TERM PAPERS ON DRUGS
A little rundown on Brew
Historically hops, yeast, malted
barley, and water have all played the greatest and most important role
in society. For almost 8000 years these ingredients have been mixed and
have been appreciated by all classes of society in almost all
civilizations.
A Report on
Pharmacists
Being a pharmacist is much harder
than what you probably thought it was. Pharmacists in a hospital have
many, many responsibilities. They must be very careful that they have
measured the medication correctly, because one little mistake can be
potentially fatal.
AGAINST THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS
Everyone agrees that something must
be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that
drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread
that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in
today's world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations.
Politicians, health experts and much of the general public feel that no
issue is more important than drug abuse. America's other pressing social
problems- disease, poverty, child abuse and neglect, and corruption-
often have a common element; that is drug abuse. The use of illegal
drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana cause extensive harm
to the body and brain. Yet, even after knowing this many people want
illegal drugs to be legalized in every aspect.
Alcoholism
Alcoholism, chronic and usually
progressive illness involving the excessive inappropriate ingestion of
ethyl alcohol, whether in the form of familiar alcoholic beverages or as
a constituent of other substances. Alcoholism is thought to arise from a
combination of a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, and
genetic factors. It is characterized by an emotional and often physical
dependence on alcohol, and it frequently leads to brain damage or early
death.
Antibiotics
An antibiotic, is defined to be a
drug produced by certain microbes. Most doctors use antibiotics to help
fight the germs in a patient. Antibiotics are obtained from plants,
fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth. Antibiotics kill
and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the human
cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types
of diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several kinds of
infections.
Be Healthy and
Drug Free
To be healthy and drug free means
much more than it sounds. It means turning down peer pressure, not using
drugs, and not feeling the need to use drugs. Many people have died from
drug overdose; including Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's brother.
Beer
and Drugs make people sucks
There is a week smoke rising up
over the treetops. The golden sun is on its way down in west and on a
little campsite in the woods, can Dan see a little flame from a
fireplace and he can hear laughter, songs and clinging bottles. Dan
walks a little closer to find out who's there. Suddenly he steps on a
stick and one of the people on the campsite stands up and shouts: "Who
is it ?" Dan can hear that it is George who is shouting.
BLOOD
ALCOHOL LEVEL (BAL) MONITORING
The amount of alcohol in your
blood stream is referred to as Blood Alcohol Level (BAL). It is recorded
in milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, or milligrams
percent. For example, a BAL of .10 means that 1/10 of 1 percent (or
1/1000) of your total blood content is alcohol. When you drink alcohol
it goes directly from the stomach into the blood stream. This is why you
typically feel the effects of alcohol quite quickly, especially if you
haven't eaten for a while. BAL depends on: 1. Amount of blood (which
will increase with weight) and 2. The amount of alcohol you consume over
time (the faster you drink, the higher your BAL, as the liver can only
handle about a drink per hour--the rest builds up in your blood stream).
Built for Speed?
Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place
in the lexicon of "party" drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers,
condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive
nightmare?
COCAINE
The potent drug cocaine was first prescribed as an anesthetic and a
painkiller by doctors who believed that it was a safe substitute for
morphine. The drug is a white, crystalline compound that has been
processed from the leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a
tropical shrub commonly found wild in Peru and Bolivia and cultivated in
many other countries. For centuries South American Indians have chewed
the coca leaves for pleasure and to help them withstand strenuous
working conditions, hunger, and thirst. The cocaine in the leaves
produces local anesthesia of the mouth and stomach.
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