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    too pleased to live under governments that offer them the seductive pleasures of porn: that is to say‚ cheap and easy orgasms as substitutes for happiness. Sex addiction‚ especially when fueled by internet pornography‚ has been likened to crack cocaine or heroin addiction‚ only much worse. It allows its victims no respite. It is a sickness of the soul that drives many to suicide‚ transforming its worst sufferers‚ like Ted Bundy and Gary Bishop‚ into serial killers. (See here and here). NEMO REPENTE

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    body and their functions. Crack and cocaine are two of these dangerous drugs. It is important for us teens to have information about them in order to deal with any problems related to their use that people may experience. These two drugs look similar at first but they have three big differences. Crack and cocaine have three similar effects on the body. Although crack is heat resistant and cocaine is damaged by heat‚ both cause hypertension. Also‚ crack and cocaine bring about physical and mental damage

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    included) he was a phenomenal athlete. According to those who knew him personally he was an even better person. Bias’ premature death is somewhat controversial because traces of cocaine were found in his urine during an autopsy. Physicians claim that a 22-year-old in top physical shape having a heart attack could be attributed to cocaine‚ a heart ailment that exams might have missed‚ or the combination of the two. According to the Boston Celtics training staff‚ Bias passed a physical on May 27th‚ only

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    hallucinogens are LSD‚ PCP‚ and Marijuana. 3. What is stimulant? Name two widely used stimulants‚ A stimulant is a drug that is used to stimulate‚ or speed up the central nervous system. Cocaine and methamphetamines (ICE) 4. What is crack and how is it produced? A particularly potent form of cocaine produced by mixing cocaine and baking soda and then water‚ and then heated‚ resulting in a solution. The material us then broken into tiny chunks that dealers melt as crack rocks. Crack gives a greater euphoria

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    the health of the individuals who abuse the drugs. The use of cocaine in the United States has declined over the last twenty years while the use of crack has increased. Many people avoided the use of crack because of the harmful chemicals used in creating the drug. One of the reasons why crack became popular is because of not needing to inject the drug hence less risks of being infected by the AIDS virus. Carroll (2000) states cocaine is the most powerful stimulant of natural origin. Most users snort

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    Psychoactive Drugs are chemical substances that alter behavior‚ mood‚ perception‚ or mental functioning. Through the consumption of substances many cultures have found ways to alter consciousness. Psychoactive substances apply their effects by transforming biochemical or physiological processes in the brain. The message system of nerve cells‚ or neurons‚ relies on both electrical and chemical transmission. Neurons rarely touch each other; there is a microscopic gap between one neuron and the next

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    remember one time I hid in a ditch covered by broken branches of war. In this ditch I was not alone. On the right side was a dead peasant just like me but the only difference was that my heart was still beating. I searched his pockets and found enough cocaine to rest the hands of my family for 72 hours. As I waited for the sound of guns to stop my feet were marinating in this man’s blood. This blood was not warm‚ so my feet were cold. I am an expert on death. I seen more deaths than days I have been alive

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    non-addicted‚ and though it may be hard due to peer-pressure and other variables‚ in the long run‚ saying no to drugs is what people should do. There are many drugs in the world that could be offered to teenagers these days‚ such as cannabis to cocaine‚ that are all bad. Many people will state that cannabis‚ or “weed‚” is not harmful and cannot and will not have adverse affects on the body and mind of teenagers and adults. This is ignorant and wrong. Cannabis is what is known as a cannabinoid and

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    crack cocaine and powdered cocaine. In a the section “The War on Drugs” in the book titled The War on Drugs by Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans‚ they explain how the punishment for crack cocaine (which is widely used by blacks) receive a punishment 100 times harsher than that of powdered cocaine (which is widely used by whites). They provide evidence that under federal law “it takes only 5 grams of crack cocaine to trigger a five year minimum sentence. But it takes 500 grams of powdered cocaine to trigger

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    brain. In 2009‚ 6.4 percent of all high school students have tried cocaine at some point in their life. It is said that this cause a large amount of addiction because it releases a substance called‚ dopamine. Cocaine makes your brain release four times as much dopamine as it normally would. Your brain releases dopamine when you do something that you like or enjoy a lot or when you smell a good food. But when you do to much cocaine‚ your brain is used to such high amounts of stimulation that the things

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