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Ritalin And Its Uses
Words: 1468 - Pages: 6.... that is somewhat similar
to amphetamines. It was created in 1955, classified as a controlled substance
in 1971, and became the drug of choice for ADHD in 1981. It is also used in
treating narcolepsy. It is thought to activate the brain stem arousal system
and cortex, and, like cocaine, works on the neurotransmitter dopamine. It
appears to increase the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where attention
and impulsive actions are regulated. When taken in its intended form under a
doctor's prescritption, it has moderate stimulant properties. There has been a
great deal of concern about it's addictive qualities and adverse affects.
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Alcoholism
Words: 914 - Pages: 4.... center of the brain; people with fewer dopamine receptors are very likely to develop . This defect has been noted in many people with a family history of . Some other scientists have been skeptical of these findings, but we now have solid proof that a person is not always an alcoholic by choice. Predestined has been haunting society for years but it is only recently being dealt with.
It is my belief however, that is indeed heredity. The evidence that is provided is simply too substantial to ignore. Family history of shows that throughout the generations there has been a steady pattern of alcoholics within families. With the new .....
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Dehumanization Of Infants
Words: 922 - Pages: 4.... outlines this my giving a number of
deferent examples of arguments that have been used by the anti-life
movements such as, children having handicaps ,severe physical and
intellectual handicaps. she said that in most cases you would consider this
disrimitory but in many cases these abortion are considered justified
because the baby may have a handicap. She gave allot of reasonable
arguments of the unfairness that is involved in the laws in regards to
abortion for instance in America if you pay taxes your tax money could be
used to help fund abortion in the united states . and she also talked about
how recent medical advancements have spread .....
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What Is Abortion?
Words: 396 - Pages: 2.... kill a week old baby; but can the same be said of the termina tion of a week
old fetus? When does a fetus become a life entitled to the same protection as a
newborn baby or when is it too late to end a pregnancy? Some would say at any
point before birth; however, a fetus can be viable and live outside its mother's
womb quite some time before its natural birth otherwise would occur. Is that
the point at which abortion is inappropriate and, thus, illegal as well as
immoral? While there are those who would answer in the affirmative, many would
argue that a life entitled to protection began at the time of concep tion, the
entry of a sperm c .....
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Use Of Marijuana As Medicine
Words: 1163 - Pages: 5.... AIDS and cancer patients (“Marijuana for the Sick” A10). As an alternative to
using actual marijuana, modern science has developed a synthetic form of THC,
the active chemical in marijuana. However, this synthetic drug, called Marinol,
is useless for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the
whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's
so out of it.” (3/25/97) In addition to that, Marinol only comes in pill form,
which ma .....
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The Controversy Surrounding The Gulf War Syndrome
Words: 2591 - Pages: 10.... lost 149 troops to Iraq's thousands and thousands. On
April 6, it was officially over after Iraq agreed to a
permanent cease-fire. Allied troops started heading home, including Mark.
There were tears and laughs along with parades and other festivities to
celebrate the war's end when troops returned home to their loving countries.
As for Mark, he had done his job, he defeated the enemy and kept himself
alive. His own personal joy and relief overwhelmed him to the extent of
asking his girlfriend for her hand in marriage. She immediately said yes.
Within a year and a half upon the year's end, Mark and his wife had their
first child. T .....
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The Ebola Virus: One Deadly Disease
Words: 859 - Pages: 4.... really in 1967, with monkeys and thirty-one people died before it was identified in 1976. The Ebola then occurred in 1995, when a patient in a hospital thought he had malaria. Ebola was also discovered in the United States in 1989. A shipment of African Green and Rhesus monkeys arrived in Virginia from the Philippines. The one hundred and forty-nine workers that had worked with the monkeys were not effected by the virus at all, although two have developed antibodies from the Ebola Reston. Many other countries have been affected with this deadly disease and are spreading rapidly.
Like many things, the Ebola Virus is a member of a family .....
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The Dangers Of Cigarettes
Words: 327 - Pages: 2.... smoke and they also cause your teeth to turn yellow, which is disgusting. Cigarettes also caused a big mess in my room. My room would stink like smoke after only one cigarette and after a couple you couldn’t even see, which would also get my parents mad. My garbage would be filled with ashes and cigarettes. The ash tray would get filled up and get knocked over and cause a mess.
Cigarettes would also cause an inconvenience since all the time I would have a cigarette my throat would get dry. The dryness would cause me to get up for a drink or if I was out somewhere, I would have to buy something to drink. I also hated the thought of we .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 344 - Pages: 2.... cases:
"When a person has an incurable disease that is not
immediately life-threatening but causes that person to experience
great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should
be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the
patient has made a formal request in writing?"
As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the
general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking
of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the
future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20
years, techn .....
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Euthanasia Term Paper
Words: 3093 - Pages: 12.... for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy
killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask
their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients
or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in
the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in th .....
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