Which are worse- Legal or Illegal Drugs? Drugs are a common part of everyday life. In fact‚ it is highly likely that there are drugs of some sort in your cupboard. They are classified into two categories: legal and illegal. Legal drugs include alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and pharmaceutical drugs‚ while illegal drugs include marijuana‚ amphetamines and heroin. The media often portrays a biased‚ negative view on illegal drugs‚ however legal drugs often have the same effects as illegal drugs‚ if not worse
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Light in The Sight Of Tragedy: AIDS/HIV in Theatre The AIDS/HIV virus is a very destructive disease it sees no race‚ no age‚ no gender‚ and no economic background this can affect anyone‚ at any time. AIDS stands for what is called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The virus causes the body’s immune system to break down and become useless in fighting illness and bacteria. In the 1980s and 1990s AIDS and HIV was a very controversial topic‚ but no one spoke about it and was usually swept under the
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Blood Transfusions A blood transfusion is a safe‚ common procedure in which blood is given to you through an intravenous (IV) line in one of your blood vessels. Blood transfusions are done to replace blood lost during surgery or due to a serious injury. A transfusion also may be done if your body can’t make blood properly because of an illness. During a blood transfusion‚ a small needle is used to insert an IV line into one of your blood vessels. Through this line‚ you receive healthy blood. The
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The musical production Rent is Jonathan Larson’s adaptation of Puccini’s ‘La Boehme’‚ and was set in New York in the early 1980s (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). The musical has a variety of characters: straight‚ gay‚ lesbian‚ cross-dressing‚ and bisexual. Many of the cast’s characters have HIV/AIDS. Larson personally identified with the musical‚ as he too had several friends that had HIV/AIDS who had then later passed away from the disease (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). HIV/AIDS
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attacks these cells and copies or replicates itself inside these cells‚ then destroys them. HIV over time will destroy so many of these cells that the body is unable to fight off infection anymore. When this starts happening‚ AIDS or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome happens which is the final stage of HIV. HIV is transmitted through someone’s blood or bodily fluids which can encompass semen‚ breast milk‚ vaginal fluids‚ and rectal mucous (AIDS.GOV‚ 2013) and usually it is passed from one person
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wealthy to the poor‚ this virus has had devastating effects on the lives of families and individuals. According to the AIDS Institute‚ HIV was first discovered in a patient from West Africa. It is believed that chimpanzees carried the “simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)” which transferred to humans when they came into contact with the infected animals’ blood after the animal had been caught while hunting. SIV then developed into HIV once in the human blood stream. HIV “has existed in the United
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Active Immunity The production of antibodies against a specific agent by the immune system is known as active immunity. This particular immunity process is there to keep you healthy. Active immunnity can be acquired in two ways: naturally by contracting an infectious disease or artificially by receiving a vaccination. Active immunity is natural and permanent; protecting individuals from disease their entire lives. This process can take place quickly by large amounts of medicines at one time
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(TB) making this disease one of the most serious global health problems existing today. TB is especially dangerous for people that have weaken immune systems and is one of the top leading causes of death worldwide; ranking alongside the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (World Health Organization (WHO)‚ 2015). In 2014 alone‚ 9.6 million people around the world became sick with TB disease and there were 1.5 million related deaths from the disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ 2015)
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a group of symptoms that cause destruction to the immune system cells by a retrovirus. There are a number of retroviruses that can cause AIDS with each affecting different species. The most common among the human population is known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). There are three separate ways of transmitting HIV - through unprotected and unsafe sex; injecting and transfusing infected blood into others‚ and passing it from a mother to child. In 1985‚ the first case of HIV/AIDS was reported
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Pathophysiology Exam 1: Immunity Objectives 1) Describe the cell functions of the Immune System: Lymphocytes- small white blood cells that are responsible for much of the work of the immune system. Three types: Natural Killer Cells-NK cells provide rapid responses to virally infected cells and respond to tumor formation. NK cells are unique bc they have the ability to recognize stressed cells in the absence of antibodies and MHC‚ allowing for a much faster immune reaction. Trigger phagocytes
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