According to Stöppler‚ M. C. (2011) there is no specific therapy for Angelman syndrome. Medical therapy for seizures is usually necessary. Physical and occupational therapies‚ communication therapy‚ and behavioral therapies are important in allowing individuals with Angelman syndrome to reach their maximum developmental potential. Although there is no specific treatment for people with Angelman’s Syndrome‚ alternative therapies and medications are often use to lessen the known symptoms‚ like seizures
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Alex Rodriguez‚ a renowned MLB Seattle Mariners and Texas Ranger player‚ was found in the middle of a drug scandal during 3013 when he was accused of injecting performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) into his body. The Miami Times acted as old-fashioned muckrackers by revealing Biogenesis‚ an anti-aging clinic supervised by Tony Bosch. Bosch and his medical practice was exposed as “PED peddlers” that attracted major league baseball players from various MLB teams. Porter Fischer‚ a former employee at Biogenesis
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In today’s society‚ few have been informed with the ongoing drug war. The drug abuse that this nation has been through has grown exponential in the past decade. The nation is going down a never-ending hill. The outcome of this war could not be stopped. As few have accepted‚ the drug abuse cannot be contained. Just as Gary Mendell said “There is no single way to end the addiction crisis that has ravaged so many communities”‚ there is no containing the drug abuse to single town or community.(Katel)
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The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness‚ and are defects of a persons character. People who don’t agree with the moral model ‚ often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions. They believe either that a person with greater moral strength could have the will to break an addiction‚ or that the addict showed a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is applied to dependency on illegal substances‚ perhaps purely
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Since the mid 1900’s‚ heroin has been an epidemic in the United States. Heroin overdoses are one of the leading causes of deaths among all narcotics‚ and in 2003‚ people in Vancouver‚ Canada decided to try and make a difference. A safe heroin injection site is “a legally sanctioned medically supervised facility designed to reduce nuisance from public drug use and provide a hygienic and stress free environment in which individuals are able to consume illicit drugs intravenously” (“Supervised Injection
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Yíng Zhèng now known as Qin Shi Huang died today at the age of 49 (February 18‚ 259 BC - September 10‚ 210 BC). The shocking and inconvenient reason for his death is being exposed to Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning. The reason why he had that is because he ingested mercury pills by which he was given on a tour of Eastern China. The pills were supposedly suppose to make him immortal which didn’t happen unfortunately. The Empire knew about the pills because his chemists made the pills for him‚
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Drugs have a major impact on all of the organs in the body‚ but the brain is affected most by drug use. The brain is complex and communicates via nuerons and nerve cells to command the body. The brain ensures the body performs the necessary functions for survial. Drugs can compromise the brain’s ability to properly communicate to the organs in the body. Drugs affect communication and a person’s behavior. The following presentation will provide an explanation as to how drugs affect the brain
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When addicted to drugs your body suffers from deterioration. Detox is the time during which these drugs leave your body so you’re clear headed again.This allows you to lead a sober lifestyle again. Unfortunately‚ a few patients eventually relapse. Before this happens‚ certain stages occur. In an effort to avoid relapse‚ knowing what the stages of relapse are is important. The Stages of Relapse There are three stages of relapse that you should know about. These include: The first stage is an emotional
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In a culture of quick and easy fixes‚ prescription medication has become synonymous with “wellness”. Pharmaceutical drug overdoses are now one of the leading causes of death in our nation (Are Doctors to Blame for Prescription Drug Abuse?). The problem with overprescribing is astronomical in the United States. As the epidemic is coming to be out of control‚ many are pointing fingers at doctors. Are physicians to blame for the abuse of prescription drugs? A study has shown that doctors are only
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When making a decision to act in any way‚ one must evaluate the consequences of that action by deciding whether or not that the actions positive outcomes outweigh the negative outcomes‚ by their own standards of good or bad. A ‘liberal account’ of addiction may use this final premise in order to claim that an addict is procedurally autonomous and therefore their actions have no difference from ordinary human actions. However‚ I aim dispute this claim on the grounds that an addict’s capacity to process
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