...to never always overlook the use of PED. These two choices both have undesirable outcomes. To always overlook the use of PED: This option is undesirable because it the discovery of PED usage will lead to termination from the sport, resulting in failed coaching business. Never overlook the use of PED: This option us undesirable because it will mean that coaching business will not develop. Utilitarianism: The stakeholders that have been identified are: Sponsors, administrators, athletes, The UCI, competitors, media, competitors. All reasonably foreseeable consequences have been identified in relation to each party. Both negative and positive consequences are constructed for the couch discouraging the illicit drug usage. To respect the contractual agreement: Positive • Sponsors will continue funding sporting events • Drugs cause harm or injury to athletes; the health and well-being of the athletes will not be compromised • When an athlete uses drugs, it is unfair to fellow competitors; not upholding commutative justice • The use of drugs in sports affects society’s view of sport in society and society’s trust in athletes • The completive sport will remain between athletes natural abilities and not scientific intervention To respect the contractual agreement: Negative • Loss of sponsorship for not winning • Performance enhancing drug using athletes will seek out another couch • Loss of autonomy; Loss of ability to make a business decision To never respect...
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...It has been sad that people will go to great lengths to acquire drugs which cause a certain “high“ experience .Even legalisation protests ,e.g. the world movement to legalise weed which is currently taking place all over the internet.so we took initiative to find out what Botswana’s youth thought on the issue of legalising illicit drugs. Interview 1 Interviewer: do you do drugs? Scholar: no I don’t. Interviewer: Have u ever wanted to do drugs? Scholar: Because I am not a fan of drugs. I feel that they would destroy my life I start Interviewer: Do u think legalisation of illicit drugs is a solution to abuse? Scholar: But how can that be a solution? No. Relying on any type of drugs to be happy is not right and is no way to live life, Interviewer: Why do u say it’s not right ?Isn’t life about what makes one happy so what if it is right to that person as it is the only way she/he can have a happy life, are they still wrong? Scholar: Life is what u make of it, so when u take drugs then you are letting something else control your life, you are giving away your power to something as petty as drugs? No thank you. Interviewer: Is there an upside legalisation? I mean don’t u think the intake of drugs could be monitored and henceforth reducing chancing of addiction? Scholar: Well I don’t think so because even though alcohol is legal and they try to regulate the total amount a person can take, it just never works, people still get wasted so it would probably be the same. Interview...
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...Drug Addiction and Recovery Carmen Dunagan Com/156 Professor Paul Neuhausen Many people do not understand why or how other people become so consumed in drug addiction. Often drug addicts are mistaken as weak individuals with no will power and assume they can stop using drugs at any time. In reality, drug addiction is a complex disease and being able to quit drugs takes more than good intentions and strong will. Drugs change the brain in ways that foster compulsive drug abuse, so quitting is very difficult even for those who say they are ready to quit. Through scientific advances we know more about how drugs work in the brain and we know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and lead a productive life. Drug addiction is a problem that has increased in our society greatly over the years. Drug addiction stops lives and can cause you to forget about any dreams or goals you may have made for yourself. It ruins lives slowly and with a big impact. I found this topic to weigh heavy in my mind and heart since my family has struggled with drug addiction my whole life. I have often wondered how the addiction could be so important in their life. It isn’t just a habit I have learned it is an actual disease and it’s very sad how it controls people’s lives. It doesn’t only ruin and effect the abusers life but their family’s as well and I can share first hand with that. Since I was...
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...common stereotype of those who use marijuana are often classified as bums, unintelligent, and drug addicts. This claim is absurd as according to the National Orginaztion for the Refom of Marijuana Laws, marijuana is the third most popular drug in America as it frequently used recreationally (NORML). While those who oppose the legalization of marijuana there are those who actually need it, and support that it should be legal. By taking action, marijuana can be decriminalized and proven to be more helpful than harmful. The idea that people should stay away from cannabis is a common argument, but cannabis actually has medical purposes that can delay the effects of cancer, used for glaucoma, and also pain relief. While those who argue that marijuana should be legal and that it can help the economy and public health, there are those who oppose it and feel that it should remain illegal so that the upcoming generation should abstain from the use of marijuana and drug abuse. People argue that the use of marijuana is dangerous and harmful to the body, while actually it might be more helpful than one may presume. The top two most popular drugs in America are Tobacco and Alcohol, combined both of those drugs tally up to nearly half a million deaths per year throughout America. Marijuana on the other hand has never caused death by smoking too much weed because it is actually a toxic free drug and is mostly natural. By legalizing pot, it can lead to improve public health, lower crime rates...
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...SMOKE Do you smoke? If you do it you never imagine the serious consequences that it would bring to your life. My Psychology class helped me to understand and think better about the damage of drugs, and how affect our central nervous system. Tobacco is a psychoactive drug with chemicals that affect our nervous system and, as a result, may alter consciousness and awareness, influence how we sense and perceive things, and modify our moods, feelings, emotions, and thoughts. In our days is very common to see people smoking; it is a widely used addictive drug, that alters cognitive processes, which include effects on attention and impulsivity, a mechanism that may contribute to the addictive properties of the drug. Everyone have the right to think, analyze, and have their opinion, but I want to share with you a message, a story of my best friend where she suffered a disease and began a new life. All began a holiday day where our friends, among laughers, invited her to smoke her first cigarette and to learn like them. Then she came to smoke one after other cigarettes every day, until she gets to smoke three daily packs. Today I understand why she continued to smoke. She had an addiction to nicotine. My textbook said about addiction:” refers to a behavioral pattern of drug abuse that is marked by an overwhelming and compulsive desire to obtain and use drug; even after stopping, the person has a strong tendency to relapse and begin using the drug again”. My friend had become dependent...
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...things such as alcohol food and most importantly drug such as the legal and illegal narcotics. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and more specifically Nora Volkow’s blog “because of drug use, a person’s brain is no longer able to produce something needed for our functioning and that healthy people take for granted, free will.”( Nora’s blog)This states that addiction is something that people choose on their own. No one is pointing a gun at their head and are telling them to take those narcotics. Once they consume it once there is no stopping them. The brain receptors will be blocked and senses will be dull allowing the consumer to fall into temptation and relapse into the same cycle again without measuring...
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...addiction in some way, either themselves or someone else they know has gone through it. I know it's true for me. Addictions come in all forms from the seemingly innocuous of food, to cigarettes all the way up to heroin and meth. The real question we should be asking though is; are we as a society dealing with this national epidemic correctly or compassionately? Now, I'm not in a position to cast aspersions on people for using drugs. I was using drugs from the age of eleven until twenty-four. When I was eleven I grabbed a bottle of schnapps and headed to the woods behind my house. Never really liked drinking. But when...
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...third degree for his alleged role as an accomplice to a street sale of drugs. The defendant must have intentionally aided the seller in furthering the transaction in order to be convicted as an accomplice to a drug sale. Chancellor Bennett was there at the transaction, but he had nothing to do with it. Chancellor Bennett just reiterated what UC 2525 had told him to the drug dealer, who shouted “what.” In order to be convicted as an accomplice you must help screen or negotiate the potential buyer, which Bennett never did. Furthermore, when searched by the police, Bennett didn’t have any drugs or pre-recorded money on him. Hence, the evidence presented at trial was legally insufficient to show that Bennett intentionally aided in the transaction. Chancellor Bennett’s conviction therefore should be reversed immediately. Prior to trial,...
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...years. The company focuses on innovative research and consumer education. (Demand Media, 1999-2011 ) In 1950, George W. Merck, then the chairman of the company said, “We try never to forget that medicine is for people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered that, the larger they have been.” This philosophy was at the core of Merck and Co.’s values system. (Kreitner, 2010) In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that over 300,000 people were blind and another 18 million were affected with a disease called onchocerciasis, better known as river blindness. River blindness was caused by parasitic worms that was spread by small black flies the breed in and lived around fast moving rivers mostly in developing countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The parasitic larvae were transferred to humans when bitten by the small black flies, at which time the parasitic larvae would infect the host. The worms would begin to reproduce producing millions of microscopic baby worms into the person’s body. This would eventually lead to gross deformity, severe itching that in some cases cause people to commit suicide and eventually blindness. At the time, the disease had only two drugs that could kill the larvae but both had severe even fatal side effects. The only measure to try to control river blindness was to eliminate the small black flies that carried...
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...accepted more and more each day. Gay rights have been modified and it is now acceptable for homosexual couples to get married. However, in 2011 homosexuals had a very hard time fitting in and being themselves completely. Frank Ocean, a song writer who is gay, wrote a song in 2011 called “Novacane”. Writing this song opened a lot of people’s eyes and were okay with being who they are and not what society wants them to be. “Novacane” is told from Frank’s perspective. He talks about meeting a girl and figuring out that he needs “Novacane for the pain” when he is with her. The way he spells “Novacane” instead of Novocain is what the whole song is about. Nova is something bright and shiny, most new stars are called novas. Cane which is spelled incorrectly means taking in a lot of drugs or alcohol, it also means to hurt. When Frank put those two words together he is saying that “Novacane” means something that is new and he is taking it in a lot and it causes pain. He is talking about the girl that he met and is with but, when he is with her he hurts inside because he knows that’s not what he needs. So he takes drugs when he is with her to numb the pain. Knowing that society wouldn’t accept him, Frank tries to hide his pain and continue with this relationship with this girl. “Every single record autotunin' Zero emotion, muted emotion, pitch corrected, computed emotion”. Frank is saying that when he is with her he is fake like auto tune. He is never really himself and has to put up a...
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...alcohol and drugs create risks for the driver, but everyone else on the road as well. Alcohol and drug use behind the wheel has become second nature in our country, and must be stopped and every case should have the maximum penalty. It has been going on for too long and now with your help we can stop this madness. Each day in the United States, people drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs almost 300,000 times, but fewer than 4,000 are actually arrested for this crime (Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crime in the United States: 2014). According to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 9.9 million people aged 12 or older (or 3.8 percent of teens and adults) reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the year prior to being surveyed. This was lower than the rate in 2012 (3.9 percent). By comparison, in 2013, an estimated 28.7 million people (10.9 percent) reported driving under the influence of alcohol at least once in the past year (SAMHSA, 2014). In 2012 alone, 10.3 million people reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs in the past year (2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health). Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 51 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $59 billion. The consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs can be numbing;...
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...Sex and drugs and rock and roll Hypothesis: the 1960’s were the most influential decade when popular culture changed the world Of the many significant events in the 20th century, the two world wars, the cold war and Vietnam, space exploration and the dramatic impacts of automation and technology on everyday life, culminating with the popularity of personal computers and the birth of the internet towards the end of the millennium, arguably no other decade had as significant an impact on popular culture as did the 1960’s. What we witness is a transition from a conformist society at the start of the decade to a counter-culture of anti-war protests, pushes towards racial and sexual equality, free love and drug influences like never before. As...
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...and simple at times. Even in a place where ethics and justice are the foundation of its being, the right thing isn’t always done. Because of the perfect situation, the criminal charges, and the ethical sensitivity, I would pass on the high priced lawyers deal and pursue the drug dealer. I am a proud person that couldn’t watch someone suffer due to my selfishness. I would assume by becoming a prosecutor, I would want to make unbiased judgment’s to help society. The situation is not very complex and a normal law abiding citizen would easily pick the young girlfriends side when presented with this situation. The young girl is pregnant with the drug dealer’s child. Putting her in jail would add a lot of stress to her pregnancy, and prosecuting her could result in complications with her pregnancy as well as affect the child after it is born. The girlfriend would also be forced to go to jail, robbed of her life as she knows it. She will be separated from her family, friends, and give up all the freedoms she had for something she didn’t do. Forty years is a very long time to spend in prison and even if she does manage to get out early, the sentence and ruling will radically affect her life in a negative manor. Also, the situation puts the drug dealer in a direct line of fire. I would pursue him even if the girlfriend chooses not to testify against him. He has the connection to the drugs and even if it takes more time and money, it would be worth it in the end to chase him down, rather...
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...guaranteed African Americans "equal protection of the laws" and the right to vote, through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy. During the Reconstruction Era, whites felt threatened and outraged as African Americans were exposed to more social and economic opportunities and started to obtain political power. To turn the table and regain all the black labors they had for free for centuries, southern states drastically increased the penalties for minor offenses. Southern conservatives founded Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. I can never forget those horrible pictures in which some white onlookers were smiling or laughing with the blacks burning or hung on the tree in the background. How sick they had to be to enjoy watching another human being tortured and murdered? Reconstruction failed bitterly, which was predictable, followed by the Civil Rights Movement aka the “Second Reconstruction”. Due to the increased political power of blacks with their migration to the North and the influence of the World War II, the Supreme Court voided constitutional segregation and negated racial discriminations in real estate market. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally dismantled the...
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...found this assignment to be very informative and useful. I’m glad this assignment gave me the opportunity to read the most current information on the laws concerning medical marijuana. I have never personally smoked marijuana, so I have a hard time understanding why some people push so hard to have it legalized. This being said, I do believe that the case presented against McQueen and Taylor is valid. Given what I read in the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA), it would appear to me that CA, the defendant’s co-owned marijuana dispensary, was operating illegally. The MMMA states that there is to be no “patient-to-patient” sales (MICHIGAN MEDICAL MARIHUANA ACT (EXCERPT), 2008). Even though CA rented out lockers to registered qualifying patients to store and sell their excess marijuana, CA claims that they did not violate any of the rules outlined in the MMMA because they believed they did not own the rights to the stored marijuana. CA attests that the rights and ownership of the stored pot were still that of the patients whom rented the lockers, not CA. The State of Michigan challenged that notion by defining possession as dominion and control of the drug. The State of Michigan’s position is that CA had control over the access and sale of the drug there by placing possession of the drug with CA, not the patients. This is a violation of the MMMA because a caregiver is only authorized up to 2.5 ounces of pot per registered patient (up to 5 patients per caregiver), at any given...
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