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- 241: Creative Story: Joel's Dream
- ... get the stuff while I go and get our friend Joel a drink." " Okay," said Marco. Marco turned and walked off while Jurgen went to get Joel a drink. Soon after Marco returned with the drugs Joel collapsed and was taken to hospital. Hours later Joel awoke and was greeted by his doctor. " Ah Joel your awake. Look I've had to call your manager you know that don't you?" " Why? What's wrong with me?" asked Joel. " We've found traces of drugs in your system!" " What!!" shrieked Joel," But how can there be? I don't take drugs!" " Well their in your system and there's nothing anyone can do about. Your manager should be here soon but for now I recommend that you get some more sleep!" " No way I don' ...
- 242: Development of the Human Zygote
- ... are known, twenty-five percent are associated with genetic factors that include major chromosomal defect and point mutations, three percent with venereal diseases such as syphilis and rubella, and two percent with teratogens, medications and drugs (Cunningham, MacDonald, and Gant, Feb./March 1991). Spontaneous errors in development, whose causes are unknown, can happen in the central nervous system, face, gut, genitourinary system, and heart as shown in Table 2. The time ... chemical or factor like hyperthermia, that produces permanent abnormal embryonic physical development or physiology (Cunningham, MacDonald, and Gant, Feb./March 1991). The embryonic period is most critical with respect to malformations because it encompasses organogenesis. Drugs and chemicals such as alcohol and organic mercury can cause mental retardation, while infection such as varicella, the chicken pox, can cause limb defects, neurologic anomalies, and skin scars (Baker, April 1990). A more complete list of drugs, chemicals and infections, and their effects are listed in Table 3. These type of birth defects are unique because abnormalities due to drugs and chemical exposure are potentially preventable (Cunningham, MacDonald, and Gant, Feb./ ...
- 243: AIDS History and Treatment
- ... found. Treatment for AIDS is now available, but it delays the process rather than eliminating the virus entirely. The three most common forms of treatment now are azidothymidine (AZT), protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapies. These drugs have been successful in prolonging patients' lives because they interfere with the duplication of HIV within the body. The reason that they don't destroy the virus is because of the virus's unique ability to mutate into different strains and become resistant to these drugs. However, with the success of the current treatments of AZT, protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapy, as well as the prospect of future treatments such as genetic therapy and vaccines, it appears that a cure may ... viruses (Groopman, 16). There are several forms of treatment that are used to delay the process of AIDS, which in turn, prolong the lives of the diseased individuals. The most common forms of treatment are drugs known as AZT, protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapy. In 1985, AZT was introduced as a way to stop the replication of the HIV virus. This drug stops the blueprinting stage by being inserted into ...
- 244: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... first fact to back my opinion would have to be this, marijuana is what it is, a drug! You can't change that no matter how many people vote on it. Sure, there are prescription drugs on the market that are potentially dangerous but their effects are nothing compared to that of marijuana. Such a comparison can be made between a knife and a gun, prescription drugs being the knife and marijuana the gun. They are both potentially lethal and incredibly dangerous but they have their differences. With a knife, you have to be careless enough to fall on it. With a ... it's remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose....Marijuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics." Although he seems to have nothing but good things to say about drugs, NIDA Director Alan Leshner has this to say, "What we're saying is ...
- 245: Marijuana
- ... they can grow it right. Most people growing this plant are very careful because how well they grow this plant depends on how strong the product or result will be. Drug abuse is use of drugs in an illegal or unsafe way. The factors that lead to drug abuse are a persons problems, to be cool, to seem older or mature, to rebel against their parents, to be popular. Although people give themselves these reasons to take drugs they dont realize that what theyre doing is stupid. For example a teen smoking pot to seem older and mature what he/she dont realize is that being mature means making healthy ... sometimes the only way a person can be considered to be cool is to smoke pot. The same goes for being popular. These two things listed above are the main reason teens in specific take drugs. Frequent drug abusers soon become addicts. To become addicts people go through a couple of steps before they become addicted. These steps are casual use/experimentation (body builds tolerance), regular use (body builds more ...
- 246: Mistakes People Make With Steroids
- ... the positive side, but the negative side as well. We all know they work, but are we willing to risk our health and life to get stronger and bigger? As we all know, Performance enhancing drugs really do enhance physical performance. They increase muscle size and strength, and help you train in less time. Today everyone seems to be looking for shortcuts to do just about everything. Performance enhancing drugs and supplements are just the thing for someone who is looking toward bulking up and increasing strength in a small amount of time. Steroids allow its users to recover more quickly from exercise than a ... pain you wouldn t have to go through doing all those reps. With a performance enhancing drug, you could do even less, get the same results and even better. Today more than ever, performance enhancing drugs and supplements are being abused. It is estimated that 99% of all professional bodybuilders are using steroids, or some type of performance enhancing drug. Many people are drawn to these bulking up drugs simply ...
- 247: Curfews, and Other Limits
- ... all of the rules, and secondly there are some things that certain teens will not do with, or without a specific rule on that subject. For example, there are many teens who would never use drugs, but by placing a rule on this, the teen might not feel trust worthy, and might be more likely to try drugs. This is not always the case though, some teens need every rule stated, or they might test your patients. Parents should remember that they know heir teenager best, and they need to set rules according to their own teen. Drugs and other illegal things are often a problem with certain teens, but some teens will never try drugs. Teenagers will turn to drugs for answers to problems. To avoid having problems with your teen, ...
- 248: History Of Police Corruption
- ... Low-level passive forms of corruption (i.e., systemic bribery schemes, non-enforcement of the law, collusion) have been replaced by more aggressive forms of corruption. Today's police corruption is most likely to involve drugs, organized crime, and relatively sophisticated but small groups of officers engaged in felonious criminal activities. The cycle of police scandals in New York City provide a clear example of this trend. In the 1970s, New ... runs, from warrantless searches, from legitimate raids, from car stops, from drug couriers, and from off-duty robberies. They also discovered cops protecting and assisting narcotics traffickers as well as cops dealing and using illicit drugs themselves. A pattern of perjured police testimony and false crime reports was also identified in New York. New York is not the only city to experience a drug-related police corruption scandal. Virtually every major ... following problems: Miami. Miami has been rocked with a series of drug-related corruption cases. In its most notorious case, the "Miami River Cops Scandal," seventeen police officers stole cash and millions of dollars in drugs from drug dealers, sold the drugs, and caused at least three deaths. The scandal resulted in the arrest, suspension or punishment of more than 100 police officers. New Orleans. For six months in 1994, ...
- 249: Migraines
- ... too many adenosine receptors. Having too many adenosine receptors is equivalent to having too much adenosine. As a result, serotonin release is inhibited and this leads to migraine symptoms. As you know there are many drugs used against migraine. Many of these drugs contain caffeine, for good reason: caffeine relieves migraine by reversing caffeine withdrawal. Migraine drugs that contain caffeine include Fiorinal (40mg caffeine), Fioricet (40mg caffeine), Excedrin (65mg caffeine), Anacin (32mg caffeine), Cafergot, Norgesic Forte (60mg caffeine), and others. Sumatriptan (Imitrex) is effective in relieving migraine attacks presumably because the ...
- 250: Case For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... of pure resin (hashish) has been associated both with mental deterioration and criminality. One of the major complications of marijuana use is the tendency on the part of some users to progress to more dangerous drugs. Users in economically deprived areas usually go on to heroin, whereas more affluent individuals tend to move from marijuana to more potent hallucinogens such as LSD. There is no established medical use for marijuana or ... that must be isolated. This disease theory holds that legalizing marijuana would make it more widely available and that this would tend to increase its use as well as the use of all kinds of drugs. One of the detriments of tolerating drug use, according to this theory, is that is encourages the use of more and different drugs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse;s 1984 report to Congress cited no evidence to support the idea that drug use is hurting economic productivity. It said: "The fact is, very little is known ...
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