Homeopathic Remedies
.... And are they safe?
Our modern culture holds an affinity for nature, which may be a reason for the growing popularity of naturopathy. Naturopathy is a medicine that was conceived in the United States about a century ago. It is somewhat of a smorgasbord of medical practices. Naturopathy ascribes to six unifying principals: The healing power of nature. The body will strive to heal itself the physician must remove that which prevents it. Treat the whole person. Not only must their physical n .....
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Performance Enhancing Drugs
.... during her illustrious track and field career. Another reason is many health risks, many not resulting in death though. These include stoppage of growth, loss of bodily functions, dehydration, and many more. Plus, these drugs are illegal in sports. Many are available only through a doctor’s prescription for certain diseases.
The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using performance enhancing drugs is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their .....
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The Process Of Changing A Newborns Diaper
.... to set up the area in which you will be changing the newborn. It should be soft yet washable. Sometimes things can get a little messy and you will want to be able to disinfect. Put all these supplies at easy access to you where you will be changing the newborn. Make sure supplies are at the foot of the changing area. This will keep little hands from reaching them. All the cellophane should be off the packages. Take the diapers out of the packaging and stack them at a hand's reach. You should no .....
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Mental Disorders
.... and treatment were developed(3).
Classification.
The division of mental disorders into classes is still inexact, and classification varies from country to country. For official record-keeping purposes, most countries follow the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). For clinical use in the U. S., the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 adopted a third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III); an extensive revision (DSM-III-R) w .....
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Teen Drug Use In The United States
.... and unique ways.
Depressants for instance, as well as stimulants, effect the central nervous system and the brain by blocking the nervous tissue. Some common depressants include any type of sleeping medication, anti-depressants, marijuana, and inhalants. These drugs are known to relax you. They put you in a mild comfortable stage of euphoria. Stimulants may include anything from cocaine to any sort of amphetamines; and to a much lesser degree, caffeine as well as nicotine. These types of drug .....
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Medical Uses Of Marijuana
.... (DEA).
However, the medical use of marijuana has been gaining respectability. Several states have research programs of their own and some governors, including Republican William Weld of Massachusetts, openly endorse medical legalization. The editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome Kassirer, lambasted the Clinton administration in an editorial entitled, "Federal Foolishness and Marijuana," that received national attention. "To prohibit physicians from allev .....
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
.... explained in the video "The World of Personality Disorders volume 5" says the sociopath is "emotionally retarded" .
The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and .....
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Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
.... factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened to appear on an IQ, Mary would be considered the smarter one. But when presented w .....
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
.... anxiety disorder (GAD) became an identifiable mental disorder with a DSM-IV diagnosis. The diagnostic criteria for GAD are:
A. Unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry about life
circumstances for a period greater than 6 months, during
which this person has been bothered by these concerns for
more days than not.
B. The person has difficulty controlling the anxiety and
worrying.
C. The anxiety and worry are associated with at least 3
of the following symptoms:
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Factors That Influence Drug Addiction
.... alcohol did not exist there couldn’t conceivably be a drug addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isn’t their existence that effects the addiction, but how readily available to the addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during the war, are an excellent example of how availability strengthens the addiction process. Opiates were very easy to obtain in Vietnam, and as a result ten percent of our soldiers tested positive for heroine use during the war. Upon thei .....
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Autism
.... retarded people. They don't seem aware that people are around them, including family members. Another thing that separates them from the mentally retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only .....
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The Dangers Of Smoking
.... other dangers that relate to this habit are passive smoking and underage smokers. Since 1964 there have been an estimated 3000 deaths caused by second hand smoke. This is kind of scary to me, considering how many firends that I hang out with that smoke. Another problem is that young people start smoking cigarettes way too early. Around 80% of adult smokers said that they started to smoke sometime before their 18 birth day. The reason that this is such a big problem is that nearly 3000 chi .....
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The Dangers Of Cigarettes
.... smoke after only one cigarette and after a couple you couldn’t even see, which would also get my parents mad. My garbage would be filled with ashes and cigarettes. The ash tray would get filled up and get knocked over and cause a mess.
Cigarettes would also cause an inconvenience since all the time I would have a cigarette my throat would get dry. The dryness would cause me to get up for a drink or if I was out somewhere, I would have to buy something to drink. I also hated the thought of wealthy, .....
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AIDS
.... death among adults, individuals are now taking more precautions with sexual intercourse, and medical facilities are screening blood more thoroughly. Even though HIV (Human Immune deficiency Virus) can be transmitted through sharing of non sterilize needles and syringes, sexual intercourse, blood transfusion, and through most bodily fluids, it is not transmitted through casual contact or by biting or blood sucking insects.
Causes
HIV is primarily a sexually transmitted disease, it is transmitted by .....
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Dyslexia
.... person was able to write but was still unable to read. When the brains of these patients were studied they reveled hemorrhages (Copper 1).
Another early case of dyslexia was reported in 1895. Dr. Pringle Morgan diagnosed Percy a fourteen year-old boy with congenital word blindness. Percy was described as bright, healthy and skilled at mathmatics. He, apparently, however had difficulty reading and writing. In 1897 several cases similar to that of Percy were investigated. In 1900 Hinshelwood describ .....
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