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Performance Enhancing Drugs Men And Women
1,175 wordsDrugs in sports can cost a player his or her scholarship (s) and more seriously, their lives. Everyday athletes that you may not think are doing anabolic steroids or the human growth hormone are the athletes who are the big users. 1. There are three major performance enhancing drugs that are used by the super star athletes: anabolic steroids, amphetamine, and the human growth hormone pills. 2. These performance enhancing are found in just about all fifty states and the problem is rapidly growing...
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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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1,170 wordsOne of the most innovative trends in print advertising is medicine advertisement. The content of these particular advertisements (ads) are intriguing to me. I intend to analyze five medicinal ads to find the tools used by advertisers and to explore the positive and negative aspects of advertising medicine through print ads for the public. The people who develop ads to market prescription medicine products must have an inkling of what the reader wants to see. For instance, the ads in a parenting ...
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Td Tr Tr Td Erectile Dysfunction
1,318 words... The physiologic mechanism of erection of the penis involves release of nitric oxide (NO) in the corpus cavernous during sexual stimulation. NO then activates the enzyme guanylate cyclase, which results in increased levels of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), producing smooth muscle relaxation in the corpus cavernous and allowing inflow of blood. Sildenafil has no direct relaxant effect on isolated human corpus cavernous, but enhances the effect of nitric oxide (NO) by inhibiting phospho...
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American Psychiatric Association Children With Adhd
1,411 wordsSeven years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In other words, I had a chronic problem paying attention. As a form of treatment for ADHD, I was put on a controversial drug called Ritalin. Now being at the age of sixteen, it was not really my choice whether I wanted to take a doctors prescription or not. Now that I have grown up a bit and understand things better, I am questioning the benefits of prescribing Ritalin to treat ADD. My personal experience with...
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American Psychiatric Association Children With Adhd
1,701 words'Why didn't the ADHD boy introduce his girlfriend to any of his friends? A) He can't remember her name; or better yet, How would they diagnose ADD in a chicken? A) It never gets all the way across the road because of all the distractions. You could say growing up was hard; everyday I had to endure cruel teeny bopping teenagers who didnt understand my condition. What really made it hard was that I didnt even understand my condition. Seven years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD or Attention Deficit/ ...
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Nineteenth Centuries Infectious Diseases
2,127 wordsThe quotation the medical establishment is a major threat to health was one devised by Illich in Medical Nemesis (1976 p 11) where he attempted to explain the detrimental effects medical professionals and their procedures can have on the health of individuals. In order to discuss the effects of the medical establishment it is necessary to evaluate its performance including the critiques of modern medicine. The concepts of iatrogenesis and medicalisation will be explored and case studies given as...
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Uv Radiation Skin Cancer
1,253 wordsWhat causes melanoma? Scientists do not yet know exactly what causes melanoma skin cancer, but we do know that certain risk factors are linked to the disease. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person's age or family history, can't be changed. But having a risk factor, or even several, doesnt mean that a person will get the disease. Risk Factors for Melanoma Skin Cancer Moles: Moles are (not cancerous) skin tumors. People with lots of moles, and those who have som...
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National Cancer Institute Teenage Pregnancies
1,529 wordsThe Aftermath of an Abortion To have abortion or not is a very difficult choice to make. The final choice comes from religious and ethical beliefs. However, to have an abortion means to participate in a horrendous crime against humanity, God, and oneself. Abortion can also have deleterious effects on the mothers health and well being. Many of the couples, mainly the mothers, that have an abortion tend to go into a state of depression known as Post-abortion syndrome. Negative effects on the mothe...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Smoke Marijuana
1,227 wordsEssay three: Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has been one of the most heated debates to ever occur in the United States. There are two sides that feel equally strongly about this topic. There is the side that is for the legalization and the side that is against it. I found very plausible reasoning on why this drug should or should not be legalized. Marijuana's use as a medicine has been around for thousands of years, in countries worldwide. The use of marijuana can be dat...
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Behaviour Modification Negative Reinforcement
1,191 wordsThe purpose of this assignment was to examine behaviour modification and its applications in various settings. Reinforcement is a key concept when determining the various methods of behaviour modification and its consequences. Some methods of behaviour modification are more effective than others and this modifies the respective consequence as a result. More thought must be given to the various consequence for a persons action and this would eliminate numerous anxieties experienced through inappr...
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Dsm Iv Mood Disorders
1,390 wordsA Controlled Trial of Sustained-Release Bupropion, a Nicotine Patch, or Both for Smoking Cessation. Smoking is the silent killer of the 20 th century more people died from smoking and smoking related illness in the past hundred years than in all the major wars. The situation used to be one of ignorance people did not realise the ill-effects of their habit on their health and the health of those around them. Today the situation has changed most realise the danger but many are addicted and find it...
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Religious Ceremonies Native Americans
1,104 wordsPeyote is one type of cactus grown in southwestern U. S. and in neighboring parts of Mexico. The active ingredient in peyote is mescaline, a somewhat potent hallucinogenic chemical. It has the capability of being a psychoactive drug causing the user to change what he / she sees, thinks, and feels. Down through the centuries, it has been used as a painkiller, a stimulant, and a spiritual tool in religious ceremonies. As a controlled substance, not unlike marijuana and LSD, its use is illegal exce...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
1,557 wordsSchizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions and fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common and destructive kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Researchers haven't identified the cause or causes of schizophrenia, although t...
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Living In Poverty Pro Lifers
1,299 wordsIn life, everybody makes choices, choices whose effects can be temporary or choices that may make waves in ones life permanently. In my opinion, abortion should be a choice that one is able to make. It may make permanent or temporary changes, but if one is ultimately ready to deal with these changes and can make the adult decision to abort, it the right given to us as American women. Many people believe that this issue of abortion rights is moral, but it is also a Constitutional issue. By the gr...
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Peer To Peer Rule Of Law
1,835 wordsThe latter half of the twentieth century has seen a dramatic decline in the price of reproduction technologies much to the displeasure of the copyright industry. The technological progression has been virtually unstoppable: the photocopier to the cassette recorder, the video tape recorder to the newly developed recordable CD. The spread of the Internet over the past 10 years has resulted in the new development of the abrupt decline in the price of distribution technologies. The Internet has perm...
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Anxiety Disorders Withdrawal Symptoms
489 wordsLorazepam is in the class of drugs called benzodiazepines. Lorazepam is a sedative anxiolytic medication. It is noted for the management of anxiety disorders and for the short-term relief of the symptoms of anxiety or anxiety associated with depressive symptoms. Like most other benzodiazepines, patients using lorazepam can develop a tolerance to it. In other words, patients will have to use more and more in order to get the desired effect of the medication. As a tolerance to lorazepam builds, a ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Bipolar Disorder
1,292 wordsWhat is unipolar illness? When the mood is just depressed. This is far more common than bipolar illness. What is bipolar disease? Bipolar disorders (manic-depressive illness) are marked by periods of manic, greatly elated moods or excited states as well as by periods of depression. Although the manic-depressive psychosis may alternate from one of its phases to the other, one or the other phase is usually dominant for a while. Depression is more often dominant than mania. Manic-depressive patient...
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Abortion Clinics Illegal Abortions
1,340 wordsAbortion An abortion is the removal of a developing baby from the womb of his or her mother using surgical, mechanical, or chemical means (Podell 11). The most common way of performing an abortion is called vacuum aspiration. This procedure is usually done during the first trimester of ones pregnancy. Surgical abortions are usually not performed before seven weeks and by that time the baby has identifiable arms and legs. Knowing that a child is slowly beginning to develop inside of a womans uter...
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Taking Into Consideration Prostate Cancer
1,648 wordsProstatic Cancer Introduction In the research paper we will examine prostate cancer. The essay comprises of three parts: Introduction, the research on prostate cancer (factors that contribute to disease, symptoms and clinical implications of a person having prostate cancer) and Conclusion. We will dwell on factors that influence the onset of the disease and discover clinical implications. In the last part of research we will summarize all the studied information and make a conclusion concerning ...
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