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    Marion Jones, stated, “I have never used performance enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I will never take them.” Marion, however, is an anomaly. Many professional athletes often become so entangled in being the best and being on top, they often forget the reason why they fell in love with the sport they play. They become more involved in their personal success rather than the success of the team. Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) have propelled the mindset of personal success over team

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    enhancing drugs are not beneficial for athletes because of legal issues and suspensions, a possibility for an athlete to end their career and ruin their reputation,and long term health risks. Athletes that use P.E.D’s to improve their performance in the sport that they are involved in can get in a lot of legal trouble for using illegal drugs and could get suspended for their sport. Bob Jacobson states in his article “Major League Baseball players suspended for using performance enhancing drugs, April

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    Drugs are bad, m’kay. Drug trafficking is a very serious problem. Simple solutions such as legalization of the drugs to prevent all problems and taxing it to make money off of would be common sense but it doesn’t happen. I know that some drugs aren’t illegal in some states and countries but it hasn’t turned into a problem for them. I am curious to know more about how it affects the economy, why people do it, and what are resolutions for the issue. Most countries have to deal with it everywhere

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    is laid at the feet of the war on drugs by the government. It is the fundamentally ill-advised crusade strongly embraced by administrations and lawmakers of both parties at all government levels (Clarence 200). From the start, the war on drugs appears to have been neglecting the rights of people with African Americans and other minorities being affected negatively. Among the other depredations, it is the war that has spawned the racist profiles of the apparent drug couriers. Currently, the law enforcers

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    The War on Drugs

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    The war on drugs began in the United States in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared war. President Nixon increased the number of federal drug control agencies, increased mandatory sentences for drug offenders, and utilized no-knock warrants in attempt to get the problem under control. It has been over forty years since President Nixon declared a war on drugs. Did America win the war on drugs? Is it time to legalize illicit drugs in this country? What are other countries doing in reference

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    serious about winning the war on drugs, it will have to face some hard facts about the failure of its drug policy to date. Since Reagan introduced the war on drugs in the early 1980s, the focus of anti-drug legislation has been on incarceration and eradication, not on drug education and treatment. Drug use is viewed as a crimethe same way that burglary and murder are viewed as crimeswithout examining the social and economic causes behind drug use. This categorization of drug use as criminal misrepresents

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    Drug Laws

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    The War on Our Soil Drugs are not a new concept. They have been around since the B.C. Era. However it was not until recently that drugs were even considered illegal. In the late eighteen hundreds the first drug law was passed in the states. Before that in 1762, Virginia awarded bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and forced punishments upon those who did not harvest it. The U.S. does not have the best drug policies. There are other countries they could defiantly take notes from. However

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    Colombia Drug Policy

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    The US Approach in Colombia As the United States is one of the largest drug consumers in the world they view drugs particularly cocaine as a threat to US national security that undermines US economy, value, and identity. With this in mind, the US uses an approach that assumes that if there is no supply then there would be no demand, contradicting the capitalist concept of supply-demand. US drug policy is divided into two groups from policies of control to policies of aid. In Colombia, the United

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    prescription of drugs by dental practitioners has become an important and critical aspect of any dental practice. Most dental related situations require pharmacological along with procedural treatments, particularly when managing pain and infections. In most dental schools, pharmacology classes seldom cover drug-prescribing topics.This study aims to assess the errors of dental students at clinical levels and interns in regards to drug prescription and the profile of prescribed drugs. Methods: A self-administrated

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    Executive Summary Efforts to decrease drug dependency and drug-related crime in the United States have had the opposite effect, introducing increasing levels of crime and drug use within its population. The war on drugs has been lost as more drugs continue to be smuggled across the borders, increasing number of people are using drugs illegally, and violence in the streets continues to climb. A number of arguments have been made in favor of legalizing some less harmful drugs, such as marijuana, as a means

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