Intoxication

Something that no one thinks to be an issue when an athlete collapses is over hydration, know as hypernatremia or more commonly by a less technical term water intoxication. This article talks about the general knowledge of coaches and parents and how they encourage athletes to drink fluids throughout the physical activity. Parents and coaches tell the athletes to hydrate before, during, and after the activity in order to prevent dehydration and cramping. But new studies show and increase in water intoxication in a more diverse set of sports rather and just being associated with marathon races. Hypernatremia occurs when over consumes fluids so much that the body is incapable of getting rid of it through either sweat or urine. This results in…

What is intoxication? There are many different definitions of intoxication. For example, to the poets’ intoxication means drinking an abundance amount of alcohol. But, defining a word may not only be limited to that one definition. Intoxication could mean you're mentally excited about something. The word intoxication has a different meaning to whoever defines the word. In my opinion, the most dangerous type of intoxication is love. Love makes people do stupid things and not think about other…

exposed picture of Jane from the internet. In the scenario, Jane asks Joe for her picture to be taken down from his public website, because the compromising image is a defaming. Although Joe argues that she had a choice of whether or not to participate in such actions, Jane was unconsciously influenced in a variety of ways. Jane was inebriated at the party, leaving her in a state of mind that could lead her to do things that she wouldn’t normally do sober. Even if Jane was completely aware of…

B. Possible Defences Intoxication Defence of intoxication refers to the defendant being “under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other substances that they did not know what they were doing or the full extent of their actions”. Despite the fact that the drugs were self induced, it was taken under the pressure of the co-offenders. At the time of the incident, Akon was under the influence of ice as an inexperienced user. His defence argued that there was no way that he, as a second time user…

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer”, a quote once said by Rich Pitino. This quote is completely true, after reviewing my overall performance I spotted that I do have some improving to do. However, I also have some things that I feel that I did pretty well on. In this self-evaluation, I will be thoroughly discussing and elaborating my performance. As I overlooked the midterm video, I felt like I did well throughout the entire performance. In…

and not just charged with a slap on the wrist of reckless endangerment. Now if you and your friend were pulled over by a police officer, the first thing the arresting officer would do would “assess your level of intoxication. If you're sober, you may be asked why you hadn't taken the wheel once it became clear that your friend was unable to drive properly. You must be able to offer a convincing answer to this question. Most likely, you'll need to prove that you're not currently licensed to…

warranted, further tests would be administered. If there was no signs of intoxication, drivers would proceed on their way. The checkpoint began slightly after midnight, and ran approximately one hour and fifteen minutes in length, with…

this study shown that there was no significant difference on accuracy between sober and intoxicated participants. But, it did affect confidence of their identification. Sober participants were more confident with their answers in comparison to intoxicated participants. Originally the researchers proposed that intoxicated participants would make fewer eye fixations with lower dwell time, but it is not the case. Participants who provide accurate responses paid more attention to the central region…

Notwithstanding these limitations, it is an important provision and a step in the direction of recovery for the patients who agree to return and the projected abating of frequent attendees. The evaluation of alcohol intoxication and self-harm return appointments has proved in the short term to have some success. Evidence based principles in combination with collaboration between the services has been valuable in the context of joint working. Education for staff will remain at the forefront to…

keep him drunk. Would the antagonist be so drunk too not notice the lies he is being told or the environment he is in before his death? In the article “Psychopharmacology” the author Nelson explains “As a central nervous system depressant, alcohol reduces the amplitude of various physiological responses” (Nelson). Since this is true the fact that the antagonist was not aware of what was happening or where he was going feasible. Since the antagonist was drinking so much he was unable to…