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1,089 wordsIn the past twenty years heroin use has grown dramatically. Psychoactive drugs have become the young person's largest problem to face. Drugs have become a part of even the most stereotypically normal family's life. No workplace, home, or school can be completely "drug proofed." To live with these drugs one must learn about them. Not knowing the facts about heroin will ultimately lead to the drugs winning the game. Heroin is an opiate, which comes from the opium poppy. When the opium poppy dies, ...
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1,563 wordsThis essay will critically review some of the major uses of renal micro puncture techniques, focusing in particular on the stationary method, free-flow micro puncture and renal micro perfusion, the latter including both in vivo and in vitro methods. The essay will conclude with a short review of other uses of micro puncture. Were and Richards (1924) were the first people to use micro puncture successfully on the kidney. They successfully inserted a micro pipette into the glomerulus of a single a...
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Opium Poppy Blood Flow
1,589 wordsMany different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ("Opi...
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Mad Cow Disease Role In Human
1,184 words... of cells from one region of the nervous system. The study used data from patients with Huntington's disease and Parkinsons disease. It showed that cumulative theory was false. The mutant steady model, which explains nerve cell death inherited neurodegenerative diseases, shows that mutant genes are conferring a slight but definite increase in risk that the cell could suddenly undergo programmed cell death. This new theory means researchers will now try to aim at the factors that trigger the i...
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Nitrous Oxide Neuromuscular Junction
1,553 wordsAnesthesia is a partial or complete loss of sensation or feeling induced by the admin- is tration of various substances. For many decade, people have used one form of an anesthetic during surgical procedures. Some people also use some of these anesthetics as recreational drugs, e. g. laughing gas (a. k. a. Nitrous Oxide). The term anesthetic literally means "without feeling." There are many different types of anesthesia, but they are usually put into three groups. These groups are gene- ral anes...
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Mad Cow Disease Amino Acids
1,495 wordsWho would of thought that eating hamburgers, steaks and drinking milk could produce an epidemic disease? These types of food are frequently eaten for their appealing tastes and nutritional values. The discovery of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) has been a long and remarkable one. The cause of this disease is a mutated prion protein within the brain that can be either inherited or acquired. These mutations create sponge like holes that destroy the brain. As a result, the disorder gives both behav...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
1,520 words... ve and deadly drugs is cocaine. It can be injected, snorted, or smoked. It carries the risk of HIV if it is injected. Cocaine significantly speeds up the neuro transmissions in the nervous system. It accelerates the heart rate while simultaneously constricting the blood vessels, which are trying to adjust to the heightened blood flow. Temperature and blood pressure rise. Pupils dilate. A stroke, respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, or seizures may accompany the physical changes induced by the...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drug Testing
1,148 words... Cyclists used the drugs not only in training but to aid them in their races to give them that extra mile. Many athletes competing in the Olympic games tend to use the performance enhancers a lot. They probably think since they [performance drugs] got them this far, why stop now when they could win a gold medal. In the ' 92 Olympics the banned drugs most frequently used were anabolic steroids (57 %), stimulants (22 %), narcotics (8 %), diuretics (5 %), masking agents (1 %) and beta-blockers (...
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Adult Stem Cells Stem Cell Research
1,351 wordsStem Cells: Could this be the technology to cure cancer? By: Ali Right Stem cells could be the greatest medical advance in history in the sense that most of our serious diseases can be cured. Stem cells have the potential to morph into other cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person is living. During mitosis, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or bec...
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Central Nervous System Psychological Dependence
1,765 wordsDrug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...
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Infertile Couples Genetic Defects
1,536 wordsThis paper was Cloning Cloning This paper was written to show the reader with information on how cloning a human is a good idea. It may be too soon right now to clone a human, but in the near future scientists will be capable of cloning a human successfully. The rapid development of the technology for cloning has led to moral debates around the world on whether or not to ban cloning humans. With the advancement of clone technology two states, California and Michigan, have already banned the clon...
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Infertile Couples Genetic Defects
1,159 wordsThe rapid development of the technology for cloning has led to moral debates around the world on whether or not to ban creating human clones. With the advancement of clone technology two states, California and Michigan have already banned the cloning of humans. " Everybody who thought it would proceed slowly and could be stopped was wrong, said Lee Silver, a professor from the University of Princeton (Mcfarling)... " Without proper research on behalf of the politicians of California an...
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Types Of Cancer Cancerous Cells
846 wordsOne Conquering Cancer Conquering Cancer One of the first scientists to prove that cancer is genetic was Biologist, Dr. Weinburg. In Weinburg s experiment he took cancerous cells from rats brains and mixed their DNA with that of normal cells. The result was that the cells became cancerous, proving that cancer is in genes. In recent years our knowledge about cancer and what causes it has greatly increased. We now know that vital genes mutating cause cancer. Just one mutated nucleotide out of 15, 0...
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Blood Stream Cause Death
739 wordsAlot of people who have tried drugs have experienced side-effects which are sometimes dangerous. If the users do not understand what they are doing it could end up in fatality. Not everyone reacts to drugs in the same way as others People with mental disorders may be pushed over the edge by their experiences with LSD (Lysergic acid diethyl amide, a hallucinogenic drug) and similar drugs that produce hallucinations. Effects vary with body weight. Lighter people will get bigger effects to heavier ...
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Crack Cocaine Heroin Reaches
3,059 wordsOne of the biggest problems people cope with today is the addiction of drugs and alcohol. The effects of taking these drugs are dangerous: domestic violence, crimes, accidents, sexual assault or becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Different studies of domestic violence show a big involvement of high quantities of alcohol and other drugs. These increase the level of aggression. Alcoholism and child abuse, including incest, seem tightly intertwined as well. Parents, being under alcohol influence, abu...
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Heroin Reaches Heroin Users
653 wordsHEROIN Heroin is a highly addictive drug derived from morphine, which is obtained from the opium poppy. It is a downer that affects the brains pleasure systems and interferes with the brains ability to perceive pain. Heroin can be used in a variety of ways, depending on user preference and the purity of the drug Heroin can be: Injected into a vein (mainlining). Injected into a muscle Smoked in a water pipe or standard pipe, mixed in a marijuana joint or regular cigarette Inhaled as smoke through...
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1,147 wordsIn the past Heroin Heroin In the past twenty years heroin use has grown dramatically. Psychoactive drugs have become the young persons largest problem to face. Drugs have become a part of even the most stereotypically normal family's life. No workplace, home, or school can be completely drug proofed. To live with these drugs one must learn about them. Not knowing the facts about heroin will ultimately lead to the drugs winning the game. What is heroin? Heroin is an opiate, which comes from the o...
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Mad Cow Disease Breast Milk
454 wordsMad Milk Disease? The term Mad Cow disease is almost a household name, but only a few people actually know what it means. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, more commonly known as Mad Cow disease, infects cows and turns their brains into what resembles a sponge. BSE is the cause for over 30 million deaths in Europe alone. Out of the 30 million, 12 million cases have been reported in the United Kingdom. Creutzfeld-Jacob (CZ or CJD) is the human equivalent of BSE. Identified first in the 1920 s, it...
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Opium Poppy Highly Addictive
552 wordsNarcotics are drugs Narcotics Narcotics Narcotics are drugs that excite the nervous system. Most narcotics are made from the opium poppy, (Paper Somniferum) which is found mainly in Asia. Narcotics were the first drugs used as medicines. They can relieve physical and emotional pain, and for this reason, they made very good medicines. The problem with narcotics is that they are highly addictive, and they make people develop tolerance. There are many different narcotics, the most common being hero...
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Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine
1,409 wordsThe discovery of the polio vaccine was an important medical and scientific breakthrough because it saved many lives since the 1950 s. In the summer of 1916 the great polio epidemic struck the United states. By the 1950 s hundreds of thousands of people had been struck by the poliomyelitis. The highest number of cases occurred in 1953 with over 50, 000 people infected with the virus. When hygienic conditions were poor polio attacked infants. The disease was spread by contaminated water and contac...
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