...Module Nine: Discussion Questions 1. Some people believe that certain drugs such as marijuana should be legalized. Do you agree or disagree? What impact might legalization have on forensic science as a field? Even though drug like marijuana are legalized now for resoning it's not safe outthere in the world, if you are in my generation , and you would see girls,guys and others peoples smoking in the bathroom, or in school property's. Some peoples opinions are biased base on what they see on T.V but do you really know why we do it in the first place, that is the question you might want to think about the next time you might want to start talking smack about our generation and why we shouldn't do drugs.Even though marijuana are not actually...
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...war. We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Four Presidents have personally waged war on drugs. Unfortunately, it is a war that we are losing. Drug abusers continue to fill our courts, hospitals, and prisons. The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages our neighborhoods. Children of drug abusers are neglected, abused, and even abandoned. The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers. The United States has been engaged in a “war” for nearly 25 years. A war in which there is a great deal of confusion as to why we are engaged in it, and if we are in the war for the right reasons. The resolution of the war is curtailed by varying opinions and subjective statistical proof. The war which has been a continuing struggle, is the “war on drugs” At the heart of this war is a fundamental question: Is this a battle the United States can win? It is likely everyone will agree drugs are harmful, they have serious medical side-effects. Drugs are addictive; can ruin a family, a job, a life. I agree that drugs have very negative side effects, but is the solution to fight a very costly and ineffective battle to eradicate drugs entirely? Is this even a possibility? I am not so sure, and this paper will show that the war on drugs has likely caused much more harm than good. Further, it will explain why not all drugs are the same, explore some options, and look at the future of the United States, and of the world We spend...
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...It’s Best if You Drug Test! Do you think it is fair that you work only for your paychecks to be reduced by taxes that support government assistance? This government assistance is anywhere from cash assistance each month to food stamps or Medicaid. Anyone can receive this help each month as long as they fall below the maximum income amount allowed. By anyone I mean drug users. People that would rather spend their money on illegal substances that their own food or healthcare. I believe that people that receive government assistance in North Carolina should be randomly drug tested throughout the time period that they are receiving them. There are a few reasons why I believe this. First, funds are getting low, which means less money available to help the people that actually need it. Secondly, if you can spend your money on drugs or other extracurricular activities, why can’t you buy your family food or pay medical bills. Another reason is that drugs are a barrier to self-sufficiency. If you have drugs and government assistance to fall back on then why get a job? Last but not least, there will be less fraud committed if we drug test recipients. Shortages in funds affect many organizations. A major one is government assistance. If you walk into The Department of Social Services all you see are signs saying that they do not have enough funds to help pay your bills or other things you may need help with. There is a shortage in funds with public housing also. Just the...
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...Prescription Drugs Reaction Paper 1 By Jessica Lieurance Being the parent of an 8, 9, and 10 year old, I was in total shock reading this article. You can imagine the fear that struck my gut when I read kids are starting to abuse prescription drugs as early as the age of 12. How does a 12 year old get access to prescription drugs? Well, the answer to this question was less shocking but equally disturbing. This article was an eye opener and a learning lesson for me. Not only do we, as parents, have an obligation to be involved in our children’s lives, we also must gain awareness to the dangers that surround them outside of our homes. Everyone knows that illegal drugs are a threat to our children on a daily basis. We are all taught in elementary school to “just say no”. Kids are told all kinds of horror stories about drug deals gone wrong, chemicals added to the drug that were lethal, and the physical effect of the drugs. Not once in school do I remember being warned about prescription drugs. After all, who wants to confuse a child by telling them that the medicine a doctor gives them can be equally harmful as the drugs sold on the street? However, failure to inform our children of the dangers of abuse of prescription drugs leads children to trust that these drugs are not harmful to them. Doing so results in children believing illegal drugs are bad and can hurt you, but prescription pills are good and were made to “fix” you. Unfortunately, children are unaware that both drugs are...
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...with drugs or have of different drugs growing up and learning about them in school. You’ve probably always wonder, why are drugs so bad? Or maybe, why do people sell drugs or abuse them? Those questions are very interesting and I’ve wondered the same thing growing up. Drugs have been issued throughout the world for many years now. The use of them has contributed to deaths and individuals who sell them have gotten life due to the crime. More than likely, you may have heard on El Chapo or Pablo Escobar. You may have heard someone talking about them, you may have learned about them in school or you may have seen many movies and documentaries...
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...Illegal Drugs Kara Easler COM/220 July 11, 2012 Barbara Plyler Illegal Drugs is something you hear in the news on a daily basis. You hear about how some should be legal and how they should not be legalized. They are either talking about Marijuana, Cocaine or the number of illegal drugs that are out there in the world. Illegal Drugs affect everybody from young kids to grown up adults. Sometimes we see it ruin families and lives of people we care for. This essay is going to go over why drugs should stay illegal and ways we can help people stay off the drugs. First of all let’s talk about some of the drugs and what they are about. The first drug that is going to be talk about is Marijuana. They are trying to legalize that in every state for medical use. There are people who don’t want to see that happen. They want people to realize the effects it has one people. Some of the effects it has on people are “within a few minutes after inhaling marijuana smoke, an individual's heart begins beating more rapidly, the bronchial passages relax and become enlarged, and blood vessels in the eyes expand, making the eyes look red. The heart rate, normally 70 to 80 beats per minute, may increase by 20 to 50 beats per minute or, in some cases, even double. This effect can be greater if other drugs are taken with marijuana.” (Why illegal drugs should stay illegal). Well that could cause a person to have heartache, which is not good. It also gives you a natural high that makes you hungry...
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...Drug Addiction and the Health Complications it causes. Julie Quinones Argosy University ENG102 Abstract Many people are struggling with drug addiction and are unaware of the consequences. It could cost them many important things in their life that they are incapable of controlling. Many of these drug-addicted people are not getting the right treatment the in order for them to keep their life. When we look at the drug addiction and how it could mess up many of the people who like to continue to use and abuse the drugs. Many people refuse to give up on the ability to get better and get the help that is needed to get off the drugs. These drug users like to keep the substance abuse going and they do not understand the complications that are in store for them when they continue to use. Why do they like to use all sorts of drugs? Why do they like to continue to use the drugs? Do they realize that it is hurting themselves and their families? All these questions are need to be found because if we don’t start helping these users they are going to suffer from serious problem. What can we do to start helping them understand that they need serious help before their health takes a serious toll on them, some could even lead to death. Parween, A. (2014, Jun 28). Drug Addiction affects all of us in our daily lives. It ruins families and destroys relationships. Drug addiction is a very serious problem that can lead to serious health problems. The health problems that...
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...Performance Enhancement Drugs in Sports, the Ethical Choice In May 28, 2002, former Major League Baseball player Ken Caminiti admits to Sports Illustrated in the article “Caminiti Comes Clean” that he used steroids during his 1996 National League MVP (most valuable player) season with the San Diego Padres and he estimated that half of the players in the big leagues were also using steroids. He later died of a heart attack at age 40 where it was ruled by the New York Medical Examiner that drugs are a factor in his death. In October 5, 2007, track star Marion Jones admits to use steroids during the 2000 Olympic Games where she won three Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. She was later sentenced to six months in prison for lying to the court and stripped off of all of her medals. Throughout history, there have been many stories of athletes using performance enhancing drugs, but none more than in the last 20 years. As technology advances in science as well as the media, more drugs has been engineer to enhance performance as well as the test to detect such drugs, as the results get to the hands of the media, the entire world would be at noticed in a manner of minutes. The fact is that performance enhancing drugs have existed since the time of the ancient Greek during the original Olympic Games from 776 BC – 393 BC. The question is why should we care? If most athletes are using it, is it a plain level field? And why is the government involved? Should the government be involved? ...
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...that of whether or not there should be a prescription-drug benefit added to Medicare. Both George W. Bush and Al Gore have proposed a plan to expand Medicare to include full prescription-drug coverage for senior citizens receiving Medicare, at the expense of taxpayers. It is obvious why this issue has been such a priority for both candidates. Senior citizens vote at a much higher rate than other age groups. Both candidates know the importance of these senior citizen votes and believe that the proposal of adding a prescription-drug benefit is something that will appeal to a vast number of senior citizens. Both candidates have portrayed the issue as being very critical and as a serious problem that needs to be addressed. The question, however, is whether or not such drug coverage is a worthwhile project to undertake. Is the problem indeed serious enough to call for the type of reform that the candidates are proposing? Medicare is already a very costly program to keep up, and adding prescription-drug coverage would increase these costs even more. In order to fund this project, there will need to be a tax hike. Should taxpayers subsidize this prescription-drug benefit? Is there a good reason why this redistribution should take place? What are the benefits and costs of this proposal? These and other questions will be addressed in this paper as we examine the following topics: the need for senior citizens to have prescription-drug coverage, the political rhetoric involved with this...
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...about substance abuse in this course and also during my readings. I always looked at substance abuse as someone who just uses drugs to get high. I never really thought about it being a brain disease. According to NIDA, “Addiction is similar to chronic diseases” while observing the brain and the heart addiction and heart diseases produce observational changes in the function of human organs. While all this information wasn’t too new to me I just really never gave it any thought. I learned how people become addicted to drugs due to the drugs altering their Dopamine which is a brain chemical which also affects the neurons in the brain. I understand what Neurons are and how they communicate...
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...from my grandma saying that my aunt overdosed on heroin. We all knew that my aunt was an active user of different types of drugs, but we never knew that it would come to this. She was in the hospital for a couple of days, was in jail for another couple of days, and was let out to go back home. But then my aunt overdosed a second time. This time it was almost too late to safe her. There is one difference between adicts that abuse drugs, either they want to be better and want the help. Simply, the others could care less about wanting to get better and care more about when they can get their next fix. You would never want to witness your kid or even have your own self experience something so terrible like that....
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...Instructor Guide for every chapter will follow this structure.) 1. Chapter Outline 2. Teaching Notes 3. In-Class Exercises 4. Homework Assignments 5. Additional Resources Chapter Outline I. Introduction II. Why Corporate Social Responsibility? A. Pragmatic Reason B. Ethical Reason C. Strategic Reason III. Types of Corporate Responsibility A. Economic Responsibilities B. Legal Responsibilities C. Ethical Responsibilities D. Philanthropic Responsibilities IV. Triple Bottom Line and Environmental Sustainability V. Is Socially Responsible Business Good Business? A. The Benefit of a Good Reputation B. Socially Responsible Investors Reward Social Responsibility C. The Cost of Illegal Conduct D. The Cost of Government Regulations E. What the Research Says about Social Responsibility and Firm Performance F. Being Socially Responsible Because It is the Right Thing to Do VI. Conclusion VII. Discussion Questions VIII. Case: Merck and River Blindness IX. Short Case Teaching Notes - Discussion Questions 1. Do you think corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important? Why or why not? Depending upon the audience, many students will see the importance of social responsibility. Generally, they are conscious of some kinds of environmental concerns and have some understanding of the relationship between business and the...
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...Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation– if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. - 1 Peter 2:2-3 We, Christians respect, honor, and value the importance of life. But why are there mothers who hate their children? Instead of giving birth, they choose to kill the offspring. This is an issue that never dies nowadays. Unwanted pregnancies lead to ABORTION. Abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. Just because it is your body, it doesn’t mean that you have the right to destroy another’s. Abortion is not a form of birth control. It stops a beating heart. No matter how we reshuffle the situation, abortion is MURDER. There are several issues regarding abortion in the country. People even made some alternatives to prevent abortion. But the Church is against it because it is not ethical. We all have different beliefs and opinions regarding this issue. Everything is up to us. It will be our conscience who will lead us to do what we have to do. We all have the choice, and decide whether we are to choose the good or the bad side of life. 2. DRUG ADDICTION Drug addiction is a complex brain disease. It is characterized by compulsive, at time uncontrollable, drug craving, seeking, and use that persist even in the face of extremely negative...
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...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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...“Cannabis should be legalised.” To a large extent I agree with this statement; cannabis should be legalised. I do feel, that legalizing cannabis would help resolve many of our country’s problems and difficulties, for example street-crime or burglary indirectly related to drugs. However I also feel that it could cause other types of problems if people don’t understand the effects of it. To many people, they see cannabis as a dangerous and damaging drug, however the effects of cannabis are sometimes not as bad as alcohol or other legal drugs. Keeping drugs illegal will only carry on the on-going drug related cycle: people get caught with possession of drugs, their third time getting caught they get a sentence, go to prison, come out, and it happens all over again. To keep one person in jail for one year, for drug abuse, is forty thousand pounds. When cannabis users come out of prison, they often have nothing to go back to, many find themselves back in their old life almost immediately with the same contacts they had before; the drug dealers. Even if they wanted to quit, quitting is not an easy process itself. Refraining from cannabis won’t result in physical withdrawal symptoms, unlike the nicotine in tobacco. However some long-term users do report psychological problems when it comes to being weed-free. This can range from difficulties in coping with social situations to sleep problems and heightened anxiety. Rastafarians don’t have a specific way of living or religious...
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