However, caffeine is not only found in coffee, but in tea, soda pop, and chocolate. ... Binge drinking in college students can easily lead to alcohol poising and even death. ... Research indicates that although THC (the psychoactive agents in marijuana) may be found in the blood of some automobile drivers in accidents, also found are high levels of alcohol (Cloud 62 ), making in part, these results inconclusive as to the actual cause. ... The reduction of nausea and vomiting may not be linked to just THC, but also to the other chemicals found primarily in marijuana (Goldberg...

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The opium poppy is a plant found in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and parts of Central and South America. ... Morphine is easily converted to heroin by a chemical process.Currently, heroin has no real medicinal value and is one of the most abused narcotics ever synthesized, being responsible for the destruction of many lives. ... Poppy "both the opium-producing and non-opium-producing varieties "can be found in many different climates all over the world. ... When the plants are mature, the farmers start harvesting opium gum using primitive, unsanitary tools, made from whatever can ...

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Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their issues. One point of view to take is offenders do not have constitutional right to treatment. They committed the crime; they can do the time. On the other hand the view point of balancing prison and jail overcrowding, public policy, the right to fair and equal treatment, and assessing those who can...

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The hemp plant has the highest cannabinoid concentration found in the flowering tops. ... A single dose may be as little as a quarter of a gram, but it can easily cost $25 on the street. ... The deaths made Junior think about his own life and how it could have been he just as easily. ...

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The hemp plant has the highest cannabinoid concentration found in the flowering tops. ... A single dose may be as little as a quarter of a gram, but it can easily cost $25 on the street. ... The deaths made Junior think about his own life and how it could have been he just as easily. ...

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While it is not completely comparable, precedence can be found in the prohibition of alcohol. ... Other evidence in the United States can be found in the vast social experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s. ... Legalization can easily be interpreted as removal of condemnation and equating once-illegal drugs with the harmless legal drugs: alcohol and tobacco. ...

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While it is not completely comparable, precedence can be found in the prohibition of alcohol. ... Other evidence in the United States can be found in the vast social experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s. ... Legalization can easily be interpreted as removal of condemnation and equating once-illegal drugs with the harmless legal drugs: alcohol and tobacco. ...

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Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, such as, compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is considered to be a disease now known as alcohol dependence. Alcoholism (alcohol dependence) is when you have signs of physical addiction and continue to drink, despite...

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This is proven by the number of citizens incarcerated for drug related crimes and offenses, the amount of drug related deaths, surveys and polls taken among teenagers of their drug experimentation and drug use, and how easily drugs have become available on the black market. 5. ... It found that in states where marijuana was more available, hard drug abuse decreased. ...

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"COCAINE AND CRACK What is Cocaine/crack? Cocaine is the most powerful central nerve system stimulant in nature. Cocaine is white powder made from the coca plant in the Andean mountains in South Africa. Thousands of years ago cocaine was used for religious ceremonies. As time went by people who ...

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Lysergic acid deviates were found to relieve migraines and control hemorrhages because it causes veins to contract, but also caused gangrene of the limbs, and so further experimentation with the drug was abandoned. ...

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The Refugee Act of 1980 defines a refugee as a person who cannot return home because of a "well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion" who is not able to seek or receive protection from their country of origin (www.unhcr.org 2014). ...

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Historically, substance abuse has been portrayed to mirror the lower class. It has been regarded as a disease that plagues only a specific group of people. Currently that is no longer the case as high profile celebrities and white collar; well respected upper class people have brought their addicti...

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