1 .. The three different classes of prescription drugs a. . opioids- used to treat pain-oxycodone‚ vicodin‚ roxicet b. . depressants-used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders- Xanax‚ Valium‚ Klonopin c. . stimulants- used to treat attention deficit disorders- Adderrall‚ ritalin 2. .. The harms
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Salt Sugar Fat is a book written by Michael Moss‚ to inform the audience of the effects of salts‚ sugars and fats on the human race when it is found in foods consumed everyday. Parts of the brain and stimulants such as the bliss point are introduced to inform the reader just how these substances can stimulate the body during the consumption of foods. Large food corporations are brought under fire throughout most of the book as well. The main argument of the book written by Moss is that salt‚ sugar
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was slowly becoming addicted‚ a common alcoholic. Perhaps‚ if he and other users understood the outcome of their drug abuse‚ they would think twice before taking that next hit. About 16 million people in the United States abuse narcotics‚ stimulants‚ and other types of legal and illegal paraphernalia. Depending on the type and dose of the drug being used‚ this abuse can have harmful and serious affects on the user’s brain. A drug is defined as an abused chemical that is expected to cause
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Task 2‚ M4 Anabolic agents – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was sent home from the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in disgrace‚ and stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for drugs. Samples of Johnson’s urine were tested for drugs immediately after the 100m final which he won in a world record time of 9.79 seconds. Shortly after Olympic officials confirmed that traces of the anabolic steroid‚ Stanozol‚ had been detected. Johnson originally tried to claim that an herbal drink he consumed before
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Literatue Review 3 Section 1: Introduction One of the major problem in modern society is the abuise of drugs. Some use illegal "street" drugs that have no medical use while others abuse prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes. Either way‚ it is dangerous can lead to serious consquences‚ including death. In my paper i will answer two main questions; Why and how are drugs available for the general public to use? What are the mental‚physical‚and financial consquences of abusing drugs(prescprition
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flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery‚ which in a way increases the pulsation rates.(5) Caffeine is known as a stimulant‚ especially for the central nervous system; because “caffeine increases energy metabolism throughout the brain but decreases at the same time cerebral blood flow.”(4) Caffeine also acts as an inhibitor for adenosine‚ which is what allows it to be a stimulant.(2) As we increase the concentration of nicotine‚ there will also be an increase and right after the maximum change
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Alcohol‚ Energy Drinks‚ and Youth A Dangerous Mix Targeting Youth To understand how alcoholic energy drinks are marketed‚ it is critical to examine the popularity of nonalcoholic energy drinks among youth. Teenagers and young adults are thecore consumer group for these products. Thirty-one percent of 12- to 17-year-olds and 34 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds report regular consumption of energy drinks. Nonalcoholic energy drink producers promote youth consumption using “grassroots” level marketing
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if (a) what situations or circumstances determine how often and when they misuse the prescription drugs and (b) to examine whether negative‚ positive‚ and tempting situations lead to increases in the use of prescription pain killer‚ sedative‚ and stimulant misuse (c) if and what motivational contexts influences the frequent misuse of prescription drugs. To collect data for the motivation contexts they used the Inventory of Drug Taking Situations (IDTS). The IDTS has eight subscales such as unpleasant
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Understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 1 ‘I always worry when I go to pick John up from school. It seems every day some problem has arisen. I feel people think I’m just a bad parent.’ ‘To try and get Manjeet to do her homework and hand it in‚ in a presentable form‚ can take all night. We often get comments from the school on how messy her work is‚ but she does try so hard.’ ‘Ben is so unpredictable; one minute he will be in a good mood‚ and the next he will be shouting at his
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PEDs would make life much easier for professional sports organizations currently tasked with managing convoluted anti-doping policies.” The sheer consideration that allowing dangerous drugs or supplements such as human growth hormones‚ steroids‚ stimulants or creatine to the already sensationalized world of professional sports would be a travesty of epic proportions for the health and viability of both the athletes and competitions themselves. In addition to the legalization of performance enhancing
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