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- 341: Is Drug Testing the Answer?
- ... Working under the influence of drugs such as cocaine puts the entire company at risk. Drug tests have numerous loopholes. Several kits are available to consumers. These kits flush out the system of toxins, mainly marijuana. Clean urine can be purchased for $20 at laboratories.(Kni is the basis for this argument. Drug testing makes it almost public material that a person is a user. Private matters such as the use ...
- 342: Steriods
- ... help in the healing process of muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles heal quicker adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes turn to steroids more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their water base composition. They can pass through the ...
- 343: Quit Smoking!
- ... nonsmoking teens. Their resting heart rates are two to three times faster than those of nonsmokers. Teens who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. Smoking is associated with a host of other risky behaviors, such as fighting and engaging in unprotected sex (CDC. Preventing tobacco use among young people 36, 104 ...
- 344: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... determine why some developing fetuses are more venerable to prenatal exposure than others (FAS home page) are. But one thing that is known for sure is that of all substances of abuse (heroin, cocaine, and marijuana) alcohol is the most damaging (Abel, 38). There are other effects that can result from drinking while pregnant. The most common effect is an increase in spontaneous abortions, commonly know as miscarriages. Some of the ...
- 345: Is Ritalin Over Prescribed?
- ... cocaine and Ritalin is that cocaine leaves the receptor site quicker than Ritalin, possibly making it more addictive (Snyderman 1). Ritalin is not a drug that is typically sold on the street like cocaine or marijuana. It is a drug that doctors prescribe to help children and adults with hyperactivity and attention problems. But are these trained professionals over prescribing it? The road a child has to take to get on ...
- 346: Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem
- ... simple uses. All drugs have different affects and can vary according to the amount and frequency of use, the characteristics of the user, and the setting in which they are used. The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse has divided the entire spectrum of drug using behavior into five patterns reflecting essentially distinct meanings for the individual users. The most common type of drug- using behavior can be known as ...
- 347: 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 should not be permitted either. Smoking has several ...
- 348: Smoking Tobacco
- ... to identify your age if you want legal! Almost anyone can buy them! Yes, the are legal! Nowadays, even middle high school students are already smoking, and willl even lead to using drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Smoking causes all sorts of cancer. It affects your brain and it do not prolong your life, not only in America, but all over the globe. Every person knows how smoking can ...
- 349: Premature Infancy
- ... birth is generally an underdeveloped placenta. One thing that is known to have an affect on this is cigarette smoke, which lowers the oxygen supply to the placenta. Drinking alcohol in large quantities and smoking marijuana and doing other drugs also increases the risk for having a premature baby. Having preterm babies is not an inherent trait, which is a common rumor, but some conditions which premature babies have later in ...
- 350: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... do this when they choose to use the drug continually simply because it clears the static from their mind (Hallowell 174). The three substances used most by A. D. D. sufferers are cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana. With cocaine, the person feels focused and alert as opposed to the average state of being high and out of control, because the cocaine acts as a stimulant, much like Ritalin, to the part of ...
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