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- 3891: The Harm of Illegal Drugs
- ... states are not close behind, there running at 22%. As of October, 1974, 29 million people have tried marijuana. Out of the 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana. The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non ...
- 3892: The Dangers of Smoking
- ... a large role in the amount of smokers. The Bureau of the Census did a survey on how income and education effect use. According to them 31.8% of people with less than a high school education smoked, while 18.3% of people with more than 12 years of schooling smoked. So there is a good reduction of users if the individual has a higher education. A higher income is something ...
- 3893: Medical Uses Of Marijuana
- ... in the Federal Register, "Our nation's top cancer experts reject marijuana for medical use." To support his claim, he cited the testimony of David S. Ettinger, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and "nationally respected cancer expert," who said: "There is no indication that marijuana is effective in treating nausea and vomiting resulting from radiation treatment or other causes. No legitimate studies have been conducted ...
- 3894: Performance Enhancing Drugs
- ... a doctors prescription for certain diseases. The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using performance enhancing drugs is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their high school years. They use the steroids to bulk up and create a shield against the criticism. Due to this fact of psychological instability and the effect of the steroids, a violent person is created from a ...
- 3895: Tobacco
- ... preadolescent or adolescent years than women who did not smoke or smoked only occasionally during pregnancy. These findings support previous work showing that maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with increased rates of preschool and school-age behavior problems and delinquency in the offspring. The relationship between smoking and low birth weight, prematurity, and miscarriage has been well established. The effects of nicotine are seen in every trimester of pregnancy, from ...
- 3896: Schizophrenia
- ... schizophrenia differ from person to person. They can develop over a long period of time or very abruptly. Some symptoms are mild feelings of tension, inability to sleep or concentrate, or loss of interest in school, work, and friends. Other bizarre symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, or disordered speech and thoughts. Schizophrenia can appear in cycles known as relapse or remission. During a relapse, the patient can suffer from the following symptoms ...
- 3897: Thomas Jefferson
- ... remained at Randolph's estate for seven years. The estate was called Shadwell. Thomas Jefferson was quite the little intelligent boy. At age nine, Thomas Jefferson Started Latin, Greek, and French Studies at a boarding school. Thomas liked to Horse back ride, Canoe, Hunt, and fish. When Thomas was fourteen years old, his father passed away. Thomas Jefferson was the oldest son, so Thomas had to take care of the family ...
- 3898: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- ... exercises as well as specific shoulder girdle exercises that have been proposed (Injuries to the Throwing Arm, p.186). To reiterate on the treatment previously stated, Dr. Robert D. Leffert, MD. of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, says the patient should attempt a postural reeducation and periscapular muscle-strengthening program to alleviate the symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome (JAAOS, p.32). According to Dr. George Pianka, MD., and Dr ...
- 3899: The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism
- ... young people and often has serious consequences. Alcohol makes it very hard for students to learn and can often cause memory loss. Alcohol turns off the brains review of what a student learned during school. It slows rapid eye movement while they sleep during which their dreams process what they have learned. The slowing down of eye movement can also cause lack of sleep. Since the brain wont be ...
- 3900: Addiction and Heath Professionals
- ... Coombs, 1997). This ignorance could contribute to an addiction in some. In one survey by the Hazelden Foundation, it was found that two-thirds of the physicians surveyed spent less than twenty hours in medical school learning about addiction. In addition to the education being insufficient, many health professionals see the same types of people coming to the hospital that are addicted to drugs which only perpetuates the stereotypical addicted person ...
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