Americans like looking for the easy way out or a quick fix. A performance enhancer or weight loss supplement can offer this. Most companies know this and advertise dramatic weight loss or improved performance in a bottle. Along with the advertisement there is a picture of a person who was overweight and out of shape and thirty days later the same person is muscular and lean. Such result is unlikely for the normal 9 to 5 person, with a family or who is attending school. With the mind set that people need to lose weight, even if it is a measly five pounds, people want to lose weight as fast as they can. With this, there are to many miracle weight loss supplements advertising dramatic weight loss results. However in many of these advertisements they forget to mention the harmful side affects to the body. .
On television or in a magazine they are everywhere, those infomercials or 3 page advertisements claming their product can change a person's life in a months time. These products claim to be all natural and to be used as a dietary supplement. But what does dietary supplement mean. One would think that this would be a pill for a meal replacement or a supplement that aids the diet into losing weight. Not so, the Dietary Supplement Health an Education Act of 1994 defines it as "any product except tobacco, that contains at least a vitamin, mineral, an herb or amino acid". This act also limited the power of the FDA by not allowing them to test these supplements as long as the products contained one of the aforementioned. This makes it very easy for the manufacturers to put out a product and sell it.
Consumers tend to think that the FDA regulates dietary supplements and these products are safe and effective. Consumers would also expect these products to be truthfully advertised; this could not be further from the truth. As stated in an article by Stephen Barret, M.D., these products are exempt from being tested because a drug is "intended for use in the diagnosis, cure mutation, treatment, or prevention of disease, and articles intended to affect the structure or function of the body".
Crack Cocaine I have decided to write my research paper about the addiction and abuse of Crack cocaine. ... (NIDA) The most common country for crack cocaine is the country of Columbia. ... Also known as crack. ... Crack cocaine rocks have a light type of white. ... The numbers for reported deaths each year went down compared to 1985, where there have been almost twelve million cocaine users and 700 deaths....
The critics view is that this law is discriminative to African Americans because African American drug dealers prefer crack to powder cocaine, therefore causing harsher penalties for African Americans who deal crack and Caucasian Americans who deal cocaine. ... They both impose a huge decay in our society, the site of a crack head living in a run down abandoned house because they can not afford even a roof over their heads because of the scientifically proven addiction to these drugs which takes away most of their money. ... The penalty difference between powder and crack can be directly rel...
This means that they can usually hold down a job and do not drink until they are home or off work for the day and usually drink more on the weekends. ... Crack cocaine is a form of cocaine that is smoked. The color of crack cocaine varies and depends upon how it is made. ... Crack cocaine can be bought in small quantities that cost from $20 - $100. ... Crack cocaine addicts have to want to be put into an inpatient addiction facility to get off the drug. ...
A recent study showed that crack cocaine penalties are far more severe than powdered cocaine penalties. ... Isn't crack cocaine cheaper to make, so wouldn't the criminal justice system try to crack down on powdered cocaine instead? Studies showed that 92.6% of blacks that get caught with either crack cocaine or powdered cocaine get caught with crack cocaine. And 45.2% of whites that get caught with either crack cocaine or powdered cocaine get caught with powdered cocaine. ...
When eye contact was made the man turned and walked away down an alley, the police pursued and stopped and searched the suspect. During the pat down search to be sure the accused had no weapons, an officer felt a lump in the man's jacket pocket. He removed it and discovered it was a piece of crack cocaine. ... They held: (1) a police officer may seize non threatening contraband detected during a pat down search as long as the officer's search is strictly limited to that which is necessary for the discovery of weapons, but (2) in this case the Fourth Amendment did not permit the seizu...
"COCAINE AND CRACK What is Cocaine/crack? ... Crack is smokable. ... Some of the consequences of taking crack and cocaine include: Problems in the blood vessels, including heart attack, heart failure and irregular heart beat. ... They cause your heartbeat to slow down; blood vessels start relaxing and lowering blood pressure. It slows down the work of the muscles that control breathing. ...
She tried to make them understand that the biases among the different cultures were tearing down the history and heritage of their community. ... In Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, there was a huge constraint by the borderline that was drawn up as a result of the Partition. ...
Well in Falling Down, William Foster (expertly played by Michael Douglas) does just that. ... When the entire restaurant is paralyzed in fear of the machine gun held above his head, he cracks jokes, to the amusement of noone. ... He makes it quite clear that he has done all he can trying to live a normal, rational life, and since losing all the things once anchoring him down (his family, his job, sense of self-worth), he find that it's much easier to be pushed to the brink. ... A fine job of directing by Joel Schumaker, this movie strikes a nerve deep within the audience and raises th...
Sure it has not gone down as much as we would like it to. ... Violent crimes will go down if drugs are legalized. ... When an addict is high on crack, he or she can become extremely violent and will do anything to get more crack. ... Someone addicted to legal crack will be just as messed up as those addicted to illegal crack today. ... If you take crack cocaine, you will desire more of it. ...