Have you even had a family member or close friend suffer from a horrible disease that marijuana could strongly impact? Infections an diseases in the body such as; HIV/AIDS, cancer, chronic pain, crohns disease, glaucoma, epilepsy and seizures Tourette syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, menstrual cramps, anxiety, arthritis, lupus and countless other diseases. All of these diseases have at least one of the following symptoms. Loss of appetite, headaches, tingling in specific body…
The drug that I am doing is marijuana commonly knowing as weed, or cannabis. It will be on how it affects you. Why it is bad. This drug is known for “healing cancer as a medicine or used abusively as to make the person high. Story….well holly was at a normal modern day teenage party. Where there’s drugs alcohol. If you do the drugs your cooler and more experienced. So they called it pot. She’s says it does affect your body in many harmful ways. Like memory power. Move slower. Its also…
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Annotated Bibliography: The Relationship Between Young Adults, Substance Abuse, and Gabapentin Heather Ables Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500 Foundational Concepts & Apps Annotated Bibliography: The Relationship Between Young Adults, Substance Abuse, and Gabapentin Häkkinen, M., Vuori, E., Kalso, E., Gergov, M., & Ojanperä, I. (2014). Profiles of pregabalin and gabapentin abuse by postmortem toxicology. Forensic Science International, 2411-6. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.04.028…
The main problem in this country our drugs. Drugs are awful for you. People who do drugs have a 60% greater chance of getting life threatening diseases than a regular person. But yet in the states Oregon, Colorado, and Washington the drug Marijuana is legal. Even though for other states there are great penalties for possession of the drug Marijuana. Some countries, the penalty is death. But doing drugs is essentially a death penalty in its own way. For starters, Drugs are illegal, and a…
A psychedelic substance is a psychoactive drug whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception, typically by agonizing serotonin receptors. Psychedelics are part of a wider class of psychoactive drugs known as hallucinogens, a class that also includes mechanistically unrelated substances such as dissociative and deliriants. This is the solid definition of a psychedelic drug or a substance 1 classified under the United Nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. In today’s…
these types of things it is important to be well aware of the possibilities. Other effects that drinking alcohol tends to have on individuals are psychological effects. For instance, according to our text book, Drug Use and Abuse, alcohol is a psychoactive (mind-altering) chemical that, like heroin, depresses the CNS (Abadinsky, 2013). The overconsumption of alcohol can leave the individual slurring and stumbling thus leading to physical harm to the consumer. Although Alcohol is in fact one of…
Students were asked the reason of using those psychoactive drugs. They reported that to decrease the burden and stress of academic life , they take those drugs. It was also conclude that womens take those prescribed drugs in greater quantity due to big influence of peer group pressure . It was also conclude…
How Prescription Drug Abuse Affects Teens In today’s society, many young teens recreationally use prescription drugs. According to the medical dictionary recreational drug use is a substance taken for nonmedical purposes (medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com). Prescription drugs are a controlled substance prescribed by doctors to their patients who are experiencing internal or external pain or have a medical condition that requires them to take the meds. Statistics show that prescription…
Drugs surround us in our everyday life. Whether it be to cure a disease, or for one’s own recreational purposes there is simple no escaping drugs. Drugs have been used throughout history and throughout time these drugs have evolved into having different purposes. Cocaine at one point in time had a purpose for curing headaches, and it was not just for one’s own recreational use. Cocaine is glamorized on television and movies to be this really amazing drug, and they really never show what…