Office of National Drug Control Policy

developed by the Industrial Revolution. First and foremost, the Progressive Era was one that sought to reform economic problems, of which included corporate regulation, or trust-busting. This time period saw a slight change in the laissez-faire economic policy that had existed in time before, the new alarmingly corrupt wealth of large corporations needing regulation. Document 1 depicts Theodore Roosevelt “killing” off bad trusts, effectively keeping good trusts in line. A progressive himself,…

an anti-sodomy regulation that he had been fragmented so his argument that it was his constitutional right to privacy was ignored. The clause which protected his rights to privacy in the Constitution covered other issues including abortions, birth control, and interracial marriage but did not conceal homosexual actions according to the Court. This case received a significant amount of attention because gay right issues had just been introduced and quickly became a controversial topic. In this…

is an important part of the processes put in place to decrease criminal activity. Community leaders and police agencies agree that improvement in police legitimacy and trust is required to counteract the effects of crime on society. Departmental policies and procedures must focus on accountability and transparency as well as changing the police culture that influences their decision-making process through the rude language they use and the implicit biases that lead them to rely on…

Imagine a time when, “a factory could spew black clouds of toxic (gases) into the air or dump tons of toxic waste into a nearby stream, and that be perfectly legal. They could not be taken to court to stop it. How was this possible? There were no legal or regulatory mechanisms to protect the environment” (EPA History). The EPA is an environmental group that has made a substantial difference in protecting wildlife and the Earth. The Environmental Protection Agency has benefitted the environment…

government. However, as they are either caught or turn themselves into border control, they realize they will only receive a break from violence at home in exchange for a year-long…

Newtown, Connecticut at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. That day, 20 children and 6 staff perished at the hands of a disturbed young man (Gius). Thus pushing more people to question, how can we prevent this from happening repeatedly? What laws or policies can we implement to help protect our most precious thing, our…

Gorbachev came to power as the head of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and during his time in office he introduced a series of reforms which were seen to contribute to the communist bloc’s disillusion. His primary reforms were economic and political, but the policies associated with Gorbachev were glasnost (publicity, openness), perestroika (restructuring), uskorenie (acceleration) and demokratizatsaiia (democratisation). The reforms were so destabilising as the economic reforms were…

United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Research, in 2013 twenty-eight percent of Canadian Children aged 11 to 15 admitted to using cannabis at least once in the past year. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) (2016b) reported as much as 7% of adolescents smoke marijuana every single day; making Canadian youth top cannabis consumers. Article 33 of the UNCRC states that governments should use all means possible to protect children from use of harmful drugs (United Nations, 1989); the…

Christianna Prokop Dr. Catharin Dalpino Global Policy Challenges December 3, 2014 Human Trafficking in the United States Human trafficking is a phenomenon that transcends not only borders, but also culture, race, gender, socio-economic class and age. Whether it be as a point of origin, transit or destination, human trafficking affects nearly every country around the globe, and is becoming increasingly more pervasive as time goes on. It is an issue that needs to be dealt with swiftly,…

nurses give holistic care to their patients. They examine the nurse as an individual and as professional (Van Sell and Kalofissudis, 2010). Nurses have become coordinators of care, healthcare coaches, and navigators of the healthcare system. With the national initiative to improve the access of quality care, nursing is a multidimensional system of patterns that influences multiple facets of individuals and organizations. It is constantly evolving to meet the needs of patients, healthcare…