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    scabs and fluid oozing from some of the puncture marks). I pointed the marks out to COLIN and he then admitted that he used heroin earlier today around eight in the morning. I told him it was more recent than what he is saying (8AM) and explained the signs and symptoms I was observing would not be noticed if that was his last dose. He then admitted he used the heroin few hours ago and said it was a little before he left to go to Turkey Hill. I questioned him again about smoking synthetic marijuana

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    Over 45 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse public enemy number one, initiating an unprecedented global campaign, the War on Drugs. Today, the War on Drugs is a huge failure, with devastating unintended consequences. It led to corruption, violence, and mass incarceration. It negatively affected the lives of millions of people. All of this while we waste billions of dollars every year only to create and fuel powerful drug cartels. This global conflict has to end. The core

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    Background When dealing with the complication of drug trafficking, infamous people like Joaquín Guzmán (El Chapo) and Pablo Escobar come to mind. What is overlooked is the cultivation, manufacture, and distribution of drugs that contradict and inflict upon the drug probation laws. Major drug trafficking problems arose in the twenty-first century and, are shaping and changing countries’ economies, politics, and organizations to fight it. Moreover, consumption of illicit drugs has skyrocketed over

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    Narcotic Analysis

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    lead to addiction (addiction). Morphine is also used to reduce tension on the patient to be operated on. (d) Heroin is a drug that is very easy to make someone addicted because the effect is very strong. This medicine can be found in the form of pills, powders, and also in liquid form. Heroin has the force two times stronger than morphine and often abused people. Heroin is also called heroin.

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    Juan Medina is a 23 year old Hispanic male who was mandated by the court to receive drug treatment and counseling to avoid serving a jail sentence for drug possession of heroin. Mr. Medina resides with his girlfriend and son in a poor community. Mr. Medina has no high school education because he dropped out of high school in the 10th grade, due to poor academic performance, and suffers from a learning disability. Medina’s addictive behavior history shows that he is a participant in a local gang who

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    gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-crisis) Unfortunately there does not seem to be an end to this epidemic anytime soon. The numbers are unremarkable; natural and semi-synthetic opioids peeked at 14,427, heroin at 15,446 and synthetic opioids other than methadone at 20,145. That is a total of 50,018 deaths for some type

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    frequently deadly narcotic. In the article Sheriff Grady Judd talked about eight people from Polk County who had died this year alone after overdosing on heroin-laced fentanyl, a powerful prescription which its potency is similar that of morphine, and long considered the crème de la crème of painkillers. According to our textbook, this heroin-laced fentanyl, would

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    The Truth Of Drug Addiction

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    Methamphetamine and heroin affects American society negatively. Daniel Pontzer talks about how methamphetamine laboratories are dangerous. The illicit production of methamphetamine is a very dangerous activity. Explosions and fires are a serious risk, especially if the toxic

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    Drugs have been used throughout the world for thousands of years, whereas drug use has existed here in the U.S for a little over a hundred years. Regardless of the time of existance or when and why they were created, drug use is and has always been a major problem throughout our society. From the opium addicts of the late 1800s (The Drug Policy Alliance, 2016), the Rock and Roll heroine addicts of the 1960s and 70s, to the creation of a more affordable cocaine-like drug called "crack" in the 1980

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    engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite the adverse effects. Addiction can be broken down into two areas: substance dependence and behavioural addiction. Substance dependence involves the person being addicted to substances, for example, cocaine, heroin, nicotine and alcohol. On the other hand, behavioural addiction involves the person being addicted to various activities, which include, gambling, sex, exercise or the Internet (Nordqvist, C., 2009). Addicts have no control over the aspects of their

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