Unit 7. Assignment 2. The Effects of Selected Drugs and Diseases on the Central Nervous System. Alcohol’s use as an anesthetic is based on the effects it has on the brain‚ including relaxation and insensitivity to pain. Because the anesthetizing effects of alcohol are less predictable than the drugs available to modern-day anesthetists‚ alcohol is no longer used professionally to anesthetize patients. Some diseases related to alcohol are: liver disease‚ high blood pressure‚ muscle weakness‚ anemia
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Bad Effects of Drugs Drugs are a problem in all societies around the world‚ and have been for centuries. Drug addiction causes many of social problems‚ and causes many people to suffer from its effects. The problems can be divided into three groups: personal‚ familial‚ and societal. The first effect of drugs is addiction. Most drugs cause a very nice feeling called a ‘high’‚ which makes the drug user do anything to get that feeling again. This is called addiction. On the other hand‚ many drugs such
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Effects of Drug Abuse People who use drugs experience a wide array of physical effects other than those expected. The excitement of a cocaine effect‚ for instance‚ is followed by a "crash" : a period of anxiety‚ fatigue‚ depression‚ and an strong desire to use more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks‚ unwanted recurrences
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DQ1 week 5 What is DNS? How do users benefit from it? Provide a brief description of the DNS process to resolve a URL to its IP address. Domain name systems (DNS) allows for an IP address to be assigned to a computer name or domain name. This system stores given names paired with IP addresses‚ which make identifying a computer on a network that much simpler. DNS follows an top-down heiratage‚ starting at the root on to top level‚ secondary level‚ subdomain level (optional)‚ and host level. Each
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Causes And Effects Of Drugs Drug abuse is a very common problem in most countries‚ so it seems like a list of a topic could be heard everywhere. Of course‚ drug abuse on our bodies to cause some harm. The following are the side effects of some commonly abused drug name and on our bodies. First of all‚ heroin is an opiate processed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy. It was originally created to help cure people of addiction to morphine. Upon crossing the blood-brain barrier‚ which
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Causes & Effects of Drugs The most common causes of drugs to me is association‚ the people you hang around which goes back to that famous saying birds of a feather flock together. Another cause of using drugs is that a lot of people are not happy with themselves. So they put drugs in there body to hurt themselves its like they are putting poison in their bodies. An other cause would be that there is a lot of peer pressure out there‚ and a lot of their friends pressure them to
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Effects of Selected Drugs During anesthesia‚ there is a great amount of drugs used to suppress the pain that would occur to the body. There are some common drugs that are used. Alcohol‚ Aspirin‚ Lidocaine‚ Morphine‚ and Succinylcholine are all used during anesthesia. Each is used to interrupt the pain signals during surgeries. Without these medications‚ the body would not be able to withstand such trauma occurring to perform the procedure fully. For many years‚ men and women have used the
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Post a 200- to 300-word response explaining the concepts behind the Pro-nature and Pro-nurture perspectives. Consider the following questions: • Why is it flawed to ask how much of a particular behavior is due to genetics and how much is due to experience? • Why is it appropriate to separate the contributions of genetics and experience when measuring the development of differences among individuals? Pro-nature and Pro-nurture perspectives
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Drug Overdose What is a drug overdose? A drug overdose (OD) is where a person consumes an excessive amount of a drug and the body is unable to cope with it leading to certain overdose signs‚ symptoms and complications (acute toxicity/poisoning). The drug or its byproducts (as a result of drug metabolism) is toxic to the body‚ especially in large quantities associated with overdose‚ and may lead to death. An overdose may be accidental and this is frequently seen in addicts who require higher doses
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Individual: Psychology and Health Problems PSY/210 Jennifer Graves Individual: Psychology and Health Problems The multifactorial model uses different factors from different types of influences‚ traits and behaviors to determine health conditions according to different influences‚ as well as susceptibility to illness. Each factor belongs to a group such as‚ biological and environmental factors‚ as well as personality‚ behavior‚ and stressors. (Nevid & Rathus‚ 2010) Each group shows the factors
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