... use of marijuana say there are traditional medications to help patients and marijuana is not needed. Supporters of marijuana legalization answer that for many patients, traditional medications do work and they do not require or desire medical marijuana. However, for a significant number of serious ill patients, including patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and chronic pain ... among others, traditional medications do not provide symptomatic relief as effectively as medicinal cannabis.7 Dronabinol (trade name Marinol) is a legal, synthetic THC alternative to cannabis...

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... E. 2003). Substance abuse is a major health concern in the United States, with annual treatment costs in the billions of dollars (Benson, E. 2003). It is also a social ill manifested in family problems, lost productivity, and crime. While the number of heroin dependents is increasing at an alarming rate, a previously unrecognized opiate dependency is moving to the forefront ... prescription painkillers (opiates, narcotics). Chronic pain sufferers, surgical patients, sickle-cell patients, and cancer patients seeking relief from pain are prescribed pain medication by their physicians and s...

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... same way. The drug lobbyists ask for legalization on the platform of marijuana for cancer patients and other sufferers of disease. The advocates for the war on drugs feel that the drug lobby is exploiting the ill and dying to get their foots in the door for the legalization of the recreational use ... marijuana use needs to be seriously looked at. Marijuana is an effective means of overcoming the nausea and vomiting that goes hand in hand with cancer patients and HIV positive citizens living in the United States of America, or anywhere for that matter. It is useful in many spastic conditi...

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... been many years since the event took place, Willow brook, a hospital for the mentally was discovered to be a place where horrific treatment of patients took place. However, it is important to mention that dysfunction does not have to take place at such a large scale. In any environment where those who are ... ill are subject to anything less than superior client service, serious ramification can occur. Titelman (2012) citing Bowen (1978) establishes that when people are brought together ... is simple. If the funds are secured or an alternative plan to increase facility size is formulat...

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... while being on seven different medications. After beginning treatment using medical marijuana, her seizures decreased to two or three per month. (Grupta, 2013) follows up with, "I have seen more patients like Charlotte first hand, spent time with them and come to the realization that it is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that ... about the lack of consistency in composition of marijuana and the side effects. There is a widely held belief that medicinal marijuana is being predominantly used by those who are not ill, but want legal protection...

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... according to the seriousness of the potential damage to health which may be caused by the use or abuse of the drug in question. Addicts of marijuana are regarded as patients rather than criminals. Accordingly, a comprehensive, differentiated set of preventive measures and care facilities has been established. The judicial authorities have always followed the principle that drug addicts should undergo medical ... waste of scarce federal dollars that should be used to target violent crime. Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for the medical use of marijuana. The tens of thousands of ...

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... pharmacologic effects as morphine and to be just as addictive. In many parts of the world, it is used as an analgesic (for relief of pain), particularly for the terminally ill. Although in the United States the manufacture and importation of the drug are prohibited and it is not used medically, heroin predominates in illicit narcotics traffic because it provides more ... vocational services. Treatment may include detoxification, therapy, and support groups, such as the 12-step groups Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Cocaine Anonymous. Nonresidential programs serve the larg...

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