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The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost.
Kleptomania is the inability to resist the urge to steal items, usually for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse control disorder. [2]
Crime opportunity theory suggests that offenders make rational choices and thus choose targets that offer a high reward with little effort and risk. The occurrence of a crime depends on two things: the presence of at least one motivated offender who is ready and willing to engage in a crime, and the conditions of the environment in which that offender is situated, to wit, opportunities for crime.
The addict suffers from psychological dependence and some may suffer from physical dependence. [42] Helping an individual stop using drugs is not enough. Addiction treatment must also help the individual maintain a drug-free lifestyle, and achieve productive functioning in the family, at work, and in society.
There is a science to the art of the scam. If you can spot the fraudster's 'tells', you can avoid becoming a victim.
Thieves broke into an Eli Lilly (LLY) storage building in Enfield, Conn., and stole as much as $75 million in prescription drugs, according to local police. The action took place during heavy ...
A social psychological perspective suggests that compulsive buying may be seen as an exaggerated form of a more normal search for validation through purchasing. [40] Also, pressures from the spread of materialist values and consumer culture over the recent decades can drive people into compulsive shopping.
An emergency department nurse accessed a hospital’s locked drug cabinet over 400 times to steal opioids that were meant for nearly 300 patients, federal prosecutors said.