Harm reduction

Global Warming is the increase of earth’s average surface temperature and its oceans due to greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels. These greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, this is an appositive phrase – it acts as a noun to specify green house gasses, and it must be set apart with commas. absorb heat that would otherwise bounce off the Earth’s surface. In the past two decades, when your sentence starts with a prepositional phrase that is more than four words,…

Animal Agriculture: The Leading Cause of Climate Change Food by means of animal agriculture is – and probably always will be – an extension of our lives. Even before recorded time, humans have been raising livestock for means of survival and personal use and have only embraced this process as time progressed because it is our main source of food. We’ve adopted methods of artificial selection and gene manipulation to raise a more desirable superpopulation of livestock that environmental…

with inappropriate actions or behavior on social media are a substantial risk. Employees with social media posts or favorites about drugs or alcohol, racist or sexist remarks, or inappropriate political, sexual, or personal information can severely harm a company’s image. Pictures and comments that contain drugs and alcohol may drive some clients and investors away. Also, employees that exhibit tendencies of racism or sexism will hurt the company. In addition, an employee 's derogatory comments…

and extremely toxic as it suffocates the marine life to death. Ships spill huge amount of oil due to accidents, emergencies and storms every year. It causes noise pollution, ballast water and europhication through algal bloom. Other invading species harm the life cycles of other organisms. This gives rise to rival clashes within the ecosystem damaged due to pollution already.  Land Runoff – when water infiltrates the soil to the maximum tolerance level & the excessive water from rain, flooding…

Many people think that bottled water is safer and better than tap water. However, do they know that bottled water is tap water in a plastic bottle? Tap water is actually proven to be better than bottled water, for a number of reasons; it is safe for your health, it is better for the environment, it is filtered more than bottled water, and bottled water is very costly. There is no evidence to prove that bottled water is any safer than tap water. In fact, an estimated 25% or more of bottled water…

A birth injury happens whenever a newborn baby is wounded during the labor process. There are several forms of birth and labor traumas, some insignificant and very easily cured and some more serious. Most birth injuries will be avoided by suitable medical care and staying within the most appropriate medical requirements. While certain birth injuries can take place in a natural way, some can be the result of neglect or a mistake of your doctor, in which case you might want to talk with a lawyer.…

School”, Dan Olweus creates his own program to combat the effects of bullying and shares the results by explaining, “Marked reductions-by 50 percent or more-in bully/victim problems for the period studied, measuring after eight and 20 months of intervention” (148). If schools made an effort to start a program with strong efforts and stayed with it, then there could be a major reduction in bullying. Some schools are loose structured but there should be a strong system with clear/strict…

The United States has a problem with overcrowded prisons. This is a problem that has been getting worse every year. Between 1970 and 2010, the number of people incarcerated in the country grew by 700%. (ACLU, 2011) This increase is due to the change to the laws, federal and state, that were put in place to combat the rise of drug use here in the United States. When we look at the numbers of those in prisons, 25% of individuals are imprisoned on drug offenses. The majority of those incarcerated…

such as helping offenders reintegrate into society, provides a cost savings over incarceration, and rehabilitate offenders (Latessa & Smith, 2011, p. 84). There are disadvantages to probation and parole because the offender could commit a crime or harm a victim when they could have been incarcerated instead of out on probation or parole. By the end of 2014, the correctional population declined to the lowest rate observed since 2003 and has continued to decline since 2007 at an average rate…

Microglial cells are the primary component of the central nervous system’s immune response. These cells phagocytize, or swallow, and remove the pathogen-damaged nerve cells. They also activate proinflammatory cytokines which can unintentionally cause harm to healthy cells.1 Some symptoms, especially motor impairment, may persist even after the infection clears due to this damage of the nervous system. Vaccination is the primary means of West Nile Virus prevention in horses. There are currently 4…