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Cocaine And Its Dangers
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 779

.... gold dust, lady snow and white." "Cocaine is very expensive and so dealers push up their profits by mixing it with anything else that is white and powdery." "In the mid nineteenth century, cocaine is used in eye, ear and throat surgery." "Now, they have been largely replaced by synthetic and local anesthetics such as lidocaine." There are different ways of taking cocaine, because it is in a powdery form. "The most popular ways to take cocaine is snorting into nostrils or taking it orally." "To get a faster and even stronger "high", users take street cocaine and mix .....


Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Of Development: Young Adults
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1443

.... The normative crisis model has been powerful in shaping the psychology of the developmental stages as it has allowed theorists to imply that stages of development can follow an age related time sequence. (Gething, 1995). The normative crisis model suggests that human development has a built in ground plan in which crisis as describe by Erikson are seen as a requirement that must be resolved by the person before successful progression from one developmental stage to another. Such achievement of this task crisis should provide the young adult with the ability to challenge prev .....


What Are Brain And Spinal Tumor
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 799

.... cause of most brain and spinal cord tumors remains a mystery. Scientists do not know exactly why cells in the nervous system or elsewhere in the body lose their normal identity such as (nerves, blood, or skin) grow uncontrollably. Possible causes under investigation include viruses, defective genes, and chemicals. Metastatic tumors occur when the cancer cells break from tumors in other parts of the body, travel throw the blood stream, hook up to other tissues and make new tumors inside the brain and spinal cord. The top two culprits that lead to metastatic tumors in t .....


Alcohol Abuse
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 720

.... model states that there is a specific genetic vulnerability for alcoholism. There has been extensive studies on factors in the genes that could determine or influence the use of alcohol from generation to generation. However, these studies have shown no hard evidence for an association between alcoholism and inherited factors. The learning and social model proposes that alcoholism is a process that is slowly developed within a social situation or atmosphere. This model of alcoholism has also been researched by using both human and animal subjects. A conditioning mo .....


AIDS: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 685

.... prick your finger then mail in the blood sample, in about two or three weeks you call in and enter your special pin number and they give you your results. I think this is cool but there has to be some drawbacks like them getting samples messed up and it getting mixed up in the mail or other stupid things like that, like if you really don't have the disease but you get someone elses reading who does have HIV. Thats about all I know about this horrible disease,so ill move on to what I found when I reaserched this topic. I went on the internet to find some of my information, a .....


Resuscitation From Severe Hemorrhage
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 431

.... ringer's solution to make up for lost blood volume by making the cells swell and in turn restores normotension. This works fairly well but it is not the optimal treatment. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Half of the deaths that occur annually are due to acute illness or injury, and are associated with circulatory failure or shock. Some of these deaths could be avoided by the proper monitoring. The present technology is the monitoring early in the temporal course of an acute illness to observe the cardiac index, oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption. In the future, a possibility for a v .....


A Look Into Alzheimer's Disease
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 638

.... much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or even forget where they are. Psychologically however, patients begin to become depressed most of the time and be anxious or confused. Some become restless and can barely ever sleep. The cause of the disease, although not completely proven, is strictly genetics. It is passed down from generation to generation and t .....


How I Deal With A Loved One Who Has Aids
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 823

.... someone else with the virus instead of somebody I love. I need to put my guilt and pain aside so my loved one does not see the pain and suffering that was accidentally forced upon them by a blood trusfusion or by their own bad judgment and the agony caused to all family members and friends. How do I cope with the pain? First, I must deal with the pain by getting everything out in the open. I can not make plans for the future anymore. I have to plan everything on a day by day basis. Now. I’m going to try to be there for my loved one through his pain and his happiness. .....



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