Depressant

anti-anxiety medications. Anti-anxiety drugs include diazepam, alprazolam, clonazepam, and oxazepam among others. Antidepressants are used in treatment of depression but are also used for treating panic disorders. However, antidepressants and anti-anxiety depressants have various side effects such as nausea, headache, and difficulty on sleeping among others (National Institute of Mental Health, 20114). Some of the commonly prescribed antidepressants for treating panic disorders include…

people have constantly been studying and practicing different forms of drugs for a number of purposes. For instance, the drug Marijuana or what may be referred to as yarndi, weed, pot, ganja, stick, joint, hash, cone, choof or chronic is mainly a depressant which slows the brain down. Cannabis or Marijuana is commonly manipulated recreationally or as a medicinal drug. In some cases, it may be utilizing to fulfill certain religious or spiritual preferences. In 2013, about 2.7% to 4.9% of the…

The health of the natural world is required to sustain all life forms, as it provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. While the relationship between the natural world and humans is beneficial for our health on a biological level. For Indigenous peoples, the relationship with the land is much deeper as the environment is central to their mental and spiritual health and, as a result, physical health also. For this reason, colonization has had a major impact on…

First off what is alcohol? Is it a drug, medicine, or a beverage? Alcohol is known as a depressant. It messes with your ability to react with movement, your speech, and your ability to speak. In other words it’s a drug that affects a person’s mind to think rationally and distorts his/her judgements. Alcohol is a drug because it messes up with your thoughts and just like any other drug, it’s easy to get ahold of it. It’s not injected nor smoked, but consumed as a liquid. There’s different types…

skewed, or downright wrong, then the moral certainty that fuels the charge into other cultures becomes suspect” (Watters 528-529). Watters shows examples of how American companies had both good and bad intentions when trying to advertise anti-depressants in Japan. The United States has some of the most advanced scientific research and studies in the world, so they aim to share their knowledge and research to other countries. However, because the aim was specifically to produce sales of Paxil,…

Electroconvulsive therapy, also referred to as ECT, has been used as a treatment for the psychological disorder schizophrenia for the last century. In the later part of the 20th century, the use of ECT for treatment of schizophrenia has been a frequent topic of debate. It has been a topic of debate because of the side effects that patients have been shown to exhibit after receiving the treatment, mainly memory impairment. Several studies over the last century have shown an adverse effect on…

Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Their Treatment Anorexia nervosa, or anorexia, paired with bulimia nervosa, or simply bulimia, are both commonly known amongst the general population. Both of these are characterized by common stereotypes. When one thinks of anorexia, they often think of someone who refuses to eat. And, the common image that we think of when considering bulimia is one of a teenage girl with her finger down her throat, purging, following a meal. There are further…

The Hangover Doug and Tracy are about to get married, but two days before the wedding, the three groomsmen, which are Doug's two best friends Phil, Stu, and Tracy's brother Alan go to Las Vegas to party for 24 hours. The next morning in Vegas, they wake up in their hotel villa with the worst hangover. None of them remembers what happened in the past twelve hours. The villa is in shambles and there are things in the villa that don’t belong there. Also there are certain things that the villa is…

Post-partum depression is more widely found in adolescent females who had just given birth, it is caused mostly from stress, poor marital relationships, and hardship of coping with a new baby, working as well as being a new mother, social support and women who have had a history of depression. Depression is considered second to H.I.V/AIDS according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the U.S.A post-partum depression is one of the leading causes of non-obstetric hospitalization among young…

Alcohol’s common misconception is that it helps depression, but it is a depressant. A depressant means that the substance being used has the adverse effect on someone, hence the word depressant. It is being used to make someone happier when it unfortunately makes them even more depressed. Euphoric drugs improve the mood, but at the same time they change the brain’s chemical balance…