As a country, we are spending over $190 billion a year treating these diseases, diseases that could be prevented by increasing exercise and decreasing calories. The scariest fact is that one in three children under 18 are overweight or obese, a rate that has tripled since 1960. The fact that the obesity rates are so high shows that as a society we accept this lifestyle. We need to be proactive as a country, and stop accepting this lifestyle and work towards a healthier society. If this continues we will have a new generation of people that don’t outlive their parents.
First isolated in 1803, Morphine was discovered by German pharmacist F.W.A. Serturner. He named the Opium based drug Morpheus, after the god of dreams (Morphine Facts). Morphine began to grow in popularity and was being used for everything from pain relief to cough suppression and, ironically enough, to help cure Opium addiction. During the American Civil War, morphine was used frequently as a surgical anesthetic and would be sent home with soldiers as a pain reliever.
Some chemotherapy regimens are notorious for causing terrible bouts of nausea and vomiting. Both THC and marijuana have been explored as anti nausea medication. Smoking marijuana gives one the desired effect in a matter of minutes and relieves the symptom very quickly
Prescription drugs that are most commonly abused, classified as Opioids, are OxyContin, Vicodin, and Demerol, which are used to treat pain or relieve coughs or diarrhea. Some Depressants are Nembutal, Valium, and Xanax, which are used to treat anxiety, tension, panic attacks, and sleep disorders. Some Stimulants are Ritalin and Adderall, which are used to treat narcolepsy and ADHD. (Vranken) All these prescription drugs are commonly found among the streets we walk and drive today and the neighborhoods we live in.
I need treatment”-John English Main Point #3: Although millions of dollars are wasted on stoppping methamphetamine. It keeps living. A. “Methamphetamine causes much more destruction in a much shorter period of time.”- Joe Biden B. “They're not actors.
Lupus: The Body Attacking Itself Systematic lupus erythematosus, better known as SLE or more popularly as lupus, is an auto-immune disease which causes the body to pretty much attack itself (Brown 4). As the case with other auto-immune diseases, when lupus occurs, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its normal, healthy tissue, slowly killing a person from the inside out (Maraux 5). Everybody can get lupus, but the disease is more common in women than men, and past studies have shown that it is also more common in African Americans and Asians ages 15 through 45 (Blau 30). Lupus is a disease that can damage the body inside and out, is hard to diagnose right away, has many harmful complications, and has multiple forms (New York Times
For gangs, selling drugs is the fund-raising equivalent of a church bake sale. Gangs use drug money to buy more weapons and more drugs. Gang violence and illegal drug sales perpetuate each other. To stop this vicious cycle the government spends billions of dollars every year on the “War on Drugs” to prosecute and imprison drug dealers and users. Under this system the government spends billions and gangs make billions.
Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines. * “We are the dead.”: the poem turns, surprisingly, to the dead, who are given voice by the poet. This is a powerful and emotive turn, a direct address of the living by the fallen. * “In the sky, the larks”: these birds, traditional poetic symbols of natural beauty and freedom, contrast strongly with the world below. As often, nature provides an idealized backdrop to the war that provides a contrast with man’s immoral
The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain. In the Article “Info Facts-Heroin” reports that thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year and heroin users are also at great risk of getting aids from the use of unclean needles. By legalizing drugs every one would have the right to consume drugs without any restrictions which would lead hospitals to be more filled, more school dropouts would occur, and more crack babies raise the stakes of legalizing drugs. Knowing what drugs do to users has been the solid basis for my saying no to drugs and why I believe they should not be
The Heroin Antidote Christy Harris Kaplan University CM107 Professor McClure April 22, 2015 The Heroin Antidote Heroin is a highly addictive drug derived from the morphine alkaloid found in opium. It is most often injected but it can also be smoked, snorted or orally ingested. Users of this drug often report a feeling of unexplainable, intense euphoria. Following the euphoric state is a depressive clouded state. Heroin produces a downer effect that rapidly induces a state of relaxation and extreme pleasure.