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- 271: Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's Disease
- ... intestine. If you have Crohn's disease, you may need medical care for a long time. Your doctor also will want to test you regularly to check on your condition. What Is the Treatment? Several drugs are helpful in controlling Crohn's disease, but at this time there is no cure. The usual goals of therapy are to correct nutritional deficiencies; to control inflammation; and to relieve abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bleeding in a really bad place. Abdominal cramps and diarrhea may be helped by drugs. The drug sulfasalazine often lessens the inflammation, especially in the colon. This drug can be used for as long as needed, and it can be used along with other drugs. Side effects such as nausea, vomiting, weight loss, heartburn, diarrhea, and headache occur in a small percentage of cases. Patients who do not do well on sulfasalazine often do very well on related drugs ...
- 272: The Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it. Ending the drug war seems to be a unacheivable task and a costly one at that. the war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is just not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance yet but it should. Although many people feel that legalizing pot would increase the amount of use,drugs should be legalized because it will greatly reduce the amounts of money spent on law enforcement and it would increase our countrys revenue. Also pot would be produced by the same companies that produce medications ... so the quality would be assured, containg no posions or toxins. Sterile needles would be readily at the corner drug store. these could be taxed as well because the user will be assured of clean drugs. Making drugs legal would reduce the great amount of money spent on law enforcement each year. Right now this country is in a no win situation with the war on drugs. Every time on ...
- 273: The Influence Rock And Rap Music Has On Young People
- ... Rap Music", I was opened up to new ideas which previously had not occurred to me. When people are reading and listening to lyrics or going to concerts they are exposed to sex, violence, and drugs which have a negative influence that plague the music world. The lyrics and beat of many songs we hear again influence our children. Lyrics like "I want to fuck you like an animal" from "Closer ... use. Not only do we hear and see the drug abuse in the lyrics and/or at concerts, we see it from our favorite music artists. This may influence children to go out and try drugs, which means it's probably going to complicate or even destroy their lives and the lives around them. Other drug pushing in music is in the lyrics. They use phrases such as Mary Jane, which is slang for marijuana. As children listen to the radio and hear the names of these drugs they think everyone is doing it and may jump on that bandwagon and go out and experiment for themselves. Congress has passed many laws, but musicians and other artists have tried to stop labeling ...
- 274: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... one parent with ADD. The environment is a big influence on a child during pregnancy and after. Some studies show that a small percentage of ADD cases were influenced by smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs during pregnancy. Exposure to toxins, such as lead, may also alter the brain chemistry and function. If you suspect that you are suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder you will need to discuss it with your ... restless twitches that have been experienced in the past. Some ADD patient's psychological and behavioral problems are not solved by medication alone, and are required more therapy or training . There are two types of drugs that work to balance the neurotransmitters and have been found to be most effective in treating ADD. Stimulants are drugs that stimulate or activate brain activity. Stimulants work by increasing the amount of dopamine either produced in the brain or used by the frontal lobes of the brain. There are several different stimulants that ...
- 275: Cancer
- ... it is healthy, normal cells keep them around and they continue to degrade and replenish themselves. If a high alert is set in the cell due to invaders such as radiation, chemotherapy carcinogens, or chemotherapy drugs, the DNA is damaged, creating a potential risk for cancer. The p53 stops degrading and becomes active as it builds its supply and turns off the defective cell's ability to replicate until it can ... mutation can do more harm to the cell than cripple it, and it can actually worsen the conditions. A mutant can actually turn on a set of genes that make a cell immune to cancer drugs and therapies. One major characteristic of cancer is that it leaves no trace of where it stemmed and why. The p53 may change all this for oncologists, who will be able to trace the cancer ... so the need for treatment would only be one or two doses to destroy the entire cancer. Others have visions for the future of p53 research. Curt Harris of the National Cancer Institute sees many drugs that keep the p53 from being tied up. It prevents it being surrounded and therefore encapsulated in a potentially harmful way. This research in p53 seems very impressive to me because I didn't ...
- 276: Permeability of Hydrophilic
- ... compared to Caco-2 cells. These results indicated that 2/4/A1 cells could be used as a model for hydrophilic drug absorption. INTRODUCTION The small intestine plays a crucial role in the absorption of drugs and nutrients. Exogenous substances cross a series of barriers during the process of intestinal absorption: (1) the aqueous boundary/mucus layer, (2) a single layer of epithelial cells, and (3) the lamina propria, which contains the blood and lymph vessels that then transport the absorbed drugs to other parts of the body (Artursson 1991). The cell monolayer is comprised of two parallel barriers: the cell membrane and the tight junctions. Most drugs are absorbed by a passive diffusion across the cell membrane by the transcellular route, or across the tight junctions between the cells - the paracellular route. Drug transport can also be carrier mediated, when the ...
- 277: Use of Marijuana As Medicine
- ... its medicinal value and the lack of an effective substitute, marijuana should be reclassified as a Schedule II drug instead of a Schedule I drug, which would allow it for certain medical uses. Other illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin are classified as Schedule II, even though they are considered habit forming and dangerous, where marijuana, classified as a Schedule I, has never caused a death or overdose and is ... than practical reasons. Clinton, who suffered in the polls after he admitted to smoking pot, has taken a strong anti-drug stance to follow in the popular vein of Reagan and Bush's war on drugs. Congress has taken a strong anti-drug stance, which could be viewed as another example of Congress' detachment from the people they represent, since 35 states have laws that allow marijuana for medicinal use in ... which bans marijuana for all uses, makes all these state laws illegal. This issue represents the power struggle between the state governments and the federal government. The federal government has no constitutional right to ban drugs, especially not if it overrides a state law. This issue has become more than just marijuana for treatment of the sick, it has grown to include the federal government's desire to maintain its ...
- 278: Herbal Extracts and Hormones
- ... accompanied by the use of magic sayings or dances. Today, for most of the technological people of the Earth, magic is no longer needed. In the world which we live, many of our most useful drugs are still considered to have originally come into use from early societies. Some examples of these herbs used as drugs are: Digitalis (for the heart) from Foxglove, Quinine ( for Malaria) from Peruvian Bark, Cocaine (and its derivatives) from the Coca Leaf, Atropine ( a stimulant for nerve gas) from the Belladonna plant, Curare (used in surgery ... contents or medicines. Weiner, pgs. 31-35 In the 1990's, I see a wonderful return to the reality that we must preserve our natural environment. The realization that we must care for the natural drugs and herb that can be found in the shrinking rain forests, which could contain hundreds of thousands of new compounds that could heal mankind. The two major hormones that are being sold to the ...
- 279: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... depend on public funds to pay medical bills. Other problems involving public policy include the control of medical research, the question of whether all citizens have a right to health care, and the availability of drugs for severe illnesses, such as AIDS. Biomedical ethics addresses moral questions that arise from the use of medical technology to begin or maintain a life. Many ethical questions focus on medical procedures that affect human ... called a living will because, unlike a regular will, it becomes effective while the person is still alive. Self-induced euthanasia occurs when people end their own lives painlessly. In some cases, physicians provide lethal drugs that their patients then take to kill themselves. This type of euthanasia is called physician-assisted suicide. Only Australia\\'s Northern Territory and Oregon in the United States have a law that clearly allows physician ... no protection for euthanasia under the due process clause of the Constitution. In the decision the court upheld laws in Washington and New York that makes it a crime for doctors to give life ending drugs to mentally competent but terminally ill patients who no longer want to live. The Federal Government opposes funding assisted suicide, as can be seen by the fact that Congress passed and President Clinton signed ...
- 280: Vengeful Equity
- ... Some of these women are imprisoned for property crimes, such as stealing for their drug habit, or often these women have been busted for drug trafficking, often referred to as drug mules (individuals caught moving drugs for someone else). Because of the mandatory minimums, the courts can no longer take into consideration the reasons the offenders committed their crime and level sentences more appropriate such as probation with supervised counseling. Their ... to levy mandatory sentences for even first time offenders. Most of the time, much too harsh for the crime, the perpetrator becomes the victim of the court and its attempt to fight the war on drugs. As they stand now, women incarcerated are not having their needs met in regards to having their problems, often responsible for incarceration, addressed by the system. For the most part, limited funds are given by ... free. I do not believe any of these topics creates a stellar difference between male and female needs with correction. Women, for the most part, fall into crime for the same three reasons as men; Drugs, poverty, and greed. Women like men, do these things by choice. For the most part, no one forces a needle in their arm, forces them to court and sometimes marry an idiot, have children, ...
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