Linguistic prescription

The Risks of Prescription Drugs. New York: Columbia University Press. Donald light is a professor of comparative health at rowan university schools of osteopathic medicine. He received his B.A in history from Stanford University, his MA in sociology at the University of Chicago and a PhD in sociology from Brandeis. He is one of the founding fellows of bioethics and he is interested in the historical roots of institutional corruption and how this leads to the creation of prescription drugs and…

being underage. Some minors have access to these items by raiding medicine cabinets and taking prescription drugs that belong to other family members, while some may obtain a fake I.D. and purchase these things illegally if it is only sold to people over a certain age similar to tobacco and alcohol. The third con is that people who have gotten the marijuana through legal means can also abuse their prescription. Finally, the last con is that marijuana can cause brain damage, depression, and…

Event History in Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adolescents" hopes to address the problem of non-medical use of prescription drugs among teens and reduce risk. The purpose of the study was to identify risk factors to aid prevention of NMUPD in adolescents. In particular, the study seeks to use previous demographic and other substance use risk factors that correlate with lifetime non-medical prescription drug abuse in teens. The survey…

Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that slowly progresses as a person ages. Alzheimer’s disease effects brain memory and also brain function. This happens because the brain cells slowly begin to die off. Normally when our brain cells die off, new ones take their place. For Alzheimer’s patients this is not the case. The dead cells are never replaced by new ones. This is what causes the memory loss and the loss of brain function. Most of the time Alzheimer’s patients will remember…

Though both sides present equally compelling arguments, allowing psychologists prescription privileges emerges as the most convincing. This conclusion comes about mainly because of the belief that psychologists would be able to better serve their patients. Exactly how the support for this argument breaks down and possible counter points will be the focus of this paper. The major argument for allowing prescription privileges is that it would grant psychologists the ability to better care for…

The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is to “enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States” (The United States Drug Enforcement Administration, 2017). The DEA received it legal authority from the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, usually termed the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) (The United States Drug Enforcement Administration, 2010). The DEA classifies drugs into groups of “schedules” represented by Roman Numerals…

and straight forward. The two biggest types are creating patient charts and filling out prescriptions. These are both basic concept of writing, yet they must be filled out perfectly since they are assisting in saving lives. I interviewed Andrea Hahn, an RN who specialized in Obstetrics for almost twenty years. She described the two main types of written documents in nursing, patient charts and prescriptions, in greater detail. Hahn explained what the patient charts consist of and how much…

Recently, marijuana and prescription medications have been vigorously debated since numerous states in the United States have legalized medicinal marijuana, and in a recent event in the world, Uruguay legalized marijuana and the government regulates and sells it. Many marijuana researchers are saying that marijuana could end the need for most prescription drugs because marijuana can help with such a diverse amount of illnesses and diseases. Marijuana, compared to prescription medications from a…

Krystina, Thank you for the feedback. Baseline lab evidence outlines treatment progress and direction of therapy needed. I appreciate your thought process for following up sooner. The reason I directed Dale to follow up in two weeks in my outlined treatment plan is supported by Dales receptiveness in education with trying the non-pharmacological alternative treatments in conjunction with Colchicine. Rather than pushing more medications on patients (NSAIDs) right from the date of a diagnosis, I…

abuse? Prescription drugs are drugs from over the counter at a pharmacy that have been prescribed to a patient by a doctor. It is then taken out on the streets and is being sold to millions of people a day. According to an article by Prescription Drugs & Cold Medicines, “A National survey on Drug use and Health taken in 2010 estimated 2.4 million Americans used prescription drugs non medically. Approximately 6,000 initiates per day.” What are prescription drugs you might ask? Prescription…