The Dark Side Of A Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection Of Testimony On The Safety Of Ritalin
.... worry that we're a half-step
away from giving someone the wrong dosage," says John Beatty, the board's
superintendent of school operations(Ritalin Boy). "In certain school systems
there's been a teacher who has seen it work and they'll start suggesting it as
an option for all children who are acting out," said Linda Budd, a St. Paul,
Minn., psychologist who has written the book Living With the Active/Alert Child.
"We've got some teachers we call "Ritalin bullies' - he's not paying attention
to me so he needs Ritalin"(Ritalin Zone). Marcia Ruberg, a school psychologist
in Cherry Hill (N.J.) School District, said the number of .....
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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
.... inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual. This is
because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check
theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up 3% of the 15%
estimation. The U.S. in 1990 spent an estimated 148 billion on treating mental
diorders.
Childhood Disorders
Several Mental diso .....
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized For Medical Purposes?
.... system, marijuana is a
Schedule I drug, grouped with heroin, LSD, hashish, methaqualone, and designer
drugs. These are drugs having “unpredictable effects, and [causing] severe
psychological or physical dependence, or death” (Claim V).
A closer analysis of the DEA's Federal Scheduling system reveals that,
according to various studies by physicians on both sides of the legalization
debate, marijuana does not meet the requirements of a Schedule I drug, but not
those of Schedule II. The difference between the two classes is that Schedule
I drugs may lead to death, while those on Schedule II are less likely to do so .....
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Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
.... 1
out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyone thinks
that they have an iron will and they keep on delaying the time to stop, I'll
just stop as my new year resolution, I'll stop in a month, a week, a year.
Smoking is really hard to quit, it's an addictive habit and you really need an
iron will to stop it. There are also a few consequences I think I should mention
from ciggarette smoking. First of all, as you all know, ciggarette smoking turns
your teeth yellow so you can forget about those perfect teeth with the crest
smile. The second consequence is, smoking costs around 4 $ a day for a normal
smoker .....
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Smoking
.... a sample of French smokers (36 F, 60 M) and non-smokers (23 F,
45 M). The goal of the experiment was to study "the relationship between
sensation seeking and smoking" (p. 221). The objectives of the study was (a) to
see if smokers are higher in sensation seeking than their non-smoking
counterparts, (b) to see if there are any gender forces in smoking and sensation
seeking, and (c) to examine "in each sex, the nature of the relationship between
sensation seeking and smoking" (p. 221).
These three items were measured on four sub-scales, they are:
1) The Disinhibition subscale (DIS) - shows desire to be
socially open, extrover .....
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Smoking Banana Peels
.... A man from the
United Fruit Company said in NEWSWEEK " The only trip you can take with a banana
is when you slip on the peel. "
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Synthetic Drugs Of Abuse
.... could not seem to control his/hers use of the drugs, and as a consequence,
all of theese products where put under federal control. They cannot be obtained
legally without a prescription from a doctor. People with an insight in
chemistry and a lack of morale, startet to produce these compunds for their own
financial gains.
The really clever chemists avoided doing anything illegal by creating
pharmacologically-active compunds, which where derived from known illegal drugs.
Not only where they able to produce similar compounds, but many of the new
compunds where much more potent than the original drug. This created the so-
c .....
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The Trip: Journey To The Center Of Terence McKenna's Inner Self.
.... High
Priest himself, who dubbed him “the Timothy Leary of the 90's”.
McKenna has written several books as well as having rave bands set his
ruminations to billowing techno-trance music.
The main focus of this article is on McKenna's theory, which is concocted from
psychedelic Darwinism, fringe linguistics, and New Age eschatology. This theory
is based on the notion that “Hallucinogenic plants may have been the catalysts
for everything about us that distinguishes us from other primates, except
perhaps the loss of body hair”. During one of McKenna's more memorable trips the
mushroom told him that it is literally not from t .....
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Tobacco In America
.... Mickey Mouse (Breo). That is very shocking information for any
parent to hear.
The industry denies that these symbols target people under 21 and claim that
their advertising goal is simply to promote brand switching and loyalty. Many
people disagree with this statement such as Illinois Rep. Richard Durbin who
states " If we can reduce the number of young smokers, the tobacco companies
will be in trouble and they know it "(Roberts). So what do the tobacco companies
do to keep their industry alive and well? Seemingly, they go toward a market
that is not fully aware of the harm that cigarettes are capable of.
U.S. News rece .....
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What's Wrong With Our Food And Drugs?
.... going to help someone that has
epilepsy? The only thing these nonsense treatments are doing is making the
physical ailments that these people have worse. If you were terribly sick do do
you think alcohol would cure you? That's what I thought too. We need to put
some money into researching and developing some worthwhile cures that will
actually do something.
I have now informed you of two major problems that this nation faces and
if something is not done to solve them then many people could end up sick or
even dead. What we need to do is evaluate our problems and then fix them
instead of ignoring them.
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The Effects Of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, And Family Alcoholism On Alcohol Consumption
.... strength of the correlations, if any.
Introduction
The main question that this statistical model will answer is as follows:
Is there any correlation between drinking and gender, alcohol expectancies,
family alcoholism, stress, and coping styles?
Gender
It has been demonstrated that significant differences exist between the
drinking patterns of men and women (Hilton, 1988). In a survey of US drinking
habits conducted in 1988 by the US National Center for Health Statistics, Dawson
and Archer (1992) showed that there are three areas illustrating gender
differences. The first is the actual number of male and female drinkers. .....
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AIDS
.... produced and the
defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other
circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. The initial
infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent fever. An
apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the patient remains
without symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally a swelling of
the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being, can be
observed. After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
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