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Needles And Syringes Injection Site
1,178 wordsThere is much debate surrounding the question of whether injectable steroids are more or less effective and safe than oral steroids. It is suggested that the oral steroids, which have a special " 17 -? alkyl ated" chemical structure making them active orally and more difficult for the liver to break down, may be more toxic to the liver. In addition, these oral steroids are subject to "first pass metabolism' meaning the liver is exposed to the drug at its highest concentration immediately after i...
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Visual And Auditory Australian Aborigines
1,614 words... misconduct, priests profiting from gifts in return for the drug, or simply the economic decline of the tribes which is said to be due to their peyote usage. In any event, peyotism is strongly look down upon by a majority of Navaho's, yet the members of the Peyote Cult still continue to practice. The fact that the Peyote Cult is only a small division of a larger culture also provides a distinct difference between them and the Aborigines. There is no division among the Aborigines over plant us...
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Attention Deficit Disorder School Age Children
961 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder is the most common psychiatric disorder among children. This disorder affects three to five percent of all school age children, mostly boys (Dreher). Diagnosis of this disorder is not an easy task, but it has been made easier due to symptoms specific to this disorder. Once diagnosed properly, attention deficit disorder can be treated with medications and behavioral therapy. The causes of attention deficit disorder are not easily pinpointed. Not until recently have rese...
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Signs And Symptoms Drugs And Alcohol
1,131 wordsThere are many different ways to deal with drugs & drug abuse, and there are wrong ways & right ones! It depends on how you look at it & handle it! Many young people experiment with drugs. This is a fact of life. There is no getting away from it; we are a drug using society. Many of us seek a easy way out solution for a variety of conditions both physical and emotional, and alcohol and tobacco use is a big part in our society. Drugs are used for medical, social or recreational reasons. With this...
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Performance Enhancing Drug Male And Female
1,508 wordsAthletes today must make a choice: to use performance-enhancing drugs (steroids) or face a competition at a disadvantage. While some athletes may not bend to pressure to succeed a large number will. Dr Gabe Market did a survey of more than 100 runners asking them the following question: If you could take a pill that would guarantee you'd win an Olympic gold medal, but would kill you within the year, would you take it? The number of positive responses, over 50 percent, is very sobering. (Clark) N...
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Wal Mart Risk Involved
601 wordsThe topic that will be discussed in this paper is negligence. Negligence is any conduct which creates an unreasonable risk of foreseeable harm to another. There has to be risk involved in the case in order for there to be negligence. Therefore, if there is no risk involved, then there is no case for negligence. There are four basic elements of negligence that will be discussed in this paper. A plaintiff must prove in a court of law all four of the elements in order to win the case. The four elem...
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Cruel And Unusual University Of Pennsylvania
1,089 wordsMany humans use animals for testing each year. Animal testing is when the animals are put through something or injected to see how they react to what medical research they have been used for. There are three very important reasons why animals should not be used for testing harmful or dangerous materials. One of these is that testing and its use is trivial in the cosmetic industry. The second reason is that animals have rights and animals can feel pleasure and pain just as humans do. The third re...
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Depressive Episodes Stop Taking
1,019 words... not just stop taking the pills cold turkey. The patient must take lower doses gradually over time until he or she is down to the lowest dosage possible. This can take up to one month just to get off antidepressants. Then he or she can stop with the pills. Now, is a pill really worth all of the struggle? Many people think the only way to conquer depression is by popping a pill. In some cases though, antidepressants are beneficial to those with chemical disorder, but there are certainly altern...
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Should Stimulants Be Prescribed For Adhd Children
739 wordsIn this day and age, drugs are being prescribed without hesitation. In fact, many of these drugs are being prescribed for children with various disorders. One of these disorders is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An estimated five to ten percent of children are diagnosed with this syndrome (Taylor 11). One of the methods to treat this disorder is to use stimulants, specifically Ritalin. This method is controversial because it has many side effects and its long-term effect...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,516 wordsIS RITALIN OVERPRESCRIBED? Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have received some bad press over the years. Because of lack of accurate information, parents are understandably fearful of side effects. Ritalin has been studied carefully for the last 20 to 30 years. The two most commonly mentioned side effects of Ritalin are loss of appetite and sleep problems. Irritability and weight loss are the next most often reported symptoms. Approximately half of the children in one study who took Ritalin...
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Socio Cultural Management Plan
1,263 wordsDepression Introduction This assignment will look at a case study of a adult female who presents herself with a three month of hospitalization. The patient is getting divorce after 22 years. She sees suicide as an ideal but has no plan of action. She also suffers from abnormal sleeping patterns, waking at night and lacks concentration on her work. In the context of the above scenario we will look at diagnostic possibilities, possible causes for the depression, impact on her life, relevant safety...
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Control Of Blood Glucose Levels
1,262 wordsControl of Blood Glucose Levels Abnormal blood glucose level is an inherited condition caused by a defect or defects in the gene that codes for the enzyme, glucose- 6 -phosphate dehydrogenase (G 6 PD). It can cause hemolytic anemia, varying in severity from life-long anemia, to rare bouts of anemia to total unawareness of the condition. The episodes of hemolytic anemia are usually triggered by oxidants, infection, or by eating fava beans. Abnormal blood glucose level is the most common enzyme de...
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Herbal Medicines Petri Dishes
1,835 wordsDo natural medicines work as well as over the counter medicines? This question has been argued about for quite a while. In my experiment, I will compare natural medicine? s effectiveness on Escherichia coli to over the counter drugs, to finally decide if herbal remedies are better than E. coli Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common bacteria in your stomach and intestines. E. coli is a gram negative rod bacteria (Fundamentals of Microbiology). E. coli bacteria make up 0. 1 % of the total bacteria...
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Drug Interactions Drug Therapy
1,011 wordsGastroesophageal Reflux Disease Robert Super Longitudinal Care Dr. Slater 3 / 26 / 01 Overview of GERD 10 % of all Americans experience GERD Low mortality rate approximately 1 death per 100, 000 persons Largely effects QOL: more than angina, menopause, untreated HTN, mild CHF GERD is defined as: Clinical or histological disorder resulting from gastric materials refluxing into the esophagus This reflux causes a breakdown of the esophageal mucosa Pathophysiology of GERD Excessive reflux of gastric...
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Person To Person Muscle Relaxation
1,283 wordsR ape and sexual assault are becoming more of a problem in American society every year. Most of these rape cases involve the use of substances to impair reason, making an easier victim. The availability of these drugs has increased its popularity and therefore directly has increased the number of incidents. With the advancement of science, synthetically produced drugs are replacing alcohol, which has for centuries been the dominant date rape drug. One of those substances is gamma-hydroxy butyrat...
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Effects Of Marijuana Smoked Marijuana
1,132 wordsFor the last fifty years there have been various debates over the legalization of cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana, for it s medicinal potential. Many people in society are aware of the harmful and long-term effects of marijuana, and therefore are strongly opposed the drug. What people and governments around the world fail see is that marijuana has plenty of benefits, and could in fact, serve as a useful drug in the medical field. There have been millions of dollars spent to res...
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South Africa Seek Medical
942 wordsMalaria is a potentially fatal illness of tropical and subtropical regions. The disease is caused by a parasite which is transmitted to human beings bitten by infected mosquitoes. The disease is widespread in Africa, and over one million people die of malaria every year on the continent. WHICH AREAS HARBOUR MALARIA? Within South Africa's borders the disease is encountered mainly in northern and eastern Mpumalanga, northern Kwa-Zulu Natal, and the border areas of the Northern and North West provi...
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Red Blood Cells Mg Kg
850 wordsMalaria is a Malaria Malaria Malaria is a disease that can be cured. It is also fatal if not quickly detected and treated. Luck also helps too. A person who gets malaria contracts it from a bite from female Anopheles mosquitoes. (Anopheles any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to human beings) The mosquitoes themselves get the parasites from other humans who have the parasites in their bloodstream. The parasites are 1 cell...
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Aluminum Foil Distilled Water
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Terminally Ill Patients Quality Of Life
1,291 wordsLegalizing marijuana for medical purposes has been a debate for many years. Many institutions have opened up to help terminally ill patients receive their dosage of marijuana. One of them being Cannabis Healing Center in California, which was shut down by the government in 1998 because selling or using marijuana for any reason is illegal no matter what. Its a violation of federal law to cultivate or distribute marijuana. Federal law supersedes state law (Marmion 2). Even though marijuana has no ...
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