Amphetamine

The number of HIV patients have dropped over the last decade, annual reduction of 100,000 new infections in 2005. However there still is more than 5,000 people that become infected with HIV each day and more than 3,200 people die every day from HIV-related illnesses. Only a third of the people infected with HIV are on antiretroviral therapy which is leaving 23 million in need of treatment. People whom are sex workers are 12 times likely to be infected with HIV, whereas men who have sex with…

After analyzing the causes of increase of diagnosis and medication of mental disorders, it’s worth exploring the many negative effects. In many cases medication can be unnecessary or lead to abuse. First of all, giving unnecessary medicine has shown to often and be problematic. For example, the placebo effect of social anxiety medications is very high (Frances 152). This means that even if the drug isn’t very effective, the patient thinks it works, so he or she is more likely to stay on it…

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects human beings in varying degrees. It is a persistent and incapacitating brain ailment that has affected many people throughout the world. (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml, October 25, 2014). Statistics show that 2.2 million people in USA, and 51 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia. Its prevalence tends to be the same throughout the world with about .5% to 1% in every country. It is present in all…

The growing absence of God in American lives has proven that life without Him can be detrimental to this country’s health. The United States has been instituted on the belief and trust in God. The Declaration of Independence mentions God 4 times. Even the nation’s 1st president, George Washington said “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable.” But over time, so many have taken God for granted by doing the exact opposite of…

We all know people use drugs to escape reality or to have a good time but in reality it’s a killer. Party drugs are usually hallucinogens such as LSD or ecstasy and stimulants like cocaine, weed and amphetamines. Drug use happens everywhere especially at parties or concerts and it can be very dangerous, leading to violence and/or death. According to a survey from the Drug Info website 10.9% of Australians aged 14 years and over have used ecstasy one or more times in their life. 2.5% of…

1. The major physical development changes for adolescence are puberty, the brain, and adolescent sexuality. Puberty changes relate with sexual maturation, height, weight, and hormonal changes. The brain changes in a bottom-up, top-down sequence with sensory, appetitive, sexual, sensation-seeking, and higher-level brain linkages. Adolescent sexuality changes relate with developing a sexual identity and sexual behaviors. 3. Maturing early or late can be a good or bad thing. Maturing early can be…

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

these neurotransmitters. MDMA affects working memory and visual recall in the hippocampus. Abusers can have memory lapses and impairment without being aware of it (Futures of Palm Beach, 2016). Verbal memory is simply memory for words. Chronic amphetamine and…

United States has the world largest prison populations Most of the inmates are not rapist murders or robbers but are drug addicts and sellers. Every year thousands of inmates are sentence to long prison terms for a variety of drug crimes. Most of the inmates are getting mandatory sentences because of laws that been put in place to curtail the use of drugs but they are not working and more and more people are going to prison for long term. The sale of illegal drugs in the US is extremely…

filled prescription. I remember when he had told me he had gotten a prescription for Adderall. He was excited. He liked being high. I never did drugs so I didn’t get it. I bitched at him about taking a drug that he didn’t need saying “ That is an amphetamine and highly addictive. It will…