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Pot Smokers Fatal Accidents
1,757 words... e found to have recently smoked marijuana, though it could not be proven that it caused the accident. The engineer had extensive record of speeding and DUI. He was known by management to have drinking problems. Congress mandated that random drug testing be done on the entire transportation industry. Marijuana is less of a road hazard than alcohol. Surveys have found that half or more of fatal drivers have alcohol in their blood, as opposed to 7 - 20 % with THC, the major component of marijua...
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Alternative Medicine Alternative Therapies
1,274 wordsAlternative medicine, also known as alternative therapies, lie outside the realm of conventional medicine. An alternative therapy is any intervention that: is not reimbursable by most health insurance providers in the United States, is not well supported by scientific tests establishing safety and effectiveness, and is not taught by most medical schools in the United States. They are also called adjunctive, unconventional, or unorthodox therapies. There are many general areas of alternative medi...
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Coronary Artery Disease Part Of My Life
1,494 words1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. A. An in depth look at heart disease. C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure heart A. Recap on how chemistry is part of my life and everyone's life. B. Elude to the horrors of a world without chemistry. A merciless killer stalks the people of this country. No one can run and no one can hide, but there is a hope. The application of chemistry in the treatment of heart disease is the key to ceasing this villain from cl...
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Central Nervous System Make You Feel
1,107 wordsLike perscription drugs, illegal drugs are powerfull substances. People use drugs for mind altering reasons. Illegal drugs can change the way the brain normally works. When some who uses drugs there judgement, thinking, feelings and actions change along with there appearance. When people use cocaine for the first time they enjoy the "high." After using cocain over time you begin to lose weight because the effects of the drug cause you to lose your appetit. You also find your self having trouble ...
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Body And Mind Treatment Of Depression
1,446 wordsWhy do psychologists study physiology in such great detail? Mens Sana in Compare Sano et Vice Versa. The study of physiology as an important aspect of psychology goes back a long way. We might say that the ancient Greek, Hippocrates (circa 460 B. C. - circa 377 B. C. ) could be considered not only the father of medicine, but also as the father of the physiological psychology. He observed that the brain was the ultimate source of our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pa...
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Rem Sleep Muscle Tension
1,969 wordsOver a seventy-year life span, you will spend at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming (Segell 42). What you dream about can be very different from one individual to another and from one dream to another in the same individual. Many things affect what we dream about and the theories about why we dream vary. Scientists believe that dreaming is a natural process of the brain. On the other hand, Psychologists believe that our dreams are secretive emotions. Both sides have been spending years resea...
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Muscle Tension Brain Damage
711 wordsThe drug commonly known as ecstasy, is a designer drug that is increasingly affecting the health and taking the lives of teens, college students, and young professionals around the world and needs to be put to a stop. Ecstasy, or MDMA, is a synthetic, psychoactive, mind altering drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine like properties. Many problems users run across when taking the drug ecstasy include, psychological difficulties, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, se...
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Day To Day Amount Of Stress
1,417 wordsStress management is something we as people should take a lot more seriously than we really do. Whenever I tell someone that they need to learn how to control their stress they always tell me they need their stress. They are right, they do need their stress, we all need a certain amount of stress in our lives. No stress is almost just as unhealthy as too much stress. Just the right amount of stress is called Eustress. Eustress is a healthy stressor because it helps to keep us motivated. Unhealth...
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Twenty Four Hours Critical Care
1,038 wordsThe Purpose of this paper is to review the fever protocol used in the consulting nurse office as compared to the protocol suggested by the nursing research articles. In the consulting nurse office, we use a protocol for fever in which we assess the symptoms of patients who call us and we triage then with the protocol. The first thing we do is make sure they are not in need of emergency medical attention, then we go over their symptoms carefully to make sure they can safely take care of themselve...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure State Of Consciousness
1,567 words... s system (which controls the "fight or flight" response) to be activated. Once the sympathetic nervous system is activated, a user enters in a state of euphoria where the person may feel more activated and alert. One of the organs that the vasoconstrictor effects is the heart. When cocaine is taken through intranasal administration, a high heart rate and blood pressure may result. These problems can lead to cardiomyopathy, the condition in which the heart contracts abnormally. "Cardiomyopath...
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Jerry Springer Show Sympathetic Nervous System
1,396 words"Jerry, Jerry, Jerry" Everyday, this chant is heard by millions of people watching the now infamous "talk show", Jerry Springer. Even though just a few years ago, most people regarded these shows as ridiculous, now this chant is recognized and adored by many people in society. The most parsimonious explanation for this is that the shows now have more interesting and captivating topics. The premise of most episodes of these shows has changed greatly over the past few years; The topics have moved ...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Arteries
2,588 words... e-age, a high cholesterol level can be expected. It has been proven that about the only thing smoking do is shorten a person's life. Despite all the warnings by the surgeon general, people still manage to find an excuse to quit smoking. Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide, radioactive polonium, nicotine, arsenious oxide, benzo pyrene, and levels of radon and molybdenum that are TWENTY times the allowable limit for ambient factory air. The two agents that have the most significant effect...
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Aerobic Exercise Heart Rate
902 wordsThe importance of Nutrition, and Exercise Many students today ask why they are so tired all the time. It also seems that people in college become stressed out either because of grades or because of work. All people need to do is get the right amount of sleep, eating well, and exercise in order to feel better about themselves and feel good in general. This is not a short process. Most experts say that it takes about twelve weeks in order to see results. Nevertheless, it is guaranteed that after t...
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Neutral Stimulus Psychological Disorders
3,145 wordsStress and Anger have always been related with each other. There have been countless studies, even more theories, about stress and anger and how they relate. But, no matter how many studies are conducted, there will always be the questions about whether or not stress and anger are related. But, I am here to provide the facts on both stress and anger, and then allow you, as the reader, to determine the relationship, because all-in-all, I feel that stress and anger can and cant be related, dependi...
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Hiv And Aids Effects Of Marijuana
3,209 wordsMarijuana, pot, Mary Jane, grass, weed, hash, hashish, dope, cannabis, sinsemilla, greens. When you hear these words, do you think of illegal substances or medical miracle-workers? Marijuana has been approved for medical use by prescription in at least three states. In November 1998, voters in Washington DC won the right for medicinal marijuana. However, the results have been kept secret by congressional order. This research report will give you the facts about marijuana to help you make up your...
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Bulimia Nervosa Eating Disorders
2,159 wordsThe Truth on Dieting and Weight Loss About one-third of Americans are extremely over-weight, which may be why crash dieting is beginning to plague America. Its estimated that Americans alone spend 80 - 100 billion dollars on weight loss tactics. People go on these diets to get quick results but are these results hurting them more than helping? The answer is Yes! The safe and effective way to lose weight is through old-fashioned exercise and the right diet. You cannot successfully lose weight by ...
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Blood Cells Social Sciences
3,360 wordsInformation technology is a rapidly growing part of todays society. It affects everyones life in many aspects. Every human endeavor is influenced by information technology and the increasing rate at which what it can perform includes. One area of human endeavor that information technology has greatly influenced is the practice of medicine, specifically veterinary medicine. Not only has veterinary medicine been influenced by information technology, it has also been enhanced by it. The degree to w...
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Aerobic Exercise Heart Rate
1,268 wordsThe importance of sleep, nutrition, and exercise Many students today ask why they are so tired all the time. It also seems that people in college become more stressed out either because of grades or because of work. All people need to do is get the right amount of sleep, eating well, and exercise in order to feel better about themselves and feel good in general. This is not a short process. Most experts say that it takes about twelve weeks in order to see results. But, it is guaranteed that afte...
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Blood Pressure Heart Rate
320 wordsStress can be loosely defined as anything that is experienced as a threat to your stability or equilibrium. A portion of your nervous system is activated to ready the body to meet the demands brought on by an emotional upset. The stress responses is a physiological response to stress that results in heightened mental and physical awareness such as elevated heart rate, faster breathing, dilated pupils, and tense muscles. Stress can be broken down into three stages. The initial reaction to stress ...
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American Psychiatric Association Panic Disorder
2,949 wordsThe Panic Disorder Panic Disorder The defining characteristics of panic disorder as given by the American Psychiatric Association consist of the following four criterions: The person has experienced repeated unexpected episodes of panic attacks. At least one of these panic attacks must have been followed by persistent worries lasting approximately a month or more regarding the fear of the consequences of the attack, or a specific change in the persons lifestyle due to the experience. During the ...
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