Should children with ADHD be medicated? Although many parents‚ doctors‚ and teachers would say yes I believe there are far too many risks for children with ADHD to be medicated. [You left out a comma in the previous sentence.] Diagnosing ADHD is purely a matter of a doctor’s opinion. Parents often use medication as the first option for their children instead of trying alternative methods of medication. Medication needs to be the last option. Children with ADHD are being medicated unnecessarily
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theories. Medical sociologists have been previously concerned with illness rather than health. Functionalists such as Parsons (2011) suggested illness was a deviance and had the effect of disruption on society which had to be controlled. Parsons used the sick note to illustrate that the sick person was excused from performing normally‚ but this had to be kept to a minimum and the sick person had to want to get better. The function of the medical profession was to socially control the use of the
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Test Taking Tips for the Nursing Board Examination [pic] Sometimes pure hard work and mental preparedness is not enough. The ability to answers exams or any test faster is a must specially if it is bounded by time. Usually the pressure sets in if the time is working against you and even if you’ve prepared 100%‚ it can ruin entirely what you have poured in. We have outlined test taking tips and strategies applicable not only in the June 2009
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Antibiotic self-medication among university medical undergraduates in Northern Nigeria Joseph O. Fadare 1* and Igbiks Tamuno 2 1Department of Medicine‚ Kogi State Specialist Hospital‚ Lokoja‚ Nigeria 2Department of Pharmacology‚ Bayero University‚ Kano‚ Kano State‚ Nigeria. Accepted 20 April‚ 2011 Self-medication is becoming a common type of self-care behavior among the population of many countries. Many international studies have investigated the prevalence and nature of self-medication practices
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use animals to create new things that make our lifestyle better and to make the world a better place. People might care about this‚ because without animal research we will not have the things we have now. (“The Human-animal Connection”) Animal research has been important for the development of the world. It is contributing and helping us to make changes in our lives. We should use animal research because without it‚ we will be people without advances in our life‚ and it will be a lot of animals in
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Position Paper: We should change our lifestyles and eating habits to decrease Global Warming ENGL135 Advanced Composition DeVry University We should change our lifestyles and eating habits to decrease Global Warming We should change our lifestyles and eating habits to decrease Global Warming The menace of global warming is looming to destroy humanity and it is absolutely crucial for us to pay utmost importance to this cause and do everything possible in to ensure that we are not contributing
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Our Troops Should Come Home There is much controversy surrounding the war in Iraq‚ both in terms of its legality‚ its practicality and its current course. Within all of these elements there are arguments to be found that suggest that the troops currently in Iraq should indeed come home. The main argument for bringing home the troops is that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place‚ as no weapons of mass destruction were found‚ and they are now doing virtually nothing to help the situation
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A child that commits a serious crime should not be tried as an adult due to a lack of brain development in adolescents. According to Laurence Steinberg‚ a psychology professor at Temple University‚ “Brain systems implicated in basic cognitive processes reach adult levels of maturity by mid-adolescence‚ whereas those that are active in self-regulation do not fully mature until late adolescence or even early adulthood.” As an individual gets older‚ so do things like their brain‚ and body. According
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responsible for their children. This responsibility means that you are making sure that your child is doing the right things until they become of a mature age to make their own decision’s. First‚ a good parent should make sure that their providing their children with a roof over their head‚ food ‚ and put clothes on their back. Besides providing shelter‚ I strongly believe that time from the parents is the most important thing that a child need. Parents should be with their children whenever they
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Medication administration errors‚ though preventable‚ are a common problem. “One-third of all medication errors that cause harm to patients arise during medication administration (Bates et al.‚ 1995). Many nurses identify interruptions as a key factor contributing medication administration errors (Tang‚ Sheu‚ Yu‚ Wei‚ and Chen‚ 2007; Fry & Dacey‚ 2007). To enhance patient safety‚ effects of interruptions during medication administration must be evaluated. The purpose of this study is to evaluate
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