Alcohol dependence

Depressants are one of the main drug category. They are used to experience euphoria or with other drugs to add to the other drugs’ high or to deal with their side effects. Depressants bring you down and suppress brain function, the effect of this is it will put you to sleep, relieve anxiety and muscle spasms, and prevent seizures.Other effects over a longer time can be depressants cause amnesia, leaving no memory of events that occur while under the influence, reduce your reaction time, impair…

Traditionally, substance dependence was a primary definition for an addiction. Today, an addiction can be defined as a continuous and compulsive condition where individuals crave/seek a stimuli that is required for survival despite the consequences for their actions (Burkett, 2012). There are many forms of addiction. However, love is one of the strongest sensations and emotions known to human beings (Reynaud, 2010). Love addiction can be a very powerful sensation that seems to distract…

year thousands of people consume excessive amounts of alcohol. Alcohol is one of the leading causes of life threatening diseases. Alcohol is shown to be good and that it helps make you happy or helps you have a better time; however, alcohol is a slow poison to the body and the mind. Therefore alcohol should be banned because it influences people to make bad decisions, leads to binge drinking and lastly it is a big health hazard. Firstly, alcohol should be banned because it influences people to…

How do we learn what we know? A variety of approaches are used by researches to gain knowledge about habits and psychological processes. One of the five approaches used by psychologists is correlation. Correlations provide data that enables psychologists to answer questions that have not been answered before. Correlation method is defined as “A research method used to examine relationships between variables, which are expressed in the form of a statistical measure called a correlation…

Results: At the start of the experiment, the initial flow rate was established as 20 ml min-1. This means that there is a steady flow of fluid or blood in your body (in this case, water) at a rate of 20ml min-1. In order to find the final concentration of the Eosin (2,5 mg ml-1) in the “blood” after 60 minutes a calibration curve had to be created by making up seven different solutions of eosin (11,25 μg ml-1) and water to compare it against their absorbance that was calculated in a…

Opioids Definition and Classification 1. Definition It is important to distinguish between opium, opiate and opioid. According to Vallejo et al. (2011, page E343), opium is a natural extract from the opium poppy, whereas opiates and opioids are its derivatives. Natural alkaloids derived of opium are generally called opiates, whereas opioids (opium-like) can be either natural or synthetic. The most common known opioids are morphine, codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, etc. (Vallejo et al.,…

Procedure The study will be submitted to Northern Illinois University’s Institutional Review Board for approval. Once approval is granted and a middle school has agreed to participate in the study, a letter will be sent home to parents explaining the study and that their consent is required for their child(ren) to participate. All students whose parents return the consent form will be discussed among school staff in order to make pairs. Teachers, social workers, and paraprofessionals will…

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Drug Interactions Definition In brief explanation, it is the effect of one drug altered by another drug due to concurrent or concomitant administration of two or more drugs known as “drug interactions”. It can also be defined as the modification of pharmacological activity of one drug by concomitant or concurrent administration of two or more drug is known as “drug interactions”. DDIs occur when the effect of one drug is changed by the presence of another drug. The outcome…

A Cheap Drug That Can Change Your Life Methamphetamine is a known drug that many addicts use. Unknowingly, this drug can be prescribed by a doctor yet most individuals know this poisonous drug as “crystal meth”, but has the brand name of “Desoxyn”. Not many individuals may know that this is and can be a seriously addicting stimulant to their mind and body. When it comes to methamphetamine there are five main ways that a person is able to consume this drug. The first way is by smoking the drug.…

Addiction: one’s inability to control the need/use of a substance in which they soon become reliant on. In Robert Louis Stevenson's’ book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it shows an outside perspective on how addiction affects others and the duality of good and evil. Addiction is a hard thing for someone to come to terms with and realize it is evident in their own life, it affects others more than one can think. There are 4 stages of addiction, Drug Experimentation, Regular Use,…