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    people are exposed to in the day to day life. The use of these drugs results to various actions happening to the human body. This paper thus gets into an in-depth analysis of the actions that the four major classifications of drugs, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens and narcotics, have on the human body when used. The paper will look at the effects that each type of drug has on the human body, the dependence of each drug and how the drug interacts with other drugs when consumed. Stimulants…

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    Psychotropic drugs are medications that can exert a therapeutic effect on a person's mental processes, emotions, or behavior. Some of the uses of these drugs are to treat fatigue, wake fullness, ADHD,MDD, Bipolar, anxiety disorders, and psychoses. These are also some of the benefits of these drugs. Some risks include nervousness, insomnia, tachycardia, G.I. disturbances, dependence, dry mouth, nausea and suicidal tendencies. They can also lead to the death of the patient. There are over…

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    Do Drugs Hurt Society

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    Do drugs hurt society? In 2014 the FBI reported 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations. 83.1% of those arrests (1,297,383) were for possession of a controlled substance. Annually the U.S. spends more than $51,000,000,000 on the war on drugs. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1 in 111 adults. There are countless stories of people overdosing on drugs, people who are arrested for possessing these drugs even if they are responsible users. There are hard questions that…

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    controversy in treating patients with mild major depressive disorder (MMDD) through anti depressants. They realized that there are many studies on the effectiveness of anti depressants on moderate and major depressive disorder but hardly any with MMDD. In this research paper they performed a study in which they treated patients who under DSM 5 meet criteria for major depressive disorder, but less severe. The anti depressant they used was duloxetine…

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    Spiegel's Method

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    The factors that help decrease the rate in someone who is trying to quit smoking is through few of these options such as hypnosis, anti-depressants, inhaler, and patch. The hypnosis helps alter an individual state of awareness in which they will seem to be asleep or in a trance. It’s possible for hypnosis to cure physical and psychological problems that may cause the patient to continue smoking. Another possible way the session may help is the hypo therapist may incorporate this technique…

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    Xanax Research Paper

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    prescribed for. Prescription drugs come in many different shapes, sizes and colors. However, they can all be harmful if they are misused. Xanax, being one of the most commonly misused prescription drug, is very dangerous. Xanax is a highly addictive depressant that is prescribed to help treat anxiety and panic disorders. Many things can go wrong, if only one too many pills are taken. Many people that take Xanax can get addicted to the drug, show signs and effects from the use of the drug, and…

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    Drugs affect a person both mentally and physically because the body becomes dependent on an addicts substance of choice to function. People that abuse substances are likely to be using stimulants, depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens, or cannabis which can have terrible short and long term effects. A substance that has been abused for any length of time has the potential to cause withdraws symptoms in a person. This can happen with drugs that have been prescribed by a physician.…

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    World State Government

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    stable state. The government relies on this form of stability so much that they promote and insist on taking Soma for every day use. The way World State views Soma is similar to the why the U.S government did not abolish alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant causing the consumer to calm down similar to they way Soma numbs the body. The normal and maybe even every day use for Alcohol is also similar to they way that people under the control of the World State use Soma. At one point in history the…

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    In order to avoid the side effect people must have a strict diet that avoids titanium. You must also avoid things like cough syrups. You must also avoid other anti-depressants. This is a last resort drug because there are safer drugs on the market. IV. Megan Stine & Megan Woods: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibiters Anti-depressant and can also be used to treat anxiety. They are most selective and mainly focus on serotonin and they block the reuptake and keep the section in the post synaptic…

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    Case 3: Ethical Issues in Treatment Choice The counselor was ordering an anti-depressant for Mr. L and she afterwards discovers that Mr. L also is taking herbal mixtures correspondingly. After Mr. L was encountered concerning the consumption of these herbal mixtures alongside using the anti-depressants that it isn’t beneficial on behalf of Mr. L, so he discontinues his therapy. It remains in his beneficial awareness to take the recommendation that your doctor happens to be revealing. The…

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