to Home Health Nursing James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues,” is a story about two individuals struggling on both sides of a drug addiction. Sonny is a jazz musician from Harlem, New York who gets addicted to Heroin, and is arrested for selling drugs. The other character, the one that is affected by Sonny’s addiction, is the narrator, also known as Sonny’s brother. Even though drugs are a central part of the story, it’s not only about Sonny’s struggle to reconnect with his family, but his family…
abstinence is not working, to an extent. People should be more educated about alcohol and the effects of it. Teachers and parents need to have talks with teens about the damage alcohol can have on a developing brain. According to Foundations for a Drug Free world, alcohol can be very damaging on a teen’s brain development (Young People Versus Adults. What’s The…
“The question became do you take drugs to try to win or do you content yourself with losing forever by staying away from them?” (Charlie Francis, Reputations: The Ben Johnson Story) In Sports, each athlete has one similar goal; to be the best. This is where the introduction of performance enhancers become an issue as it’s an easy shortcut to certain success, which makes them even more of a temptation. Doping is a drug intake of banned substance to improve their results. Would you take the risky…
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…
When people think of the word “addicting”, they usually think of drugs or video games. The word “addicting” has a negative connotation, usually representing an unhealthy inability to stop. So naturally, no one would think of an app that’s limited to 10 seconds of entertainment at a time. At least, I thought I would not. But Snapchat has firmly ingrained its way into my life. Advertised as “The Fastest Way to Share a Moment!” (Snapchat), Snapchat quickly changed me into someone that can’t put…
Alcohol has been corrupting human society for as long as human beings have been alive. In 2016, the surgeon general Doctor Vivek Murthy said, “I’m calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing. Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it’s one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.”(......) Alcoholism is a…
reason that most people are unaware of these risks is because clinical trials do not report these behaviors; they withhold this information from the “medical community and the public.” The directors in Brave New World also conceal information about a drug that can be paralleled to antidepressants;…
The electroconvulsive therapy has been one of the most controversial procedures in human history and is still performed, because of its effective treatment of depression and other mental disorders. The method of performance of ECT has changed over time, although its perception has not altered a lot. The influence of mass media, movies and books strongly determine the general public’s opinion about the electroshock therapy. Although the procedure has been performed since the late 1930s, its…
This then lays the alcohol-drenched groundwork for us to trace the development of Synge’s characters as they drink throughout the day. For the case of Christy, drunkenness inspires poetics in his chronicles. In Act 1, the rehashing of patricide is terse and bland; on his first glass of porter, he fumbles: “I never used weapons. I’ve no licence, and I’m a law-fearing man… I just riz the loy and let fall the edge of it… he went down at my feet like an empty sack” Here, Christy’s language is…
According to the journal article, commonly prescribed medications and potential false-positive urine drug screens, that amphetamine or methamphetamine were the most commonly used drugs in medications today (Brahm, Yeager, Fox, Farmer and Palmer 2010, p. 1345). They are present in a non-prescription nasal inhaler (Brahm, Yeager, Fox, Farmer and Palmer 2010, p. 1347). Methamphetamine is also found in anti-depressants…