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- 331: Multiple Births
- ... technology, the survival rate of infants born in a multiple pregnancy has increased. The first quintuplets, five babies born in a single pregnancy, to survive in medical history were the Dionne quintuplets. The use of drugs that treat female sterility, or fertility drugs, may increase the chances of giving birth to multiple children. These drugs cause the ovaries to release an egg once a month but in some cases they release more than one egg, sometimes releasing several at a time, increasing the chances of a multiple birth. The ...
- 332: The Genetics of Violence
- ... repeatedly show more aggression at adulthood than others of their kind. Girls exposed to androgenic steroids in utero have an increased tendency to be more aggressive than their piers, where boys injected with anti-androgenic drugs were not as aggressive as their peers. The neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid has been shown not only to inhibit aggression, but may stimulate the brain as well. This may be the reason that the IQ ... the main concern of the opponents to this research. It is assumed that very little is, at present, known about the human mind and its tendencies. Many believe that there is an over-reliance on drugs therapy in psychiatry, and that genetic violence research is cloaking the real problem. For example, overwhelming numbers of black children with problems with violence and aggressiveness are sent to psychiatrists where they are prescribed to pacifying drugs such as Ritalin of Prozac. Many black leaders felt that it is impossible to believe that the genetic studies are not attempting to find a link between violence and race. The conference, while ultimately ...
- 333: The Worlds Fight Against Microbes
- ... care patients. Outbreaks of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) increased in size and frequency worldwide throughout the 1980s (Garrett 412). By 1990, super-strains of staph that were resistant to a huge number of drugs existed naturally. For example, an Australian patient was infected with a strain that was resistant to cadmium, penicillin, karamycin, neomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim. Since each of these drugs operated biomechanically the same as a host of related drugs the Australian staph was resistant, to varying degrees, some thirty-one different drugs (Garrett 413). A team of researchers from the New York City Health Department, using genetic fingerprinting techniques, traced back in time ...
- 334: Legalization of Marjuana
- Legalization of Marjuana Drug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In fact, 63% of you stated in my survey that you had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81% of you are under 25 years of age and ... something that is considered illegal by the Federal Government could not be used as a cure for any illness. Wisconsin lists marijuana under Schedule I of the Uniformed Controlled Substance Act. This means that any drugs under Schedule I, including marijuana, are not useful in curing any known illness. Schedule I is also where all the most serious drugs are listed. This puts marijuana in the same class with heroin and cocaine. Another problem with marijuana is the affects on the male and female body. One way frequent marijuana use affects males is ...
- 335: Depressioo
- ... of suicide attempts, self-mutilations, and serious mood swings. She took numerous antidepressants and medications in an attempt to regulate her irregular behavior. She quit using the medications due to the multiple side effects the drugs had on her. The result was chaos; after Elizabeth quit taking her medication her body experienced episodes of withdrawal. Despite her continued attempts to combat her illness, she experienced nervous breakdowns and alienation from her friends and family. Elizabeth Wurtzel reluctantly went back to taking medication despite the potentially serious side effects of taking so many drugs (Kim 46). In the news, on the streets, and in neighborhoods, individuals are confronted with a variety of social problems (Kim 7). A person may watch a loved one battle cancer, suspect a friend of ... Kim 89). Psychiatrists use medications, physically based treatments, along with psychotherapy techniques to help a patient recover from depression (Kim 89). The most popular treatment for depression is the prescription of antidepressants, but like most drugs, antidepressant medications may cause side effects (Robbins 148). A recent study indicated that about two percent of adult Americans use antidepressants and that an estimated 20 to 30 million prescriptions for antidepressants were filled ...
- 336: Addiction: Its Causes and Effects
- ... and our environment. Problems arise when we become too independent or too dependent. The addiction seems to "help" the person avoid painful feelings. It becomes a form of "self-medication to the individual so the drugs correct chemical imbalances and bring a feeling of relief" feel less pleasure and more addicted (Dowling 152). The addiction leads to a feeling of "I don't care as long as I can...", even when ... reabsorbed or broken down by the enzyme, monoamine oxibase (MAO). The neurotransmitter, dopamine, is the one that is responsible for anything associated with satisfaction and euphoria. It is the neurotransmitter that is stimulated by most drugs and other addictions. Others, like LSD for example, stimulates seratonin, the sleep neurotransmitter, as well as dopamine. Now the question arises
What exactly is the connection between the addictive behaviors and dopamine? To find this out one must understand that ways that dopamine are stimulated vary from a simple kiss, hug, word of praise, or good poker hand to the dangerous pleasure some derive from drugs. Different drugs raise dopamine levels by different chemical reactions. For example, cocaine inhibits normal functioning of the body to absorb dopamine by blocking the activity of a molecule that normally dopamine back to the ...
- 337: Date Rape
- ... is from a legalistic point of view. Date rape occurs on almost every campus large or small, private or public, rural or urban. There are many elements that attribute to the causes of date rape: drugs and alcohol, miscommunication, and changing sexual mores. Date rape often occurs with people that the victim knows and who would "supposedly" be their friends. This usually happens when the woman is alone with the man. It can occur when others are relatively close by such as outside a house, or downstairs in a house. The mix of drugs and alcohol are significant factors of date rape. They compromise your ability to make responsible decisions. Drinking has become a popular social activity amongst college students and has been seen throughout society as setting the ... mood for romance. After a few drinks a womans judgment is altered, and it is often difficult to push away sexual advances. Women can say that they drank too much or did too many drugs to know what exactly was happening. Many people will say that when alcohol is in their system, it disables your vision, allowing other people to become more appealing to the eye. This could be ...
- 338: Lsd
- ... effects of LSD could be attributed to the effects of brain stem innervation to areas of the brain such as the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus. References 1.(1995): "FAQ-LSD" From internet newsgroup: alt.drugs.psychedelics 2.Sankar (1975): "LSD: A Total Study" 3.Ashton H (1987): "Brain Systems Disorders and Psychotropic Drugs" 4.Snyder (1986): "Drugs and the Brain" Sci Am Books Inc. From FAQ-LSD 5.Nicholls J, Martin R, Wallace B (1992): "From Neuron to Brain: Acellular andMolecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System" 6.Aghajanian ...
- 339: Cancer: The Costs, Causes, and Cures
- ... this context, can be caused by many different agents; chemical, biological or physical. Chemical Agents Chemicals that can cause a benign cell to become active include things such as complex hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, certain metals, drugs, hormones, and naturally occurring chemicals in plants and molds. Hydrocarbons and nitrosamines can be found in cigarette smoke and may contribute to the condition called "lung cancer". Other chemicals that seem to cause incidents of ... the dye industry for dyeing cloth, but when a number of cases of cancer turned up, its use was discontinued. Vinyl Chloride, a chemical gas, has also appeared, seeming to cause "liver cancer" ,(Grolier, Cancer) Drugs, such as some cancer-treating alkylating agents, are also carcinogens. These agents are used to break the DNA strands in the cells, thereby killing the cells, but it also effects the cells surrounding the tumor ... that as chemotherapy damages some of the surrounding tissue around a tumor, chemotherapy can have some serious side effects. Some patients develop severe nausea and vomiting, become very tired, and lose their hair temporarily. Special drugs are given to alleviate some of these symptoms, particularly the nausea and vomiting, (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia, Cancer - Chemotherapy). Immunotherapy hile still a rather new form of treatment, it is looked as having great ...
- 340: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... dropped out, but they were soon joined by two more; Bill Kreutzmann, and Phil Lesh. It was around this time that Garcia and some of the group's other members also began an experiment with drugs that would change the nature of the band's story. Certainly this wasn't the first time drugs had been used in music for artistic expression or had found their way into an American cultural movement. Many jazz and blues artists had been smoking marijuana and using various narcotics to intensify their music making for several decades, and in the Fifties the Beats had extolled marijuana as an assertion of their non- conformism. But the drugs that began cropping up in the youth and music scenes in the mid-Sixties were of a much different. more exotic type. Veterans Hospital near Stanford University had been running experiments on LSD, a ...
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