Office of National Drug Control Policy

cases have grown to phenomenal levels. High-profile criminal cases receive national media attention during the investigatory and pretrial proceedings and typically involve the following types of cases: cases with sordid facts which appeal to the nation's voyeuristic tendencies; cases in which the nature of the crime is heinous; cases in which defendants are celebrities; and cases in which the victims are famous. The national media coverage that these cases receive increases the. As a result, the…

established, the Original Department of Education came to be in 1867. This board surveyed and collected information on the current schooling and in which ways it could improve. About 20 years late the Second Morrill Act was established, giving the Office of Education the authority to running land-grant colleges. A significant event in the history of education is the passing of the GI Bill in 1944, which allowed for a secondary education to the soldiers coming back from war. About 20 years after…

Relations Under President Barack Obama Administration: Immigration and Border Policy The United States (U.S.) and Mexico are known having a strong and vital diplomatic relations, which both states share a border of 2,000-mile long and have a strong bilateral relation which directly impacting the lives of millions of Americans, including the issues of trade and economic reform, education exchanges, citizen security, drug control, entrepreneurship, innovation, environment, and also migration…

Today, the ICA’s National President is Liz Wall. The ICA has over 10,000 members and it aims to bring women together through common interests such as cooking, travelling, socialising and sewing, threading embroidery or creating other such crafts. In historic times it focused…

campuses. According to the findings on gun control policies in schools by author and activist, Dr. Finley, it is a fact that "the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act required…

A 2004 interview with Dr. Mollie Fry led to the statement, “If a doctor is willing to give you a prescription for a drug that is addictive or could kill you, then why should you not be able to choose a non-toxic drug like marijuana?” This is the problem in the United States and in Pennsylvania; patients of painful diseases do not have a safe and effect way to manage the pain. The outcome goal is to reduce suffering in these patients by allowing the sick to use marijuana as a means of dealing…

3. History of Legislation Before the 1960s, there was no specific definition for mental health in insurance policies (Lindstrom, 2014). Mental health and overall health care were not distinguished by employee-sponsored insurance. The benefits of overall health care rarely included mental health. Consequently, plans began leaving out mental health coverage completely. In the 1970s and 1980s, plans that still implemented mental health began including more restrictions. Many people suffering…

for them. According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2017, Louisiana had 84 out of 107 cases that were classified as sex and labor and sex trafficking (National Human Trafficking Hotline). While these statistics are not groundbreaking or specific to the city of New Orleans, it caused me to question the amount of cases that…

This policy analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereinafter referred as PPACA) begins by identifying major stakeholders and political implications. Next, it explores PPACA as health policy and reveals new possibilities of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The issues of ethics, personal privacy, and personal rights are discussed before a brief ‘lessons learned’ review of historical health policies. Finally, this paper closes with a health policy analysis of…

slavery, defined citizenship and protected all Americans, and extended suffrage to all men. The Freedman’s Bureau/Civil Rights Act also helped blacks play a role in the governments, economies and society by allowing them to be elected to political office. White America found it difficult to accept the fact that African Americans could ever be considered their equal and during the period that begun around 1877 that picked up steam during the early twentieth century, the Black Codes gave a major…