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National Institute Of Health Institute Of Medicine
818 wordsMarijuana is illegal in fifty states because of its classification as an illicit drug, but controversial issues have been established that this illicit drug has improved the course of treatment for suffering patients. Marijuana has beneficial effects when used in medicinal scenarios for the treatment of pain; thus it should be an administered drug for patients who can benefit from the use of this drug. Marijuana has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the results have shown improvem...
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Health Care Insurance Health Care System
1,033 wordsFACT: Currently 46 million Americans live without any health care insurance whatsoever. FACT: The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide health care insurance for all of its citizens. FACT: The United States spends more money per person on health care than any other nation in the world. FACT: The World Health Care Organization has ranked the United States 37 th in the world regarding the health care a country provides for its people. FACT: No country i...
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Death With Dignity State Of Oregon
1,028 wordsThe practice of euthanasia has posed a question of morality and ethicality which has been a major topic of controversy for centuries. It raises the issue of whether a terminally ill person should suffer torturing and lingering pain before death, or if they should be given the choice of peaceful and painless death. The euthanasia controversy is part of a larger issue concerning the right to die and staunch defenders of personal liberty argue that all of us are morally entitled to end our lives wh...
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Million Children Long Term
698 wordsRitalin is a drug that many of us have probably heard of. It is a drug prescribed to students with ADHD. Is a drug whose use is very beneficial for our children, or is it a drug that should be cautiously prescribed and saved for only the worse ADHD? I feel that people should use more caution in the prescription of Ritalin. The term ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Its characteristics are people whose minds are often wondering, focusing on many different things at once. ADH...
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Signs And Symptoms Blurred Vision
1,164 wordsVision is the learned ability to see for information and performance; it allows us to understand things that we cannot touch, taste, smell or hear. 20 / 20 vision does not mean perfect eyesight. 20 / 20 vision simply means that at a 20 ft. distance a person is able to see a certain letter than an average eye should be able to see at that distance. You can have 20 / 20 vision and lack the abilities to use your two eyes together as a team, to judge distances, to identify colors and to coordinate y...
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Medicinal Marijuana Illicit Drug
844 wordsFor the past fifty years, heated debates over the topic of the decriminalization of marijuana have been a great controversy among politicians. Some politicians believe that marijuana for the use of medicine should be outlawed. As Congressman Bob Barr in his debate with radio talk show host Neil Boortz on May 14, 2002, stated, 'There is no legitimate medical use whatsoever for marijuana. This [marijuana] is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain reli...
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Surgeon General Dairy Products
776 wordsThis information is for persons of legal drinking age. If you are 21 are older please drink responsibly. Do not operate any vehicle while intoxicated. Thank you. Introduction: Maybe hangovers are nature's way of telling us that too much alcohol is not good for us. Chances are, if you drink alcohol, at some point in your life you have drank way too much of it. When one drinks like that, one must be prepared for the consequences. We all have our own private understanding for that dreadful feeling....
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Contact Eczema Is Caused Eczema Is Caused Skin
902 wordsWHAT IS ECZEMA? Eczema ECZEMA WHAT IS ECZEMA? Eczema is a category of skin disease that is characterized by inflammation, itching, dry scaly skin, and in severe cases, small fluid filled blisters and insomnia. It is the most common skin disease in children today. Mild cases of Eczema are a little worse than a tendency toward dry, itching skin. Severe cases can effect the whole body, can be intensely itchy, uncomfortable, and even have an effect on the person in a psychological manner due to self...
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Product Line York City
757 wordsColgate Palmolive With a continuous expansion in its product line, Colgate-Palmolive is taking on the look of one of the most stable stocks on the exchange. Colgate has a wide variety of products sold around the globe including, Colgate Toothpastes, Speed Stick Deodorants, Ajax Surface Cleaner, and Hills Science Diet foods for house pets. Colgate was founded in 1806 in New York City on Dutch Street by William Colgate as a starch, soap and candle business. Colgate produced soaps and perfumes or t...
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Types Of Depression Family And Friends
801 wordsDepression, it s something all of us have experienced in some point and time in our lives, whether it was for a day or for years. Most of the people that it affects aren t even aware of the serious complications depression creates and if they are they don t admit to themselves they would be clinically diagnosed with depression. It is the second most common health problem; anxiety is the first. Depression is known as the common cold of mental illness. There are many causes for depression. They co...
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Men And Women Diet Pills
1,014 wordsIn todays materialistic driven society, people are judged in every possible aspect. From their appearance, background, social status, way or thinking to their friends, families. The need to be accepted and admired by others captivates the minds of many men and women of today. This conquest for social acceptance becomes so real that the idea then becomes an obsession. The way we look plays a big role in our lives. It determines the way others see us and from that, it will then determine how we fe...
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Long Run Three Articles
783 wordsCritical Review Ecstasy makes an interesting topic for public discourse due to its increasing popularity and questionable side effects. The public as consumers of the media must decide if any information given about this topic is accurate and reliable. In this paper three articles will be analyzed. The first one, ? Bill to Increase Penalties on the Drug Ecstasy? by AnneMarie Tavella, deals with the legal aspects of the drug and argues that a bill should be passed to change possession of 15 grams...
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Birth Control Pills Fallopian Tubes
794 wordsWhen the FDA approved the Pill for marketing in 1960, it changed America forever. The pill was released without adequate testing. Within two years, 1. 2 Americans were using it and by 1973 that number had risen to 10 million. In 1969 the book The Doctors Case against the Pill by Barbara Seaman showed people the dangers. By the end of the 70 s, the FDA required physicians and pharmacists to hand out sheets on possible negative effect and complications (Kalb 20 - 36). The pills contain two hormone...
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Knight Ridder Tribune Immune System
646 wordsI wondered lonely Comparison / contrast ALLERGIESwondered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high oer dales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd-a host of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth I hope he was taking an antihistamine. If he were not, he would develop signs and symptoms of allergies. These include, but are not limited to a sore throat; red, itchy, watery eyes; nasal congestion and drainage; coughing and sneezing. There are many remedies, from grandmas kitchen to the allergy resea...
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Optic Nerve Chronic Pain
497 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Marijuana refers to a mixture of leaves, and stems found on the cannabis sativa plant. It has hallucinogenic and pleasure-giving effects on the user when consumed through either smoking or eating. Tetrahydrocannabinal, better known as THC is the non-narcotic psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Marijuana use has been documented as far back as 3000 BC in Central Asia and China, where it was used as a folk medicine by village healers. By the 20 th century the drug had be...
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes Legalization Of Marijuana
607 wordsLegalization of Marijuana During the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations, eight people in the United States were allowed to use marijuana for medicinal purposes under the Compassionate Investigative New Drug program. However, since the Clinton administration no new applications have been accepted. Therefore, other patients who need marijuana to alleviate the nausea and loss of appetite associated with the AIDS viruses and cancer chemotherapy, as well as to treat glaucoma, multiple sclerosis...
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Drugs People Pharmacy
318 wordsOver the summer, I worked in a pharmacy near my house. Everyday, it was the same routine of filling prescriptions and answering the phone. The job was dull, the pay was decent, and the customers were demanding. However, working in the pharmacy was an experience I will never forget. I got to feed people? s addictions, soothe their ailments, and heal their sicknesses. Working so close with people in such a vulnerable state, gave me the opportunity to see human nature in its weakest form and gave m...
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South Africa Seek Medical
942 wordsMalaria is a potentially fatal illness of tropical and subtropical regions. The disease is caused by a parasite which is transmitted to human beings bitten by infected mosquitoes. The disease is widespread in Africa, and over one million people die of malaria every year on the continent. WHICH AREAS HARBOUR MALARIA? Within South Africa's borders the disease is encountered mainly in northern and eastern Mpumalanga, northern Kwa-Zulu Natal, and the border areas of the Northern and North West provi...
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Nausea And Vomiting Muscle Spasms
1,199 wordsMarijuana: How can its Medical Use be Denied? Although marijuana may be an illegal drug, it has many medicinal values. However the federal government and the FDA agree that legalizing it for medical use will only cause problems in society. If legalized it will be easier to obtain, resulting in a rise of the recreational use. This may be true, but research and studies prove that marijuana has a great medical value. Its use is advantageous to people with certain illnesses. Marijuana can ease side ...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Nausea And Vomiting
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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