Proposal. Medical benefits and overall disadvantages of using cocaine

choose a topic about the critical evaluation addressing 2 or more sides of current debate or controversy involving recreational or medicinal drug use; please ensure your topic is related to psychoactive drugs (i.e.,

NOT antibiotics, anti-cancer drugs, blood thinners etc.). just write a proposal and I will give you the example for the proposal can help you understand. but you need to choose a different topic, can not use the same topic.

The purpose of the essay is two-fold:
1. to increase your understanding of an issue that is of personal interest or relevance based on
empirical, scientific evidence;
2. to demonstrate your ability to synthesize this information into a COHERENT ARGUMENT.
The essay is neither a report (i.e., no point form) nor a literature survey (i.e., exhaustive coverage of an issue). Rather it is designed to promote a critical analysis of more than one side of a current debate or unresolved question using selected journal articles and chapters in edited texts.* Apart from this requirement, the topic of the essay is up to you.
The PubMed database http://www(dot)ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pubmed provides abstracts of articles from peerreviewed scientific journals. This is an excellent resource that you can use to find relevant information
for your assignment (i.e., use key words - author, topic, title - to search published scientific abstracts).
Google Scholar (not Google) https://scholar(dot)google(dot)ca/ is another resource you can use for more
socially-oriented articles that do not appear in PubMed.
In many cases, the abstract will suffice for reporting a key finding or assertion. You may only need the full article in one or two cases (e.g., to describe research methodology or a particular sample of research participants). Students should restrict their sources to articles or books listed on these 2 websites to ensure that they are legitimate peer-reviewed publications.

*You should plan to read and incorporate a minimum of 5 journal articles or published chapters; there is no maximum number of articles but I would advise against using more than 20. Information from Internet web-sites, unlike journal articles, is not subject to peer review and therefore may be invalid. Accordingly, I will only allow such information to be used to amplify a particular point but not to support the foundation of an argument. When reporting a research finding, cite the author(s) and year of the publication immediately after you state the finding in the body of your paper, "…some investigators have suggested that knowledge is less important than the belief that you are knowledgeable (Smith, Jones, & Brown, 2000)