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- 211: Anabolic Steroids
- ... steroids became dizzy, dissoriented, and incoherent. Physicians William Layman and William Annitto have had a case of a young man who was diagnosed as schizophrenic took steriods to help with his wieghtlifting. After taking these drugs he suffered severe deppresion and anxiety and had trouble sleeping. Most people who use steroids do not have side affects this severe. Steroids make changes in the electroencephalogram (an image of brain ellectrical activity). Researchers ... a person. After stoping the use of steroids though these cysts may become smaller and dissapear. Steroids can also cause cancerous tumors in the liver that can also kill they can also dissapear if the drugs are not used anymore. Steroids are also increase the risk of getting gallstones. Use of steroids also effects your cardiovascular system. There are two kinds of cholesterol in your body high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL ... claim to stop menstruating completely. Steroids are prohibited in any competion wether it be international or national. Even though this is true many top athletes as well as amateur athletes use steroids. Athletes first used drugs in compettition in 1954 when the team physician for the world weight lifting team, John Ziegler, went with the team to the world championships in Vienna, Austria. Ziegler then met the Russian team doctor ...
- 212: American Violence
- ... are emotionally scarred when they are labeled as stupid or ugly or crazy or unwanted. Before they are even born, babies may be addicted or suffer brain damage because their mothers abused alcohol or other drugs during pregnancy. Sometimes people who abuse children are repeating a pattern of child abuse learned when they were young. So the outcome is a whole new generation of more violent people. Psychiatric evaluations of abused ... pattern by running away may be lured into street crime or exploited in child prostitution and pornography rings. These children also show a high tendency to self destruct on society, often very violently (serial killers). Drugs are not always beneficial to their users, they can be a breeding ground for violent activity. In the sense of treating the cause or symptoms of an illness, some drugs have no beneficial use at all. People who use these drugs take them without medical approval and for recreational, not medical, reasons. Often the consequences of recreational drug-taking are harmful both to the ...
- 213: Racial Profiling
- ... today’s society the perception is that most drug traffickers are minorities. This is very untrue. Racial profiling is based on the premise that most drug offenses are committed by minorities. Because police look for drugs primarily among African Americans and Latinos, they find a uneven number of them actually in possession of contraband. Therefore these people are arrested, reinforcing the idea that drug trafficking is primarily an Latino or African ... While Black is not an issue that just arose its just now gaining a name. The practice of racial profiling by our nations police is the consequence of the rising concern about the war on drugs. Drug use and drug selling are not limited to minorities in the US , in fact five times as many whites use drugs. This war on drugs since it began targeted minorities. According to the governments own reports 80 percent of the country’s cocaine users are white and the “typical cocaine user is a white middle ...
- 214: Schizophrenia
- ... blunted emotions, and extreme apathy remain.(Greenberg, 2). Psychiatrists specialize in the treatment of mental illnesses. Schizophrenia is a lifelong disease. “Antipsychotic medications help to normalize the biochemical imbalances that cause schizophrenia”(Gibson, 3). These drugs are also important in reducing the likelihood of relapse. The two major types of Antipsychotic drugs are traditional and new Antipsychotic drugs. Traditional effectively controls the hallucinations delusions, and confusion. Side effects for Antipsychotic drugs may cause a patient to stop taking them. They suffer from dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, drowsiness and dizziness. The most ...
- 215: "Speed": Methylamphetamine
- "Speed": Methylamphetamine Since I have started school at U.N.R, I have been expose to a more variety of drugs than high school. Speed (Methylamphtamine) is a drug that I totally despise. I was in shock because I did not realize how many students were addicts to this drug. I have always known what this drug does to people because I know someone that is addict to speed. The drug is one of the most addicting drugs out there and I hope the information I have researched on can make you never think twice about trying this addicting drug. Speed is a stimulant, a drug that can make one feel cheerful and ... I wish the drug would be demolished off the face of this world. After all the trauma people in this society go through some people let a yellowish powder substance control their lives. I feel drugs in our society is a big issue and people need to pull together to stay drug free. In my opinion the war on drugs is the war on people. Drugs have always been in ...
- 216: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... be introduced for such nonspecific confounding factors as physical or emotional abuse and neglect, psychological-behavioral assessment. We have talked about Alcohol and the affects it has on the fetus. Now let's compare other drugs and their teratogenilcity. The (NIDA) National Institute on Drug Abuse had a survey of drug use in 1990 interviewing 9,259 people; out of these people 78.7 percent of all women reported they had ... NIDA 1991). The effects of cocaine use are inconsistent, but there are a few consistent effects of prenatal cocaine exposure. however, offspring of cocaine using women are compared with the offspring of women not using drugs, the exposed offspring display a broad variety of abnormalities. Few defects emerge that can be ascribe uniquely to cocaine, when the offspring of drug using women are compare with one another. Pregnancy complications has sometimes ... There has been cases that with cocaine use problems of increased pre-term labor, precipitous labor, and abruption placenta (premature detachment of the placenta) has occurred compare to women who were not exposed to any drugs. In another study by the MHPCD there was no differences between cocaine users and non-users in pregnancy, labor and delivery complications. However prenatal cocaine exposure has been associated with decreased length of gestation ...
- 217: Violence In Schools
- ... all students including females said they can easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to(Glazer 14). The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but 1 mainly. And that one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence has been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths(Glazer 14). Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school- age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes(Apfel ...
- 218: The 1960s
- ... on every Sunday was known to have hordes of singers with banjos and drums celebrating their youth together(Stern 103). One of the basic foundations of the Hippie movement was the flagrant use of illegal drugs. There were many drugs that the Hippies used but none was more used then marijuana. From 1960 to 1970 the number of Americans who had tried marijuana had increased from a few hundred thousand to 8,000,000. The majority of these new users were from 12 years old to college seniors(This Fabulous Century 84). To some Hippies, drugs and music were the most important aspects of their lives. Another drug that was prevalent in the Hippie population was LSD. Some Hippies thought that "LSD puts you in touch with your surroundings" (Cavan ...
- 219: Violence in Schools
- ... third of all students including females said they could easily obtain a handgun if they wanted to (Glazer 14). The cause of violence can be blamed on many things but mainly on one thing is drugs and gangs. Now that more people are selling and buying drugs, people are making money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths (Glazer 14). Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes (Apfel ...
- 220: Euthanasia
- ... quick and painless death." The word "painless" is important: the idea of euthanasia began gaining ground in modern times not because of new technologies for agonizingly prolonging life but because of the discovery of new drugs, such as morphine and various anesthetics for the relief of pain, that could also painlessly induce death. Over the next three decades Williams's proposal was reprinted in popular magazines and books, discussed in the ... of prominent literary and political journals, and debated at the meetings of American medical societies and nonmedical professional associations. The debate culminated in 1906, after the Ohio legislature took up "An Act Concerning Administration of Drugs etc. to Mortally Injured and Diseased Persons", which was a bill to legalize euthanasia. After being debated for months, the Ohio legislature overwhelmingly rejected the bill, effectively ending that chapter of the euthanasia debate. 2 ... such as Quinlan, who are in a coma and have the law on their side in the decision to halt life-sustaining nourishment or treatment. "Physicians do not fulfill the role of `killer' by prescribing drugs to hasten death," wrote Second Circuit Judge Roger J. Miner, "any more than they do by disconnecting life-support systems."12 In 1997, both Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill went before the ...
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