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A transorbital lobotomy was a famous procedure performed by Dr. Walter Freeman. In 1946 he discovered that you could damage the frontal lobe and not kill the patient but change their personality. He learned this when he picked up an obscured monograph, written by a Portuguese neurologist, named Egaz Moniz. As a result, he then modified Dr. Moniz’s procedure. The way Dr. Freeman’s procedure worked was by first shocking the patient with electricity, so that they would become unconscious. Then he…

codeine is also widely abused and used as a drug and this is why it should be placed on the banned list. Codeine is sometimes considered one of the more “safer” opioid drugs, but that leads people to believe that it's safer to use and leads to massive amounts of addiction to codeine. Codeine, when consumed, is metabolized in the body and becomes morphine, which is a very dangerous drug. Codeine is harmful for the simple fact that people assume it is a safe drug, leading them into pressuring…

change in criminal justice policy would be nonviolent drug offenders. It's important to note that the nonviolent drug offenders would only be drug users, not dealers. The proposed policy decriminalizes drug use and instead would impose fines and a probationary period for violators. By decriminalizing drug use, real change may occur. Instead of throwing addicts in jail, there will be a greater emphasis on rehabilitation. Because nonviolent drug offenders often fall victim to circumstance, they…

person’s urine to test for any illegal drugs, or prescription medications. The urine tests for alcohol, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, PCP, and opioids (). Other form of drug testing are hair testing, perspiration testing, saliva testing, and blood testing (). There are two types of urine drug test, they are the immunoassay gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, or GC/MS (Stang, D. (2015, October 5). The immunoassay is the most common urine drug test because it is more cost-effective…

PEDs From very early on, athletes have found ways of getting a step ahead of the rest by a vast range of procedures, legal and illegal, safe and dangerous, ethical and non-ethical. The first Olympians were no different; the origins of enhancing performance can be traced back to athletes eating specially prepared lizard meat, thought to give them a slight advantage to the rest. Naturally every athlete would like to perform at a higher level than everyone else, but many of the methods for…

Methadone is a drug that reduces withdrawal symptoms. It reduces the craving for drugs without the imitating the sense of euphoria that follows drug abuse. Hence, it is prescribed to patients to treat or stop narcotic addiction (mainly people addicted to heroin). Methadone is also a painkiller, it can be given to treat pain that’s moderate to severe especially within the elderly. However, Methadone itself can be addictive and thus when prescribed, according to the Royal College of General…

Howard Becker’s (1953) study of “using marijuana for pleasure” was one of the first to examine drug use from a social learning perspective. Becker hypothesized that a given behaviour is mediated through a sequence of social experiences. He interviewed dozens of marijuana users about their experiences with the drug, and concluded that it was necessary for new users to undergo a three stage process of social learning in order to enjoy marijuana use. Through social interaction with more experienced…

Cough Medicine to Dangerous Drug The article “The Heroine Drug History & Facts,” published by Heroininfo.org, (2010) is about heroin’s background and where most of the heroin is produced from today. The article notes that “diacetylmorphine,” which derives from the opium in poppy plants, was created in 1874 by a chemist in England named C. R. Alder Wright when he conducted an experiment in which he boiled morphine with other “various acids”. The drug did not gain much traction until it was…

symptoms and are unable to reduce caffeine consumption even if they have another condition that may be impacted by caffeine”(3). “The negative effects of caffeine are often not recognized as such because it is a socially acceptable and widely consumed drug that is well integrated into our customs and routines, there is a misconception among professionals and lay people alike that caffeine is not difficult to give up” (3). “The majority of people who use caffeine safely every day may find it…

The documentary “Addicted to Plastic” was truly an eye opener for me. It was amazing to learn of the numbers in tons that as a nation that we throughout, not only in our nation but worldwide. Not to mention the damage that we are doing to our environment and the harm to wildlife that the discarded plastics are doing. Most people will throw out a plastic bottle without even thinking about where it will end up or the troubles that it could create. I know I am guilty, but I do recycle. Surprisingly…