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- 561: Asthma And How Medication Allows For Increased Performance
- ... affects performance, and an assessment of how medication when taken as prescribed will improve a person's performance. There are many medications that can be taken to control the onset of asthma attacks. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as steroids, steroid inhalers, and steroid tablets are used as perverters and controllers of asthma. These drugs reduce the inflamation in the airways and reduce the need for other drugs. Steroids though take a few hours to have an effect and therefore ineffective if needed for immediate relief. Other treatments include allergy shots and Antihistamines which can be used as a preventer of asthma. ...
- 562: Less Than Zero Book Review
- Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. They live in a world shaped by passivity. The place lacks feeling and hope. Three high school buddies, 2 male and 1 female, venture down very different paths ... me to relate to. Less Than Zero is not a long book but it contains reflections upon the entire world. The images described of youth adrift, of neon towers, palm trees, black nights, parties, clubs, drugs and cars and sex will never leave me. This amazing story sounded extremely real and scary to the reader, me. I recommend it highly and will argue that it is the Catcher in the Rye ... a weird sensation, a perverse, almost vicarious need to keep reading. Ellis is wonderful at creating a mood and infesting the reader with it. This book left me examining my outlook on life, friends, and drugs. I will also remember the lessons learned from reading this book.
- 563: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Grew It, Why Can’t We?
- ... the Prohibition, the United States was left with nothing to show but a decade of political turmoil and a lot of unemployed police officers. It was about this time that the Federal Bureau of Dangerous Drugs (FBNDD) was reformed. The head of this Bureau was a man by the name of Harry J. Anslinger. The FBNDD, which is the organization that preceded the DEA, was responsible for enforcing the new federal ... beverages, or into some sort of lotion. There are many myths about hemp and marijuana that confuse consumers. One of the biggest myths is that legalizing hemp will lead to the possible legalization of other drugs such as cocaine and heroine. The truth is that although marijuana is considered a drug, hemp is not. It is possible to grow hemp crops without the high levels of THC, thus only producing the ... the stalk and the seed. There are not any other plants with as many useful products and medicines as the cannabis sativa plant. Therefore, there would be no grounds for the legalization of any other drugs. As this essay narrows to an end, there is one final point to be made. I do not recommend that everyone smoke marijuana nightly, but I would like to think that we, consumers and ...
- 564: Animal Testing
- ... should use animals for testing because their anatomy is close to a human’s, it promotes medical break throughs that save millions of human lives, and animals reproduce quickly, allowing scientists to perfect life saving drugs. The anatomy of many animals is very much like humans. They have the same vital organs that function exactly the same. Living beings are complex. The nervous system, blood and brain chemistry, gland and organ ... testing promotes medical break throughs that save millions of lives. The testing of animals has produced not only medical cures, but it has also lead to ways of treating many diseases, developing protective vaccines and drugs, and many new surgical procedures. A few of these break throughs are: DNA, viruses and retroviruses, radiation therapy, cardiac pacemaker, artificial limbs and joints, x-rays, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), tooth and gum disease ... years in the U.S. since 1900. Without the use of animal testing, polio would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated children and adults this year. Animals reproduce quickly allowing scientists to perfect life saving drugs. Animals, such as mice, rats, and rabbits, reproduce very quickly allowing many specimens to be used. The more specimens used in testing, the faster the cure for many diseases we have today is found. ...
- 565: Welfare
- ... must wait to be adopted. Specifically, the bill prohibits states from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin when placing children for adoption. AFDC beneficiaries who the state identifies as addicted to drugs or alcohol must enroll in an addiction treatment program and participate in random drug testing in order to continue receiving welfare benefits. The bill is estimated to result in a net savings of approximately $40 ... a high school education, you will find it tough to land a job that will support yourself, let alone a family as well. School keeps kids off of the streets, and out of trouble with drugs, sex and pregnancies- things that will run them right out of school and right onto the welfare payroll. Democrats love making a big sob story out of welfare "victims." It makes me truly sick. Want ... the people you ought to be trying to aid. It is irresponsible. Stop and think. You have people on welfare who are drug addicts. You give them cash. What do you think happens? They buy drugs. If there is any money left they MAY (1 in a million chance) use it as intended. If not, they fall back on their main means for scoring. This means stealing or selling their ...
- 566: Materialist Theory
- ... human behavior. People cannot be afflicted with a demon that does not exist. They believe, correctly, that mental illnesses come from the brain. Today this view of materialists has been proven with brain chemical altering drugs. All mental related illnesses have been proven to be caused a chemical imbalance in the brain. Therefore the mental aspect of a person can be directly related to their physical balance. Material neurons replace spiritual ... then leads us to experiencing a sensation if our mental understanding of pain. Human personality is affected if the brain is damaged. People with varying mental health problems confirm this. What happens when people use drugs? Their state of consciousness is changed; the drug changes the brain processes and their entire perception of outside reality changes. People under the influence of drugs are definitely changed and it is provable through this sequence of events that it is the occurrences in the body that change the mental events that occur. The major antagonist to Materialism would be ...
- 567: Refuge Camps
- ... time it can be cured. Malaria is another disease that is affecting many refugees. It is acquired through the bite of an infected mosquito. Malaria is very dangerous because it can adapt to anti-malarial drugs, making it hard to cure. There is no cure for malaria because of its resistance to drugs, but there are drugs to control the symptoms. There are many problems DWB have to face while working in the fields. If there is not enough water new wells have to be found and the construction of more ...
- 568: Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
- ... stop whenever I want. Does that sound familiar to you? if it does you are probably part of the 80% smokers who are teens. And studies show, that young smokers are likely to start doing drugs, selling drugs, and so forth. Young smokers start smoking at 12 or 13 just to get a taste of what it's like. Some of them find it disgusting and unhealthy and some find it cool usually ... Smoking is legal almost everywhere in the world, but it shouldn't be because Marijuana smoking isn't. Cigarettes are addictive and they usually lead the smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news ...
- 569: Police Corruption
- ... side. Dowd was a drug dealer. From scoring free pizza as a rookie he graduated to pocketing cash seized in drug raids and from there simply to robbing dealers outright, sometimes also relieving them of drugs that he would resell. Soon he had formed ``a crew'' of 15 to 20 officers in his Brooklyn precinct who hit up dealers regularly. Eventually one of them was paying Dowd and another officer $8 ... 36 indictments and 19 convictions on charges related to enormous thefts of cash during drug raids -- more than $1 million in one instance. ``The deputies were pursuing the money more aggressively than they were pursuing drugs,'' says Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge their police forces quickly in response to public fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of ... when about 10% of the city's police were either jailed, fired or disciplined in connection with a scheme in which officers robbed and sometimes killed cocaine smugglers on the Miami River, then resold the drugs. Many of those involved had been hired when the department had beefed up quickly after the 1980 riots and the Mariel boatlift. ``We didn't get the quality of officers we should have,'' says ...
- 570: Alcoholism
- ... 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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