... are good for you and some could kill people. Some good drugs are anesthetics, hormones, vaccines, and antibiotics. Some bad drugs are narcotics. These are sleep inducers. Examples of this are codeine, heroin, and morphine. Other drugs include cocaine, nicotine, and marijuana. Nowadays, drugs are a big problem in our society. The only drugs that you should take should be drugs that your doctor prescribed for you. And you should only take the amount of that drug that he tells you to. Every drug can be poisonous if you take too much. Peer pressure is hard to turn down. Peer pressure is when your peers (the people around you) egg you on to do something, gen ...
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... (A Brief 2). The bacteria is very slow developing and attacks the nerves, especially those of the hands, feet, and also the face. When the bacteria affects the nerves, they become swollen and numb which causes a loss of sensation in that particular area (2). Due to this loss of feeling sufferers are more susceptible to burns and other injuries. These injuries often become infected and turn into ulcers. When these remain untreated the final result may be the loss of an appendage ( 1). Patches of skin that have been affected will have a look similar to that of ringworm (A Brief 2). These patches are denoted by a raised circular area, with reddened bor ...
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... intense emotional need: for example, shipwrecked sailors may visualize boats coming to their rescue well before this actually happens. The fanciful elaboration of perception of external stimuli-for example, faces seen in the fire-is illusion. A patient who suffers from delirium tremens as a result of alcoholism may see such frightening things as red spiders or pink elephants, or they may feel that lice are crawling over their skin, because hallucination although usually visual may be experienced through any of the senses. The imagery of a vision is experienced as if it came from outside, although not from ordinary reality as perception does. Young children often ...
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... children became autistic because of "poor parenting" and that the only solution was that the parents should be removed from the child (Baron-Cohen 26). Now it is known that autism is caused by biological factors due to: neurological symptoms, mental handicap, genetic causes, infections, and even difficulties in pregnancy. Even though autism is thought of as a disease or disorder, autistic children can demonstrate special skills. These skills are referred to as "isolated islets of intelligence" (Baron-Cohen 53). Some examples of these are found in an autistic child's ability to draw, play music, or recall a certain date. Nadia, an autistic child, has the abilit ...
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... a paper mouth piece. It can also be smoked in a bong, or pipe. Another method is eating the leaves of the plant. They must be cooked in some sort of fat. Marijuana is fat soluble, and for the reason, must be cooked in butter, lard, milk, or other substance. A new method is being tested. It includes "baking" the marijuana under a flame without burning it. It is nearly the same as smoking it, but there is no smoke, which may limit the chance of lung cancer. Yet is this drug safe? No. The short term effects, besides the calmness are the following: temporary memory loss, rapid heart beat, and dizziness. The long term effects include the following: Lung cancer, ...
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... forms for doctors and patients to fill out. So much so, that doctors spend more time improving their handwriting than healing people. Greed and Profiteering: Some drug companies make over 10,000% profit on the drugs they manufacture. In 1991, the median income of doctors was $139,000 for general practitioners and $512,000 for specialists. Unneeded Surgery and Tests: Possibly 15 to 35% of certain types of operations and tests are unneeded. Malpractice Suits and "Defensive" Medicine: Doctors pay high premiums on malpractice insurance which causes them to charge more. The reason that these premiums are so high is because currently there are practically no ...
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... on the needle, and when someone else then uses the same needle, they have a high risk of catching the virus. The third most common way AIDS is spread is by blood transfusions. This is done almost the same way as by IV needle but it is always by the blood.(Madaras,187) The most rare way the AIDS virus is spread is by a mother passing it to fetus inside her.(Madaras,188) AIDS is a very rapidly-spreading disease although it is only spread four ways. Ten years ago only two cases of AIDS were known. Nine years ago only seven cases were known. In 1983 over 3,000 cases were recorded, and by 1989, there were more than 100,000 cases. (Samuel,26) Many people think yo ...
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... confidences of patients and to reveal confidential information to persons at significant risk of contracting HIV infection. Consider the case of Jennifer Lawson, decided by an appellate court in California. The day after 12-year-old Jennifer received a transfusion, her doctor discovered that the blood was contaminated with HIV. Jennifer, however, was never informed. Three years later, Jennifer began dating Daniel Reesner, and she still was unaware of her infection. Later she was diagnosed with AIDS and died 1 month after the diagnosis. After learning of his girlfriend's death, Daniel tested positive for HIV. Did the physician have an obligation to inform Jennifer? ...
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... sucking insects. Development of the AIDS Epidemic The first case of AIDS were reported in 1982, epidemiologists at the Center of Disease Control immediately began tracking the disease back wards in time as well as forward. They determined that the first cases of AIDS in the United States probably occurred in 1977. By early 1982, 15 states, the District of Columbia, and 2 foreign countries had reports of AIDS cases, however the total remained low: 158 men and 1 woman. Surprising enough more then 90 percent of the men were homosexual or bisexual. Knowing this more then 70 percent of AIDS victims are homosexual or bisexual men, and less then 5 percent are ...
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... Munoz called, "How to Control your Drinkling: A Practical Guide to Responsible Drinking (1982): .02 MELLOW FEELING. SLIGHT BODY WARMTH. LESS INHIBITED. .05 NOTICEABLE RELAXATION. LESS ALERT. LESS SELF-FOCUSED. COORDINATION IMPAIRMENT BEGINS. .08 DRUNK DRIVING LIMIT. DEFINITE IMPAIRMENT IN COORDINATION AND JUDGMENT. .10 NOISY. POSSIBLE EMBARRASSING BEHAVIOR. MOOD SWINGS. REDUCTION IN REACTION TIME. .15 IMPAIRED BALANCE AND MOVEMENT. CLEARLY DRUNK. .30 MANY PASS OUT. .40 MOST PASS OUT; SOME DIE. .50 BREATHING STOPS. MANY DIE. As can be seen, the most reliably pleasurable effects of alcohol occur when BAL rises to about .03-.05. Alcohol res ...
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