America, and recently the government’s focus has been on “club drugs” such as ecstasy or MDMA. Club drugs are often associated with raves, electronic music festivals, and nightclubs. The government enacted an unusual form of drug policy in 2003. The federal government has decided that the owners and or promoters of the rave community are liable for the illegal actions of their customers. The DEA are now allowed impose a half of a million dollar fine, or twenty years of jail time, to the business…
Patrick is an active kid, he plays outside, loves talking, but has a hard time staying still in class. Patrick is just a normal boy, if a little bit on the energetic side, but his teacher Ms. Smith does not want to stimulate Patrick the way he should be. She claims that he has severe ADHD and gets him prescribed on buckets of drugs which turns him into a vegetable. This exists in many elementary schools around the nation, and is a horrible truth we cannot escape. Far too many children are being…
Prescription drugs can be very helpful if taken properly, but surprisingly can be extremely dangerous if taken improperly and can even be deadly. The addiction to prescription drugs such as pain killers, sedatives, and stimulates, is on the rise and not a new subject among individuals. Although prescription drug abuse is not a fresh issue, it has become a rising epidemic over the last several years. Our nation as a whole should take a stand by raising more awareness, closely monitoring…
“Generic drugs are copies of brand-name drugs that have exactly the same dosage, intended use, effects, side effects, route of administration, risks, safety, and strength as the original drug” ("Generic Drugs, Are They as Good"). So why are brand name prescription drugs sometimes almost 80% more expensive than their generic twin? By the time prescription drugs hit the shelf they’ve…
There is a common question that many pharmacists and doctors encounter while working. The question was, is there any way to know if this customer is getting the same prescription note from other doctors and going to other pharmacies to get the same medication? The answer depends on where you live. A large majority of the states in the country have their own form of a database, but not all. These databases are not connected, either. If every pharmacy or doctors office had access to a shared…
This poster conveys the popular belief at the time, that a woman’s primary role is in the household. The purpose of The Works Progress Administration was to employ millions of individuals for projects specifically in the construction sector. However, this poster implies that a woman had no place in the work sphere outside of the household. Furthermore, the fact that it states that the job…
The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Decision Making Process Introduction This paper will explore the ways that pharmaceutical companies make decisions regarding disease research. The current hypothesis is that prospective profitability is the most prevalent and most important reason taken into account. If this is true, then many ethical issues could arise, including the unnecessary suffering of individuals affected, since there could be a chance that the companies are not researching certain diseases…
Wouldn’t you like to take a prescription drug for those constant headaches you get everyday?Well just take Nalfon it will help you settle your relief in just one hour. Oh but I forgot to mention you will experience dizziness, you may feel faint, nausea, vomiting, stomach aches, and heart pain, but at least you won 't have a headache anymore. Prescription drugs are televised, but by the FDA makes you to tell the symptoms,however they say them quickly so it 's easy to miss. Advertising…
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are the organizations responsible for the implementation of Head Start. Head Start is funded through the provision of federal grants for the operation of Head Start programs in local communities and these grants are provided to local non-profit and, for-profit organizations…
The Veterans Health Administration is “the largest integrated provider of health care in the United States – public or private- operating one hundred fifty-two hospitals and over one thousand four hundred outpatient clinics across the United States.” (Moore) The system services nine million veterans despite the publicized scandals starting in 2013. The VHA medical centers provides services including hospital based services, surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology…