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- 161: Lysergic Acid Diethlamide (LSD)
- ... different ways, absorbed through the skin, taken orally or absorbed through the eye or ear. This drug was originally developed by the government of the United States as a treatment for psychological conditions such as alcoholism and drug addiction. In Canada, where experimentation is not heavily restricted, LSD has been used to reduce the suffering of terminally ill cancer patients. The drug was tested for the effects it would have on ...
- 162: Psychodelic Drugs
- ... develop a high tolerance to alcohol when they drink a great deal over an extended length of time. "WHILE TOLERANCE MAY SEEM TO SOME TO BE A DESIRABLE STATE, IT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THE RISK OF ALCOHOLISM AND LONG-TERM HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS". For example, a heavy drinker could still be lucid at 0.25%, whereas the average person would barely be able to function. Even so, the heavy drinker would ...
- 163: Suicide
- ... suicides happened within four families, in a one hundred year span. Studies of twins raised separately provided some evidence toward a genetic influence in suicide. People may inherit certain psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, and alcoholism from their parents. Also impulsive or violent behavior may have a biological influence. People contemplating suicide feel their problems are inescapable and feel like they have totally lost control. They cant think clearly or ...
- 164: Depression
- ... seek help for their mental illness, thereby deceptively driving up the numbers of reported depression cases among women. Thus, we see fewer men admitting depression but instead acting it out through their higher rates of alcoholism and suicide. However, some researchers think there may be more at play here. Higher rates of depression among women are seen across cultures, countries, and classes. Depression rates are evenly distributed across gender lines until ...
- 165: Anorexia Nervosa
- ... who develop the disorder. The families producing anorexic people often show a preoccupation with weight eating, emphasize physical appearance; rely on external standard on self-worth and success, report a history of affective disorder or alcoholism, and experience difficult parent-child interactions. Garfinkel and Garner view cultural pressure to be thin as a major contributing factor. Garfinkel and Garner also believe that other sociocultural pressures on women such as increased expectations ...
- 166: Euthanasia
- ... same time assenting to requests to take other lives. Such confidence reflects, perhaps, a high opinion of doctor's psychic robustness, but it is a confidence seriously undermined by the shocking rates of depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital discord consistently recorded among this group. "Dangers of Societal Acceptance". It must never be forgotten that doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators have personal lives, homes and families, or that they are ...
- 167: Suicide
- ... of the stigma. People who suffer from depression are afraid that others will think they are "crazy", which is so untrue. And society still hasn't accepted depressive illnesses like they've accepted other diseases. Alcoholism is a good example - no one ever wanted to talk openly about that, and now look at how society views it. It's a disease that most people feel pretty comfortable discussing with others if ...
- 168: Vegetarian Diet
- ... of Tufts University Medical School and the New England Medical Center Hospital, Boston, summarizes these benefits: ... data are strong that vegetarians are at lesser risk for obesity, atonic [reduced muscle tone] constipation, lung cancer, and alcoholism. Evidence is good that risks for hypertension, coronary artery disease, type II diabetes, and gallstones are lower. Data are only fair to poor that risks of breast cancer, diverticular disease of the colon, colonic cancer ...
- 169: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... animal studies suggest that children exposed to lead may develop symptoms associated with ADHD, but only a few cases have actually been found. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is related to a few other psychophysical disorders. Alcoholism seems to have the closest link. Both disorders are genetic and related to low dopamine levels. Tourette's syndrome is caused by similar damage in the frontal lobe. Although little research has been done to ...
- 170: Alcohol and Its Effects On Humans
- ... Use Consequences, and Perceptions of the Campus Environment, Volume: 1989-1991, Carbondale, Ill: The Core Institute; 1993. US Dept. of Health and Human Services. Alcohol and Health. Rorkville, Md: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; 1990. Wechsler, H., Davenport, A., Dowdall, G., Mowyhens, B. and Castillo S. (1994). Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College. JAMA. 1994; 1662-1677. Weschler H, Issac N. Binge drinkers at Massachusetts Colleges ...
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