Crack is another type of cocaine. ... The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of selected steroids for treating specific types of anemia, some breast cancers, osteoporosis, endometriosis, and hereditary angioedema, a rare disease involving the swelling of some parts of the body. ... Furthermore, athletes often take more than one type of steroid at a time, a practice known as "stacking." ... This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). ... Professional athletes often have more mon...

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Crack is another type of cocaine. ... The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of selected steroids for treating specific types of anemia, some breast cancers, osteoporosis, endometriosis, and hereditary angioedema, a rare disease involving the swelling of some parts of the body. ... Furthermore, athletes often take more than one type of steroid at a time, a practice known as "stacking." ... This has been demonstrated in laboratory tests where monkeys starved themselves to death so as to keep getting cocaine (Worsnop 50). ... Professional athletes often have more mon...

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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 60 percent of voters favor providing treatment rather than prison time for people convicted of drug possession or selling small amounts of drugs (Hart 2002). ... Arizona's Proposition 200, passed in 1996, remains...

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Lysergic Acid Diathylamide (LSD) was first made in 1938 by a chemist in Switzerland named Albert Hoffman whom first tested it on animals. ... After testing it under a controlled substance, he later noted that it brought forth fear and disorganization. ... In a study of four artists that were given LSD, they concluded that the lines and colors were less controlled and more free, and the drawings seemed to be more imaginative and to have greater esthetic value (Barber, 53). ... Hoffman then sent LSD around the world to be tested and investigated to find medical uses. ...

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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. ... Contrary to a 1987 television commercial sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), marijuana does not "flatten" brain waves either. ...

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In fact suggests Senge (1990), positive ramifications are not limited to the internal workings of a system, events can occur internal to a system that can have an impact external to the organization, institution, or type of entity. ... The partnership between Oriana House and the local and state authorities have allowed innovative programs to develop such as in-home incarceration, drug testing taking place at the center, and bail supervision, which dramatically reduced local jail overcrowding. ...

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"Hey let me bum a cigarette. Hey share the wealth, I need more alcohol." Teens today are having many problems dealing with drugs. Teenagers get influence by ads in magazines, ads on TV, people pressuring them, and from everyday life. Drugs and Alcohol does not help anything in the world. When teens ...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel tha...

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