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- 891: Deppression And Teens
- ... 92% have tried it. Millions of teens have had adverse experiences caused by excessive drinking. (Elkind 203) Researchers have found that depressed teens are at particularly high risk for drug and alcohol abuse. Abuse of drugs, alcohol, or other substances are often used to assuage depression. Studies have found that when depressed patients were given treatment, alcohol and drug intake diminished as well. Substance abuse is seen as both a symptom ... lasting aftereffects. Having and keeping a baby, getting into trouble with the law, sustaining a serious injury as the result of risk-taking behavior or stunting one's emotional growth by anesthetizing painful feelings with drugs or alcohol can have a great impact on one's future. It can prevent a young adult from having a full, healthy, and productive life or make it considerably more difficult to do so. Depression ...
- 892: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... name implies, the stimulants act on neurotransmitters to activate or stimulate the central nervous system. In A.D.D. this helps the individual to focus more fully. They also have a mood-leveling effect. These drugs do not cloud the sensory system, and they are not addictive in the prescribed amounts(CVS Monogram). Among the anti-depressants used to treat A.D.D. are: Norpramin, Pamelor and Toranil. These drugs have a similar effect on A.D.D. symptoms as the stimulants, although they are completely different chemically. When stimulants are not effective, doctors will turn to the antidepressants as an alternative. As with any ...
- 893: Drinking And Driving Offences
- ... will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a straight line or pick up objects. The ... suspended from him for 20 years instead of 10 years. BIBLIOGRAPHY Highway Traffic Law, (Copyright January 1986: Community Legal Education Ontario) p.17-32 Government Document, Canada Law Reform Commision Report on Investigative Tests: Aclohol, Drugs, and Driving Offences (1983). Erwin,Richard E. M.Bender ,Defence of Drunk Driving Cases, Criminal Civil (Albany 1986) p.79-81 Purich, Donald John, Drinking and Driving:What To Do If Your Caught (International Self ...
- 894: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... inserted 40% of the HIV envelope gene into the Mycoplasma. They also found that the illness picks people with weak immune symptoms. Overbeck also stated that the military was forced to take injections of experimental drugs, which were supposed to protect them from chemical warfare. The sad thing is that these troops were never told about the side effects, and as a matter of fact, the Food and Drug Administration adopted the Interim Rule, which permits military to use experimental drugs on troops without their consent. According to Overbeck, the rule is still in effect (Overbeck 1-2). According to Peter Kawaja, of the International Gulf War Illness Coalition, the MD Anderson Cancer Center gave an ...
- 895: Ban Smoking
- Ban Smoking Although smoking is a proven killer, Americans waste hundreds of dollars each year on tobacco products. Other drugs that are harmful, such as crack or marijuana, are illegal in the United States. However, the use of cigarettes, which kills millions worldwide annually, is perfectly legal. If certain harmful substances are illegal, then cigarettes ... children. Cigarettes cause health problems in smokers as well as nonsmokers. They harm adults as they do youth. Although smoking has only negative effects on the body, the use of cigarettes is legal while other drugs are banned. Most products proven dangerous are banned or recalled. Cigarettes should be no different.
- 896: Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans
- ... fear and apprehension. When asked what their anxiety was caused by, Afro-American teens said that their fear comes from fear of dying before their 21 birthday and fear of losing a loved one to drugs or gang violence. When presented with the same question, white teens responded their greatest fears were not getting into grad school and not being considered popular at school. Thus it is evident, that the concerns ... stressors have on black Canadian is bound to differ than that of Afro-Americans slightly. In addition, research shows that blacks require different treatments than whites and that black patients react differently to the same drugs given to white patients. Conclusion The experience of the Afro-American patient is different than that of the white patient. Not only does the black patient have to deal with stereotypes as a patient but ...
- 897: A Clockwork Orange - Calculated Captivity
- ... bits of "ultra violence" and engaging in the old "in-out in-out". He beats the elderly, fights other gangs with his "britva", robs stores, breaks into houses, rapes young girls, drinks milk laced with drugs (moloko) and is eventually convicted of murder. Burgess portrays the immature Alex, as a mixture of good and evil possibilities with evil taking the upper hand. As the reader is taken deeper into Alexs ... all that society deems bad - and to provide him with a new artificial conscience. Alex is given injections and is forced to watch films of rape and violence. Through the mixture of these images and drugs, the treatment causes him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. ConsequentlyAlex becomes his own walking prison! He is conditioned by physical sickness to refrain from fulfilling the evil he desires to accomplish ...
- 898: The History of Medicine
- ... disease. The cause of this disease came from the existence of fetishes, evil dreams, or broken taboos. Once the direct cause was determined, it was treated by magic, sucking, extraction rituals, massage, baths, or vegetable drugs; and possession by a spirit, by exorcism, bloodletting, and spells. Magic medicine can still be seen today in some primitive communities. Although, then it was based on the personality of the shaman, the sacred place ... of effectiveness. In the 17th Century, the microscope was invented by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. This allowed doctors to see microbes and bacteria. Later on, it led to the development of anesthesia, and many other medical drugs associated with microscopic factors. Many breakthroughs were made thanks to the invention of the microscope. The earliest of the brilliant microscopists was Athanasius Kercher, a Jesuit who was also a mathematician, Orientalist, and a musician ...
- 899: The History of Medicine
- ... disease. The cause of this disease came from the existence of fetishes, evil dreams, or broken taboos. Once the direct cause was determined, it was treated by magic, sucking, extraction rituals, massage, baths, or vegetable drugs; and possession by a spirit, by exorcism, bloodletting, and spells. Magic medicine can still be seen today in some primitive communities. Although, then it was based on the personality of the shaman, the sacred place ... of effectiveness. In the 17th Century, the microscope was invented by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. This allowed doctors to see microbes and bacteria. Later on, it led to the development of anesthesia, and many other medical drugs associated with microscopic factors. Many breakthroughs were made thanks to the invention of the microscope. The earliest of the brilliant microscopists was Athanasius Kercher, a Jesuit who was also a mathematician, Orientalist, and a musician ...
- 900: Hepatitis A
- ... a retrovirus, which causes Delta Hepatitis. Acute hepatitis may arise secondary to various infections that involve the liver. It can also occur through ingestion of carbon tetrochloride, the poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides, arsenic, and certain drugs, including sulfonamides. Mild hepatitis can be caused by two forms of Herpes virus, cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus. Mild causes of acute hepatitis are treated with bed rest, however no drug therapy is administered. In forms involving extensive liver damage, blood-exchange transfussion might by imperative. Chronic hepatits lead to cirrhosis and liver damage. Type B virus and certain drugs cause a small percentage of cases, but the cause of most occurrences is unknown. Delta virus may be responsible for some of the relapses observed in patients with chronic active hepatitis. Type B infections have ...
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