Essays on Drug Testing
Drug testing involves the use of chemical analysis to determine whether or not a person has taken a certain drug or drugs. It is very possible to test for the use of just one type of drug, but most of the time many drugs are usually tested at the same time using one single sample....
Since drug use has become a common theme throughout sport there has been frequent debate on how it should be governed and handled. Drug testing in sport has been everywhere since 1968 (Mottram D., 2005), when the International Olympic committee instituted the first compulsory drug tests in Grenoble, France. Over the last 50 years, the...
MDMA (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a psychoactive drug that is mainly used recreationally. The effects begin within 30-45 minutes when taken orally and can last from 3 to up to 6 hours (National Institute of Drug Abuse, 2017). A neurotransmitter is a chemical message that can affect various physical and psychological functions such as heart rate, sleep,...
Joseph Pham, 23 years of age, Diana Nguyen, 21 years of age, Callum Brosnan, only 19 years of age and my son, nineteen year old Alex Ross-King are some of the latest victims of drug deaths at recent music festivals. Each had very different circumstances, Alex took just one pill that he believed was ecstasy...
With the rise of cannabis use, there has been a subsequent increase in the legalization of the recreational and medical use of the drug in select states. Consequently, the need to reevaluate the current pre-employment drug screening processes is apparent. Cannabis is legal in eleven states for people over the age of twenty-one, and legal...
In the last five years alone, ten lives have been cut short from drug overdoses at music festivals. With around 7.3 million drug users in Victoria alone, the rising amount of O.D.’s at music festivals is a problem that cannot be swept under the rug. How can we stop these children from dying before their...