Drug discovery

This intervention program is designed to aid the linking of depression and drug use in adolescents. It’s my mission to spread awareness of just how much depression affects adolescents in today’s society. Also, I am committed to exhibit strategies that will help others spot the early signs of depression and drug use in the afflicted; and hopefully they will be able to help them defeat their battle. Interventions can be held in an array of places, like someone’s home, community centers and health…

Smoking has become one of the most popular and influential drug known in the United States. Many from teenager to adult, have indulged in smoking from time to time. What many are not made aware of though is that by smoking, they are endangering not only their own lives, but the lives of others around them as well. It gives chance for second hand smoke and other health problems to become more prompt. One of the major health problems though many are facing today is that of heart disease such as…

the most influential component of drug addiction, along with chemicals aiding the problem. I absolutely agree with Hari that environmental circumstances, such as social dislocation lead to the usage of drugs. However I believe that chemicals are the most influential factor in starting and continuing the process of (drug) addiction itself, not the environment a person inhabits. The environment someone lives in is one of the most important factors that encourages drug usage. Chemicals cause the…

For well more than two decades, resistance to use medicines has been a test to the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Rebelliousness has been a test in a genuine medical services concern and adds to the expanding expense of therapeutic care. When prescriptions are utilized erroneously or not taken by any means, social insurance supplier’s time, exertion, and aptitude must be reused and rehashed. Accordingly, the patient stays at hazard for unabated illness. Suppliers and patients can be deceived to…

Every year, approximately $600 billion dollars is spent on illegal drugs. All of that money could match Bill Gate’s fortune 7 times. While there are thousands becoming addicted each day, about 200,000 addicts will die each year of an overdose. Drug addiction is becoming a bigger problem as each day passes by. Treatment plans for this epidemic continue to fail. Only 23% of addicts that go through these treatment plans fully become drug free. The question of why treatments are failing is yet to be…

Performance enhancing drugs have been an issue in sports since 1928 when Thomas Hicks won the marathon at the Olympic Games after being injected with strychnine. Plenty of athletes have been caught using these substances over the years and sporting officials have been trying desperately to stop athletes from using performance enhancing drugs by introducing all sorts of bans and penalties. The most famous incident to take place in recent times is that of Lance Armstrong. Armstrong was…

Through watching the documentary Fire in the Blood, we are fully submerged into the senseless struggle of Third World nations to obtain low-cost antiretroviral therapy (ARV) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. The antagonists of the film are pharmaceutical firms (collectively referred to as Big Pharma) who, through the utilization of false advertising, patents, and international treaties, barr citizens of developing nations from receiving the quality treatment they rightly deserve. As someone who was…

If you think, as some do today, that many drugs used as medicines are potentially deadly, consider what people living in medieval times were prescribed as curative agents—from ground up corpses to toxic mercury to crocodile dung. The annals of medieval medical history are full of substances that make us cringe. Yet people believed in these cure-alls and willing took them when prescribed by a doctor of the Middle Ages. While we may laugh or shudder at these strange potions and treatments, we…

individual is immune to the myriad of risk factors that can lead to this addictive behavior. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that addiction is a chronic disease of the brain that compels an individual to continue drug seeking behaviors even when they are aware of the detrimental consequences to their health(NIDA, 2012, para 3). The use and abuse of alcohol and drugs continues to reach epidemic proportions in the general population across the country. Many occupations and…

In the attempt to escape from reality, possibly negative overwhelming life circumstances or events, people have resorted to the use of substances that produce physical, mental, and or psychological changes. Generally, substance disorders can affect people from all walks of life (regardless of spiritual, cultural, biological, or psychological status quo) they can become physically and psychologically hooked to any substance after being exposed to high dosages for a long period of time. Many of…