...Drug use in the United States is a growing problem. It is important for businesses to have an understanding of the types of drugs that are available. This guide will give an overview of stimulants, depressants, opiates, hallucinogens, and cannabis. Stimulants Meth is a highly addictive stimulant that can cause severe damage to the body and brain. Meth has many street names, such as, ice, crank, crystal, glass, and speed. Most of these names are derived from the way it looks. It appears as crystals. Meth can be taken by snorting, smoking, injecting, or by dissolving it in water or alcohol. According to "National Institute on Drug Abuse" (2010), “Methamphetamine’s ability to release dopamine rapidly in reward regions of the brain produces the intense euphoria, or “rush,” that many users feel after snorting, smoking, or injecting the drug.” This aids to the addiction process. For those that chronically abuse methamphetamines, their brain will undergo changes in the way it functions. These changes include both cognitive, emotional and memory issues. The side effects associated with taking meth include increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and hyperthermia ("National Institute on Drug Abuse", 2010). Long term meth use can lead to extreme weight loss, severe dental problems (“meth mouth”), anxiety, confusion, insomnia, mood disturbances...
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...Running head: DRUG PROFILE PAPER Drug Profile Paper Sherita Brown Axia College of UOP Drug Profile Paper In this paper I will examine abused substances and their various effects; I will also explain the psychology and Physiology of drug addiction. Addiction begins as a high, as an illusion of being in control, but it eventually turns on the individual. The results are pathological relationships to a mood altering experience that brings negative, life destructive consequences. People become addicted to drugs due to a combination of factors. For example, genetic factors: some people may inherit a vulnerability to the addictive properties of drugs, meaning that the risk of substance use disorders is higher for individuals who have close relatives with substance abuse disorders (www.drugpolicy.org). The environment is another factor, for example, the home; neighborhood or community where people live has an influence on whether or not an individual develops a substance abuse problem. Additionally, research shows that more than half of people with substance problems also have mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. We can become addicted to anything that alters the consciousness and alters the mood. Psychological characteristics of an addict are more impulsive and more lacking in impulse control, they are inclined to act in accordance with their mood of the moment and tend not to plan for the future. The most common illegal stimulant is cocaine and...
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... page 4 a) Structure b) Costs c) Demand d) Competition- The Rise of the Generics e) Market Failure, Government Intervention and Price 4) Performance page 7 5) Impact of the Global Economic Downturn page 9 6) Summary page 10 7) Conclusion page 11 Bibliography page 12 8) 1. Introduction This paper briefly examines the current state of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the economic characteristics, performance, and the impact of the global recession. The industry is made up of several enterprises engaging in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of medicines, vaccines, medical devices, and nutritional products for humans and animals. Though, this multi-billion dollar industry includes large ethical drug multi-nationals (often referred to as Big Pharma), mid-sized specialty pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of generics, small biotechnology and biopharmaceutical firms, and service companies, 1 for the purpose of this paper, the emphasis will be mainly on drug makers. 2. History/Overview of the Industry The pharmaceutical industry of today is a far cry from its humble beginnings in the nineteenth century of physicians mainly prescribing plant extracts to being technology intensive, dominated by a few large companies with significant research and development (R&D) budgets, and significant government oversight. Over the past five years,...
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... Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d. 292. (D. Conn. 2008) Jeffrey Spanierman, a teacher at Emmett O’Brien High School in Ansonia, Connecticut, created a MySpace page for the purpose of communicating with his students regarding homework, learn more about the student’s personal interest and to conduct casual, non-school related discussions. (Neuberger, 2008) A colleague visited the page and was concerned with some of the content---pictures of nude men captioned with inappropriate comments and personal conversations between Mr. Spanierman and the students. The colleague spoke to Spanierman and convinced him to remove the page arguing that it was disruptive to students. Spanierman complied, but went on to create a new profile page with similar content. The colleague learned of the new page and immediately reported her findings to the school administration. The administration went on to place Spanierman on administrative leave and ultimately declined his teaching contract for the upcoming school term. (Neuberger, 2008) In the case of Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d, 292, the Plantiff, Jeffrey Spanierman was hired on January 2, 2003 as an English teacher at Emmett O’Brien High School, a school within the Connecticut Technical High School System, in Ansonia, Connecticut. In regards to the case: (1) Abagail Hughes was the Superintendent of the Connecticut Technical High School System; (2) Anne Druzolowski was the Assistant Superintendent and (3) Lisa...
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...Drug Profile Paper Lainie Goodell PSY/425 September 27, 2010 Dr. Maria Cuddy-Casey Drug Profile Paper Addiction is an illness that usually progresses over time. Addiction is something that the body and the mind become used to and therefore all control is lost. Most addictions are caused from substances that are used to alter the mind and body. The psychology of addiction is the mind and physiology is the brain. Both the mind and the body can become addicted to substances and have altering, often painful, effects on the body if there is withdrawal. Even some substances, though legal, such as prescriptions are often abused the most. The following will address the different types of substances, including prescription drugs, their effects and withdrawal symptoms. Psychology and Physiology of Addiction “The brain is greatly affected by the disease of addiction. It's the kind of addiction that targets the brain” (Powers, 2010, para.3). The body brain becomes addicted to the substance when it is taken on a regular basis. When the brain is affected it caused a person to lose all sense of what is right and willpower is no longer relative. The person who becomes addicted now has to have the drug simply to keep their body from failing them; almost like the person needs the drug to stay alive. Specific Drug Substances Every drug has a category to which it belongs. Stimulants increase the activity in the brain. Depressants are exactly like their namesake and lead to such...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper HCS335 March 4, 2012 Angela Stark Administrative Ethics Paper Describe the issue and its impact on the population it affects most. What arguments or facts are used in the article to support the proposed solution? What are the ethical and legal issues reported for your administrative issue? Explain the managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues. If none were stated, what should have been done? Identify any proposed solutions. When a nurse becomes overwhelmed, they may turn to narcotics like in this case. The nurse was putting the patient’s health at risk to help her get her drugs. She would chart the patient was given the drug but in turn she was giving them saline and was taking the drugs herself. It was a flexible nurse so she didn’t have certain rooms with specific patients. The pharmacist was the one who actually figured out there was an increasing amount of narcotics signed out and the signatures were questionable. Confidentiality became an issue in this situation. Since two nurses knew of the situation and confronted the nurse about getting help. But one nurse stated all the nurse had to do was complete rehabilitation during her leave. The other nurse supervisor wanted to have a meeting with other members to discuss how it needed to be handled, let the other staff members know what had gone on and see if they know anything but didn’t say anything. Also reassuring the staff that a problem had been...
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...The Drug Business Tawni Masters CJA 384 January 30, 2012 Sherryl Roten-West The Drug Business The illegal drug business in the United States is not a new business. This business has been around for quite some time. In this paper I will discuss the history of illegal drug business in the United States including the types of drugs that involved in the illegal drug business. I will also be discussing illegal drug syndicates and cartels a long with their structures and operational methods. Also I will be talking about some of the modern trends of organized drug trafficking. Finally I will answer, explain, and provide recommendations to the question, is there is a better solution to the ways in which we combat the drug business in the United States. The illegal drug business in the United States consists of all different types of activities from drug use to drug sales to producing and manufacturing to trafficking. Until the 1940’s most Italian Mafia leaders were strict with their rules telling their outfits that they were to avoid dealing drugs. A few leaders, notably Charles “Lucky” Luciano, broke that rule and used their organizations to push other gangs out of the drug trade and developed sophisticated networks for importing and selling illegal drugs in the United States (Mazzeno, 2011). During World War II illegal drugs were becoming less available in the U.S. because traffickers had a difficult time importing the drugs from overseas areas that were already in a conflict...
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...as the United States and France, the per capita health expenditure averages over 3,000 USD, while in countries that are considered resource poor, such as Israel and Mexico, the average per capita amount is only 30 USD. (Ke, Saksena, & Holly, 2011). Wide variations in health expenditure are also specific to each country’s economic development. Less resourceful countries have been noted to only spend less than 3% of GDP on health, while other, more economically developed countries spend more than 12% of GDP on health. (Ke et al.,2011). The growth of health expenditures in OECD countries is supported by extensive literature. This paper will give specific data related to two specific OECD countries, Canada and Sweden. Trends in health statistics will be analyzed, as well as contributing factors to both the rise and fall of health expenses. This paper examines and compares the health expenditure statistics, contributing variants and their...
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...Studies 5/15/2013 Per.5 History of Drug Buisness In this paper I will discuss the history of illegal drug business in the United States including the types of drugs that involved in the illegal drug business. I will also be discussing illegal drug syndicates and cartels a long with their structures and operational methods. Finally, I will answer the questions, if there is a better solution to the ways in which we fight the drug business in the United States. The illegal drug business in the U.S. has different types of activities from drug use to drug sales to produce and manufacture trafficking. A few leaders, notably Charles “Lucky” Luciano, broke the rule of avoiding dealing drugs and used other gangs of the drug trade and developed sophisticated networks for importing and selling illegal drugs to the United States (Mazzeno, 2011). During the WWII illegal drugs were becoming less available in the U.S., traffickers had difficult times transporting drugs from overseas that were already in a conflict. After the war, drug trafficking picked up making the Mafia the lead supplier of illegal drugs. The Mafia’s were smuggling drugs into the country through ports (and later through terminals), where it controlled many of the operations (Mazzeno, 2011). These groups were mainly African American, Asian, and Latino gangs. These countries mainly got their drugs from Latin American countries via Mexico. There are different types of illegal drugs smuggled into the United States each...
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...The following question appeared in paper 2 of the June 2015 additional examination (actual question number 4.3): Drug-testing kits are sometimes used in schools. The current drug test which uses blood or urine samples is considered to be too personal (invasive). A new drug test, the Saliva Drug Test (SDT), uses saliva and is considered to be less personal than the current test. It can be used to test for up to 9 different types of drugs. The pictures below show the drug-testing instrument and the swab used to take a sample of saliva. The tree diagram below shows the outcomes of the SDT after testing the saliva of the same person twice. Study the tree diagram above to answer the following questions. 1. Give the probability (as a common fraction) of obtaining both...
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...previous papers, I have analyzed my self-concept and I found out that, I am an ISFJ personality. And by doing communication skills test based on www.queendom.com my interpersonal communication skills were graded as excellent, which I feel it is true based on my self-analysis. The aim of this paper is to make a link between Self-concept and communication skills and, to do an online search in Google or other popular engines like Facebook and twitter to find out” who I am, and how others are seeing me”. In order to do that, I considered myself as a stranger and an Employer. Key words: Self-Concept, Communication Skills, Facebook, “Who I am and how others are seeing me”, Stranger, Employer. In this paper, in order to make a link between “Who I am and how others are seeing me”, I did an online search in Google and other popular engines like Facebook and twitter. I wasn’t able to find my name in Google, because of the privacy settings in my Facebook profile. So, I logged into my Facebook account and I considered myself as a stranger and analyzed my profile. The results of self –analysis are as follows. Being a Stranger my assumptions are: 1. Privacy: My account settings are not open to public, by choosing the privacy settings my phone number, Email address, home address, date of birth; my friends and family list are kept private. 2. Profile Picture: The profile picture is the single most important component for personal expression. By looking at the profile picture...
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...University, Guntur, AP sravyagunturi93@gmail.com , shaliniaramandla@gmail.com, raghavarao@kluniversity.in ABSTRACT: Big data is playing a vital role in present scenario. big data has become the buzzword in every field of research. big data is collection of many sets of data which contains large amount of information and little ambiguity where other traditional technologies are lagging and cannot compete with it .big data helps to manipulate and update the large amount of data which is used by every organization in any fields The main aim of this paper is to address the impact of these big data issues on health care application development but health care industry is lagging behind other sectors in using big data .although it is in early stages in health care it provides the researches to accesses what type of treatment should be taken that are more preferable for particular diseases, type of drugs required and patients records I. Introduction Health care is one of the most prominent problems faced by the society now a day. Every day a new disease is take birth which leads to illness of millions of people. Every disease has its own and unique medicine for its cure. Maintaining all the data related to every disease in a single database is not possible using the legacy system in order to solve this problem we use different types of external memory devices which again results in expensive maintenance of the system. To avoid this we use Big...
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...billion to settle civil and criminal liabilities. GSK was heavily promoting well known drugs for uses other than what they were intended, and approved for by the FDA. These promotions for non-intended uses were being made through back channels, such as directly to physicians through sales representatives, speakers at sponsored events, as well as advertising in medical journals. GSK had been circumventing the approval process to increase sales of drugs such as Paxil, and Wellbutrin, both anti-depressants. The company had neglected to provide information to the FDA regarding specific findings in research done after the drugs had gone to market. In one medical journal, GSK had published a misleading article that was contrary to actual findings. The misleading claims of GSK to healthcare providers regarding the effectiveness of specific drugs have had far reaching affects, of which cannot be immediately determined. Several of the medications are well known and branded for anti-depressants, and diabetes. According to the US Department of Justice release, GSK had made unsubstantiated claims that the diabetes medication had a "positive cholesterol profile". In fact GSK had no documentation to support the claim. It also was branding the anti-depressants for off-label uses that were never reported to the FDA, nor had proper research done to determine if the off-label uses were safe and effective. These drugs had been marketed, and prescribed to those without the intended medical...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY “Family is the foundation of the society which strengthens the human world.” This is from the research paper of Ms. Jesalyn Pastorfide. This inspires us to choose the topic “Broken Family Relationship: Affects the study habits of High School students of Saint Francis College – Allen”. In studying, having a complete family somehow inspires a student to study hard. Our family is the first environment in which we are exposed to. We can’t choose the family we want but what it will depends on us. A broken family can lead teenagers to Juvenile Delinquency. We are aware that there are some teenagers with broken family that are drug addicts or whatever. But there are also teenagers that are not involved in drug addictions. Marriage begins in Matrimony in which the couples are saying vows in front of the crowd and in front of the Almighty God. But there are some couples who were happy after their wedding but eventually separate without thinking what will happen to their child/children. Some parents are teaching the teenagers to always choose the right decision but are they choosing the right ones? Some will say no, some will say yes. There is no definite answer. In this research, we will be interviewing some students with or without broken family of Saint Francis College – Allen to know if having an incomplete or broken family can greatly affect study habits of students. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This research was made clear...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY “Family is the foundation of the society which strengthens the human world.” This is from the research paper of Ms. Jesalyn Pastorfide. This inspires us to choose the topic “Broken Family Relationship: Affects the study habits of High School students of Saint Francis College – Allen”. In studying, having a complete family somehow inspires a student to study hard. Our family is the first environment in which we are exposed to. We can’t choose the family we want but what it will depends on us. A broken family can lead teenagers to Juvenile Delinquency. We are aware that there are some teenagers with broken family that are drug addicts or whatever. But there are also teenagers that are not involved in drug addictions. Marriage begins in Matrimony in which the couples are saying vows in front of the crowd and in front of the Almighty God. But there are some couples who were happy after their wedding but eventually separate without thinking what will happen to their child/children. Some parents are teaching the teenagers to always choose the right decision but are they choosing the right ones? Some will say no, some will say yes. There is no definite answer. In this research, we will be interviewing some students with or without broken family of Saint Francis College – Allen to know if having an incomplete or broken family can greatly affect study habits of students. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This research was...
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