Opioid

The use of methamphetamines or meth is a wide spread epidemic across the world, but in the United States the use of meth is on the rise and fast. A major reason why meth is being used by so many addicts is because it is cheap, easy to make, and the high can last for up to 12 hours. Not only can the use of meth cause permanent damage to your brain, it can also cause unrepairable and severe oral health effects. “There are currently about 1.7 million abusers and in 2008, 13 million people over the…

Xanax Samantha E. Mendoza San Joaquin Valley College Xanax The brand name is Xanax, the generic name is alprazolam, and the chemical name is 8-Chloro-1-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo [4,3-α] [1,4] benzodiazepine. It is a drug used for managing anxiety disorder or for the short term relief of anxiety symptoms in adults (WebMD, n.d.). Xanax is considered a Schedule IV narcotic because Xanax has a medical use, but the drug is still considered to have potential for abuse. It belongs to a class of…

The main problems with these drugs are they do way too little with the problem at hand, such as anxiety, to have so many side effects and risks. Anxiolytics are taken to deal with anxiety and the some of the side effects of that medicine are problems with memory, dizziness, and drowsiness. Some of these prescribed medications may be good for a short term, but they can be habit-forming and even then when you are off the medications the original problem is likely to come back. Along with the…

vomiting. Since the stomach relies on a uniform muscle movement in order to digest food (peristalsis), introducing a toxin that disrupts normal muscle movement will cause the cramping and pain sensation in a person’s gastrointestinal tract. Although this toxin is interfering with neuromuscular signaling, all of the pain signaling pathways are still fully functional since they work with a different set of neurotransmitters and pathways. Inhibition of the neuromuscular junction does not always…

Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) naturally occurs in healthy patients less than 3three times per daydaily when contents enter the esophagus with or without regurgitation. However, gastroesophageal reglux disease (GERD) is reflux with the presence of bothersome or harmful symptoms and complications1. In pediatric patients, symptoms include regurgitation or spitting up, poor weight gain or weight loss, irritability, dysphasia, stridor, cough, hoarseness, hematemesis, and chest pain indicating…

DOI: 5/9/2011. The patient is a 63 -year-old female contract buyer who sustained a work-related injury due to computer/typing duties. The patient is status post left wrist endoscopic carpal tunnel release, first dorsal compartment release, second dorsal compartment release and tenosynovectomy and arthroscopy and excision of central triangular fibrocartilage complex tear on 08/25/14 and right wrist arthroscopy and excision of central triangular fibrocartilage complex tear, carpal tunnel…

MDMA, marijuana, alcohol, and LSD are just a few of the drugs advertised by hip-hop, rock`n`roll, gangsta rap and a variety of other genres. The progression of popular music throughout America is affected by countless influences that have been instrumental in the inspiration for musical artists. The primary motivation of the artists in the United States has definitely been drug culture that was the largest at a specific time period. Popular music would have taken a completely different and…

Dealing with drug addiction is very significant for the good of a drug addict and their family as well. Treatments for addiction are not that difficult and painful as what a lot of people think about. As long as the drug addict send himself to be cured and be really cooperative then the treatment procedure would be easy. It also relies on the way of treatment and processes done by the drug rehab centers. Such institutions and operations are not providing the same quality of treatment. There may…

Medication, the modern miracles, have been one of the most over and misused items in our society. Medication was created so that countless lives could be saved, not destroyed. Nowadays, people use medicine for everything and some may even use Advil as poison. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, he takes a glimpse into the future and shows how people are even more reliant on drugs to get them through their day. In this not-so-fictional society, people overdose of sleeping pills regularly…

Protean Brain The Protean Brain is the name for our neuroplastic brain. The brain can alter itself like malleable plastic, and changes itself as we experience new things, take new medications, or think a certain way. These changes do not happen rapidly however, they happen overtime, and are built by repetition in our lives. These habits are oftentimes onset at birth, that is to say that we have a built in base level for most emotions in our lives, we have a base happiness, a base sadness and so…