Henderson describes addiction as a "brain disorder that some people are more prone to develop because of genetic, psychological or environmental risk factors" (11). ... Therefore persons with Type 1 diabetes need to monitor blood glucose and undergo insulin therapy, manage weight, monitor eating and get exercise. ... Because of ignorance diabetes is viewed to be as a result of wrong eating habits or eating too much sugar when it is not related to sugar intake. ...

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Often, people fail to remember that celebrities are just humans like everyone else. ... Celebrity obsession can cause a young admirer to make negative behavior decisions such as drug abuse or developing an eating disorder. ... Drug abuse alters people's behavior and attitude in society. ... The pressure of society to be skinny can often lead to eating disorders. ... However, developing the need to look like the celebrities in magazine can result in having a much higher chance of forming an eating disorder that can develop over time (Ata et al. 1025). ...

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Three primary ways that a person can administer a drug into the body are through Intravenous (IV) injection, inhalation, and by eating or drinking. ... Finally the longest and gentler of the three forms of administering a drug into the body is by eating. ... Therefore, while eating or drinking a drug may take longer to reach the bloodstream, the effects it can have on the brain can still be extensive and irreversible. ... The hippocampus is what was affected in the longitudal study done in New Zealand where the people that were heavily smoking marijuana had a significant IQ decline. ... Peop...

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Apart from this horrible situation, they have lot of problems feeding themselves because they can't cultivate rice, maize, or crops for eating but only drugs. ... One of the most salient things she told me about this was that some pills like Transilium, Prozac or Valium kill more neurons in your brain than cannabis and, of course, this kind of medications creates an incredible dependence and I would like to add that there are many people, above all women in their 50s who are addicted to this kind of anti-depressants and sleeping pills. ... In this case we are harming those people who don&...

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Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. ... Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well. ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... However, because what ever alcohol was being sold on the black markets, the people w...

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Moreover, alcohol-related deaths run into the tens of thousands every year, and this doesn't include people that get killed by drunk drivers, or people beaten up by drunk, angry rednecks or husbands. ... Nonetheless, anything that burns gives off carbon monoxide, and one could easily avoid this by eating marijuana in brownies, cookies, or cakes. Many people argue that marijuana is very addictive, but in reality it has proven to be addictive to a very small portion of the overall user population. Of the 70 million people who have tried marijuana, 18 million people have smoked ...

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Many people take drugs such as Xanax, Prozac, Risperdal and Ritalin for these disorders. ... In addition, girls are more susceptible to substance abuse if they have an eating disorder, such as bulimia or anorexia, or if they have experienced early onset of puberty" (Gordon). ... The more often parents eat with their children, the less likely it is that their children will smoke, drink or use other drugs.... "(Fumento) He later talks about how boys are generally loud and obnoxious and the diagnosis of ADHD being higher in males is simply because people are just trying to come the boys...

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In Australia, it is encouraged that everyone should achieve the very best that they can naturally achieve by hard work, eating properly and sensible training. This provides the foundation for fair play, enjoyment, personal satisfaction, and admiration from the younger people of Australia who are encouraged to look up to our sporting heroes and possibly follow in their footsteps. ...

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The belief that drug testing welfare recipients would reduce the amount of people on welfare and save tax dollars is a wise idea. ... " The word welfare means different things to different people. ... Mandatory drug testing is a way to deter drug use and lower the number of people abusing the welfare system. ... Many of these individuals are in a daily fight for survival, not able to eat without government benefits. ... Welfare is meant to improve the quality of life for people living in poverty. ...

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Every Friday night we walked to our village to eat pizza and wait for someone to buy us beer. ... It has also shown effectiveness as an anti-spasmatic in conditions such as MS, epilepsy and paraplegia as well as a pain reliever and appetite stimulant for people with H.I.V., AIDS and cancer. ... By making it available only in controlled environments you are shielding people from potentially dangerous situations. Current marijuana laws jail otherwise innocent people and break up families, further overcrowd jails and divert police resources away from problems that really need attention....

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Laws that protect people from being harmed exist under an assumption called the Harm Principle. ... Unlike violent crimes, the pleasure of consuming drugs never violates the pursuit of happiness for any separate individual which puts cannabis into the same category as alcoholism, sex addiction, binge eating disorders, and so on. ...

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Some of the most common activities that ecstasy users engage in and reasons why people take MDMA are as follows: 1.) ... People who wish to spend the 'experience' or the high thinking about their personal problems also use ecstasy. Many psychotherapists know MDMA as a very effective way to for people to deal with personal issues and 'open up' and effectively discuss their personal issues with others. 3.) ... When on MDMA, everyday activities, such as touching, hugging, kissing, sexual activity, eating, drinking, and etc, become intensely pleasurable and unusually fu...

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The amount of THC (which is also the psychoactive ingredient in hashish) determines the potency and, therefore, the effects of marijuana.1 In 2000, state and local law enforcement arrested 734,498 people for marijuana violations. ... Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. ...

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Introduction Heroin is a derivative of morphine synthesized by a simple aceylation reaction of the parent compound in a manner almost identically to aspirin. It was originally intended to wean morphine addicts from the drug, but has since become a much bigger problem than morphine. The...

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