Character of the Clinical Issue Alcohol Use Disorder is a problem that is related to an individual’s use of alcohol that leads to negative effects on the individual’s life. According to the DSM-5 (2014), the level of which the undesirable effects of the substance may affect the individual’s life is what determines whether their disorder is mild, severe, or somewhere in-between. These impairments can affect the individual’s life by impacting their physical, mental, social, or professional…
The brain is not fully developed until you are 25 years old, and when you begin drink under this age, it may cause irreversible damage to the brain. Most teenagers do not know that alcohol is a depressant, because it initially feels like a stimulant. This is because alcohol makes you feel self-conscious and unable to relax. There are also physical effects that most people do not know about such as, damage to the medulla, which controls the body’s automatic functions, like your heartbeat. The…
Medical Detox Medical Detox, short for detoxification, is simple adding a clause to ‘detoxification’ in itself. A clause that situates your time of detox, as a time that is spent being monitored. The Webster’s Medical Dictionary has the guidelines of medical detox, defined as “A detailed plan of scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure.” Unlike self-detox, a medical detoxification process is a like a good batch of apples, although they are all different, they came from the…
Prolotherapy is a procedure of treating the musculoskeletal system connective tissue injuries by injecting a natural irritant into the soft tissue of a certain injured joint. It is believed that doing so provides significant relief from back pain or joint pain. Why is Prolotherapy Treatment Performed? Prolotherapy treatment is performed when the connective tissue injuries have not healed by nonsurgical therapies or rest. The purpose of this treatment is to relieve the back pain that a patient…
Drug Abuse is an epidemic in the adolescent age group in the USA. Stronger synthetic “street” narcotics like Ecstasy, Inhalants and Prescription Abuse are being used by teens at an inexperienced and blooming age throughout America. Many teens that are addicted to these drugs aren 't going to notice the problem in their drug usage. Different types of narcotics usually makes the user relieve the stress of school, problems at home, disagreements with friends, and other pressures of growing up.…
Cracking Down on Drugs Over 52 million people in America have abused prescription drugs at least once in their lifetime as of 2014 (Volkow). This only makes me wonder—what are the statistics like now, a year later? Prescription drug abuse is the non-medical use or overuse of someone else’s or their own prescribed drug. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) classified prescription drug abuse as a national epidemic. People, often teens, believe prescription drugs are safer than illicit drugs but…
Education is more than spreading knowledge. Except focusing on advanced academic research, a successful educational institution is also supposed to concentrate on students’ personal development. Universities cannot ignore the importance of students’ health. The physical and physiological health of student population are the cornerstones of any forms of education. Without them, all efforts are meaningless. Of all materials that can be harmful to students’ bodies, alcohol and drugs are most…
While Xanax strengths and appearances may vary, they all share on things in common: All the different types of Xanax are highly addictive. Side Effects Xanax Abuse and Overdose Most people who take Xanax as prescribed will not experience any side effects; however, people who abuse the drug have an increased likelihood of experiencing a wide variety of negative effects, including: • Aches and Pains • Chest Pains • Clumsiness • Confusion • Decreased Appetite • Drowsiness • Forgetfulness •…
1. Based on area of hair growth - whether the hair growth more prominent in the androgen dependent areas. In conditions like Were wolf syndrome, there will be general overgrowth of terminal hair seen in entire body, which is not hormonal dependent. 2. Onset of hair growth- acute or chronic onset due to the underlying pathology 3. Menstrual history- There will be conditions of menstrual irregularities associated with hirsutism as in case of PCOS, Hyperprolactinemia etc conditions. 4. Family…
Thank you for sending Renee back to see me just over two years since the last appointment. When last reviewed, Renee trialled modafinil, reaching a dose of 200mg bd, but struggled with it due to nausea and what she believed to be increased somnolence. She did not attend for a follow-up appointment and has battles through with the symptoms over the last couple of years. Her sleep patterns are similar to before in that she is achieving typically eight hours of sleep and is consistently waking…