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- 841: Anne Wilkes In Stephen Kings M
- ... and clothes. When he is tired or frustrated, he weeps like a small child. Annie ensures his childlike dependence on her and an ""expression of maternal love" (King 159) with his addiction to pain killing-drugs. Annie's disciplinary actions contribute to her mother figure, also. Gottschalk writes, "When he has been bad, she disciplines him but in motherly fashion often comforts him while doing so" (127). Annie punishes Sheldon's ... reader. Annie and her obsession with Sheldon's romance novels reflect the demands of an expectant audience. As Badley writes, "Sheldon's writing is like Annie's reading-an addiction, linked with the pain-killing drugs she alternately offers and withholds" (Badley 178). Annie, therefore, is a direct result of Paul's success in at-tracting and addicting readers. In fact, Annie comes to embody all that Sheldon's heroine Misery ...
- 842: WOMAN AND ABORTION
- ... there are groups that will not agree with this. These groups will protest at this trial to ensure what they wish to happen occurs. The Supreme will decide whether pregnant women can be tested for drugs. If being tested for drugs just means taking blood then it would not be harmful towards the unborn fetus. In this case the Supreme Court is deciding whether or not a woman can be given an injection to be tested ...
- 843: Haemophilia
- ... in the late stages of the pregnancy. Going back to the haemophiliacs, many have become seropositive for HIV infections transmitted through factor VIII and IX concentrates and many have developed AIDS. In Canada, the two drugs currently undergoing clinical testing for treatment of HIV disease are AZT and DDI. For the use of AZT, the major complication is suppression of normal bone marrow activity. This results in low red and white ... the bone marrow.11 AZT and DDI both represent the first generation of anti-retroviral drug and it is the hope of many people that they will be followed by less toxic and more effective drugs. As it can be seen, haemophilia is one of those sex-linked diseases that must involve the inheritance of both recessive and deficient chromosomes. It is mostly found in males and since every male has ...
- 844: “Cultural Murders”
- ... a bearded, wild-eyed 35 year old career criminal and pimp, who stood a mere 5’2”. He mesmerized a group of largely middle class youths into thinking he was Christ incarnate. Using manipulation with drugs and force of personality, Manson molded the young people into killers. They would be lucky enough to carry out his visions of Helter Skelter( Adler 54). One of the youths picked up was Leslie Van ... Manson was Jesus Christ. Charlie’s attorney frequently objected to the testimony. In an overwhelming number of instances, Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older upheld the questioning (Aarons 2). The Manson murders were incited by drugs and the slavish devotion of people to the teachings of a psychopath. They were also incredibly savage., and appeared to show little logical thought. Is it really possible to rehabilitate a woman who has stabbed ...
- 845: Euthanasia
- ... eye since Dr. Jack Kevorkian was discovered for contributing to these horrible inhumane acts. At the present time, the state of Oregon has the world's only law specifically permitting a doctor to prescribe lethal drugs for the purpose of ending a patient's life (http://www.iaetf.org/faq.htm). Why has only one state that happens to be in the United States contributed to this horrible controversy? Euthanasia tends ... necessary and proper measures of their true mental state. Also, modern medicine today has proven to be very beneficial to dealing with pain. A person needs to find a new doctor that can prescribe them drugs pinpointed more to their condition that can actually do something for their pain rather than taking the easy way out and resulting to death. People that have had someone like Dr. Jack Kevorkian assist in ...
- 846: Eating Disorders
- ... normal weight, and they almost always have a swollen appearance to their stomachs. Compulsive overeating is a disorder in which individuals overeat, often using food as an addictive substance. As others may turn to alcohol, drugs, or gambling to alleviate stress, compulsive overeaters turn to food. Food has many associations with comfort. Compulsive overeaters may feel empty inside, and turn to food to help them feel full. A binge can average ... are prone to depression and are also at risk for dangerous impulsive behaviors (like sexual promiscuity). In general alcohol and drug abuse is more common with bulimics than with anorexics; (Cocaine and amphetamines being the drugs most often used). Other behaviors like self cutting and stealing appear in all three disorder; anorexia, bulimia and compulsive over eating. With compulsive over eating the biggest problems include obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure ...
- 847: A Study of Depression and Relationships
- ... the bi-polar stages of manic depression, that many relationships can only follow the highs and lows of the depressive's states. To fight this disease, many people turn to the many available anti- depressant drugs on the market now. These drugs alter the bio-chemicals in the brain itself. It works wonders for most people. In fact, 85% of all manic depressives have great results right away when treated according to an the article entitled, 1 ...
- 848: "The Beats Generation
- ... t fit into society as clean-cut soldiers or self-satisfied young businessmen. They were ‘beat’ because they didn’t have and didn’t believe in straight jobs. They had to struggle to survive, selling drugs for money to buy food and pay the rent for their dirty apartment. They were ‘beat’ because they hitchhiked across the continent because they couldn’t stay in the same place without becoming restless and ... down’ or smoked to ‘get high,’ not to represent anything. Even the wildest hipster had no desire to shatter the ‘square’ society in which he lived, he only wished to elude it. His journeys into drugs and sex were a result of a curiosity, not failure. Only the most sorrowful among members would lament and call his life a nightmare. Only he would protest that he has lost his future. Older ...
- 849: The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- ... the patient from being contagious. An example of treatment would be short- course chemotherapy, which is the use of isoniazid (INH), rifampin, and pyrazinamide in combination for at least six months (Cook & Dresser, 1995). The drugs need to be taken for six to twelve months or there may be a reoccurrence. Failure to take the antibiotics consistently will result in a multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB) which "is much harder to treat because the drugs do not kill the germs. MDR TB can be spread to others, just like regular TB" (American Lung Association, 1996). Inactive tuberculosis is when a person is infected with the tuberculosis bacteria, but their immune ...
- 850: Hepatitis B 2
- ... people have an increased risk of liver problems, like cirrhosis (hardening of the liver) and liver cancer. Some chronic cases will need liver transplants. There is no cure for hepatitis B, but there are some drugs to help. Interferon helps to quicken the rates of remission. There are also two drugs that are in the last phase of FDA approval- lamivudine and famciclovir. These are thought to be available toward the end of the year. If you have contracted HBV, you should immediately contact a doctor ...
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