Drug discovery

In the attempt to escape from reality, possibly negative overwhelming life circumstances or events, people have resorted to the use of substances that produce physical, mental, and or psychological changes. Generally, substance disorders can affect people from all walks of life (regardless of spiritual, cultural, biological, or psychological status quo) they can become physically and psychologically hooked to any substance after being exposed to high dosages for a long period of time. Many of…

Prescription drug abuse and inappropriate use is a serious public health problem. According to the Centers for disease control and prevention, United States is in the middle of an epidemic of deaths from prescription drug overdose. Drug overdose, especially non-medical use of prescription drug is the second leading cause of death from unintentional injuries in the United States. Prescription drug abuse is seen in all aspects of our population. Physicians and healthcare providers who prescribe…

intended to be used. In recent years, the United States has become more lenient and less restrictive on policies controlling drugs. Many have continuously opposed…

“indicative of the level of desperation most addicts feel” to obtain their next high. Becoming depended on painkillers is no different than addiction to the drugs we hear about only on television. Temple was careful enough to not give away too much more of his novel but urged the audience to understand that “we need to stop thinking these [pills and hard drugs] are a separate addiction.” The parallels Temple drew between heroin and pill addiction shocked Madison Fell, a senior at Frostburg. “Its…

about drug testing? Others may not take Drug Testing seriously since they don’t do drugs themselves. But people need to realize that the world they live in, isn’t drug-free everywhere. Lots of people are trying to make their communities drug-free. By helping then get clean or just letting them know their actions affect others as well. Is Drug Testing violating rights of privacy? “Owners of properties in which drug activity exists must sometimes, battle the destructive affects that drugs may…

Drug Court Effectiveness and Recidivism of Participants According to the results from the 2013 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring II (ADAM II) survey (2014), between two-thirds and three-quarters of all adults males arrested were at risk for drug dependence; as few as one-quarter had sought any type of treatment for drug or alcohol use. (p. xiv). Traditionally, the criminal justice system focused on enforcement and incarceration to reduce drug-related crime, but recidivism has remained high. An…

In this day in age we live in a monkey see monkey do society. This can range from anything such as fashion, hairstyles, movies, music, and even drugs. Society as a whole is always ready to try new things. What we tend to forget when it comes to drugs is that experimentation can lead to addiction; especially with heroin. Heroin is derived from poppy plants. The poppy plants make opium then morphine is extracted from the raw opium. Towards the end of the 19th century, a chemical change was made…

Why do kids in this generation do drugs at such a young age?. Maybe it is because they have friends that are doing drugs and do not want to be the only one not to be doing them. They get peer pressured into it. It happens all the time in schools with kids wanting their friends to do what they want them to do. The kids do not want to be the “lame kid” in their group of friends and eventually not having any friends at all, which no kid wants that when they go to school. No one wants their kids to…

Introduction The consumption of caffinated drinks is known to be one of the leading causes of addiction. Caffeine is the most widely consumed legal drug that is known world wide in today’s society (). When many of us think hear or think about the term caffeine the first thought that may come to mind is a type of beverage. Needless to say caffeine is known to be in plants, beans, fruits, chocolate, coffees and teas which caused the consumption of caffeine to be very high (). Research has…

For a long time, in the world of sports, the use of the illegal substance also known as performance enhanced drugs is commonly known as doping and steroid use. There is a major concern all around the world about the issue at hand when it comes to doping, or the use of performance enhancing drugs. The history behind the use of performance enhanced drug is to get stronger, faster, and it builds a person’s muscle, tone up to five times faster than a normal human body can give out to their own…