Sedative

morose ululation of her daughter erupted upon social media, for a bystander recorded the distressing incident. A hopeful young man, one week following his rehabilitation discharge, died inside of his Colorado home, allegedly overdosing on a fatal sedative and opioid overdose. (The Opioid Crisis, Peter Katel). The heroin and opioid crisis continually fluctuates within the United States, and this specific dilemma has spawned catastrophe. Can unique programs and medical institutions provide for…

When I got home I pulled the blinds down in my room so I couldn’t see out my window and took some sedatives to sleep. I so desperately wanted to escape. They weren’t like the fleeting shadows you sometimes see out of the corner of your eye that turn out to be nothing. They didn’t disappear as soon as I focused on them, but stayed fixed in their position…

detoxification, which is medical management of the serious withdrawal symptoms that occur when a person addicted to drugs stops using them. Also this often requires prescriptions medication assistants. Some of the medication that will be needed is sedatives, smoking cessation aid, and narcotic. The therapy will be counseling with psychology, a counseling psychology is a psychology that treats personal problems related to school, work,…

becoming more attentive, but it may cause indigestion problems as well as make the person unhappy. These drugs also may have an unintended effect of making anxiety worse. Another class of drugs used on anxiety patients are benzodiazepines possess sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant qualities by making the individual express more GABA (6). GABA is made in brain cells from glutamate, and functions as an inhibitory neurotransmitter – meaning that it blocks nerve…

Wesson writes an in-depth analysis of hippie subculture in his article “Psychadelic Drugs, Hippie Counterculture, Speed And Phenoborbital Treatment Sedative-Hypnotic Dependence: A Journey to the Haight Ashbury In The Sixties.” Hippies used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, hashish, so called “magic mushrooms”, and methamphetamine (155-156). Hippies split off into their own groups based on morals and lifestyle…

Euthanasia has first been introduced during the time period of the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. Many physicians have supported the thought of a quick and easy death instead of having the patient suffer an illness. Although physicians in this time period are supposed to follow the Hippocratic Oath,- an oath written by Hippocrates to treat the ill to the best of their ability, to give a patient their privacy, to teach their secrets of medicine to the future generations, and to forbid from…

Following the Age of Enlightenment, the concept of Separate Spheres emerged as a distinct ideology that imposed gender roles which dictated that the men’s place was in the public sphere while the women’s place was in the private sphere. It claimed that the division was natural, rooted in the biological difference between men and women. The men’s role was to live grandiose dreams while the women’s role was to be a model of self-control with utmost obedience and spirituality. Kate Ferguson Ellis…

substance signs of withdrawal occur; this is when addiction is evident (Townsend, 2014, p.279). There are several psychoactive substances that can become abused or addicted to, these include alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedative-hypnotics, stimulants, and tobacco (Townsend, 2014, p.280). With a vast majority of the population suffering from addiction or abuse to a substance, “10 to 15 percent of nurses suffer from this disease” (Townsend, 2014, p.317).…

and Ephesians 5:8 which says “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.” While these verses refer directly to wine, there are several other substances that are considered intoxicating such as opioids, sedatives, cocaine, and cannabis. Whether a Christian decides that the Bible is for or against recreational marijuana, we should always be doing what we are doing for the glory of God. If using marijuana does not seem to be glorifying God, then it is…

With the many advances in technology it has greatly benefited the medical field as we know it. Technology has brought the medical field things as simple as electric thermometers to things like the Sonograms. Now that our technology is more advanced we are able to have the ability to cure certain sicknesses, help control diseases, and even detect cancer soon enough to eliminate death. The more discoveries we make the quicker we will be able to find cures for things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and…