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    Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In the 1990 's the disorders, Attention-Deficit Disorder, which shortened is A.D.D., and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as A.D.H.D., was officially combined into one disorder which is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, which is also known as A.D/H.D. Although many people today still call the disorder A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder mainly affects children and teens. It affects 3-5% of the children…

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    sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for “back pain”, Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine… well, because its awesome”. They did not show him doing all these drugs at one time, but it can be assumed that Marijuana was smoked, Morphine injected, and Adderall taken orally. He gave an ignorant description of the drug, but by watching the rest of the movie you…

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    Melchior Adhd Summary

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    Melchior Adam Wiekard was a German physician who, in 1775, wrote a medical text book in which five and a half pages in the third chapter are devoted to an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) like illness. This appears to be the first record of such a disorder, predating Still by more than a hundred and twenty years. Wiekard describes inattentiveness as more common in children and women, more common in the young than the old, more common in someone who is happy than in someone who is…

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    1:42 am. Gasping; the type of gasping a helpless girl would have if she were drowning in a sea of water. Across my bedroom, whistling of the wind begins creeping around my window sill, making its way across my hardwood floors, and slithering onto the painted walls. Frigid streams of blood reluctantly travels through my veins, resembling an infant bird, weary to come out of its nest for the first time. Forming above my layer of skin, goosebumps rise like my fear of ants rising from the dead. I…

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    Phillip Jackson wrote an article discussing the idea of finding a “universal definition of teaching” (also known as a definition for real teaching). There are four attempts to define what teaching is according to Jackson. The four definitions include: the generic teaching model, the epistemic teaching model, the consensual teaching model, and the evolutionary teaching model. The generic teaching model is “a system of actions intended to induce learning” in students. Jackson rejects this model…

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    In “A Technological Cloud Hangs Over Higher Education” author Keith Williams states that technology in the classroom today is totally different than the past. Because there are easier ways to get notes, PowerPoints, and lectures simply by downloading them from the internet. Whereas, before the internet, the student had to actually take notes during class. Williams asserts his statement by giving examples throughout the essay about not having to use hot projectors anymore to do lectures. Also,…

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    are perfectly fine. The facts that support nature are children with ADHD are usually boys, they have male relatives with the same problem, they are overactive in all contexts, and children with ADHD often calm down when they take stimulants like Adderall or coffee. (The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence). There is also evidence that nurture is cause of ADHD as well like the percent of the U.S of diagnosed with ADHD increased from one percent to five percent over the past fifty…

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    Ms. Newby's Case Summary

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    symptoms of psychosis. She reports today around 1:30pm her mother and her got into an argument over her mother's Facebook password code being changed. Ms. Newby reports she is visiting her mother from Florida. Per documentation she reports taking adderall years ago and has a history of ADHD. Ms. Newby denies feelings of depression. She states, "I'm positive all the time, I don't like to be negative." Ms. Newby expresses she is upset about the situation and would just like to get through it. This…

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    Prescription Drug Abuse

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    are substances used as a medication or in the preparation of medication and is often referred to as an illicit substance that causes addiction. This is a main reason for drug abuse and overdose. Prescription drugs like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and adderall are prescribed by doctors and are either sold by the patient, or the patient abuses the medication…

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    Why everyone should have an emotional support animal. It’s a crazy world out there and life as we all know can be really hard. Thankfully there are are fury friends in the world that make everything better. Man’s best friend and (*kahummm* Woman’s) best friend. Dogs. They won’t judge you, hurt you (unless they’ve been abused), lie, steal or cheat. Any malicious traits humans have, they do not. They are pure like children and all they want is to be loved. Living in a 3rd floor apartment my…

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