary and so that everyone receives necessary health care. ... In addition, pharmaceutical companies are eager to provide cheap drugs for AIDS patients. Global mobilization is underway to combat AIDS by developing life-saving drugs, strengthening health care of developing nations, establishing prevention programs, and developing AIDS programs at community levels. ... AIDS costs the economy, not only in loss of workers, but also in the increase costs for medical care and drugs. ...

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The Center for Disease Control & Prevention states that 1 in 4 new HIV infections occur in youth ages 13 to 24 years old in 2012 and that 12,000 youth in 2010 were infected with the virus ("HIV Among Youth in the US" 1). ... From barrier methods, such as contraceptive sponges, a diaphragm, and a female or male condom, to hormonal methods such the patch, injection, or the pill, and lastly implantable devices which are surgically inserted to avoid pregnancy ("Birth Control Methods" 1-5). ... Abstinent only programs teach the youth that waiting for sex is a positive and health...

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Aside from disease stage and therapeutic interventions, important variables such as social support and control and coping strategies can potentially impact the quality of life of the HIV/AIDS patient. ... The cost of life-sustaining drugs alone can be staggering. ... New drugs and extensive research have transformed the disease and people are living longer. ...

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Several of the teens admitted that they were lonely, they lacked self-esteem, peer pressure, absent parents, single mothers, sexual and physical abuse, drugs, and a lack of a father figure. ... Males, author of The Scapegoat Generations, he cites a depressed wartime birthrate, the postwar baby boom, the sexual revolution based in part on the widespread use of the birth control pill and the legalization of abortion and the increase in divorce and unwed births, and the steady decrease in the age of puberty. ... One-third of 15 year olds reported that their parents never talked to them about sex...

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Then goes on to add if sex is going to be "something you can't stop kids from doing" so is smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and shooting guns. ... It seems that he believes that the farther our society breaks away from the older ways of life the more chaotic and out of control we are becoming. ...

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It is said that over 600,000 who are infected with the disease, and only ½ are reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ... There are treatments to cure gonorrhea but they are becoming less effective do to new drug resistant strains of the diseases. ...

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