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Ali S. Tartacoff Phil 320 Dr. Satris December 15, 2011 * Should Laws Against Drug Use Remain Restrictive? * Both liberals and conservatives hold conflicting views on weather drug prohibition legislation has accomplished its job in curving the problems associated with drug use. Furthermore, they argue weather the current laws, banning drug use, should remain restrictive. After reading both sides of the debate, I believe that laws against drug use should indeed remain restrictive. I believe that they should remain restrictive because less restrictive drug laws are not the solution to our drug problem, and instead, less restrictive laws are an extremely dangerous idea.
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Ethical promotion requires pharmaceutical companies to provide exact product facts, without recommending “off-label” use, i.e., promoting a product outside its specified FDA-approved label and guidelines for distribution, handling, etc. (Public). “Off-label promotion can be prosecuted as a criminal offense because of the potential for serious adverse health consequences to patients from such promotional activities” (Public). Even though the practice of “off-label” pharmaceutical promotion is against FDA regulations, in December of 2010, the well-known drug company Abbott and Elan was fined $41MM and $204 MM in two separate cased for utilizing this practice. In addition, AstraZeneca was fined earlier that year $520 MM in a case involving Seroquel XR (Public).
First, the company leadership knowingly replaced the naturally occurring ingredients with the synthetic ingredients without changing the label on the packaging. This action violated the regulations set in place in the 1960s allowing consumers to have adequate and truthful information about the products they purchase. Second, the chemicals the company used to replace the natural ingredients are known to cause serious physical side effects including heart attacks and strokes. These side effects are a result of the stronger potency of the chemically generated ingredients as opposed to the naturally occurring ingredients the company originally utilized for the products. Finally, there is a dangerous lack of oversight by FDA regulators into the safety violations of companies such as Chemins leading to a reduced rate of public health and safety.
Positions on legalization of drugs are based solely on “fact, speculation, morality, faith and frankly whether or not one uses the drugs in question” (www.edubook.com). Moreover, proponents of change in the existing controls differ among themselves as to the specifics of legalization in each instance. The persistence of the drug abuse problem and the high cost in dollars and frustration of waging the “War on Drugs” helps to energize the ongoing debate of legalizing the use of illicit drugs. It is argued that legalizing substances of abuse would eliminate law enforcement as a major factor in the control of drug abuse; consequently, if consumption and sale of these substances are decriminalized, individuals would decide for themselves whether to buy and use these addicting drugs, much as they already do for alcohol and tobacco (Hanson & Ventrulli pp 75). Few advocates of drug legalization, other than libertarians, propose that heroin or similar opiates be sold to the general public in an over-the-counter mode.
Against Feldman’s Argument Kevin Dong Word Count: 1400 In Feldman’s Epicurus and the Evil of Death, the author rejects Epicurus’ argument that one should not fear death. He claimed that a painful sensation was not the only requirement for something to be considered bad. Not being better off than one could have can also be considered bad. The purpose of my paper is to show that Feldman’s definition of what is bad fails. I will first present Epicurus’ argument and Feldman’s counter argument and explain the latter.
The Legalization of Medical Marijuana Victoria Riley COM/156 April 30th, 2012 Elizabeth Dunham The Legalization of Medical Marijuana "Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." (Abraham Lincoln) Marijuana should be a legalized medical drug because it is a natural plant, reduces pain and also has little to no negative side effects. Marijuana was mentioned in the United States in 1857. A doctor named John Bell wrote in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (Volume.
Joseph A. Califano Jr. "Should Drugs Be Decriminalised? No," British Medical Journal (BMJ), November 10, 2007. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Marijuana: Weeding Out the Hype! Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,