Category: Drugs

The Ways To Overcome Substance Abuse Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO) substance abuse can be defined as the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances. This definition of substance abuse not only includes the use of illegal drugs but also the dangerous use of drugs that are legal for example alcohol, tobacco,…

Psychotropic Drugs: Great Treatment Solution to Mental Illness Mental illness has evolved over the last couple hundred years. From the theological model of the Middle Ages to todays modern medicine, it is very clear that the understanding of mental illness has become better understood with time. According to the American Psychiatric Association (2018), Mental illnesses…

Substance Abuse In Ireland And Portugal: Reasons And Solutions Introduction The sustainable development goals (SDGs) 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol, targets prevention and treatment of substance abuse worldwide. The overall aim of the SDGs is to achieve a better more sustainable future…

Should The Use Of All Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Unprohibited For Use In Sports? Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) are usually perceived to be dangerous and unfair to other participants in all sports. Whenever PEDs are referred to, they are often seen in a negative light due to social stigmas. People tend to also disregard dangers…

Drugs As A Factor Of Evil In The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde GULP gulps, gulp GULP! What is consumed can make a person change. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson 133 years ago. My topics are drug substance, effects on relationships, and good…

Illicit Drugs And The Normalization Of Violence As noted previously, no simple explanation exists to define the cause and effect of illicit drugs and violence. For many centuries throughout time, certain drugs, even when prohibited or illegal, did not lead to significant violence. Only over the last half-century has there been a marked increase in…

Drugs And Kidney Reciprocal Relationship The Role of the Kidney in Drug Elimination Recent advances in the identification and characterization of renal drug transporters and drugmetabolizing enzymes has led to greater understanding of their roles in drug and chemical elimination and in modulation of the intrarenal exposure and response to drugs, nephrotoxic compounds, and physiological…

Reflection on Human Immortality and Longevity Drugs Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death, unending existence.  Wikipedia, 2003. Human immortality is humans being able to live indefinitely and overcome death. In the 1800s, the average life expectancy was only 25 years. This has increased dramatically as we are now able to live longer,…

Criminology Assignment on Driving under the Influence of Booze or Drugs Many of todays youth turn to alcohol or drugs as a form of tranquility or simply to just have fun. The reason this topic was chosen is because many of the youth in our society today are destroying their lives due to these harmful…

Paradigm Shift In Opioids: Heroin History of the opioid crisis: There is a long history of opioid dependencies, dating back to 1806 when German chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner isolated a substance from opium. This was later named morphine after the god of dreams, Morpheus. Morphine soon became a regular treatment for doctors in the…