Drug Courts Elizabeth Johnson was a model student. She was characterized by her teachers as hardworking‚ driven‚ and goal oriented. After being placed on the honor roll and graduating early from Morris High School in Will County‚ Illinois‚ she attended Northern Illinois University to become a lawyer. Within her first year at college‚ her life derailed. She was caught by the police and arrested for possession of marijuana. Johnson was expecting to be placed in prison but she found herself in a drug
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In 2013‚ there were approximately 44‚000 deaths related to drug related overdoses. Approximately 16‚000 of those deaths were caused by drug overdoses attributed to prescription pain-medications‚ such as Vicodin‚ hydrocodone‚ and OxyContin (Volkow‚ 2016). Because of this‚ the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stepped in‚ and implemented new regulations that would limit the availability of prescription pain medication (Cherny‚ 2010; Satel‚ 2004). The new regulations restrict the amount of pain-medications
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1. When analyzing the buyer decision process of a traditional Porsche customer I found that they primarily produce sports cars and mainly appeal to a selective market segment of economically stable and target the high class. The company purchases reflect themselves and personal achievement showing the customer why they should buy cars like Porsche. The customers purchase the product because it is a fun car to drive and enjoy and because of the brand name. 2. The traditional Porsche customer decision
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Stephen James Dr. Burgess History 111 Section 010 5 February 2013 Solving the Puritan Dilemma John Winthrop was not only a political leader and organizer for the Massachusetts Bay colony‚ but he was also the leader of forming the idealistic views of the Puritans. Winthrop began his life rich‚ coming from his families wealth‚ enjoying his lavish life and the pleasures that came with it. However‚ while he was under the weather‚ he realized that indulging in these meager worldly pleasures was
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Sunflower Company : Adapting to Changing Market Conditions Problem : Looking ahead‚ there are 4 challanges for Sunflower Company ; Splitting the company up and / or selling a part of the company Retaining people Applying Information Technology Managing counrty or regional economic factors Timeline 1992-1994 : Start of the firm Firm started with 3 employees; founder‚ accountant‚ sales agent. There was high demand and low competition.In early 1990s it was diffucult to gt a loan from a bank‚ by 1994
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Boston Fights Drugs 1. Would you have selected focus groups for your methodology? Why or why not? I would have chosen to do the focus groups out of the three as the methodology for this research as the group did. With the one on one interviews the researchers had to find kids/adolescence that would actually talk to them‚ and be honest about their habits to a complete stranger. This problem would eliminate a majority of the kids‚ but for the ones that were left I think the research would show
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We decided to group all the retail companies together by understanding that a retail company will have a relatively low collection period and then break them down further based upon our knowledge and research of industry averages. We believe that the Department store is represented by column K. The first aspect that caught our attention was the fact that there was a very large amount of inventory‚ which makes sense because a department store will need to have a continuous flow of inventory in
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DEERE COST MANAGEMENT 1. COMPANY INFORMATION 2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Jim Elsey‚ cost management specialist at Deere & Company in Moline‚ Illinois has been reached by Glen Lowery‚ sales manager in the Agriculture Products Division. Glen is concerned that the sales margin for the Conveyor System has decreased the last 3 years. Glen wants Jim look at the costs involved the gatherer chain‚ which is purchased from a single supplier (Saunders Manufacturing)
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America faced a severe drug epidemic. The rise of drug use led to an increase in crime. Incarceration rates nearly tripled due to drug related crimes. The need to address this growing problem led to the drug court movement and the creation of drug courts. Drug courts are special courts that treat offenders with a history of substance abuse addictions by providing supervised treatments and sanctions when needed. This paper will discuss the establishment and goals of drug courts. It will also discuss
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Philadelphia policymakers actively searched for a beneficial solution to their war-on-drugs‚ but remained mindful of the government’s overarching rule and contrasting beliefs. One of the largest disputes between local and federal was the handling of drug-related charges‚ most notably with the sentencing of offenders. The federal government set a precedent of allowing each offender to receive a fair trial‚ but their initial beliefs of strict enforcement were not abandoned. Though each offender would
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