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…and support for drug and alcohol problems, mental health and child and family issues, the Department of Community Services which monitors child abuse within families, the Family Court deals specifically with the legal issues of family breakdowns. SOCIETAL…

…Cannabis Over the centuries, drugs have been regulated, legalized and placed under prohibition. Cannabis, which can be used in many positive ways, unfortunately can also be abused as a drug. This drug is being battled over both politically…

…        Steroids         Drugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy…

…BANNING EPHEDRINE When 16-year-old Sean, a high-school football player, began taking a product called Yellow Jackets he obviously never knew the drug’s fatal effects. Yet, as he sat on the bench doubled over with stomach pain and a headache, he knew…

…. “… detectives were catching an average of 200 shoplifters, mostly young people, per week…” (Whittemore 274). Haight-Ashbury had turned into a haven for drug abuse and crime, completely abolishing the original message of the community and of the music. “The kids…

…is considered to be a drug that can be easily abused (www.NORML.com). The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also known as NORML, has made attempts to get the Drug Enforcement Agency to reschedule marijuana, but have been rejected at all…

…of resistance could be drug abuse. There are people who believe that when they get sick, antibiotics are the answer. The more times you use a drug, the more it will decrease the effect it has on you. That is because the bacteria has found a way to avoid the effects…

…in penitentiaries without being reported or resolved. In our penitentiaries, problems like rape, racism, gangs, robbery, assault, extortion, drug abuse and murder within the walls of the prisons are cries so serious that they are deteriorating the American correctional…

…movement was instigated as a reaction to the political and corporate abuses created by the Industrial Revolution,. Religious groups, members of the press, and radical political groups had all been hungering for reform, with solutions ranging from subtle changes…

…risk of committing suicide. The mental health of prisoners is also affected by the hostile prison environment. This is especially expected given than many prisoner have been subjected to a lifetime of physical, mental and sexual abuse. With the continuation…