... , where they cannot have access to the drug. Anti-depressants are another way of helping people to stop using cocaine. After prolonged use of cocaine, depression is usually a factor, and these drugs help the user overcome the depression. Alcohol is another legal drug. Alcohol has a very long history. For thousands of years people have used grain and sugar to produce alcohol. Alcohol ... has been used in several of our great ancient societies. The Greeks and Romans made various forms of wine and ale. Even the Vikings drank mead. Mead ... alcohol are ingested it can affect critical center...

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... drugs can happen to anyone. Whether they are rich, poor, black or white it happens. It happens to athletes. Even people who are in great physical and mental shape are not safe from drug addiction (Peck 14-15). Society today is greatly influenced by drugs. Not only can drugs benefit ... ways to prevent the use of drugs. "There's a saying that to be a great athlete today you need a great coach, a great chemist, and a great lawyer," states Dr. Donald Catlin (Dudley 89). Although every athlete needs a great coach they should not need a great chemist and lawyer. But the sad part is that the...

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... the world can just not function due to a unhealthy population. A big aspect of Huxley's new world was the drug soma. Soma was the perfect drug so to speak. It had great affects and no side affects. The world controller of Brave New World encouraged soma and had his own views on it. "All of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none ... can cause serious trouble. It also has dreadful side-effects and has a very high addictive nature. People who use cocaine pay for there addiction with agonizing side effects such as depression and the delusion that there blood is itching. Another si...

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... resembling amphetamine poisoning. Physical symptoms may include chest pain, nausea, blurred vision, fever, muscle spasms, convulsions, and coma. Death from a cocaine overdose can occur from convulsions, heart failure, or the depression of vital brain centers controlling respiration. With repeated administration over time, users experience the drug's long-term effects. Restlessness, extreme excitability, insomnia, and paranoia - and eventually hallucinations and delusions gradually ... money paying farmers not to plant tobacco and trying to persuade them to plant other things. The govern...

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