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Police agencies working together to prevent prescription drug abuse
But sometimes when prescriptions lie around unused or expired, they can end up in the hands of those they are not intended for. When expired and unused prescription medication is left unattended, it can lead to prescription drug abuse. Police agencies …
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Three Middle School Students In Stable Condition After Overdose
According to the NIDA, health risks include: addiction and elevated blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration. In high doses, stimulants can cause irregular heartbeats and dangerously high body temperature, heart failure, or deadly seizures. Some …
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Police departments hold joint forum for parents on escalating drug use
But misuse can lead to a more physically harrowing addiction: heroin. According to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, since April 1, there have been 14 heroin-related deaths in the county, four of which have occurred in the northwest communities of …
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Question by risanav: critique my essay please?
For a long time, medicine has helped people look young and be more attractive through plastic surgery, and now people are using medicine to help boost their mental processes. Interest in herbs and drugs which increase awareness and brain power has been around for many years. There are new drugs capable of helping you in the learning and memorization process; these drugs are called smart drugs. Scientists and students alike are taking these drugs to make their brain work better. Some of these “smart drugs” are available only with a prescription because they are designed to help people suffering from senility, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s, but the effects of these drugs on healthy people have become known through experimentation. The current restrictions on smart drugs should not be relaxed because they are relatively new, and much more research is needed on the consequences of using these drugs on healthy brains.
Smart drugs advocates are fast to support its use as boosters for all kinds of functions, this must sound like music in the ears of the consumers, but the disadvantages of the recreational use of these drugs are not discussed enough. Its one thing to say a drug is harmless and effective after using it for six months, but another very different thing is to prove its harmlessness and effectiveness under different conditions and years of use. The problems of side effects, abuse and addiction are rarely talked about, and only the good side of the use of smart drugs is promoted. There are no studies on the long term effects of these drugs when taken by healthy people. The drugs affect the brain, which is kind of important for many people including myself. What is good for someone with a disorder is not necessarily better for someone without the disorder. Since we still don’t know everything about the brain’s complexity and mystery, and anyone willing to experiment with theirs should be very cautious. Cognitive enhancements affect the most complex and important human organ, and the risk for unintended side effects is therefore both high and consequential.
Another problem with smart drugs is that people who use them would want to take pills to succeed in those areas of life in which excellence has until now been achieved only by discipline and the value of effort, achieving excellence by means of drugs looks a lot like cheating. People may say that we have been consuming coffee for decades and we don’t consider that “cheating”. However, contrary to caffeine, these smart drugs are illegal if taken without a prescription.
Using drugs to enhance your intelligence is different than drinking a cup of coffee. Smart drugs have the potential to alter the core of a person’s identity by significantly changing her personality,” says Richard Dees, bioethicist and philosophy professor at the University of Rochester. That might lead to, as he says, “unexpected effects.” The consumption of these drugs is wrong because it is unfair and unnatural. The experiences of people who use smart drug with the world are altered. “One major trouble with biotechical (especially mental) ‘improvers’ is that they produce changes in us by disrupting the normal character of human being-at-work-in-the-world … which, when fine and full, constitutes human flourishing,” Kass wrote in 2003.
“With biotechnical interventions that skip the realm of intelligible meaning, we cannot really own the transformations nor experience them as genuinely ours.” This loss, Kass argues, subtracts from our humanity.
I don’t think I could ever take Ritalin or any class of cognitive enhancing drug unless I was diagnosed with a disorder and I received a prescription from my doctor. I’m too afraid to mess with my brain chemistry. I have always relied on my studying skills and so far I have had success. I have friends who suffer from depression, and I also know people who suffer from ADD so I can see a real use for them. But for healthy people regular exercise, proper nutrition and getting enough sleep are more helpful and much safer than any of these drugs when trying to improve their learning and memorization skills.
Solving puzzles, reading a book, or learning a new language are great ways to challenge our brains. The brain is a muscle and if we don’t use it we’ll lose it. I believe all students have a natural capability to achieve and should stay away from these substances until a long-term study is done proving with scientific evidence that there are no negative effects from the continuous use of smart drugs.
The more we learn about smart drugs, the better. After more research is done and if it is found that indeed healthy people benefit from smart drugs with no negative effects after long term use, and if the undesirable side effects can one day be eliminated, eventually smart drugs may even become available over the counter.
If smart drugs are found to have no negative effects after long term use and it is found that they help people to be more able to solve impending problems, so much the better. If assistance from these substances can help increase the useful human lifespan, the benefits could be huge. In the meantime we need to learn from history and avoid the unnecessary use of these substances.
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman's death tells us about addiction
Success has no more bearing on drug addiction than it does on heart failure, doctors say: Both can be fatal without consistent care. Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Extent of Philip's drug addiction revealed
Philip Seymour Hoffman's drug addiction could have been far worse than was publicly… Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Desperate Housewives star Shawn Pyfrom reveals drug addiction following Philip Seymour Hoffman's death
Former Desperate Housewives star Shawn Pyfrom has admitted to his past drug addiction,… Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Question by Everblades: How long does the feeling last if you snort around 10-20 mg of Ritalin?
Doing this for some research on how different drugs affect the body. Generally, (and yes, I’ve done illegal drugs in my younger years) I have heard it compared similarly to cocaine. If it is actually like cocaine, how long do the effects last? I’ve heard people say it keeps them up, but how long do you get a “high” off it, if you actually do get high or inebriated in some way. Thanks for all answers in advance.

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Answer by Jamessss
Considering you only railed 10-20 mg of Ritalin, which is a very low dose, it will probably only last a couple hours.

I’ve snorted over 100mg of Ritalin, and yes it last a very long time, 14+ hours. Horrible comedown, not as bad as crystal meth though. And please don’t try it.    Read more...

Drug Abuse is Major Threat to Street Kids
“They're so detrimental to a person's health,” she said, “They cause really a lot of shot term effects, for example, sudden heart failure. They cause teratogenic effects. So if a girl is pregnant – she's sniffing – and it gets passed on to her baby and … Read more on Voice of America

Here's why you may be waking up drowsy, drugged-out or confused
Older drugs known as benzodiazepines (such as Dalmane or Halcion) are infamous for causing drowsiness, sedation and addiction. As reported in a 2005 issue of the BMJ, people taking benzodiazepines for sleep problems are about twice as likely to be … Read more on AARP News

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Prescription Drug Abuse – It's Not What the Doctor Ordered: Georgia Prevention …
ATLANTA, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — One person dies every 19 minutes from prescription drug abuse in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Georgia Prescription Drug Abuse … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Monday Best Time for Hospitalization With Heart Failure, Study Says
"The seasonal effect on in-hospital death from heart failure remained even after controlling for time and day of admission; 17 other medical conditions, including substance use, kidney disease and pneumonia; and demographic factors, including gender, … Read more on Philly.com

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