Essays Tagged: "JAMA"
Should Marijuana Be Legalized for Medical Purposes
July of 1995, one month after "Marijuana as Medicine- A Plea for Reconsideration" was published in JAMA, the Department of Health and Human Services held its first research conference on marijuana. A ... or Heroin to Sick people". In this claim, the DEA makes contradictory claims to those published in JAMA by Dr. Grinspoon. The DEA claims that "Not one American health association accepts marijuana as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Legaliize marijuana
vidence of damage to the brain (Hager 1). In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) conducted two studies in 1977 and they showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of ma ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Review of Article "studies of sleep in strange places"
ticle but still awsome teacher loved it and gave me extra creditA.P. Bio Article ReviewBibliography:Jama, Studies of Sleep in Strange Places May Benefit People with Common Ills, American Medical Assoc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Policy Issue: Legalizing Marijuana
vidence of damage to the brain (Hager 1). In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) conducted two studies in 1977 and they showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of ma ... showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana (Hager 1). Later that same year the JAMA came out in favor of the legalization of marijuana (Hager 1). If marijuana did cause brain dama ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Got Green? An argumentitive essay about the legalization of marijuna
cutting down the damage done to the lungs. In 1979 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) conducted two studies, both showing no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana (H ... th showing no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana (Hanger 1). Later that same year JAMA stated it was in favor of the legalization of marijuana. The American Journal of Public Health ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Islam in contemporary Pakistan
e majority of the Pakistani population belongs. The minority of the population, however, belongs to Jama'at-i Islam, which strictly following shari'a law . Sufism is the spiritual search which involve ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
ADD/ADHD: Personality Type or Neurological Disorder? A refutation on the misdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD
American Medical Association published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that reviewed data from 1975 through March 1997 from the National Library of Medicine's databa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Marijuana myths. an informing paper on the myths the government tells about the use of marijuana
. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American M ... n of small amounts of marijuana should no longer be a crime (TIME magazine, July 19, 1982). The two JAMA studies are: Co, B.T., Goodwin, D.W., Gado, M., Mikhael, M., and Hill, S.Y.: "Absence of cerebr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Is the Widespread Use of Day Care Harming Our Children?
he sites in her opening paragraph a 1992 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), that states: In the course of one year of full-time day-care, a middle-class white male toddl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Challenges with Obesity
s According to CDC (2001), a recent study found in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated that from 1991 to 2000 there was a 61 percent increase in the number of Americans who a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Healthcare Professional Loan Repayment Program in Relation to Nursing
rs. A study published in the July 2000, in an issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) predicts that 40% of nurses by 2010 will be 50 years old or older."(Buerhaus, Staiger, & A ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Risk Mangement
A procedures."According to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), over 225,000 people die each year due to medical malpractice and nearly half of these are fro ... third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. The JAMA article also broke down the following medical malpractice statistics: 12,000 deaths/year from u ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Faith and Spirituality
ll studies reviewed in the June 16, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that many patients want physicians to consider their spiritual needs; in one study, 48 p ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality