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“The bigger they are, the harder they fall,” said American singer/songwriter Pitbull. Imagine starting at the bottom, slowly working your way up, and finally reaching the pinnacle of your success, only to just plunge back down to where you started. Whether it be due to your actions or another’s, it hurts like nothing else. In Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” Oedipus goes from living the dream of his lifetime all the way to down to agonizing in his worst nightmare. Oedipus is a tragic hero because…

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…

Throughout the article “The Hidden Harm of Antidepressants,” Diana Kwon, journalist for Scientific American, discusses the threats antidepressants pose for those who use it. Antidepressants are the “most commonly prescribed medications” in the medical world. While antidepressants have a wide variety of users, many are unaware of their risks. These risks include an increase in suicidal thoughts, as well as suicide, and an increase in aggressive behavior. The reason that most people are unaware of…

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…

Relevant Findings** Yes, according to Lexidrugs, the loss of memory and cognition along with difficulty urinating are both side effects caused by diphenhydramine. The mechanism of this drug is to compete with histamine at receptors throughout the body and will cause “anticholinergic and sedative effects.” The number one precaution of administering diphenhydramine is that it can cause CNS depression and prevent coherent cognitive function of the patient. The CNS depression effects could be the…

Devastation and suffering occurs frequently in, “Sonny’s Blues.” It is told through an unnamed narrator that comes to realize that his younger brother Sonny, who he has not been in contact with for some time, has been arrested for using and selling Heroin. After a tragic event for the narrator, the brothers begin to communicate once again. When released, the narrator allows Sonny to stay with him at his apartment, where he begins to have flashbacks, the narrator recounts his mother telling him…

Methamphetamine is highly addictive; however, it is present in some common medications. Due to this people may continue using as they enjoy the feeling it gives them once they take it. If people wish to they can get methamphetamine as it is readily available and inexpensive in Australia. (Winslow, Voorhees and Pehi 2007, p. 1170). According to the journal article, commonly prescribed medications and potential false-positive urine drug screens, that amphetamine or methamphetamine were the most…

their lives and are never caught. The people who are found guilty in a court of law are sentenced by a Judge who decides the appropriate punishment. As a young nineteen-year-old girl, Doris, was found guilty of selling two hundred dollars worth of heroin to an undercover police officer. She was sentenced to serve between ten and twenty years in prison. She could not tolerate prison life and escaped during the first year of her sentence. Upon her capture by legal authorities thirty-four…

“Fluanxol”  Introduction : • History and background : - Fluanxol is a thioxanthene derivative which contains flupentixol as active substances. It belongs to group of medicines known as antidepressants drugs which act on nerve pathway in specific areas of the brain and help in correcting some chemical imbalances that cause the symptoms of this illness. - Its International Non-proprietary Name (INN) is flupentixol , but its British Approved Name (BAN) is flupenthixol and it is known in the market…

While not everyone agrees on what constitutes an addiction, in general it is recognized that an addiction can be to any substance (for example alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, nicotine, opioids, sedatives, hallucinogens, inhalants, cannabis, phencyclidine, caffeine, and a wide variety of other substances), which, when ingested, cross the blood-brain barrier and alter the natural chemical behavior of the brain. It is also accepted that addiction includes dependency on "things" as well as…