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- 481: Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health?
- ... for its popularity that is that "the cops basically ignored it" a few years ago, said Bill FitzGerald, of the County Attorney's Office (The Associated Press, A-6). Today, the county boasts a "Do Drugs, Do Time" program targeting all drug users (The Associated Press, A-6). "Marijuana: Is there a new reason to worry?", an article in the March 88 issue of American Health by Winifred Gallagher had a ... respectability", said Donald Moss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas (Talan, D1). Miles Herkenham, chief of functional neuroanatomy at the National Institution of Mental Health says the new findings "allow us to design drugs that have very selective effects" (Talan, D6). Herkenham also discovered that there are several receptor sites in the brain that control motor functions, learning and memory. Hence, marijuana may be useful in treating a problem ... marijuana as medicine, I think the same goes as above. A lot more research has to be done on the side effects of THC before any real use can be done. There have been many drugs up to now that have seemed useful, but in the end have caused more harm to the body than good. Health Implications I think that marijuana use affects myself and my peers very much. ...
- 482: Cancer 3
- ... The cartilage degrades, forming grooves that eventually expose the bone. With this lack of cartilage, bones rub together, causing a lot of pain and swelling. Typical treatment of osteoarthritis relies heavily on nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). A few examples of NSAIDs, which can most likely be found in the medicine cabinet, include aspirin and ibuprofen. These drugs may relieve the symptoms, but they do not slow the progression of the disease. In addition, there is evidence that long-term use of NSAIDs damages the joints and accelerates the progression of osteoarthritis! Furthermore ... in two randomized controlled trials comparing glucosamine sulfate to ibuprofen, glucosamine was superior in one and equivalent in one" (4). Lastly, glucosamine sulfate given orally is at least as effective as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in relieving the symptoms of osteoarthritis (5). Previous studies have also shown that the longer glucosamine sulfate is used, the more obvious the benefit. When glucosamine supplementation is used opposed to the typical use ...
- 483: Antibiotic Resistance
- ... more it will decrease the effect it has on you. That is because the bacteria has found a way to avoid the effects of that antibiotic. Another cause of resistance is the improper use of drugs. When patients feel that the symptoms of their disease have improved, they often stop taking the drug. Just because the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the disease has gone away. Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the ... decreasing and antibiotic resistance is increasing, new research on how to battle bacteria is starting. Antibiotic resistance spreads fast but efforts are being made to slow it. Improving infection control, discovering new antibiotics, and taking drugs more appropriately are ways to prevent resistant bacteria from spreading. In developing nations, approaches are being made to control infections such as hand washing by health care people, and identifying drug resistant infections quickly ...
- 484: Bladerunner
- ... other words, we believe what we see because we see it. "Blade Runner also predicts the likely of our future" (Timberman 3). Blade Runner offers a futuristic look of how Earth will be infested with drugs, sex, and violence. After every assignment, will Rick Deckard have empathy on androids and lose his touch in "retiring" them. In the novel, Rick Deckard differentiated an android with a human through an empathy test ... servants to humans." (Lui 2) "This world of advance technology is coming fast, and the world has taken a turn of the worse." (Saini 2). "Blade runner predicts the likely of our future" (Timberman 3). Drugs, violence and technology already exist in our world today, so it just seems right to think that it would be more common in the year 2019. Blade Runner is a disturbing film, but it is ... expansion of cyberspace, and technology, there is a chance that very soon we will see servant robots. The parallelism that Blade Runner has with our near future is so extremely similar that it is frightening. Drugs and violence already exist today so no wonder it will be common in the year 2019. 'Blade Runner is foreshadowing what the future has for us, for example, the abundance and reliance we will ...
- 485: Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
- ... the baby in any way (4, p.2). A one-time pharmacologist for the US Food and Drug Administration states, "The baby comes out nice and pink!"(4, p.3). Presently, a lot of the drugs some women choose to take during labor, like Demerol, can in some cases, damage the infant in many ways such as retardation, deformation, or distortion (12, p.2). Because marijuana can reduce the pain of ... for muscle spasms," says Dr. Grinspoon (4, p.3). Not only is marijuana a good pain killer and a good restraint for muscle spasms, its also, contrary to popular belief, safer than many other drugs. Including aspirin, which causes bleeding and kills hundreds of people a year. There has not been a single known death by a marijuana overdose (4, p.4). Many drugs that doctors use are confirmed as much more dangerous to people then marijuana, yet many doctors use morphine, cocaine, Demerol, amphetamines, and codeine. "Nobody thinks we have legalized cocaine for their own high because ...
- 486: Homeless
- ... given for two months. For a week they lived on ketchup and mustard. Within three days of the condiments disappearing the boy had both his feet amputated due to frostbite. This was in New York. Drugs are everywhere on the streets. It is estimated that 20% of all people living on the streets use hard drugs daily. Such drugs as cocaine, heroine, and morphine plague certain areas. AIDS often spreads like wildfire among people who share unsterilized needles, and once a person contracts the HIV virus, they become a statistic in the disabled ...
- 487: Ross Rebagliati and the Marijuana Issue
- ... found traces of marijuana in his urine test. Mrs. Bongard and fellow classmates, Under the circumstances, Ross Rebagliati should not have lost his medal. To start off, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug. Many drugs can enhance the performance of an athlete. For example, Steroids increase one's muscle level, making them stronger, faster etc. These drugs are said to give the athlete an unfair advantage over the others. Any ruling based on the use of performance-enhancing drugs is justified, but since marijuana has little or no effect on an athlete's performance, and it would not give him an advantage over other athletes, a ruling based on the use of marijuana ...
- 488: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... and the world was experiencing a transition from innocence to a more knowledgeable society. Revolutions in all aspects of life were going on: civil rights, sexual, rock and roll and the introduction of new experimental drugs in the communities of San Francisco and Greenwich Village. Out of all of these revolutions came the beat generation, a group of young Bohemian writers who wrote and thought about the things that Americans used ... fit into societies mold is made to feel that life is hopeless. The imagery used here is very well placed- dark "Negro" streets give a picture of gloominess, "angry fix" deals with the consumption of drugs. He really blames society for his friends going "mad" when in fact they are not, they are just different. So much pain and pressure is put on them that they are "demanding instantaneous lobotomy" Ginsberg ... culture was dying as young Jewish men dropped their identity, and so was Naomi Ginsberg. Whatever advice Naomi gave her son he did not follow. She tells him to "get married and dont take drugs" while he went out and did the opposite of both. The final line in this section is "the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window". Outside the world is a ...
- 489: Analysis Of The Sacred Pipe
- ... complete power over everything and was part of all that is good. Although, unlike Seventh day Adventist much of there religion and religious rituals consist of smoking marijuana, tobacco, tree bark and other forms of drugs out of a pipe that was referred to as the sacred pipe or as it is better known as the peace pipe. Not everybody in the tribe was permitted to smoke out of the pipe ... of substances they found a way to smoke. These people would smoke everything and anything that they could fit in a pipe. They had all kinds of different names that they obviously gave to these drugs while they were using them, such as Hokshichankiya which was there name for marijuana. Most drugs however that were used in there religious practices were bitter tasting and had no real affect on the brain. The author spent a lot of time making sure he described the effect and representation ...
- 490: LSD and PCP Use
- LSD and PCP Use Today there is increasing usage of two very powerful, and dangerous drugs in the youth of this Nation. LSD is one of these drugs, this hallucinogen more commonly known as Acid and is one of the longest lasting highs that are out there. LSD was first researched in 1953 when the Central Intelligence Agency thought that the Soviets and ... and takes 24 to 48 hours to come back to what they call normal. Most users also smoke a combination of PCP and crack known as bazooka. There are a lot of mixtures of there drugs in fact not many people justice one drug. PCP is actually stores in the fatty tissue of the body. So a person can feel the affects of PCP many days after he or she ...
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