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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
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1,057 wordsHallucinogens mess with your brain they alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and your environment. They also affect your senses like hearing and seeing. This can make you think that you are seeing stuff and feeling things that dont even exist. Using Hallucinogens makes your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Hallucinogens may put you into a coma. They can also cause heart and lung failure. Hallucinogens can change the way that you feel emotionally. They may also make you feel suspic...
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B And C Loss Of Appetite
832 wordsThere are different ways that hepatitis B or C can be caught. They are spread by contact with infected blood or other body fluids of people who are infected with hepatitis B or C. Having sex with an infected person is an example of how you could be infected. When people who use intravenous drugs share needles with someone who has the virus, they can get hepatitis B or C. Health care workers, like nurses, lab technicians and doctors, can get infected if accidentally stuck with a needle used on an...
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1,651 wordsAlternative medicine is a very general term whose definition can be very controversial. Basically, it is many holistic techniques for preventing and treating illnesses. Acupuncture, and many other therapies, have long been a part of Asian cultures and have recently been integrated into the Western culture. Since Acupuncture is such an important tradition in China, it has gained much respect from other cultures. Acupuncture is a strong component in China, and can be traced to their health care sy...
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Loss Of Appetite Biological Warfare
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Urinary Tract Kidney Stones
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Marijuana As Medicine Smoking Marijuana
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Scar Tissue Excessive Drinking
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African American Review Charlie Parker
1,597 wordsA Understanding Jazz Understanding Jazz A mellow vibration lingers throughout a smoke-filled room, as eloquent music escapes the callused fingers of relaxed musicians. The tempo speeds up and grows into a fusion of spontaneous and uneven chords, exploding with rhythmic soul and life. The sound of jazz embraces the room. Jazz is primarily a dazzling, spellbinding, introspective beauty. The musician and the listener find they can derive meaning from the music. The music exists first, and its meani...
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Marijuana As Medicine Pain And Nausea Patients
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Mao Inhibitors Gastrointestinal Tract
1,367 wordsDothiepin Vs. Fluoxetine (Mechanism Of Action And Dothiepin Vs. Fluoxetine (Mechanism Of Action And Pharmacodynamics) Comparison Between Mechanism of Action and Pharmacodynamics of Dothiepin and Fluoxetine Description of medicines Mechanism of action and pharmacodynamic's Dothiepin Dothiepin is a tricyclic antidepressant. It acts by promoting the effectiveness of several amines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and 5 -hydroxytryptamine, which is also known as 5 HT and serotonin). It functions by inhibi...
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2,231 wordsFor thousands of years the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp or marijuana, has been harvested by people and utilized in many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. Marijuana has been utilized for its medicinal value since four to five hundred BC. Not until a half-century ago did the hemp plant become illegal ...
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Cigarette Smoking Marijuana Laws
489 wordsMarijuana: Don t Deny the Truth Marijuana, the word makes most Americans shutter with the thought of drugs and the drug war. But, have we really sat down and looked at the facts. Without any question, I know that we have not. The actual truth is that the Cannabis plant actually has more good than bad that may come out of it. If one were to add to that statement the fact that total legalization would even have more good come out of it than bad, then maybe the simple thought of legalizing marijuan...
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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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734 wordsMarijuana Did you know that there are over 460 chemicals in marijuana, which may have medicinal uses? Marijuana at this moment is illegal in forty-nine of the fifty United States. Last year, in California, Proposition 215 was passed to legalize marijuana for medical uses. As a result of Proposition 215 and the legalization of marijuana, many glaucoma patients have found another remedy, vomiting, nausea, and loss of appetites from chemotherapy have been safely controlled, and patients and hospita...
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1,558 wordsMedical Uses of Marijuana-Good or Bad? There are two sides of marijuana being used for medical purposes. Many people think it is great and say it will help the pain go away. Other people believe it is a bad idea and become additive over time. Many propositions and court cases have contributed to marijuana use. A popular one is Proposition 215. This is a medical marijuana initiative. The biggest argument is that there is no real evidence that smoked marijuana is more effective than any other avai...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Kill Cancer Cells
1,741 wordsThe pancreas Pancreas The Pancreas The pancreas is located in the middle of the abdomen. It s surrounded by the stomach, small intestine, liver and spleen. It s about six inches long and shaped like a thin pear, wide at one end. It has three sections: wider right end is the head, the middle is the body and the left end is the tail. The pancreas has two functions; to make enzymes that help digest fats and proteins and the other, to produce insulin that controls the blood sugar level called glucos...
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