Drug discovery

their meaning of life. They understand every stage of the rehabilitation process and are committed to help and guide you in making the right decisions to turn your life around and become the person you want to be. Clinics typically offer more than a drug rehabilitation…

would create the best results for this test. Tasks or thought triggers chosen to specifically target one area of the brain could be performed at different states of consciousness such as: different levels of awakeness, during the use of a mind-altering drug, or at normal conditions. Recording observations of the brain activities is possible through the use of a fMRI, which is a machine that records brain activity based upon the blood flow in specific areas. If different states of consciousness…

Substance addiction is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substances in amounts that are harmful to themselves or possibly others. It’s important to learn about substance addiction due to the harmful health hazards it produces as well as the medical, criminal, and economical costs that comes along with it. For starters, the abuse of tobacco, and illicit drugs total up more than $740 billion dollars related to lost work, medical care, and crimes annually in our Nation.…

negatively affect their health because seeing other people who cannot talk helps them realize that if they continue to smoke something similar or worse can happen to them. “Anti-Prescription Drug Abuse Public Service Announcement” this video is giving an advice to parents to help prevent their children from not falling on drugs. Yes, I believe this video would be effective at convincing individuals to change a behavior that has the potential to negatively affect their health. “NYC Anti-Soda…

Cluster Headaches: Medicine’s Mystery Malady In The Beginning Humankind has always suffered from headaches. The first written records discussing cluster headaches were in the mid-1600s. At that time the headaches were described by the intensity of the pain or given the name of the author describing them. Wilfred Harris, a British neurologist, was among the first to accurately describe the episodic nature of the headaches. Later, in 1939, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton, a US neurologist, further…

the welfare system, is by being a drug user. If the money that is used to help those in need, goes to an individual that uses drugs, that is one less person that will receive help. On the online article “Point: The Welfare System Should Not Support Drug Users”, the writer states “It is unreasonable to expect taxpayers to pay for someone else's food, housing, and other expenses while that person uses their own money to buy drugs” (“Point: The Welfare System”). The drug addict that is receiving…

strategies and ideas aimed at limiting negative outcomes related to drug abuse. Harm Reduction is also a set of policies for social justice used to manage behaviors and based on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of the people who use drugs. Human reduction is used to manage both legal and illegal behaviors. Harm reduction is non-judgmental and focuses on taking small steps to reduce harm rather than on completely eliminating drug use. Completely stopping may or may not be the end goal.…

to fit perfectly. This is a very interesting research that looks at peoples’ experiences while recovering from addiction such as gambling. The main focus of this study is on gambling problems but it also talks about its association with alcoholism, drug use and chronic illness. As suggested in this article, gambling is like an illness it affects your body and mind. This article provided us with the story of a man that because of his gambling addiction lost his job and family, became homeless…

can take control and destroys will it destroy you ? Addiction is when you are dependent on something , would do anything for it , love it , always using it , and letting it separate you from those you love . some people say that addiction is just drugs or pornography but there is so much more . Some say there is no such thing as too much of something good or bad (addiction) . They are wrong Addiction can ruin and change someone's life ,because addiction can kill , And addiction will take…

psychological problems at an early age. More antipsychotic drugs are being prescribed each day to children even for behavioral problems. According to an article from Dr. Mercola “There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those medications are intended to be taken for life, as many psychotropic drugs are.” (Dr. Marcelo) Some doctor’s might want a quick fix, and are willing to give their patience antipsychotic drugs even if they do not need it. Many other…