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- 461: Acetaminophen
- ... of the drug should be used according to the carton instructions. A 10 gram over dose in adults, 140 mg for kids, can cause permanent liver damage. Also if you had just taken some other drugs , The acetaminophen may become more toxic since the drugs are catabolized in the liver. To protect yourself from injury, you should take 1 gram of vitamin C and Cysteine -a bodily antioxidant. The kidneys can be permanently damaged if you continuously take the drug ... tries to commit suicide by taking a bottle of ace , ER must administer acetyl Cystein within 10 hours and treat for 36 hours. If discontinued liver injury will occur. Therefore, it is imperative to keep drugs away from children.
- 462: Our Declining Education System
- ... often blamed for the ills of society, yet society has a major impact on our education system. The problems that schools are facing today are certainly connected to the problems that are society faces, including drugs, violence, and the changing of our family structure. There are many methods that schools have begun to use in order to deal with the problems they are faced with and still offer the best possible education to our youth. The use of drugs in the general population has become a very serious problem in society and within the school system. There are two aspects to drug use that teachers are having to deal with now. The first is ... many schools with the cooperation of school counselors and community agencies to treat drug using teenagers. Other programs, such as D.A.R.E have been implemented in many elementary schools to provide education about drugs to young students. Violence, both in society and in the school system has also been identified as a serious problem. The influx of weapons in schools creates a dangerous situation for teachers, administrators and ...
- 463: Charles Manson
- ... unemployed at the Spahn Ranch, near Los Angeles. Manson had lovely ideas and his followers or "Family" regarded him as a Christ- like figure. They indulged in free love practices, pseudo religious ceremonies, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD. The Black Panthers were a major black movement in the 1960's. After killing a leader of this movement in self defence, Manson grew scared on the promise of revenge ... world made me." Another quote of Manson's is: "I hate the world I live in." By the age of thirty, he had fifty convictions against him. Manson believed in free love and experimentation with drugs. Followers of Manson came from all over the globe. They believed they had to go to the desert and bring along all the children they could convince to join the,. Children were not excluded from anything and this "freedom" appealed to may yound people. They could participate in free secual activities, experiment with drugs, or use guns and cars. Manson's ranch became a home for runaways, people in trouble with they law, and hippires. Manson did not like hippies, and he said they were just trying to ...
- 464: An Analysis Of The Book Our Am
- ... the book commented on the plight of the students. They mentioned that some of the students had younger brother and sisters to take care of, either because of parents who are at work, are on drugs, or are just incapable of taking care of their children. Some of the children go to bed hungry and don't eat breakfast; this affects the students learning process because their minds are wandering on ... to violence. She said "There's a lot of people out there whose mommas (sic) just don't care. They don't give them money for nothing, and I feel if they have to sell drugs to get stuff that they need then they should be able to go ahead and do it
I do think that the kids out there selling drugs should be able to do something to get them a little extra money
." When people don't have and want they result to things like crime and violence. One incident mentioned in the book ...
- 465: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... any other drug, the possibility of addiction is a concern, but when a doctor prescribes the marijuana, he will have the chance to control and monitor the intake of the patient. There are many other drugs that are legal with the same types of effects such as codeine, cocaine, and morphine. If drugs like those are legal and are under control, then a drug like marijuana that is very similar to them, should also be legalized and easily kept under control. Many other complaints of the legalization of ... and that they are functioning fine. When that effect hits the people, that will raise questions of why marijuana is illegal at all. That is an invalid fear because if that was the case, then drugs like morphine and cocaine, which are prescribed legally, would be causing problems. Those legal uses are not adding in any significant way to the country's drug problems, so marijuana should not either. Many ...
- 466: Special Delivery
- ... that are left behind of their childhood before the pain and misery came to their life. Once for a short while they were happy before the death of their parents, little Gracie, and use of drugs. Harlem is not what it use to be to Sonny and his brother, now they can only see through make believe, and prejudiced view of their eyes. It seems both brother want's to get as far as possible from Harlem but the more they try the harder it is getting. To escape the darkness of Harlem sonny got involved in using drugs, he was able to fill the loneliness and lack of support for his music from his brother with the use of drugs. His brother neglected him when sonny needed him the most, after their mothers death sonny had no decision making authority to what he was going to do with his life. By forcing Sonny to ...
- 467: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... to get a lot from Los Angeles. Now it's people from all over the world. We had a young man fly in from Ireland. On his immigration card, it said he seemed either on drugs or depressed. He came here and went to a pistol range, shot targets for a while, then took his gun into a bathroom and killed himself. His family in Ireland kept asking, why Las Vegas ... s how often Las Vegans move." Statistics show the most popular form of self-inflicted death in Las Vegas is by gunshot using a handgun. Second is by hanging, third is by lethal ingestion of drugs, often mixed with alcohol. In Ron Flud's office, I see how creative desperation can be. His files document death by carbon-monoxide inhalation, cutting and stabbing wounds, jumping from heights, electrocution, a plastic bag ... the suicide rate in Las Vegas. He taps his nails on the edge of his leather recliner and continues. "I'm not surprised. It gets real heavy here. I've put friends through rehab for drugs and alcohol. I do it because I care. See, honey, here, if the devil isn't staring you right in the face, then he's just around the corner." Little Lil, the show's ...
- 468: Genetech
- ... scientists. Science and the world as they knew it would never be the same again. A brief look at a timeline of events for Genentech would show that FDA (Food & Drug Administration) approvals for lifesaving drugs took a lengthy amount of time. The FDA gives approval to market the products in the United States (other countries have analogous regulatory agencies). Genentech received over 15 FDA approvals from 1985 to 1999. FDA ... change seems to increase slowly with time. After a detailed look at the graph provided you can see there is a drop at September 98. This drop is due to a lack of Phase III drugs at that time. The drugs have to pass Phase III before they can be considered for marketing. The company overcame the block and was back to normal. If I were to give one tip to investors, it would be ...
- 469: How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?
- ... and ethically moral. While in this society it is hard to tell what is true, it is also hard when compared with other societies. For example, some European countries have legalized the use of mild drugs. These countries have attributed this toward less crime. Putting the question of right or wrong on the individual rather than, in our case, the government. In America the majority consider legalization of drugs wrong, but has it really worked our way? Are not alcohol and tobacco just as dangerous, causing mind altering effects, attributing to deaths and diseases everyday? Why are not these illegal? The reason is because ... regard for the "almighty dollar" rather than the safety and health of their fellow man! Apparently this society has a double-standard. On one hand advertising and sending messages telling kids to "Don't Do Drugs", but on the other hand televising, for all the world to hear, a president admitting to smoking marijuana and hearing him laugh about it. This society expects the best out of kids, but rewards ...
- 470: Alcohol
- ... hallucinations, and extreme tremors may occur. The latter symptoms are involved in the most serious alcohol withdrawal syndrome, delirium tremens, which can prove fatal despite prompt treatment. This is in contrast to withdrawal from narcotic drugs such as heroin, which, although distressful, rarely results in death. Recent evidence has shown that heavy and even moderate drinking during pregnancy can cause serious damage to the unborn child: physical or mental retardation or ... led to encouragingly high recovery rates. In addition to managing physical complications and withdrawal states, treatment involves individual counseling and group therapy techniques aimed at complete and comfortable abstinence from alcohol and other mood-changing drugs of addiction. Such abstinence, according to the best current evidence, is the desired goal, despite some highly controversial suggestions that a safe return to social drinking is possible. Addiction to other drugs, particularly to other tranquilizers and sedatives, poses a major hazard to alcoholics. Antabuse, a drug that produces a violent intolerance for alcohol as long as the substance remains in the body, is sometimes used ...
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