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In most cases, the goal of treatment for drug addiction or abuse is not only to get the person to stop using drugs, but to also return the individual to a productive member of society, stop compulsive drug seeking and use, and to become a functioning member of the family with the likelihood of getting a job. Depending on the circumstances, the goal of drug treatment may also include reducing the criminal behavior of the addict. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it was displayed…

I will be discussing two diseases that require diagnostic test identifying them from the body system. The first disease will be from the cardiovascular system pertaining to congestive heart failure (CHF) and the second will be from hepatobiliary system concerning gallstones. This paper will cover topics such as: certain test that are required; how the test works; the information obtained from the diagnostic test; and does another diagnostic test need to be conducted in order to confirm a…

Transposition of the Great Vessels Transposition of the great vessels is a heart condition that is present in infants at birth and often known as a congenital heart defect or the more common term is the transposition of the great arteries(TGA). TGA is when the two main arteries, the pulmonary artery and the aorta, are switched in position, or "transposed". As a normal heart, deoxygenated blood returning to the heart from the body is pumped from the right side of the heart through the pulmonary…

Abortion. Now this is topic of heavy debate especially considering I am a woman. Before we get into that lets do some defining. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus (Merriam-Webster). There are various ways that this is done in 2015 but that isn’t the question. The question here is to discuss the pro-life and pro-choice sides of abortion. Being pro-life regarding abortion means that you are not…

Imagine going through an extremely stressful event, psychologically or physically, and then waking up the next morning and discovering you are blind. There are no physical signs showing that are causing your blindness, but you definitely cannot see. This is what conversion disorder can be like. Conversion disorder is a somatoform disorder – a condition where a person experiences physical symptoms due to psychological causes – that causes a person to experience physical symptoms after…

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The most devastating use of biological warfare agents happened during World War II, when the Japanese Imperial Army unleashed plague, cholera, typhoid, and other diseases against Chinese civilians, killing an estimated 300,000 (“The Biological Weapons Threat”). In the movie, V for Vendetta, England is set during in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government has been established. The film stars Hugo Weaving, who plays a freedom fighter named V, and Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, a young…

The surgical site infections (SSI) are the second most common health-care associated infections that are preventable. They can lead to problems like hospital readmissions, increased morbidity and mortality, higher medical costs and so on (Diaz & Newman, 2015). Diabetes mellitus is one of the reasons associated with the risks to develop SSI (Sharma et al., 2009). By maintaining the normal blood sugar levels of the diabetic patients who undergoes surgery, it is possible to prevent the SSI (Al-Zaru…

because that is very unlikely to happen I would become a lawyer or doctor because they make good money. Another job that probably would not happen is to be a NHL gm as I love making my own teams. If that doesn't work then I could work at the Dubuque Medline because they do so many fun things at the job. In conclusion I very much love sports as they are kind of my life, my favorite teams being hockey(Blackhawks), lacrosse(UNC), football(Packers and Hawkeyes) and baseball(Cubs). I love technology…

Oral care is crucial in maintaining healthy teeth and gums. Failure to maintain a good oral health would lead to oral disease, from children to the elderly. Obtaining a dental care could be expensive and therefore dentists are obliged to provide the best possible outcome and most effective treatment through current methods relevant to a patient’s problem. Ineffective passing of information could possibly result in prescribing the wrong treatment and ignorance towards current methods and…