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Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
Number of words: 432 - Number of pages: 2

.... lead the smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news flash for you. 1 out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyone thinks that they have an iron will and they keep on delaying the time to stop, I'll just stop as my new year resolution, I'll stop in a month, a week, a year. Smoking is really hard to quit, it's an addictive habit and you really need an iron .....


Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3

.... This would be the fifth stage of moral functioning, Legality. If you think at this stage, you will follow the rules and laws all the time. The law, however, did not prevent many of my friends from drinking nor did it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too easy to avoid so getting caught by the cops was rarely a matter of great concern. Besides, even when one of my friends would get caught, they were usually released to their parents with nothing more than a stern warning from the officer who gave them the ri .....


AIDS/HIV
Number of words: 707 - Number of pages: 3

.... sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It is usually characterized by severe weight loss and fatigue. The AIDS disease makes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid of because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and tumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people. AIDS is transmitted in thr .....


Treatments Of Alcoholism
Number of words: 1821 - Number of pages: 7

.... diverse. Several factors - biological, social and psychological - influence why an individual becomes an alcoholic. So treatments vary, depending upon why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician or therapist believes is the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological cravings. Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with counselors, who may help .....


Ritalin
Number of words: 2817 - Number of pages: 11

.... some of the greatest medical drawbacks. ADD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stands tall as America's number one psychiatric disorder (Hancock 52). Estimates suggest that more than two million children live with the disorder; in addition, according to Dr. Daniel Safer of Johns Hopkins University, over 1.3 million regularly consume Ritalin for treatment of ADD (Hancock 52). Ritalin appears to be a popular choice for doctors, but the daily effects of the drug, which family physicians do not see, creates questions as to how well the drug actually .....


AIDS And YOU
Number of words: 3430 - Number of pages: 13

.... of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among heterosexual folks. AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an a .....


The Hormones And Development Of One's Sex
Number of words: 413 - Number of pages: 2

.... All resulted in female phenotypes. The male phenotype is induced and will not manifest if the proper secretions are not made from the testis. Although the article fails to mention how, "Jost deduced that two secretions from the fetal testis are essential for male development - Mullerian-inhibiting substance and androgen." The mechanism in which spermatogenic tubules form Mullerian-inhibiting substance is still unclear to scientists. Problems with improper levels of this hormone result in genetic and phenotypic reproductive disorders. The other h .....


An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
Number of words: 2057 - Number of pages: 8

.... claim? What is American government trying to hide? I believe that Gulf War Syndrome is a side effect of low-levels of chemical and biological warfare agents the troops were exposed to during their service in the Persian Gulf. I can justify my belief by the number of ailing vets and Saddam's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. The use of chemical warfare in the Gulf is a reality. First there was the Iraqi Arsenal, they possessed several weapons of the death. They were building nuclear weapons and already had chemical and biological weapons. Ir .....



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