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Should We Use Nutrasweet And Other Artificial Sweeteners
2,046 wordsShould We Use NutraSweet & Other Artificial Sweeteners? Over the years there has been a huge "food fight" concerning the safety of NutraSweet and other artificial sweeteners. In the eyes of the consumer the safety of such products is questionable. In my opinion it isn't safe to use products like this. Though many scientists and other health professionals claim it to be safe I still don't trust these products. In 1981 the little blue packets of NutraSweet appeared on our restaurant tables, and by...
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Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia Morals And Ethics
1,657 words... ide over the next 35 years. They also argue that a request for assisted Suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for counseling, assistance, and positive alternatives as solutions for very real problems. They also argue that most that want to die are clinically depressed, and just need counseling. They are right they JUST NEED counseling. Makes it sound so easy right? The only problem is, counseling only helps people who WANT to be helped. A large group of people who are ...
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Central Nervous System Secondary Symptoms
361 wordsI chose the topic of MS because three years ago my mother was diagnosed with this disease. Not a lot of people know very much about MS. MS stands for multiple sclerosis. It is a very disabling disease that I have learned a lot about over the past few years. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and even sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system. MS can suddenly attack your body, and often it is misdiagnosed. There are many symptoms to MS. A few initial ones are difficultly walking, abn...
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Time To Die Passive Euthanasia
1,724 wordsMany people confronted with a terminal illness are confused about what they can do as a dying person. This is when euthanasia is often discussed. Deciding that this is the only option is a long drawn out process. Being that a large part of American society is of Christian beliefs, it is necessary to look at morality based on religion. The main pro-suicide argument deals completely within the issue of choice. If life is seen as a covenant, or temporary loan from God, the freedom to choose how tha...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Smoking Marijuana
1,364 wordsShould Marijuana Be Legal By: Colby Gilbert E-mail: Should Marijuana Be Legal This is a topic that has become a bit of concern amongst people in the past few years. Marijuana has been illegal since the early 1900 s, but lately scientists have figured out that there are some uses of marijuana that could benefit people in need, people who are sick of deadly diseases such as aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. These are all diseases that are hard for anyone to go through, especially without aid t...
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Smoked Marijuana Muscle Spasms
2,304 words... approved proposition 215, an initiative that could, in effect, make marijuana legally available as a medicine in the United States for the first time in many years. Under this new law, patients or their primary caregivers that possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician are exempted from criminal prosecution. The treatment may be for cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana pr...
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British Medical Association British Medical Journal
1,228 wordsDiscuss: Cannabis is no more harmful than tobacco or alcohol and should, therefore, be legalized. There has recently been much debate in the media about the decriminalization of cannabis, both for recreational and medicinal use. This topic has proved controversial especially in political circles. Drawing on evidence from recent press reports, research on the web and recent publications, this essay will assess the evidence of how harmful cannabis really is. In 1971 Cannabis was reclassified by pa...
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Long Term Effects Marijuana As A Medicine
1,341 wordsPeople have been using Marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant's therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. From 1840 to 1900, more than a hundred articles on cannabis appeared in European and American medical journals, recommending it as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, painkiller, sedative, and anti-convulsions. The use of Marijuana should be legalized in Canada for the benefits...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Marijuana As A Medicine
626 wordsPeople have been using Marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant's therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. From 1840 to 1900, more than a hundred articles on cannabis appeared in European and American medical journals, recommending it as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, painkiller, sedative, and anti-convulsions. The use of Marijuana should be legalized for the benefits of indivi...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Marijuana As A Medicine
1,215 wordsIn most countries, marijuana is by law illegal because of its classification as an illicit drug, but the controversial issues have been established that this? illicit drug? has improved the course of treatment for suffering patients. Marijuana has beneficial effects when used in medicinal scenarios like for example for the treatment of pain. Thus it should be an administered drug for patients who can benefit from the use of this drug. It has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the r...
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Terminally Ill Patients Drug Enforcement Agency
1,707 wordsMarijuana is a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the universal hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indicia). It is smoked by rolling in tobacco paper, or by placing it in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200, 000, 000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation. Marijuana is known by a variety of names such as in the United States, marijuana is called pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, etc. The main active principle of cannabis is tetrahy...
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Back Of The Head Optic Nerve
1,395 wordsToday, there are many forms of imaging available to the medical profession. Among the more well-known types include x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, PETscans, and the most groundbreaking, the MRI. One lesser known form of imaging is the technique of evoked potentials. The evoked potential uses stimulation of the body to force activity in the brain. Using electrodes, a clinician can take signals directly from the brain without any intrusive methods. The electrodes remain on the surface of the skin ...
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Spinal Cord Multiple Sclerosis
1,363 words... nt of hearing loss based on the amplitudes of the signals (fifth wave). With this information, physicians can decide how to treat the hearing loss and to what degree. A person who is completely deaf would exhibit flat-line responses. The BAEP can also detect lesions in the auditory cortex or any place in the auditory pathway. These abnormalities could also be attributed to tumors or acoustic neuromas, which are non-cancerous growths on the vestibulocochlear nerve in the brain. The BAEP is es...
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Ethical Challenges Truth Telling And Confidentiality
1,429 wordsEthical challenges: truth-telling and confidentiality During the process of patient and doctor relationship there are many questions and problems, which can and should be solved not from the subjective or suitable point of view, but compulsory from the point of professional ethics. The problems of confidentiality and truth-telling in medicine are of those dilemmas which require an ethical approach to be applied. In one of numerous episodes of ER, nurse Carol Hathaway promises two young patients ...
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Cannabis Sativa Biomass Fuels
1,171 wordsThe Forbidden Plant? With so many benefits, both industrial and medicinal, how could such a plant be illegal in the United States? Since 1937, the legalization of hemp has been the cause of much debate. However opponents of marijuana legalization have failed to acknowledge the benefits of hemp. These benefits consist of hemp being used to make cloth, fuel, and medicine. Hemp is commonly called cannabis sativa. There are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of t...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
4,391 wordsMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banne...
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War On Drugs Billions Of Dollars
1,239 wordsThe war on drugs failed. The government spent billions of dollars fighting drug use to no avail. Statistics shown in The Boston Globe state overall drug use among children ages twelve to seventeen had actually gone up from 5. 7 % in 1993 to 9 % in 1999 (Health Central). Other statistics reveal areas of decreased usage; however, the same statistics do not show the vast numbers of addicted people abusing Methamphetamine's or popular club drugs like Ecstasy. Ending drug usage is likely impossible. ...
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Medicinal Marijuana Consumer Reports
1,429 wordsMedical Marijuana Marijuana (cannabis) is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa. [ 4 ] Marijuana is thought by many to be harmful, but it has been proven in fact to be helpful for some people with certain illnesses. [ 4 ] When I first started looking into medical marijuana as my research subject, I was curious to see what people my age actually thought about marijuana. I asked twenty of my peers, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two, What ...
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Drug Enforcement Agency President Bill Clinton
733 wordsPro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physicians Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemo...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Don T Understand
3,458 wordsASSISTED SUICE AND EUTHANASIA Assisted Suicide? the act or practice of helping in taking the life of one who willfully wants to die. Just by definition alone it becomes painfully obvious; this is going to be a controversial subject. A term that goes hand and hand with assisted suicide, one in which I will be discussing at great length is Euthanasia. That is the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relat...
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