The American people overwhelmingly support the medical use of marijuana and Eighteen States have medical marijuana laws and several more are currently working on medical marijuana legislation. Clearly, the light has been seen by the sick people of America because 2 states have completely legalized it for recreational use just like alcohol. Obviously there will be driving laws and public intoxication laws as there should be. Being stoned in public isn’t good for a person’s image anyway. Once the Judges, Governors, senators and every other political officials have come to an agreement on the controversy, I feel America will become a much healthier, smellier, safer place.
Jennifer Holder Unit 9: The principles of infection prevention and control. Understand the roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infection: 1.1 Employee's are responsible for numerous things in relation to the control and prevention of infection. It is the employee's responsibility to ensure that they protect themselves, colleagues, patients and visitors from infection by adhering to infection control policies. Employee's should always wear the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) for the duty in which they are undertaking and ensuring proper disposal of this PPE as well as infective material or other clinical waste. Ensuring that they have good hand hygeine techniques is also very important when it comes to the prevention and control of infection.
From 2005-2008 three states, NY, CA, & TX, participated in a trial run program by Medicare in which $900 million was regained from errors or fraud. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as of Sept 14, 2011 ruled that the Medicaid Recovery Audit program go into effect. This is a key part of Obama Administration’s plan to reduce waste, fraud and abuse. This audit program will help all states identify and regain improper Medicaid payments. This program will majority be self-funded, paying the auditors fee out of any improper payments they uncover and regain going back 3 years.
About 20,000 people in the United States die from flu complications each year and thousands more need to be hospitalized prior to recovery. Healthy people under the age of 65 usually suffer no long term consequences associated with influenza. Most people will fully recover but they need to follow treatment recommendations. References: Transmission of the flu is usually through direct contact from person to person, such as by shaking hands. Also when an infected person coughs or sneezes, small droplets are formed
The 21st century has been hit with extraordinary events that have ultimately led to the amendments and additions to several laws. Many believe that these new laws are unconstitutional and jeopardize the freedoms, which Americans enjoy. Furthermore, some may go to argue that the most unconstitutional laws are those against Marijuana. Behind tobacco and alcohol, Marijuana has been the most commonly used recreational drug in America for centuries (Morgan and Zimmer). Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States (The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction).
The reason it is such a big problem is because it can lead to over dosing and possible dying. So with all these teens abusing such drugs, groups form to keep these children from losing there lives over such a widely ranged event. The Church of Scientology, founded by L. Ron Hubbard, is one of the groups helping
The misconceptions and false interpretations the press portrayed through television, news papers, and photographs played a major roll in shaping the support the US military had from its own people. Many contributors, such as Walter Cronkite and Edward Adams, of the press damaged the support of the US people due to bias, negative, and misconstrued interpretations of the Tet Offensive. The media portrayed Tet as a North Vietnamese victory, which countered Westmorland’s portrayal of Tet and made US citizens doubt Johnson’s previous statements made regarding the war in campaigns before Tet. The media affected the American public’s opinion of the war in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive to a great
Drug Trafficking in the United States from Mexico Drug trafficking in the United States and Mexico is a huge problem for the United States because it has a negative impact on other areas in society such as crime rates. The government needs to find a solution to better control drug trafficking because it claims lives and destroys families. Research shows Marijuana and Cocaine are the top two most illegally abused drugs in the United States. James Gray (2001) points out: Not only is this drug-money corruption problem of enormous concern in its own right, but additional lawless behavior often is derived from it as well. For example, the entire southern California area was shocked in September 1999 when a former officer of the Rampart Division
There are ways that can help this problem be controlled. There is a number of facts concluding how drugs came here and are affecting other countries as well as ours. There are also times that I have actually witnessed some instances of drug trafficking myself in bad neighborhood that I have visited, also neighborhoods where I have lived that are very dangerous due to drugs being distributed in that area. In about 1969 there were high amounts of marijuana entering the U.S. through Mexico, the U.S. Customs Department starts an Operation Intercept system. Sometime in 1973 Richard Nixon Started the Drug Enforcement Agency, to take a more stronger control on eliminating drugs and the distributes.
Deviancy and drug use go hand in hand. In fact, many consider drugs to be one of the main gateways to some of the worst kinds of deviant behavior, aside from the actual usage of drugs. When I say drugs, I’m talking not only prescription, but synthetic drugs as well, which have now become an apparent issue in smaller towns as opposed to big cities. The key link between drug usage and deviancy is mainly based off of one’s personal perception of what they deem “deviant” and what the user deems “deviant.” But the most deviant factor of all is the fact that is these drugs become so widespread in such a small area, that you have an abundance of negative potential just waiting to go off like a time-bomb. The big problem as of lately with drug usage and small towns, is that the drugs are cheap to boost profit, meaning that the lower price may have a consequence of a more harmful substance, due to certain products being cut with cheaper, more harmful chemicals.