Equivalent dose

instead received a serious punishment, athletes would less likely use the substances. Gold medals and trophies are not worth the risk of being banned from the sport for life. The sports world is extremely competitive and even a slight edge can be equivalent to the difference between an athlete being solely a high school player and a gold medal Olympic champion. In an article he wrote for Sports Illustrated, Lyle Alzado, former defensive player for the Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Raiders, and…

itself be subdivided into two categories, active and passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia occurs when a caretaker takes action to bring about the death of another. An example of this type of euthanasia is a doctor injecting a patient with a lethal dose of medication, in turn ending the life of the patient. Passive euthanasia is a situation in which the death of a patient is caused by a caretaker either withholding or withdrawing the patient’s treatment. An example of this type of euthanasia is…

Cosmetic testing on animals Cosmetic testing has been around since the early 20’s. There are several groups that try to shut down all the companies that are testing on animals. The first known testing was designed in the 1920’s and it was developed to test the toxicity of certain products that would be sold to people around the world. Testing cosmetics on animals in the United States is very common. About a thousand mice, guinea pigs, rats and rabbits undergo pain or die each year from the…

1. Introduction Due to the modern times consisting of busy schedules and lifestyles, people often require assistance in keeping up with their own lives. As the consumption of energy drinks has gained popularity since 1997, energy drinks has become a worldwide phenomenon (Malinauskas, B, et.al, 2007) and has been regularly consumed to compensate for sleepless nights alertness and ease stress in a busy lifestyle in young people. (Persad, L, 2011) According to the Australian Drug Foundation it…

However, those doses not mean that a female president would not certain challenges that her male counterparts have not. Sexism is still an issue in American society and media, as sexism involves women as a whole, this discrimination would affect America’s female presidents…

In the United States, over 10 million vaccines are administered per year to children under the age of 1 year old. Infants are already extremely vulnerable to disease and other acquired health issues. Injecting these infants with a liquid cooked up in a lab by a greedy, self-centered scientist who has no real idea of what his or her so called “vaccine” does to a human body, is an ignorant decision. Nearly 100% of these children are required to receive these vaccines by state law in order to…

consume caffeine are people that especially see and get many of these effects while performing sports and physical action. “Athletes in the Olympic Games were banned from using large doses of caffeine after studies showed that it could cause dangerous health problems that affect their performance” (Price 18). Large doses of caffeine can cause multiple extreme side effects including anxiety, nervousness, stomach pains and vomiting, dehydration, headache, ringing in ears and muscle trembling. This…

In our world we all are entitled to our own opinion and our own rights. In my opinion, I believe marijuana should become legalized everywhere. People hear the word “illegal” and assume the worst assumption of of something that is not entirely a big deal. Legalizing the drug would lower the rate of arrests for it and lower the risk of gangs and drug selling when people could just buy it instead. Yes, the drug itself does have negative effects but, it also has very good effects that come with it.…

see children and adolescents consuming caffeine in the form of energy drinks/shots at a younger and younger age than when the products first hit the market. This worries me because society does not know the extensive effects of consuming such high doses of…

Pain is an inherent evil felt by any living, breathing creature; be it a mouse or a human. Inflicting pain on another creature is simply immoral and should be prohibited. According to the words of a British philosopher of the nineteenth century, Jeremy Bentham, those who support the welfare of animals believe that the question about tests on animals, “is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?’” (Bentham). Animals do suffer and do feel pain; even though they may not…