“As the problem of drug prescriptions for controlled substances continue to soar, there were 6.4 million Americans using prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs non medically. Of the 6.4 million, 4.7 million use pain relievers (“Abuse”). The use of prescriptions will always be misused there is no way to resolve this problem, and it’s always going to be a dramatic increase in prescription drug abuse. Abusers will have temptation to relapse. Misuse of an addiction to opioids is a national problem that affects public wealth as well as social and economic welfare.…
For Existence we need good bacteria to fight off the bad ones, Poop Pills. Ahh Yes, Poop Pill, the most gross thing to hear about and yes, it is actually poop. They are frozen poop tha…
Crohn’s Disease Symptoms – Is There a Way to Manage Them? Crohn’s disease symptoms vary from one patient to the next. Depending on how mild or severe the condition is, the signs could be anywhere from mere nausea to bleeding. There are extraintestinal manifestations which are rarely present. The disease can also affect different parts of the body such as the skin, liver, joints and the eyes.…
A new and intriguing discovery has let us to change on how we see poop. Despite the stench of the feces, Dr. Thomas Louie of the University of Calgary has made up a way to use stool bugs as a pill to cure a fatal gut disease known as Clostridium difficile or C-diff. Half a million Americans get infected with this disease and about 14,000 die each year. You can get this by touching surfaces contaminated with feces, then touch your mouth. Symptoms include nausea, cramps, and diarrhea.…
Clostridium difficile (C-diff) is a serious infection that can cause nausea, diarrhea, and can even disable you. There are antibiotics to treat it but they can cause even more long term damage to your body by killing other good bacterias in your stomach. To keep this from happening doctors are developing a new form of treatment, poop pills. These poop pills are made from a healthy donor's stool bacteria, the bacteria is put into triple coated capsules and given to a C-diff patient. Although it takes 24-34 pills to treat a patient it can permanently cure C-diff.…
Detox - short for detoxification - means getting dangerous substances out of your system, which is the first step towards treatment of and recovery from addiction. Drugs and alcohol, although not necessarily toxic in the way say, arsenic or cyanide are, are insidious substances to have inside you. They breed dependency and lower inhibition against their own use. In that sense, they impair one's judgment, and make it easier to continue use that is ultimately harmful to one's mental and physical health.…
To summarize the case described in our text, a 16-year-old young woman wanted to be put on “the Pill”. She suspected that her doctor’s response would be to look down at her, especially considering that he had been her doctor since she was born, so she instead went to a clinic where she…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a common gastrointestinal disorder in which may cause constipation, abdominal pain, and episodic diarrhea. There is no known cause for IBS, but it is commonly reduced by managing stress, exercising, sleeping regularly, and avoiding certain foods in your diet. IBS can be classified as a collection of symptoms that occur regularly for at least 6 months and have occurred at least 3 times a month in the past 3 months. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is always accompanied with pain or discomfort in the midsection. This pain or discomfort must be relieved with the use of the restroom and associated with a change in the frequency and appearance of the stool.…
Unfortunately, all these benefits do not come without a potential cost. Our mindset of antibiotics has changed greatly over time. Before, many believed that we could use antibiotics to eliminate all bacteria and infectious disease. This idea…
In our general public today, the utilization of legitimate medications, for example, liquor, tobacco, and OTC medications are being utilized at a disturbing rate. The media mortar charming pictures for all to see as a worthy piece of regular daily existence. For instance, surely understood mixed drink organizations publicize in ways that depict their items as fun and a typical piece of regular daily existence, by the utilization of engaging pictures of superb creatures and infectious trademarks. OTC medications organizations additionally utilize a wide range of media roads to elevate their items to people in general, which presents them as broadly acknowledged and typical for cheerful, sound way of life. Lamentably, a number of Americans get to be distinctly dependent on these lawful medications and the result is not glad or sound, it is by and large exceptionally dangerous.…
Reducing polypharmacy can be achieved through encouraging healthcare providers to review medication regimens for their geriatric patients. This type of intervention was evaluated in a study of older adults living in long-term care facilities in North Carolina (Trygstad, Christensen, Wegner, Sullivan, & Garmise, 2009). Pharmacists at each participating facility reviewed medication lists for harmful drugs, interactions, or unnecessary medications. They also reviewed new drug orders and addressed concerns with the prescriber before dispensing the medication. Medication costs, number of prescription drugs filled, and risk for hospitalization were assessed.…
Part of that problem is that doctors now prescribe it just like they would prescribe medicine for a sick child. Not only are women using these common contraceptives for the wrong reasons, but they also don’t understand what these birth control pills are doing to their body and what they are putting them at risk for. There are three main reasons as to why women should not use birth control: it can cause serious health issues, the cost is unrealistic…
Prescription medication drugs are quick and efficient remedies to help ease any chronic pain or discomfort in the body. However, 20% of the U.S. population has admitted using prescription medication for nonmedical reasons in their lifetime. The increase of prescription drug misuse has led to a higher percentage in emergency room visits because of accidental overdoses and treatment programs for drug addictions. Although they are implemented to medicate physical discomfort, the broad accessibility of prescription drugs given by physicians may instead serve as a detriment to the public.…
Then the antibiotics are also being used when they are unneeded which ultimately causes the bacteria to begin to mutate and become immune to common antibiotics. If the bacteria continues to mutate it could cause more problems for the body. To conclude, antibiotics should be restricted to the public because they cause mutations if overused, they do not treat viruses, and they destroy the healthy and good bacteria the body needs to…
Inappropriate use of antibiotics has been linked to a number of causes, including people insisting antibiotics, doctors prescribing them because they do not have time to explain why they are not necessary, and doctors not knowing when to prescribe antibiotics or being too careful about prescribing them. At least one third of people believe that antibiotics are effective for the flu, and it is the most common reason antibiotics are prescribed even though they are ineffective against viruses. If we continue to overuse antibiotics, diseases that are currently treatable will become incurable and millions of people will die as a result of this. Society can prevent infections from becoming incurable in the future by not overusing antibiotics, finishing antibiotics even if the infection is gone and not using…