Amphetamine

drug-related case in any sports/s in one paragraph Ans.A. Alain Baxter : He is a sports player in alpine skiing(2002) in which he used a drug named methamphetamine or meth is a synthetic drug which is used for more rapid and lasting effects than amphetamine(mood-altering drug), Mital Sharipov : He is a sports player in weight lifting(2004) in which he used a drug named furosemide which is a a synthetic compound with a strong diuretic action, used especially in the treatment of oedema(collecting…

feelings of panic, or dejection, but these drugs also have street value. Sometimes though, it is not just medications that are directly prescribed to senior citizens. Controversial, stronger street drugs are also used to deal with these mental issues. Amphetamines like cocaine, and meth as well as marijuana and heroin are just as easily found as controlled medications, sometimes at a lower…

Is medication that right way to helping your child or adolescent with ADHD? In today 's society, ADHD is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It’s a behavioral disorder that can impact anyone. Some of the symptoms that children and adolescents display when having ADHD is having a hard time to focus on one thing, being very active, and sometimes making decisions without thinking. There are two types of medication which can either be a stimulant or non-stimulant. Some believe that taking the…

The number of HIV patients have dropped over the last decade, annual reduction of 100,000 new infections in 2005. However there still is more than 5,000 people that become infected with HIV each day and more than 3,200 people die every day from HIV-related illnesses. Only a third of the people infected with HIV are on antiretroviral therapy which is leaving 23 million in need of treatment. People whom are sex workers are 12 times likely to be infected with HIV, whereas men who have sex with…

After analyzing the causes of increase of diagnosis and medication of mental disorders, it’s worth exploring the many negative effects. In many cases medication can be unnecessary or lead to abuse. First of all, giving unnecessary medicine has shown to often and be problematic. For example, the placebo effect of social anxiety medications is very high (Frances 152). This means that even if the drug isn’t very effective, the patient thinks it works, so he or she is more likely to stay on it…

filled prescription. I remember when he had told me he had gotten a prescription for Adderall. He was excited. He liked being high. I never did drugs so I didn’t get it. I bitched at him about taking a drug that he didn’t need saying “ That is an amphetamine and highly addictive. It will…

FALSE POSITIVE DRUG TEST Finite Math Professor Joy Beverly Tommy Warren 10/02/17 FALSE POSITIVE DRUG TEST Yikes, I tested positive for an illicit and illegal drug and I don’t use drugs. Can this really happen? Yes, it can happen and it has to too many innocent people. You should have received a negative result when tested for drugs, but you didn’t instead you received a positive result. This is referred to as a ‘false positive’. Understanding ‘false positive” is a…

Some of the substances to be focused on include opiates, cocaine, amphetamines and cannabinoids. The employees will be required to document prescription drugs that were taken within a month of the testing period (Secord, 2003). The drug testing will be subcontracted to an independent laboratory that will confidentially carry…

In addition, the study also featured a poll to gather what side-effects were most common among the stimulant drug users. The researchers reported that “The most commonly reported adverse reactions by nonmedical users included lack of appetite (68.2%) and difficulty sleeping (54.5%)” (969). Those results are characteristic of stated side effects of Adderall since they do help to treat narcolepsy and weight-loss is also another reported off-label use of the drug Adderall. Yet these statistics…

reliable facts about how schools are conducting drug testing on their athletes. One of the things they do is random testing on their athletes. They collect urine samples to see if they are using of the following drugs such as marihuana, cocaine, amphetamines, PCP, and opioids including both heroin and prescription pain relievers. Some of the pain relievers are on the banned substances for the chemicals they might have. Only students who undergo drug testing are the ones that are enrolled in…