Adderall

It happens more than many people think. Stories on the news cover many of these sudden deaths caused by untested stimulant drugs used on children. One followed a boy named Matthew Hohmann, who was being treated for ADHD with a common drug called Adderall, and died suddenly one morning. (Childs and Neale) His death is linked directly to the drug. It is believed to cause heart failure in some cases in children yet still goes mostly untested on a pediatric audience. Some people advocate routine…

Today I am focusing on Ray Rice’s file. I have to summarize reports for the end of the month. Ray Rice is a White seventeen year old male. His crime was sexual abuse. Redeploy takes sexual abuse cases very seriously. This was my first time reading a file which had the client as a sex offender. I have heard stories on the news of youth being sex offenders, but I have never actually read in detail about the offense. Ray Rice lives with his father and step-mother. Both parents are unemployed. Being…

(About, n.d.). There are many ways to take these medications. There are short, medium, and long lasting medicines. Some of the short length meds are: Amphetamine (Adderall) and Methylphenidate (Ritalin). Medium length meds: Amphetamine sulfate (Evekeo) and Methylphenidate (Ritalin SR). Long lasting meds: Dextroamphetamine (Adderall XR) and Methylphenidate (Concerta, Daytrana, Metadate CD, Quillivant XR, Ritalin LA) (Stimulant, n.d.). There is also advantage of taking different time…

Stimulant psychosis is a temporary psychiatric condition that develops among some individuals who use and/or abuse stimulant medications or illicit stimulatory drugs. Two of the most common drugs may induce stimulant psychosis are amphetamines and cocaine. Psychosis is usually defined as a loss of contact with reality and is typically considered a common symptom of a severe mental illness like schizophrenia. Individuals encountering psychosis may end up dealing with auditory and/or visual…

The Simple State of Self-healing Marcia Angell 's, ”The Crazy State of Psychiatry”, is a review of books by experts in the fields of psychology, journalism, and psychiatry. All three of these works highlight different concerns and issues that are present in the medical field in regards to treating and diagnosing mental illnesses. The themes that are present in Angell’s article consists of, but are not limited to, the self, co-dependency, corruption, pharmaceuticals, over-diagnosis, questionable…

Drugs prescribed by doctors are extremely likely to cause addiction in a high percentage of their patients. At least eighty percent of heroin addicts today were first exposed to prescription drugs. Prescribed medicines are considered a major gateway drug by a large part of the population. Experts believe that the opioid epidemic started in the 1990s when physicians ignored treated chronic pain. Pharmaceutical companies wanted to increase the same of their pain killers, so they had started to…

video game competitions. The talk of drug testing being administered is because of a major league gamer boasted about using prescription drugs to help him and his team focus. According to Gale Databases the drug that was used by the gamers was adderall. Adderall also know as…

ALLEGATION R/s Jessica (mom) has no stable housing, she moves from one house to another. R/s Jessica is doing drugs, she uses marijuana and takes Xanax and Adderall. R/s Hayden (4) is always dirty and hungry. R/s Hayden smells of marijuana and pee (days old pee). R/s Jessica leaves Hayden with anyone. R/s last week Hayden was sick while in the care of his father, Joseph. R/s Joseph didn’t take Hayden to the doctors. R/s Joseph leaves Hayden with Jessica’s mother and she and her husband are pot…

Paresthesia is not a disease, but a symptom of a condition that may be temporary or long-lasting. Paresthesia is a common symptom that refers to a prickling or burning sensation in some parts of the body, usually the arms, hands, legs, or feet. These can also occur in other body parts of the body. This unusual sensation, often happens without warning, and is typically painless. It may occur suddenly or gradually, but sometimes it may come and go. Other descriptions for paresthesia include…

Medical social control is used to deviate irregular behavior from society. The condition attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is used in the same type of way in classrooms with students. In a normal classroom setting children are paying attention, staying still, listening to directions when spoken too, and staying quiet when the teacher is speaking; in certain circumstances. While children that do not conform to social norms of how to act in a classroom can be diagnosed under the…