...In the article Doctor convicted of murder for patients' drug overdoses gets 30 years to life in prison by L.A. Times reporter Marisa Gerber, we learn that Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng a doctor is the first in the U.S. that is convicted of murder for overprescribing drugs to patients. Dr. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng was found guilty of second-degree murder for the murders of three of her patients Vu Nguyen, 28, Steven Ogle, 25, and Joey Rovero, 21 who all fatally overdosed from prescription drugs she had prescribe. According to this article, “Dr. Tseng is among a small but growing number of doctors charged with murder for prescribing painkillers that killed patients.” In this case it seems as the Dr. Tseng was more worried about money then the lives of people who were in her care. Dr. Tseng was...
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...CAN LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS BE A SOLUTION? YES. In order to succeed in today’s drug war, governments should legalize drugs. The Netherlands is one government which is applying legalization procedure properly and which has reduction in drug use. According to Trimbos Institute’s and also some other research, this reduction is mostly in more harmful and more hallucinogenic drugs which are LSD, amphetamine, heroin and reduction percentage is 30% since 1983*. Currently, in the Netherlands there is not much crime because of drugs. The government provides drugs in coffee shops so there is no need for drug wars. Also, there is a reduction in health problems in the Netherlands. So with legalization drug users’ health problems and crime may be reduced. First of all, health problems is the biggest individual issue about drug users. Because without legalization drug users share their needles and inject drug into their bodies on their own in unhealthy conditions. Because they do not have facilities to use drugs professionally in healthy conditions, they should use drugs covertly. When they share their needles they can get contagious illnesses such as AIDS,HIV or when they inject drugs amateurish and they may have many wounds which are susceptible to get infection in unhealthy conditions. According to Kleber and Califano ‘more than one third of new AIDS cases were among injection drug users who shared needles, cookers, cottons, rinse water’* is the biggest issue about health. But for example...
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...Medical prescription - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription Wikipedia A prescription (℞) is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other qualified practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an ... Prescription Products - Canada Drugs https://www.canadadrugs.com/prescription Buy online prescription drugs from Canada from CanadaDrugs.com, an authorized Canadian pharmacy offering discount prescription drugs. In the news Image for the news result California doctor convicted of murder in overdose deaths of patients Los Angeles Times - 2 days ago She wrote them a prescription for the very thing they're addicted to. She shoved them over ... California doctor convicted of murder by over-prescription Yahoo News - 2 days ago Los Angeles Doctor Convicted Of Murder By Over-Prescription Huffington Post - 2 days ago More news for prescription Prescription Drug Abuse: MedlinePlus https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../pr... United States National Library of...
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...1979- Jo Roman, a New York artist dying of cancer, makes a videotape, telling her friends and family she intends to end her life. She later commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. 1985- Betty Rollin publishes "Last Wish," the story of her mother's battle with ovarian cancer. The book reveals that Ida Rollin killed herself with a sedative overdose. 1990- Dr. Jack Kevorkian performs his first assisted suicide, using a homemade machine, to end the life of Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins. Meanwhile, after protracted legal wrangling, the parents of Nancy Cruzan, who has been in a coma for seven years, are allowed to remove her feeding tube. Friends and co-workers testify in court that she would not have wanted to live. 1991- Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphry first publishes "Final Exit." The controversial suicide "how-to" book later becomes a national best seller. 1994- Voters in Oregon pass a referendum making it the only state in the country that allows doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs for terminally ill patients. The hotly contested law was not put into effect until last year. 1995- George Delury publishes "But What If She Wants to Die?" a diary chronicling his wife's long battle with multiple sclerosis. The book describes the couple's agonizing decision to end her life with a drug overdose. Delury served four months in prison for attempted manslaughter for his role in her death. 1997- In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court rules that the...
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...will be discussed and relevant laws applied to the facts within each case and relevant laws applied. The first section of the report, R v Tom we will be discussing the criminal liability of Tom in the death of Rachel in which both murder and manslaughter charges will be considered. The AR for both of these offences is the same and can be defined as “The unlawful killing of a human being under the Queen’s peace.”[1] Assuming the victim was alive that this scenario was not during a war, it remains to establish that this was an unlawful killing. In the case of R v Freya we will focus on the AR of omission and determine whether the defendant Nurse Freya did the act or omitted to do a legally recognised duty which resulted in the death of Rachel. We will also decide whether the act was deliberate, unlawful, and a significant cause of death. In the case of R v Freya only a charge of manslaughter will be considered as Nurse Freya had neither the direct or oblique intent to be charged with murder. R v Tom In the case of R v Tom the defendant Tom (D) swung a metal poker into the head of his wife V (V). V was sent to hospital and diagnosed with a fractured skull but regained consciousness. Upon waking V found painkillers by her bed and took an overdose resulting in her death. There are several elements that constitute the AR of...
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...The legalization of weed in America has been an important issue in the last few years and is a high priority to some. There has been a cultural revolution in the decade and the majority of the United States seems to finally agree that it should finally be legalized. With that said there are still those on the fence about the possible legalization of a drug that was once seen as a drug that would turn you into a lazy, stupid criminal. So should smoking pot be legal in every state the same way that smoking cigarettes and drinking beer is legal? The answer is obviously yes. The use of marijuanna for recreational purposes should be legal because it is a well known fact that cannot overdose and therefore cannot die directly from smoking weed which means its safer than most other drugs. The people who smoke weed or do any drugs are going to do them despite their legality so why not make them pay taxes and help put money in our economy instead of a drug dealers pocket. It should also...
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...Drugs are prevalent in a large ary of communities. Some more extreme than others. In fact, Indiana is one of the top states in the country for drug prevalence. One specific drug is heroin. There is area with large demand and easy access to heroin. One town where heroin is significantly prevalent is Bloomington Indiana. With the town comes a college campus and with a college campus comes many people who move around making it hard to control. The use of heroin is on the rise not only in the city of Bloomington but in the entire Monroe county. Drugs are always a part of any community and are hard to control, especially in college based community; there should be major concern for the rising deaths and overdoses due to heroin. Traveling to Bloomington...
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...Again stated by Waldman, there are around 20,000 suicides per year where a gun was used to go through with it. Yes, that is a huge number of people. But what he failed to include was the number of suicides that take place every year that are not done with guns. How many Americans died from overdoses on drugs or other forms of suicide last year? According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a whopping 64,000 Americans died from drug overdose in 2016. A solution to these thousands of deaths would be to ban drugs. However, the chances of that happening are very unlikely even though the deaths caused by them were over three times as much as those by gun violence. School shootings have also been happening more lately. On February 14, 2018, another school shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida killing 17. One can also not forget the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that fatally killed 20 children in 2012. Security in schools, and everywhere really, needs to be tightened. Someone should not be able to just walk in a school and...
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...Craig Borski Legalizing Marijuana: Could It Help Society? Living in Colorado for the past year has brought up much controversy about the legalization of marijuana. Many argue that the legalization of marijuana is detrimental to our society. It can be argued that it is a “gateway drug”, that marijuana could lead to more incidences of drug-related incidences, and that if it is legalized it can be more easily attained which will lead to more abuse of the drug. On the other hand, the legalization of marijuana will improve society. The legalization of marijuana will lower violence and crime rates, will stimulate the economy, and will be a safer drug than those already legalized, such as tobacco and alcohol. Marijuana is most often argued that it should remain illegal. It is argued that it is a “gateway drug” which leads into hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and meth. Some believe that marijuana users can build up a tolerance to the drug, which will then lead them to other drugs in search of a better “high”. However, this is not particularly true. “Marijuana itself does not lead the person to the other drugs; people take drugs to get rid of unwanted situations or feelings.” (On the Road to Drug Abuse). Other arguments in favor of marijuana remaining illegal is that it will be easier accessible and will therefore be more abused, and that is could lead to more deaths and crimes. Like anything else, if cannabis is abused it may have some of these consequences. However...
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...| The Needle Exchange Program | | Drug epidemics have come and gone many times in the United States throughout its history, but the heroin epidemic of today has taken such a stronghold that we might have to switch to a less conventional and less popular approach to resolving this issue . Heroin use is mostly synonymous with famous actors, actresses and musicians and their untimely deaths. People such as John Belushi, Janice Joplin, Chris Farley, River Phoenix, Shannon Honn (lead singer of Blind Melon) and the most recent addition that has brought heroin back into the spotlight is the recent death of one of the most beloved actors and producers of his time, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. If we get away from the famous individuals that are in and out of rehab and can pay out incredible amounts of money towards the drug itself, and all the other associated risks involved, we get to the millions of nameless, faceless addicts that society doesn’t pay much attention to until unknowingly affected by it themselves, and when so many people can be affected by something they are not actively participating in, that is a problem that needs to be addressed and some sort of action is a must. This is where the debate of the needle exchange program, or NEP’s (community-based initiatives that allow intravenous (IV) drug users to exchange used syringes for clean, sterile ones in an effort to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B, C and other blood-borne pathogens) enter the conversation...
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...Title: Harmful affects of illicit drugs Claim: Illicit drugs should stay illegal Argument: P1: Drugs are addicting and can cause overdoses P2: Drugs have harmful impact on the body. C: Legalizing drugs would give the wrong message to young adults. Discussion: Illicit drugs are non-medical drugs that are prohibited by law. "Drug abuse kills about 200,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. Global treatment for drug abuse would cost $250 billion per year if everyone who needed help received proper care, according to the UN" (drugfree.org). (P1), Drugs can be addicting, especially to teenagers because they are going through a rough change in life. Most teenagers turn to drugs to help them cope with the challenging difficulties they face. Some are peer pressured into using illicit drugs. Young adults can be hooked onto these "frenemies" and be distracted from their life goals. However, it only takes one mistake to put all their life to an end when they are "unknowingly" handed and overdose of that drug. If illicit drugs were legalized, the it would give more reason to...
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...Throughout history, every single hero, or leader possessed the same defining quality that proves their worth. They were powerful in many areas of their life. These people had the confidence and power within themselves. They were above and well respected by others. These people were able to control their emotions in the face of adversity. To be a true leader, one needs the perfect amount of power. The lack of power opens the possibility of weakness while an abundance of power will overcome one’s self. In Joseph Boyden’s “Three Day Road”, Elijah is a powerful character who only wants to be a hero in the eyes of other people. Elijah’s lust for control shows that overwhelming power inevitably corrupts people. Elijah’s lack of fear and self-confident...
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...The phrase “mercy killing” refers to someone taking a direct action to terminate a patient’s life without the patient’s permission. The decision to take such an action is often made on the assumption that the patient’s life is no longer “meaningful” or that if the patient were able to say so, s/he would express a desire to die. The means include the administering of poison, massive overdose of drugs, shooting, and so on (Thiroux and Krasemann, 448). Whereas “mercy deaths,” is voluntary and done with the permission of the patient and usually at his or her request (Thiroux and Krasemann, 184). Mercy killings occur more often in the United States than one realizes. This is legally a form of murder. Yet mercy killers are seldom convicted of first-degree murder. In fact, they receive leniency in punishment (Lavi, 145). In 1923, for example, the Greenfield’s son, Jerome, was born with a condition of gradual mental degeneration. Despite his retardation, at the age of sixteen, he was well-developed physically but he could not talk, only babble (Lavi, 147). Following Jerome being banned from public school, due to his “social and intellectual unfitness,” his loving parents, Louis and Anna, solely took care of him in their small apartment in the Bronx. As Jerome grew worse, his parents began to mentally and physically decline. On January 12, 1939, Mr. Greenfield asked his wife to go to their millinery shop to assist his partner. While Jerome slept, Louis took handkerchiefs...
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...each other, trying to pinpoint Lennie’s location and take him down. In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, one of the main characters, Lennie, gets into a multitudinous amount of trouble and ends up paying for it all. Lennie is a mentally disabled, middle aged man, who is traveling with George, a fellow companion, who is trying to keep him away from these harmful encounters. George is not able to protect Lennie from the crimes he commits and ended up needing to shoot Lennie to prevent him from any further trouble. Lennie Small’s being shot was a mercy killing and not a murder....
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...Scenario 1: Task 1 (M1) The definition of classifying something as murder is stated in the (18th Century rule – Cokes Institutes) which states that “unlawful killing of a human being under the Queens peace with malice aforethought, express or implied. The actus reus of murder is the unlawful killing of a human being under the queen’s peace. Certain killings may be lawful such as those in lawful self-defence. As you can see from scenario 1 it shows us that unlawful killing of a human being was involved and this is shown in scenario 1 which shows us that the defendant pushed victim of the stairs and got seriously injured and because of this the victim unfortunately had a serious reaction from the drugs that she was supplied with and had died because of this and this shows us that the actus reus is satisfied. Furthermore the law of causation is that but for the defendants...
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