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Term Side Effects Weight Loss
912 wordsWeight loss can be a battle between mind and body brought on by society's pressure to be lean and beautiful. In every magazine, TV shows, commercials, and on billboards are beautiful thin women. This puts great pressure on young girls and women to be thin and beautiful. Also in many magazine and commercials there are ads for weight loss programs. Many come in pill form such as Meridia. These miracle pills are not all they seem to be. An advertisement for Meridia, a hunger suppressant, attracts a...
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Hemp Seed Oil Making Drugs Legal
5,475 words... deteriorate again. The marijuana really was beneficial. When he smoked, he could walk unaided, and see clearly. To prove the skeptics, he stopped smoking again for six months. He became blind, and lost control of his arms, legs, hands, and feet. He was now addicted to Valium and became depressed. He started smoking again. Within three weeks, he started to improve. After six months, he could read, write, walk, and could teach his children how to play soccer. He could kick the ball. He was reb...
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Food And Drug Administration Johns Wort
882 wordsA Debate Over Prozac and St. Johns Wort Prescriptions for numerous anti-depressants drugs are at an all time high especially in the United States. Due to the increasing number of people with mental illnesses such as depression, many vitamins and prescriptions have been discovered to hopefully alleviate this problem. One of the most recent discoveries is a prescription called Prozac, and a vitamin called St. Johns Wort. Due to these recent discoveries a debate has occurred over the effectiveness ...
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Anabolic Steroids Side Effects
729 wordsAnabolic steroids are powerful muscle-building and performance-enhancing compounds. They are many times used as the "secret-weapon" behind many world-class athletes, their performance, and bodybuilding. Steroids increase the amount of muscle one can build. They are banned by almost every athletic organization and are illegal, therefore leading to arrests and jail time if one is caught with them. They also have terrible side effects that can even be deadly. Anabolic steroids are used to gain the ...
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Hemp Seed Oil Red Blood Cells
2,632 words... Furthermore, these drugs have terrible side effects encompassing bone softening, reduced production of red blood cells, swelling of the gums, and emotional disturbances. Overdoses my cause rapid uncontrollable eye movements, loss of motor coordination, coma, and even death. Studies have shown that treatment with cannabis is extremely successful. Here is a case of a 24 -year-old man, a sufferer of epilepsy: "With the phenytoin (prescription medication), I had about one seizure a week. After s...
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National Football League Anabolic Steroids
1,595 wordsOutline Thesis: Anabolic Steroids are powerful drugs that help the body gain mass, but also hurts the body with drastic side effects. I. Basic Information A. Anabolic Steroids Aid Body Growth B. Have Drastic Side Effects II. Side Effects of Steroids A. Ways to tell somebody may be using steroids B. Side effects of Steroids in Males C. Side effects of Steroids in Females III. Different Types of Anabolic Steroids A. Oral Anabolic Steroids B. Intravenous Anabolic Steroids IV. Teen Usage A. How teen...
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Year Old Boy Disorder Adhd
1,605 wordsAlthough American culture has changed over the years, parents today still want what is best for their children. Why then, are parents allowing their children to be put on medications that may have an adverse effect on their children? Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) have increasingly been diagnosed among young children today. Parents should become more informed about the over diagnosing, side effects, results of the medication and all other perti...
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Research Has Shown Studies Have Shown
1,813 wordsCreatine should be allowed for use by teenagers because it is a natural substance in the body. Research has shown no side affects in taking creatine. Creatine may improve your performance in athletics. In the paragraphs that follow I will try to show you why I believe creatine is a safe substance to take. What is Creatine? Creatine is a simple amino acid molecule we all have in our body. Creatine is made up of the three amino acids: arginine, glycine, and methionine. Our body produces creatine (...
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Diet And Exercise Eating Habits
1,741 wordsAs the rate of obesity and related deaths sky rocket in the United States, Americans need to be more conscious regarding their health, daily exercise, and nutritional habits. Although a small number have begun to incorporate some sort of diet and exercise into their daily schedule the majority still do not see this as a priority. With the studies surrounding this epidemic comes a huge debate over how much actually is obtained through heredity vs. environment, and how it can be managed. Although,...
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Problems And Treatment Of Peptic Ulcer Disease
1,551 words... on, and heartburn. Emergency Symptoms Gastrointestinal bleeding is the most serious complication of peptic ulcers. The bleeding is a result of an ulcer eroding into a blood vessel of the stomach or small intestine. The signs of bleeding are vomiting bright red blood, or a bowel movement consisting of bloody, or tarry, black stool. If the hemorrhage is very severe, weakness, shock, and loss of consciousness may occur. Obstruction of the digestive tract is another emergency complication of pep...
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Study Of Psychotic Disorder Schizophrenia
987 wordsSchizophrenia is the most common of all psychotic disorders, yet it still occurs in only in 1 % of the worlds population. It usually occurs in people of age 14 - 45, but it can strike anybody at anytime. Schizophrenia has many symptoms, causes, and treatments. Some people recover, some do not. Schizophrenia is an unpredictable and often debilitating disorder, and a common source of study in psychology. The website web is an excellent source for anyone diagnosed with the illness or anyone with a ...
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Animal Experimentation Naturally Occurring
1,725 wordsImagine having a headache and not having aspirin to take, or being diabetic and not being able to take certain types of insulin (Williams 3). It seems impossible that these drugs could be unavailable to humans, but they would not be attainable had scientists not tested these drugs on non-animal subjects. Contrary to what many people believe, testing drugs on animals often give defective results. More than 205, 000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year, most undergo the most archaic and unr...
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New Research Indicates That Drug Therapy Is More
1,170 words... even-fifties the most commonly used method of treatment for schizophrenia patients was the prescription of anti-psychotic drugs known as phenothiazines, and derivatives such as; chlorpromazine and butyrophenones (Davison & Neale, 1998). All of these were highly effective in treating the positive symptoms of schizophrenia but not as effective for treating the negative symptoms. As well, these drugs were well known for the side effects that they produced such as dizziness, muscle stiffness...
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War On Drugs Effects Of Marijuana
1,177 wordsDecriminalization vs. Prohibition The idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugs by the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavy costs while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive. I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some of my friends that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to get high with them. At the time, I didnt know what getting high meant, so I asked them. One of them pulled ut a l...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy People Who Suffer
2,739 wordsConsider this: ElizabethDepressioo Depression Consider this: Elizabeth Wurtzel has struggled with depression throughout her life. She has a history of suicide attempts, self-mutilations, and serious mood swings. She took numerous antidepressants and medications in an attempt to regulate her irregular behavior. She quit using the medications due to the multiple side effects the drugs had on her. The result was chaos; after Elizabeth quit taking her medication her body experienced episodes of with...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Common Side Effects
1,560 wordsWhat if you tried really hard at accomplishing a task and no matter how hard you tried, you just could not finish what you started. That would be pretty frustrating, right? Well surprisingly enough this is a common feeling for four to nine percent of Americans. This feeling is caused by a disorder called Attention Deficit Disorder or more commonly known as ADD. Most everyone has heard of ADD but most people really don t know what it is or even what it stands for, and when most people think of AD...
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Nausea And Vomiting Side Effects
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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Hong Kong Virus Infection
2,247 wordsClinical Features of Influenza Influenza, commonly called the flu, is caused by viruses that infect the respiratory tract. Compared with most other viral respiratory infections, such as the common cold, influenza infection often causes a more severe illness. Typical clinical features of influenza include fever (usually 100 oF to 103 oF in adults and often even higher in children) and respiratory symptoms, such as cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, as well as headache, muscle aches, and of...
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Men And Women Androgenic Steroids
1,096 wordsIn the past three decades, steroids have become a serious problem in the athletic field. The demand for it has increased within recent years and the prices shot up since the mid- 1980 s. The smuggling of steroids into the United States increases every year. The methods have become easy. Simple methods such as stashing it inside a teddy bear, sneaking it across the Mexican border inside shampoo bottles have worked. These type of steroids are anabolic drugs that build growth hormones that include ...
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Common Side Effects Fact Sheet
1,048 wordsSteroids are hormonal Steroids Introduction Steroids are hormonal substances, naturally produced in the body by the adrenal glands above the kidney and by reproductive organs. There are many different types of steroids and they all have different effects on the body. Some types of steroids have been found to help destroy some types of cancer cells, and can make more effective. This fact sheet describes steroids, how they are given and some of the side effects that may occur. Common types of ster...
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