Despite Rhode Island's small size and population, it has very high ratings regarding the use of alcohol and marijuana. ... URI is labeled as a dry campus, which is when the university bans the use of alcohol despite the age of the person. ... College students always go out even if it is during the middle of the week so the drinking rate on these two Rhode Island universities is high. ... Attending a school like Brown and other non-dry campuses have very high drinking rates as well. ...

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Drug use may be down since the 70's but is still on a rise from the early 90's The current reports on illegal drug use have shown that 9.9 percent of youths age 12-17 reported current use of illicit drugs in 1998. ... This is alarming to any employer because of the high liability an abuser could be. ... Acton that middle-school and high-school athletes can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation (New York Times 1995)." ... Since 1995 drug testing in high school athletics has been on a rise. ... This is not fair to a Christia...

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Tax Reform Gore's plans for tax reform benefit the low to middle income citizens. ... The program would reward people who commit to teach in high-need schools and professionals who switch careers to teach. ... Gore also proposes a voluntary high quality preschool available. ... Gore is against raising the retirement age and reduces benefits by privatizing the system. ... Gore plans to guarantee health care and retirement security for all aging veterans. ...

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DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective...

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Substance Use History Patient has denied use of any alcohol or drugs prior to 2007 at the age of 30; when she met her partner who introduced her to methamphetamine. ... She has two younger sibling sisters, both professionals, her middle sister being an alcoholic. ... When she graduated high school, she moved to her own apartment with her siblings and continued to provide care for them. ... She has two younger siblings who suffer from depression with the middle sister also being alcoholic. ... The SASSI has a high degree of validity will show substance use disorder regardless of the patient ...

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Black, white, elderly, middle-aged, rich or poor, we all suffer. ... The extent of drug use is at an all time high. ... According to the government's own reports, 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white and middle class. ... Extremely high usage of marijuana can cause death. ...

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The bong is the biggest and one of the most effective methods to getting high. ... I will also tell what exactly gets the smoker high. ... Playing video games while high is also a popular activity to take part in while high. ... Going to the mall was one of my favorite activities to do while high. ... From 1994 to 1995 the consumption of weed among Americans from the age of 12 jumped from 6 percent of the population to 8.2 percent of the population in 1995. ...

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Michelle and her two siblings were adopted by Betty and Charles Jackson at a young age. ... Michelle has always struggled with her sexuality at a young age. ... Michelle has attachment issues which arise at the age of 2. ... Michelle at the age of 14 started to use drugs excessively. ... There socioeconomic status consist of being middle class citizen, they all have become well establish citizen, owning cars, houses and other assets. ...

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Widespread objection to the use of marijuana remained because of the set of valued and lifestyles associated with it, but use appeared in colleges and among middle-class youths in the suburbs (Himmelstein 103). ... When most people imagine the legalization of marijuana, they fear a marijuana free-for-all with everybody constantly getting high. ... The laws would be similar to the current laws regulating alcohol, including laws governing age, limits for driving, and distribution ("Bring" 13). ... Extremely high doses of cannibinoids cause death. Extremely high doses is the key word here. ...

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He was sent to the maximum security penitentiary in Springville, Alabama; an aging, overcrowded prison filled with murderers and other violent inmates. ... Children of the upper middle class are rarely sent to prison for marijuana offenses today. ... The harshest punishments are given to people who won't cooperate with the government (Schlosser 96).5 Most of the people being imprisoned for marijuana offenses are ordinary people without important information to provide, large assets to trade, or the income to pay for high priced attorney. ...

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Research indicates that although THC (the psychoactive agents in marijuana) may be found in the blood of some automobile drivers in accidents, also found are high levels of alcohol (Cloud 62 ), making in part, these results inconclusive as to the actual cause. ... Heart rate and blood pressure also raise as high as those who are under a great deal of stress. ...

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