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- 171: Lymphoma
- ... as well as stay somewhat active in order recover from the treatment. These side affects will all gradually fade after the treatment is ended. (Cancerbacup) Chemotherapy is the second major treatment used. Chemotherapy is cytoxic drugs used to kill the lymphatic cancer cells. The drugs are administered intravenously or by way of the mouth. Several drugs are given for a few days, then a few weeks with no drugs. That allows your blood count and body to recover from the drugs and prepare for the next dose. The treatment lasts ...
- 172: Responsible Driving
- ... out for a good time. As many people as are in that crowd will die in highway accidents this year. More than half of those accidents will involve alcohol, alone or in combination with other drugs. A disproportionate number of the dead will be young, between the ages of 15 and 24. One group, 16 year olds, will be in 40% of all the singl-car, alcohol related crashes" (Knox 19 ... you can see risk is always very high and should never be forgot. One huge risk in driving is to be under the influence of an illegal substance or drug. There are many kinds of drugs that affect you perception and driving skills. They include Over the counter drugs, Prescription drugs, Depressants, Stimulants, Hallucinogens and Narcotics. Over the counter drugs are drugs that dont need a prescription and are not illegal. They cure common illness's but almost always affect your driving greatly( ...
- 173: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... determining whether young people will be criminal in their behavior is moral poverty," Greenberg says. (3) According to the recently published "Body Count: Moral Poverty . . . and How to Win America' s War Against Crime and Drugs," a new generation of "super-predators, " untouched by any moral inclinations, will hit America's streets in the next decade. John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book with William Bennett and ... delinquent, and criminal adults in chaotic, dysfunctional, fatherless, Godless, and jobless settings where drug abuse and child abuse are twins, and self-respecting young men literally aspire to get away with murder. Scholars who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families, churches, community groups) of high ... to often left to their own devices. They spend much of their time hanging out on the streets or soaking up violent TV shows and violent rap music, they have easy access to guns and drugs, and can be extremely dangerous. By the year 2005 they will be teenagers--a group that tends to be, in the view of Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, "temporary sociopaths.... impulsive and immature.'' ...
- 174: Fighting For Our Love Ones
- ... do the same for your love one? I know I would. There is a need for a change. "I often drove her to the hospital and witnessed the horrendous nausea she suffered after treatment. Prescription drugs were supposed to settle her stomach, but every day we stopped two or three times on the way home for her dry heaves to pass (2)." Richard would drive Dorothy to her chemotherapy appointments and ... An illegal drug can have a legitimate, legal use. There are laws against the abuse of morphine, steroids, and valium, but they are also properly prescribed by doctors everyday. Just as law recognizes that these drugs and many other controlled substances have a legitimate medical uses, it is time to recognize this for marijuana. "It’s absurd that medical decisions are being made by Politician," states Dr. Arnold Jeffe, a Santa ... clearly established medical use and should be reclassified as a prescriptive drug. However, the Bush Administration never reclassified marijuana. Currently, marijuana is listed a Schedule I narcotic. It is classified in the same category as drugs like LSD and heroine. The ironic part is that one of marijuana’s greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. There is no known case of a lethal overdose due to marijuana. ...
- 175: What's Wrong With Our Food And Drugs?
- What's Wrong With Our Food And Drugs? Do you really want to know what is wrong with our food? If you knew just half of what went into your food you would be disgusted. That is why I am here, to inform ...
- 176: Hippies
- ... against society and tried to change it. The people creating this movement became to be called the counterculture. The children of the counterculture fought for change by rebelling against the standards of society by using drugs, protesting political issues, and expressing their free love. Music and fashion helped them make their impact. The 1950’s brought great economic growth and with it the dream for a perfect life in a perfect ... if our soul mate comes along? We would be so wrapped up in tradition that we couldn’t follow our destiny”#6 Hippies believed in sharing everything, from love and peace, to sexual partners and drugs. Drugs were taken often and openly within the Hippie communities. The drugs of choice were mainly marijuana, or weed, and LSD, usually called acid. Weed was smoked so freely that people would start burning a ...
- 177: Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking Them
- Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking Them I never thought it to be possible for someone to be so caught up in an emotional ideology of economics and money until I read an excerpt from “The Armchair ...
- 178: Heroin A Long Dark Path
- An introduction to Heroin- The use of hard drugs in America is on a steady rise. Heroin is one of the biggest reasons for this. Heroin is one of the most dangerous highly addictive drugs on the black market today. A board member on the National Institute of Health estimated that there are currently about 600,000 heroin addicts in the U.S. alone. Only an estimated 115,000 thousand ... drug in the opiate family. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder. There is also a form that is black and sticky known on the streets as “black tar heroin”. Opiates are drugs that are derived from a naturally occurring substance found in the poppy plant. Although the purity of the heroin that reaches the streets is becoming greater, most street heroin is cut or diluted. Usually ...
- 179: History Of The Counterculture
- ... to a more rebellious style that was designated the name of "hippie music". Groups that played this music were Country Joe and The Mamas and The Papas. Along with this hippie ideas popularity of hallucinogenic drugs produced a psychedelic style of music called Acid Rock. By the end of the 60´s the distinctions between Rock n´ Roll and Rock were evident.(Groliers, 2) The early instruments- saxophone, piano, amplified guitar ... and other electronic devices. Not only did the instruments change but so did the ideas behind the music. For example, "to the lyrics of teenage love and adolescent concerns were added social commentary, glorification of drugs and free-association poetry"(Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and ... of their universities, racial inequality, social injustice, and the Vietnam War. The Student Movement led to the hippie culture. This movement marked another response to the decade as the young experimented with music, clothes, and drugs. These young people became known as hippies. Hippies preached mysticism, honesty, joy, and nonviolence. (Time 7 July 1967, 4-5) In 1969, they held the famous Woodstock Festival for peace in New York, a ...
- 180: Creative Writing: Beer and Drugs Make People Suck
- Creative Writing: Beer and Drugs Make People Suck There is a weak smoke rising up over the treetops. The golden sun is on its way down in west and on a little campsite in the woods, can Dan see a ...
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