Global Spending On Drug Law Enforcement Currently Exceeds

One would be the social cost of the war on drugs on the economy in a finical perspective. The amount of money being spent and put into the war on drugs including on law enforcement comes with a price. Creating new regulations, strategies, and team of specialized drug law enforcement, the amount of money being spent can easily exceed set budgets. Another social cost is the lack of focus on other social issues that suffer due to spending on the war on drugs. This means that there are less programs and

and practices today. Of the nearly 2.1 million adult men and women imprisoned in the United States, roughly 70% are persons of color (Minton, 2012). Within the criminal justice system, people of color are imprisoned disproportionately due to racist laws, are denied access to the rehabilitative options given to Whites, and are harassed and mistreated by U.S. agencies. Although people of

PFIZER INC. BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Pfizer Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company that creates and manufactures products for both humans and animals. Pfizer is headquartered in New York City and employs about 115,000 people. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Pfizer currently has ten different divisions and promotes thirty-one different major products. The divisions and largest major products within each group are: Cardiovascular and Metabolic

Executive Summary The drone age is coming per Galeotti . It has been estimated that annual spending on drones around the world will almost double to $11.4 billion by 2022. New technology has been driven by the military, and drones are critical to military operations. Due to changing times, drone use is rapidly adjusting to commercial use by civilians. This drone revolution has massive implications, ranging from legal and moral to economic and geopolitical. It will be a deeply disruptive technology

International Trade Administration The International Trade Administration (ITA) has as its mission the creation of economic opportunity for U.S. workers and firms by promoting international trade, opening foreign markets, ensuring compliance with trade laws and agreements, and supporting U.S. commercial interests at home and abroad. To learn more about the ITA, write to: International Trade Administration, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, or visit the ITA’s

the Social Security Act (Title XIX) included the regulations and implementation standards for Medicaid. Medicaid is a federal program that was established in 1965 under the Title XIX law. This law detailed and described the roles of both the federal and state government in the administration of Medicaid. Federal laws outlined the overall components of the program with mandated and optional inclusions: payment limits, beneficiary eligibility requirements, amount of coverage for medical services and

According to the Clinical Leadership & Management Review, (2008) healthcare spending is currently taking up 16.2 percent of our nation’s economy. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, cost is expected to rise to twenty percent by 2015. Nearly, seventy percent of medical decisions are based on laboratory tests, yet the costs of lab tests account for only four percent of the total in health care costs. Annual sales for clinical laboratory testing in the U.S. in 2001 were thirty-five

mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other disease by 2015.(WHO, 2008). The challenge for meeting this deadline of goals was perceived as emergent and had a powerful effect for transforming the long-standing problem of global public health. It was perceived that globalization was putting the social cohesiveness of many countries under stress and that the health systems as key constituents of our contemporary societies were clearly not performing as well as they could and

and medical devices are necessary for the maintenance of good health, a significant decrease in use is not likely. The largest threat of substitutes comes from generic pharmaceuticals. Once a drug loses patent protection, associated revenue usually rapidly falls. One way to mitigate the effect of generic drugs would be to develop more compounds with lower sales, perhaps by targeting more precise conditions. A similar threat of substitutes is

collaboration bring new power and influence to individuals across borders and transform the nature of their relationships with global organizations. As in the past, these developments underscore and reinforce the importance of understanding different cultures, national systems, and corporate management practices around the world. Students and managers now recognize that all business is global and that the world is now interconnected not only geographically but also electronically and psychologically; it is