Prevention Of HIV Transmittance To Babies
.... own
medical needs with those of their infants. Other concerns of activists that
were voiced were that they don't want laws, policies or medical care imposed on
women merely as "vectors" who may transmit HIV to their infants.
The new guidelines recommend that all pregnant women should receive HIV
counseling and testing. These guidelines are aimed at helping pregnant women
know their HIV status early so that medical care, including zidovudine (Retrovir,
known as AZT, Burroughs Welcome Co., Research Tri .....
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Drugs: How Danagerous Is It?
.... leaves of the plant. They must be cooked in some
sort of fat. Marijuana is fat soluble, and for the reason, must be cooked in
butter, lard, milk, or other substance. A new method is being tested. It
includes "baking" the marijuana under a flame without burning it. It is nearly
the same as smoking it, but there is no smoke, which may limit the chance of
lung cancer. Yet is this drug safe? No. The short term effects, besides the
calmness are the following: temporary memory loss, rapid heart beat, and .....
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Is Marijuana Dangerous To Your Physical Health?
.... behind this mysterious
plant.
In this paper, the researcher will explore whether or not marijuana is
harmful to your physical health. It will be shown that marijuana is popular and
that many people may not know what they are taking into their bodies. It will
be shown just what parts of the body marijuana effects and how it effects them.
The main purpose of this collection of information is to see just what marijuana
does to the body and to determine whether the effects are good, bad, or a
combinati .....
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Marajuana: Effects And After Effects
.... are in the early stages of
intoxication and sleepy or stuporous is in the later stages. Forgetfulness in
conversation, inflammation in the whites of the eyes and the pupils unlikely to
be dilated are in the la
It is still undetermined whether light doses of marijuana has long term
effect. Some short term effects are; it causes a higher heart rate, reddened
eyes, clumsiness, and blunt reflexes.
The physical effects of marijuana use, particularly on developing
adolescents, can be acute. .....
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes
.... had
invested heavily in both paper production and the use of cotton. In 1936 Dupont
joined Hearst and using scare tactics and effective lobbying were able to ban
the growth, sale, and use of Marijuana.
Besides denying the public of the use of Marijuana as a textile, food
source, and alternative energy source, these large companies selfishly robbed
many sick people of a drug that can help them. Marijuana can be used to combat
glaucoma, epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, back pain, asthma, rheumatism, arthriti .....
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About Medical Marijuana
.... appetite caused by the disease itself and by treatment with AZT and
other drugs.
Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and
slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damages vision by
gradually increasing eye pressure over time, is the leading cause of blindness
in the United States.
Multiple Sclerosis: Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spasticity caused by
the disease. It may also relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait, and it helps
some p .....
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Use Of Marijuana As Medicine
.... of THC,
the active chemical in marijuana. However, this synthetic drug, called Marinol,
is useless for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the
whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's
so out of it.” (3/25/97) In addition to that, Marinol only comes in pill form,
which makes it useless fo .....
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Garlic As Medicine
.... problems, such as heartburn.
Garlic's strong aromatic action helps cleanses the body's lings, and
skin. To help reduce the strong odor of garlic; it has been suggested to eat
gresh parsly. To elimate the odor of garlic from the mouth (breath).
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Permeability Of Hydrophilic
.... similar to the small intestine. In transport studies
2/4/A1 cell line monolayers selectively restricted the permeation of hydrophilic
permeability markers proportional to molecular weight and discriminated more
accurately between the molecules of intermediate molecular weight compared to
Caco-2 cells.
These results indicated that 2/4/A1 cells could be used as a model for
hydrophilic drug absorption.
INTRODUCTION
The small intestine plays a crucial role in the absorption of drugs and
nutrients. Exog .....
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Ritalin
.... Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stands tall as America's
number one psychiatric disorder (Hancock 52). Estimates suggest that more than
two million children live with the disorder; in addition, according to Dr.
Daniel Safer of Johns Hopkins University, over 1.3 million regularly consume
Ritalin for treatment of ADD (Hancock 52). Ritalin appears to be a popular
choice for doctors, but the daily effects of the drug, which family physicians
do not see, creates questions as to how well the dr .....
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Ritalin
.... use. It is a Schedule II Controlled Substance under both the Federal
and Vermont Controlled Substance Acts. Ritalin is primarily used in the
treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) (Bailey 1995).
ADHD is a condition most likely based in an inefficiency and inadequacy
of Dopamine and Norepinephrine hormone availability, typically occurring when a
person with ADHD tries to concentrate. Ritalin improves the efficiency of the
hormones Dopamine and Norepinephrine, increasing the res .....
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Ritalin And Its Uses
.... ADHD in 1981. It is also used in
treating narcolepsy. It is thought to activate the brain stem arousal system
and cortex, and, like cocaine, works on the neurotransmitter dopamine. It
appears to increase the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where attention
and impulsive actions are regulated. When taken in its intended form under a
doctor's prescritption, it has moderate stimulant properties. There has been a
great deal of concern about it's addictive qualities and adverse affects.
ADHD is a .....
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The Dark Side Of A Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection Of Testimony On The Safety Of Ritalin
.... board of education, the number of medications dispensed to students
by office administrators has increased 20 per cent over the past 18 months. A
good chunk of those pills are Ritalin. "We always worry that we're a half-step
away from giving someone the wrong dosage," says John Beatty, the board's
superintendent of school operations(Ritalin Boy). "In certain school systems
there's been a teacher who has seen it work and they'll start suggesting it as
an option for all children who are acting out, .....
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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
.... kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some .....
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized For Medical Purposes?
.... by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). A drug's scheduling under
Federal law is determined “according to [its] effects, medical uses, and
potential for abuse” (Claim V). In this classification system, marijuana is a
Schedule I drug, grouped with heroin, LSD, hashish, methaqualone, and designer
drugs. These are drugs having “unpredictable effects, and [causing] severe
psychological or physical dependence, or death” (Claim V).
A closer analysis of the DEA's Federal Scheduling system r .....
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