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Parkinsons Disease Side Effects
1,047 words... ned, however, that they could greatly reduce dose levels - and thus cut down on side effects - by giving levodopa in conjunction with a substance that slows its breakdown in the body. Sinemet, a combination of levodopa and the inhibiting substance carbidopa, has been available since 1975. Treatments must be fine-tuned to suit individual patients depending on their symptoms and stage of disease (Tactics, Toronto Star). For most Parkinsons disease patients, the levodopa / carbidopa page 4 cock...
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Communist Manifesto Marx Karl
1,818 wordsIn Karl Marx's early writing on "estranged labour" there is a clear and prevailing focus on the plight of the labourer. Marx's writing on estranged labour is and attempt to draw a stark distinction between property owners and workers. In the writing Marx argues that the worker becomes estranged from his labour because he is not the recipient of the product he creates. As a result labour is objectified, that is labour becomes the object of mans existence. As labour is objectified man becomes disi...
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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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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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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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Rights And Freedoms Canadian Charter Of Rights
1,297 wordsIgnorance, pride, hatred and a disregard for the wellbeing of others in society. These are the seeds allowing the roots of activities promoting racial discrimination to sprout. Out of that, comes the growth of a fearful social epidemic, in which uneducated persons put their destructive thoughts and viewpoints into action. These criminal activities have been dubbed Hate Crimes and have plagues society as far back as one can remember. Hate Crimes, in varying degrees, can consist of something as mi...
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Mental Illness Yellow Wallpaper
1,114 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of a woman with psychological difficulties whose husbands prescribed treatment of her mental illness sends her into insanity. The so-called treatment consists of the Rest Cure as developed by the notable Dr. Weir Mitchell, which includes complete bed rest, no work, and no emotional or physical stimulus an enforced idleness of body, mind, and spirit. The husband, John, takes complete control of all decisions on behalf of his wife concern...
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Growing Problem Of Street Gangs In Canada
1,177 words... o Star interview, in order to prevent gang entrance by borderline youths, the most preyed upon by gangs, schools need to be teaching the anti-gang message as early as grade three. Furthermore there need to be more youth centers in Canadian cities where students can spend time after school. Lastly he states that children, especially those in the inner city and poorer areas, must be aware that they have choices, and that their lives have not already been prescribed for them. Although Toronto, ...
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Obscenity Blasphemy And Freedom Of Expression
1,999 wordsThe right to freedom of expression is a fundamental right, which has not traditionally been prescribed by law, but can be considered more of a moral right. However the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law, Article 10 of which creates a right to freedom of expression. Article 10 (1) states Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. The right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information a...
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Twenty First Century Schedule I Drug
1,120 wordsMarijuana is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I drug, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is thus classified more severely than morphine and cocaine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banned for general use but can be prescr...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,516 wordsIS RITALIN OVERPRESCRIBED? Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have received some bad press over the years. Because of lack of accurate information, parents are understandably fearful of side effects. Ritalin has been studied carefully for the last 20 to 30 years. The two most commonly mentioned side effects of Ritalin are loss of appetite and sleep problems. Irritability and weight loss are the next most often reported symptoms. Approximately half of the children in one study who took Ritalin...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Marijuana Should Be Legalized
619 wordsLegalization of Marijuana The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two fractions fighting each other; one of those who are pro-marijuana and those who are anti-marijuana. These two factions have been fighting on this issue in the halls of justice for years, each coming up with new reasons why they are the right ones. Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physicians Association for AIDS Care and the National Lym...
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Blood Glucose Levels Type Ii Diabetes
1,165 wordsDiabetes: Types 1 and 2 By: Sharif Elshinnawi It is our fourth leading cause of death by disease and the leading cause of new cases of kidney disease, blindness, amputation, and impotence. It is diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body does not make, or does not properly use insulin. Insulin is the hormone that helps your body use the energy from sugar, starches and other foods. Glucose, a form of sugar produced when the body digests carbohydrates, is the body s major fuel for t...
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Communist Manifesto Mans Freedom
1,876 wordsDescription: This paper discusses Marx's argument on " estranged labour. " This is a rather microcosmic topic but it is important because estranged labour is the basis for all of Marx's writing, most importantly, The Communist Manifesto. Revealing Marx In Karl Marx's early writing on " estranged labour" there is a clear and prevailing focus on the plight of the labourer. Marx's writing on estranged labour is and attempt to draw a stark distinction between property owners and ...
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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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Patients Suffering Abc News
639 wordsEver since it s boom in the 1960 s and 1970 s, marijuana use has been a controversial topic. Marijuana is the dried, shredded flowers and buds of the hemp plant, cannabis saliva (Monroe). It is usually rolled into marijuana cigarettes known as joints, or put into pipes and smoked. The effects of marijuana vary from user to user. Some may feel nothing when using while others, feel relaxed, intoxicated, euphoric, or tired (Yahoo). While intoxicated time seems to pass slowly, and the user becomes e...
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Terminally Ill Patients Quality Of Life
1,291 wordsLegalizing marijuana for medical purposes has been a debate for many years. Many institutions have opened up to help terminally ill patients receive their dosage of marijuana. One of them being Cannabis Healing Center in California, which was shut down by the government in 1998 because selling or using marijuana for any reason is illegal no matter what. Its a violation of federal law to cultivate or distribute marijuana. Federal law supersedes state law (Marmion 2). Even though marijuana has no ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd
1,377 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder Living with Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a neurobiological disorder. Recent research shows that the symptoms of ADD are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. (Rebecca Chapman Booth) With ADD there is a flaw in the way the brain manages the neurotransmitter production, storage or flow, causing imbalances. It has been suggested that as many as 80 percent of ADD cases are the result of genetics with the remainder caused by toxins, ...
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High Blood Pressure Sleep Apnea
1,677 wordsleep Apnea is a disorder that causes the cessation of breathing during sleep. There are three types of Apnea: Obstructive, Central, and Mixed. The most common type of apnea is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). The individual suffering from OSA may stop breathing hundreds of times during the night for more than a minute at a time. The word Apnea literally means with out breath in Greek. (1) Like all muscles in the body while sleeping, the soft palate and tongue muscles relax, and end up collapsing c...
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Pope John Paul Ii Hundred Thousand People
2,717 wordsCrime is inevitably one of the biggest problems that faces the modern world today. It can be found all over the world, whether in large cities or small villages. Over time, society has tried to find ways to deal with crime. Such methods include community service, paying a fine serving some time in prison, and in the case of more serious crimes, the death penalty. This is the case in some states in the U. S. where persons have been executed for aggravated assault, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery,...
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