Amphetamine

What do James “Whitey” Bulger, Al “Scarface” Capone, and George Celino “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes all have in common? The first thing that comes to mind is they are all leaders of Crime families and gangs, but they were all prisoners of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the country if not the world for what happened there and for its notorious prisoners. “The Escape of Alcatraz”, the LSD trails, and the life on “Uncle Sam’s Devil Island” are all…

The Southern Border Saudi Arabia is located in southwestern Asia, and is its linking point between Asia and the Africa. The majority of Saudi Arabia is the desert region 's environment and It has a diversity of terrain and climate. Saudi Arabia is a major axis in the national, regional and global decision-making. Saudi Arabia is characterized by large area compared to countries in the region, it also has a very long border with many countries. Each border of Saudi Arabia represents a challenge…

Every year there is a new “it” drug such as Xanex, marijuana, promethazine, and so on. There are actually more drugs that the youth could be exposed to. An examination of late overviews and exploration puts the extent of the illicit U.S. drug market at $200 billion to $750 billion every year, with most gauges coming in the middle of $400 billion and $500 billion. The investigation additionally found that the present decade has logged into the heaviest medication use per individual every year in…

stimulant initially developed in the 1960’s, and recognized as the equivalent form of chemical used to produce an alternative abused substance known as “bath salts” (Calarco, 2015). Similar to Flakka, bath salts contain artificial chemicals linked to amphetamine creating dangerous…

ADHD is a chronic disorder that gives someone trouble with paying attention and concentrating. “...affects millions of children and often persists into childhood”(1). It also makes a person hyper. ADHD will give a person symptoms/sign in behavioral, cognitive, and their mood. Behavioral problems such as: hyperactivity, aggression, repetition, and continuous movement. Cognitive problems such as: forgetting easily, not being able to focus, and a short attention span. They get mood changes which…

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1996 may have led to one of the most controversial higher education policies of all time. The ruling made it legal for the flagship University of Texas at Austin school to drop affirmative action in their admissions process (Hopwood v. Texas). In 1997 a response by affirmative action advocates proposed and passed what is considered a race-neutral admissions procedure that they believed would actually increase minority admissions to flagship schools in Texas. The…

Introduction In this paper the illness stroke, specifically ischemic stroke (IS), will be discussed. The majority of strokes are ischemic; they are one of the prominent causes of death worldwide making it a major global health problem. The number of people who have suffer from stroke every year, or who have suffered, or have died from their stroke, are significantly increasing (Feigin et al., 2015). Ischemic stroke has been increasingly effecting people globally. Feigin and collegues (2015),…

Liz has presented a plethora of symptoms that suggest she experienced an unexpected panic attack. Liz’s first cognitive symptom was her fear of “going crazy” as a result of her adverse physical reaction. Her secondary symptoms of an increased heart rate and shaking are the psychical manifestations of a panic attack. Her fourth symptom of depersonalization was verbalized as “feeling outside of my body”. These psychical and cognitive symptoms fulfill four of the thirteen diagnostic criteria…

Teen Drug Abuse Have you ever thought of how it feels to lose your precious child to drug addiction? My neighbor Emily recently lost her teenage daughter Audrey who was a drug addict. Audrey was only 15 years old when she passed away. No one knew she was a drug addict, including her mother, until the autopsy reported the cause of her death. Audrey was using over the counter drug to get high mostly at night when her mother was sleeping. Audrey’s mother said “I thought my daughter was living a…

In public health, a variety of different models are used to assess specific concerns on a variety of different intervention levels. In using these models, programs and interventions can be developed and implemented as a means of determining the most equitable route towards prevention or at least towards a reduction in the hazards relating to the public health concern in question. One of the models that has been used to classify and assess such concerns is the socio-ecological model. The…