Drugs Introduction to Drugs: A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food. What is considered a drug rather than a food varies between cultures‚ and distinctions between drugs and foods and between kinds of drug are enshrined in laws which vary between jurisdictions and aim to restrict or prevent drug use. Even within a jurisdiction
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1. Which dosage forms are most appropriate for administering drugs to pediatric patients? Adults? The dosage forms that are the most appropriate for administering drugs to pediatric patients is chewable tablets which makes it much easier than trying to have the children swallow a pill and as well oral disintegrating capsules‚ suspensions or solution/syrups. For adults it is different because they can receive the drugs just about anyway as long as there is not any life threatening injuries obstructing
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Variations in drug response Certain factors such as age‚ weight‚ gender‚ alcohol use‚ metabolic state‚ distribution of water and fat‚ and diet tend to determine how a drug administered orally responds to within the patient’s body. These factors form the basis of variations in drug response (Kisch‚ 2008). Age is one factor the will determined how the town patients will metabolize the same drug administered to them. Mr. Smith is 65 years old while Ms. Jones is 30 years old‚ a condition which makes
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days the society mainly the youth is getting addicted to drugs‚ alcohol‚ smoking and many more. Most of the teenagers even the school boys and girls are taking drugs. Some of them knowing and some without knowing the bad effects‚ they get into these habits. Effects of drugs: Although drug is used for medicine but the illicit use of it damages human body part.Some This is illegal to take such drugs like heroine‚ cocaine etc. Nicotine‚ the drug that makes tobacco addictive‚ goes to your brain very
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War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding Analysis Jeremy A. Garcia CJA 454 December 10‚ 2013 Edward Lopez War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding Analysis The war on drugs in the United States is an expensive and deadly ongoing battle that has not yet been won. The term war on drugs provides drug distributors with more income due to the illegal nature of drugs. Americans do not have readily available easy access to many types of drugs that are illegal. Because narcotics are illegal that is enough
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strong and harmful need to regularly have something (such as a drug) or do something (such as gamble)” (“Addicted‚” 2014). Not only do people neglect to realize the true meaning of an addiction‚ but have completely distorted the definition. People do not take most addictions seriously when compared to common known ones and do not seem to have the same reaction and trouble overcoming those addictions. In the Article “The Plug in Drug”‚ the author Marie Winn (2012) discusses how the word addiction
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Fight for Your Rights Through the years‚ many different groups of Americans have been treated unfairly. They have been denied equal rights and opportunities. Some of these groups were Women‚ Blacks‚ immigrants‚ mentally ill patients‚ Native Americans‚ and colonists. It was a while before these groups spoke out for what was right. These groups were not given equal rights but the spoke out for what they believed. Some groups who were denied their rights were immigrants‚ Native Americans‚ Women‚ and
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prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very high compare to other countries. With such a strict Food and Drug Administration
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The most important responsibility in our Corps is leading Marines. If we expect Marines to lead and if we expect Marines to follow‚ we must provide the education of the heart and of the mind to win on the battlefield and in the barracks‚ in war and in peace. Traditionally‚ that education has taken many forms‚ often handed down from Marine to Marine‚ by word of mouth and by example. Our actions as Marines every day must embody the legacy of those who went before us. Their memorial to us—their teaching
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Brandon Lewis Whoever Fights Monsters Book Review The book‚ co-authored by Tom Scachtman‚ is about the development and application of serial killer profiling techniques in the 1970s and 80s and details Ressler’s FBI career and his personal dealings with some of America’s serial killers including John Wayne Gacy‚ Edmund Kemper‚ Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. The story is told by one of its main participants‚ Robert Ressler‚ who largely developed the art of serial killer profiling. Ressler was profiling
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