Drug abuse is defined as "an excessive or improper use of drugs, especially through self-administration for non-medical purposes"(Drug(s), 2008). ... Today, many people, especially the older generation, are visiting multiple doctors for medical conditions in which they suffer - or believe they suffer. ... Retrieved from October 26, 2013 Office of National Drug Control Policy: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/presription-drug-abuse Qiuping Gu, M. ... Prescription Drug Use Continues to Increase: U.S. Prescription Drug Data for 2007-2008. ...

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Block 6 Drug Testing The issue of drug testing in the workplace, and school has become more of a controversy in the last few years as drug use has become a much more important issue. ... Drug use may be down since the 70's but is still on a rise from the early 90's The current reports on illegal drug use have shown that 9.9 percent of youths age 12-17 reported current use of illicit drugs in 1998. ... The implementation of drug testing into high school athletics has lead to controversy involving suspicionless drug testing. ... I also believe in workplace drug testin...

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Yet there are people who want this drug to become a Schedule II drug, which would declare the drug to have current accepted medical use but will still be considered to have a high potential for abuse. ... Some people believe that marijuana should become a Schedule II drug so that it will be available to the sick. ... People believe that it is the safest and most effective medicine that can be used for terminally ill patients. ... Legalizing the drug, especially for medical reasons, will undoubtedly make children believe that it is actually something good for them. ... First of all, this drug i...

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He had to go through rehab to cease his drug use. ... Many people believe that drug testing student athletes violates the Fourth Amendment. ... There is also something called masking drugs. Masking drugs is designed to hide traces of drugs in your blood. ... Most parents do not believe in drug testing either because it is a violation of privacy. ...

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Many have smoked marijuana to experience the drug's psychedelic effects, while others use the drug to treat various illnesses and pain. Within the past century, however, the drug's medicinal value has come under much scrutiny. ... The legalization of this drug for medical purposes can only lead to future drug addiction, negative side effects, and susceptibility to further damage through recreational use. ... With this in mind, it is far more conceivable to force treatment on drug abusers, rather than consenting to their demands by legalizing marijuana, or any other drug. ... Kevin Co...

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In a report from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), Susan Okie, M.D. ... The number of drug-related deaths involving opioids actually tripled from 1999 to 2008" (Mann, 2012, June 29). ... Food and Drug Administration" (FDA) is recommending against continued prescribing and use of the pain reliever propoxyphene because new data show that the drug can cause serious toxicity to the heart, even when used at therapeutic doses" (2010, Nov.19). For thirty-six years doctors prescribed Propoxyphene to patients who believed it was safe because the FDA gave its stamp of approval. ... Indeed, ma...

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Glaucoma sufferers believe that marijuana has prevented them from going blind. ... With marijuana having the lowest addiction rate in comparison to all drugs, and the fact that there has never been a marijuana-related death as far as health is concerned, I believe that these patients truly deserve any benefits derived from the use the drug, even in the absence of scientific proof. ... The Drug Enforcement Agency also believes that if marijuana is legalized as a medicine, then in turn, it will lead to the abuse of other drugs, an increase in drug trafficking, and crime will increase due to a ...

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These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. ... The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legal is because there is no hard-core evidence that proves that marijuana is an effective drug as a medicine. ... The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due to a higher increase of pot users which eventually become addicts and might steal or kill in ord...

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Animal research creates controversy between people who agree with animal research and the people who believe research with animals is cruelty. These opponents include animal- rights extremists and vivisectionist groups who believe that animal experimentation is cruel and unnecessary, irrespective of its purpose and benefits. ... Philosophers believe in the idea of a moral community that is a group with similar traits. ... Also by testing the drug on animals, it helps ensure the safety of the drugs and many other substances that humans use regularly. By viewing the side effects of the drugs the...

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Marijuana along with other alternative drugs can ease ones medicinal problems. ... With marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug it is illegal to conduct research proving the medical value of the drug. ... By legalizing marijuana doctors would have to deal with fraudulent people that would try to make them believe they needed marijuana to make their pain go away when really they would have no pain at all. ... The government could turn around and take away a doctors license to prescribe drugs because they may think that the doctors are corrupt when really the doctors were just fooled into believing that ...

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My Dad's opinion My father believes that these should be some form of national prescription drug insurance but that it can come in many forms. ... The key point here is that he believes prescription drugs should be part of any medical coverage plan just like a doctor or a hospital visits, dental plans, etc. ... Making minimum profit over the life of the drug is a target as opposed to making maximum profit over the just few years that the drug is available. ... The first in that currently people a going into Canada and Mexico to buy their drugs. ... Susan DiScalo's opinion S...

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There are many who believe medicinal marijuana is in fact a beneficial way to cure patients of their aches and pains. ... Stated by Medical Doctor, and former US Senator Bill Frist, "Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's medical benefits" ("Top"). ... "Drugs are addictive. ... A drug user cannot make an informed and rational decision to continue using drugs because t...

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Many benefits and detriments towards one's health can come from the use of this drug or the influence marijuana has on the use of other drugs. ... Many believe that marijuana has proved itself as a beneficial drug in the use of helping a person's health. ... Many physicians believe that the marijuana avenue for relief is such a primitive use of plants instead of the 21st century drugs that are being developed in labs and other places. ... People can tend to share drugs even if they are prescribed and that could lead to putting more of this drug on the streets. ... People may have a...

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This caused certain states to change laws in order to allow marijuana to be used as a drug. ... Marijuana is "believed to be 2 to 3 times more effective as any current medication used for reducing ocular pressure" (Herer). ... There are many people who do not believe in legalizing marijuana. "The prevailing argument against the legalizing of marijuana for medicinal purposes is that marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug by the Federal Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970" ("Pro's"). ... In conclusion, I believe marijuana should be considered for legalizati...

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Many "Educational" and or other health videos in school have you believe that Marijuana is going to ruin your life and leave you brain dead, but there has been no known proof that it has had any long term brain damage to the human brain. ... The AMA also states that the drug is better in your lungs than Tabacco in the way that it does less damage because people smoke it less to get the effects needed. They also say that you still shouldn't smoke it and it would be healthier to ingest the drug. There have also been false reports made on the drug to scare people away from using ...

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He believed in the energy of the compound rather than the ingredient itself. ... Such as, a whopping "100,000 people in the U.S alone, die annually because of adverse reactions to prescription drugs making such drugs the sixth leading cause of death. ... Many people believe that the healing process is merely an illusion. ... , Most of Earths" population believes in God, yet there has been no proof of it. ... However, if you are the type of person that I am, who dislikes the impersonal level of a doctors office, the chill and the side-effects from the various drugs prescribed to you, then I...

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Some people, however, believe that legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes will send children the wrong message. Also, many organizations have formed to eliminate drug use across the country. They believe that marijuana should not be legal in any way and under any circumstances. They think that once cannabis is legal, everyone will get it for illegal reasons and misuse the drug. ... No legal drugs, including the synthetic "marijuana" pill Marinol, helped her situation. ...

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The reclassification is ideal for the fact that the drug schedules are outdated, unscientific, and heavily flawed including legal drugs (Obama Okay with Rescheduling Marijuana). ... He strongly believes that Californians should wait a minimum of two years to see how Colorado and Washington are doing. ... He does not want to see teenagers using cannabis as a gateway drug and be responsible for contributing to the increased drug abuse rate. ... Gavin however believes that it is time for Californians to lead the legalization of cannabis the same way they have led the legalization of medical canna...

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Within the Drugs Misuse Regulation (1987), the legislation is categorised under two types of dangerous drugs: Schedule 1 and Schedule 2. ... If the dangerous drug is specified in Schedule 1, the maximum penalty is life imprisonment whereas for Schedule 2 drugs, the maximum penalty is twenty-five years imprisonment. ... Methadone is an example of a Schedule 2 dangerous drug that is actively used for the rehabilitation of drug-addicts and patients suffering with chronic pain conditions [ CITATION Sar12 l 3081 ]. ... Both parliament leaders believe that amendments need to be made to the Drug Mi...

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Marijuana should be legalized because it has medical benefits for sick patients, it is proven not to be a gateway drug and users under the influence of this drug are not considered a danger to society. ... They usually place this drug in the same category as cocaine, heroine, LSD. ... He along with others feels that "legalizing drugs under a system of control, regulation and taxation might lead to a healthier society." He goes on later in his letter to state, "The U.S. anti-drug effort is an expensive waste. US officials believe we should follow in the path of the law in the Netherlands. ...

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Hippocrates, in this source, states his belief that these rituals do not affect the person or illness in any way because he does not believe that the disease itself is brought on by any sort of divine intervention. ... The "Sacred Disease", like most diseases of the time, he states, is hereditary and can only be cured by drugs. I believe Hippocrates" main point in this is to prove the classic means of curing this disease, magic and purification, as well as the belief that the disease itself is divine, to be false and nothing more than a cover up for the so-called "doctors"" failures and that...

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Every year, millions of animals undergo painful suffering or death as a result of scientific research into the effects of drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other chemical products. ... Since animals share many features with humans, scientists use animals to test the safety and effectiveness of newly developed drugs before testing it on humans. ... Without animal testing many procedures or new drugs would be extremely unsafe and possibly hazardous to us as humans. ... Since there have been so many advances in knowledge and computer technology, they do not believe that every new drug that is ...

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With the recent laws passed in eight states, legalizing medical marijuana many stand divided when it comes to this never ending debate, but I firmly believe that this miracle working drug should be legalized throughout the United States. Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illegal drug. ... China is not the only country to use this drug in early times. ... The Case For Legalizing Drugs Schaler, Jeffrey A. Drugs Zimmer, Lynn, Morgan, John P. ...

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Older drugs were found largely by random science. ... The very first drug was approved in 1982. ... We believe that we need to think about safety before we do the experiments. ... We still believe it is not right to attempt to clone a human because it is inherently unsafe. ... Most of the classical medical ethics issues are applicable to biotechnology drugs. ...

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For example, it is highly likely that doctors may take bribes from healthy patients to prescribe the drug for recreational use. ... In addition, legal marijuana may provide drug dealers with an easy opportunity to escape prosecution for trafficking and dealing drugs. ... The majority of Republicans would respond well to this idea because they believe marijuana should remain illegal. Democrats, including Massachusetts own Barney Frank, would disagree with this approach, for they believe marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes. ...

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