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- 2071: Medical Uses Of Marijuana
- ... interview, "was a political maneuver designed to move the debate off center stage-it probably could be done in 18 days." In February, the NIH held its workshop, organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and workshop participants initially promised to submit their recommendations for further research to Varmus by the end of March. Ever since the 1930s and the era of "Reefer Madness," when marijuana acquired both a ... better than from the use of Compazine, the rise of recreational marijuana use in the 1960s. Marijuana had long been known to promote appetite, and in a 1980 congressional hearing titled "Health Consequences of Marijuana Abuse: Recent Findings and the Therapeutic Uses of Marijuana and the Use of Heroin to Reduce Pain," two prominent oncologists. Steven Sallan, then clinical director of pediatric oncology at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, and Solomon ... any given day, Garb had to wait seven months for his research supply and knew others who had waited up to two years. However, marijuana remained a Schedule I drug-a substance with potential for abuse and no medical uses. Despite a number of petitions to move marijuana to Schedule II, the DEA refused even to hold a public hearing on the issue. So while the federal government resisted, states ...
- 2072: Alcohol An Issue Within College Society
- ... as they please. College life is a new experience and the pressures that come along with it have an effect on a student s path to success. Unfortunately, alcohol is one of these pressures. Alcohol abuse is a major problem that many young men and women encounter throughout their college experience. Drinking on college campuses is a problem that affects everyone. Let s first begin by understanding what alcoholism is and ... sex; anyone can have this addiction. Is alcoholism a disease? The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization officially acknowledged alcoholism as a disease in the 1950 s. It is very apparent that alcohol abuse has major effects on major organs of the body. Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, causes severe damage to excretory organs including the liver and kidneys. Yet the major organ affected the most by outcomes of ethanol ... Higher education, therefore, cannot have a credible policy the simple option available to secondary schools: "just say no." It is not enough for institutions of higher learning to advocate (or "teach") abstinence (51). Preventing alcohol abuse among students should be through education of the problems that come about from alcohol, not by just simply saying that drinking is wrong. Saying that it is wrong to drink before reaching the legal ...
- 2073: Autism
- ... children have to be taught not to perform certain behaviors such as imitation and self-injury and to preform and increase the frequency of speech, play, and social interaction with children or adults. An autistic child cannot learn much in the informal teaching methods of normal and healthy people but must be taught using special methods that cater to his or her needs. The teacher of and autistic child must know the childs learning characteristics in order to form a suitable curriculum and suitable environment. The learning environment must involve parents, teachers, peers, and public figures.
- 2074: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia Child schizophrenia, like other psychopathologies has many documented, and several uncertain causes. Some scientists have evidence that pregnant mothers have experienced an immune reaction that present dangers to the unborn child. Schizophrenia is a disorder where the body's immune system attacks itself. Schizophrenia is not present at birth but develops during the adolescence period or young adulthood. Schizophrenia is a biological brain disease affecting thinking ... Franklin D. Roosevelt. @ (American Psychiatric Association Annual >90 page 1) Pregnant women who experience an immune reaction that presents danger to their unborn children, this reaction raises sharply the rates of schizophrenia in the unborn child. Severe malnutrition in the early months of the fetal development may contribute to schizophrenia. It is also known that schizophrenia runs in families. The probability of developing schizophrenia as the off spring of one ...
- 2075: Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malc
- ... and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther Kings parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the seeds of bitterness were planted ... X and Martin Luther Kings childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also from domestic violence. His father beat his mother and both of them abused their children. His mother was forced to raise eight children during the depression. After his mother had a ...
- 2076: AIDS Esssay
- ... make a decision on whether or not we will choose to take part in the acts that cause a person to contract AIDS. A person needs to understand the consequences of his actions. Through drug abuse, unprotected sex, and innocent mistakes AIDS has developed into a moral issue. Drug abuse in today's society has brought many people to a point of devastation. The process of drug abuse has lead to many people contracting AIDS. The people in this world have not realized that doing drugs can and will result in deadly consequences such as AIDS. AIDS, as a result of drugs, ...
- 2077: Katherine Anne Porter
- ... that funny old clown?' each one asked the other, and then they smiled pityingly on Miranda " (Porter 26). Miranda's family makes her feel silly by being scared of the clowns and being a foolish child. During the course of the night when Dicey comforts Miranda after the dream, Miranda's feelings of rejection slowly disintegrate after Dicey's warm and caring feelings. "The Downward Path to Wisdom" concerns Stephen, a young boy, who is being moved around by his family because he is a "bad boy". After Stephen's mother and father have a dispute over the mistake of having a child, Marjory, the family's help, whisks him off to his grandmother's house. While there for a summer, Stephen goes through many changes. His Uncle David, gives him balloons as presents, which interest Stephen greatly ... by being belligerent and disobedient by stealing the balloons. Instead of positive attention, Stephen receives negative attention, which causes his family members to reject him more because they do not want to deal with a child who misbehaves and steals from his own flesh and blood. After Stephen is rejected by his relatives and returns to his parents, he sings a song of hatred for his family riding back to ...
- 2078: The Psychological Effects of Using Steroids
- ... or "roids" as they are referred to, have been in the circle of athletes since the 1950s. Is it vanity that drives athletes to use steroids? Do they understand the end results from the abuse of "roids"? What psychological effects do steroids have on users? In order to understand the psychological effects of steroids, you must first understand what steroids are and where they come from. The natural form of ... to rebuild and prevent the breakdown of body tissue from disease. In the 1950s, synthetic steroids became popular with athletes because they helped produce this greater-than-normal muscle size and strength, but the abuse of these synthetic steroids has many dangerous physical and psychological effects. Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs prescribed by doctors even though they cannot cure one single ... the greatest force that drives young men to the use of steroids. Many young men feel the need to look "masculine," that is strong and muscular. Bodybuilding stresses such muscularity, and some men, and women, abuse anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass and definition (Mishra 2). Steroids are an "ego" drug and society sets the standards. Ones appearance plays a critical part of acceptance in society, thus the need ...
- 2079: Abortion
- ... existed. Dr. Nathanson stopped preforming abortions after becoming aware of the horrors he observed. "A woman has the right to go to bed with who she wants, but she can not choose death for her child. It's a direct violation of human rights." (Kovaleski grid c-7) Anthony Simpson has a photo of a aborted fetus and believes that abortion is nothing less but ruthless murder. In southern Kentucky, Robert ... set out intentionally to kill that fetus and that is in fact murder. Kristina Kleg a graduate from high school has recently become pregnant and decided against abortion. She feels that it's an innocent child inside of her. It has a brain and a heart therefore it also has a right to life. "Abortion is the unnatural end of pregnancy. That child has a right to life that is equal to the mothers right. One cannot kill another human being just because they wished it wasn't around. Abortion is murder of the innocent practiced on ...
- 2080: Abortion - Right To Choose
- ... our most basic human instinct: to survive as best we can. These women want to live their lives as they choose, not as it is chosen that they live it. Being forced to bear a child could mean having to support and give up dreams of a better life. Also they might be pressured into a "shotgun wedding" to save their reputations. In the book Back Rooms, by Ellen Messer, a ... privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child." Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. Everyone has his or her own individual opinion. A woman's body is hers and hers alone. Nobody has the right to make ... In the same ruling, though, the Court gave states new powers to restrict access to abortions. The people that hold a "pro-life" view argue that a woman who has an abortion is killing a child. The "pro-choice" perspective holds this is not the case. A fetus is not yet a baby. It does not developed from our understanding of living human beings. According to Lennelborg, "We must find ...
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