Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. ... There are essentially two categories of drugs: mind expanding drugs and mind constricting drugs. ... The drug should educate the user and "expand" the user's mind. ... The rare drugs which stimulate violence, such as angel dust, must definitely be considered mind-constricting because not only does the user not gain knowledge from the experience, but the user destroys self-control and liberty and triggers desires to act immorally. ... It is generally the case that in retrospect, a previous user of a mind constricting...

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Marijuana is a Harmful Drug Marijuana is an extremely harmful drug in which affects people's lives in drastic ways. The view on this drug is sometimes being perceived as positive, rather than negative. ... Short-term effects include altering and damaging brain cells controlling thinking, emotion, pleasure, coordination, mood and memory. ... Marijuana is also known to be a gateway drug. ... From marijuana, people lead themselves to other illicit drugs. ...

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The amount and quality of parental monitoring is influenced by different factors such as divorce, serious financial distress, drug abuse and even mental illness. ... Even when kids are predisposed toward delinquency because of personality traits such as low self-control and impulsive personality might improve their life when are exposed to positive and effective parenting. ...

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The first, and probably most important, thing that needs to be revolutionized is drug control. These days drugs like Marijuana and ecstacy are very easy to obtain. Kids can obtain these drugs, along with many others, at a very young age. There are laws against the sale of these drugs, but either they are not strict enough or they are not properly enforced. ... Almost everything in the media these days is based on sex, drugs, and violence. ...

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You are just like a drug addict trying to get his next buzz. Each game is a new adventure waiting to be released, and used as your drug of choice. Each game brings you back for more, and once a game has lost its hold on you, there is always a newer better drug to take it's place. ... Your occupation as a slave to the device controls all your thoughts and time. ... It has controlled you, and what you now realize is your life. ...

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Anthropologists would look into the cultural background of marijuana and find that Marijuana is the most widely used drug in North America after a alcohol and cigarettes, which are both legal. ... This money could be used to help with more illicit drug trade with stuff like cocaine and heroin and funding overall drug use prevention and treatment programs. ... Patients who are HIV positive going through chemotherapy can have trouble keeping food down, so anything that helps them eat is helpful in gaining weight, 20% to 25% of patients in two1980s trials could completely control vomiting with ...

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The majority of the drugs are classified as antidepressants. "Drugs such as clomipramine and fluoxetine have been used to treat OCD."... According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH 1999), "if one drug is not effective, others should be tried. ... Some may begin with medication to gain control over their symptoms and then continue with behavior therapy. ... The process then moves to the patient's ability to bear the anxiety and to control the rituals. ...

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The authors of the article thought that medical drugs were prescribed all together too often among older adults claiming Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). The authors disagree with the prescription of drugs such as benzodiazepines for GAD because of its side effects such as tolerance, withdrawal, accidents, cognitive impairment, drug interactions, and toxicity. ... Participants were taught the nature of anxiety and its purpose, how to monitor anxiety symptoms and situations, progressive, passive, applied, and cue-controlled muscle relaxation, risk estimation and decatastrophizing, imaginal...

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Well, I personally think that many adults, including teachers and parents, do not want to put forth the effort to deal with these children, and the easiest way to get these children under control otherwise is to give them medication. ... Children can become addicted to drugs just as fast as adults can, so I would think that giving children medication half of their life would be dangerous. ... Also, does taking strong medications as a child promote drug use in his or her future? ...

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His account includes the effects on his person both physically and mentally of the introduction of a drug called L-Dopa. The key focuses from a Humanistic viewpoint centre upon the quality of his sense of self prior and after the introduction of the drug, his ability to engage with others and his immediate environment. ... He attributes meanings to actions and responsibility for actions when citing the cause for his illness as a form of retribution for childhood masturbation. part of the experience of being a person is also the sense of being able to do things: every individual can initiate ac...

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Antipsychotic medications are used to control the symptoms of Schizophrenia. ... For the drug to be most effective it has to be taken consistently as a relapse of symptoms is common when medication is discontinued. ... Because of these side effects, the patient may discontinue the use of these drugs. ... The clients should fully understand the effects of the drug. Also the nurse and the client should freely discuss what particular effects the drug has on the client and if necessary to help negotiate a change in medication with the client. ...

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One benefit of yoga is the way it helps people to control their minds. ... Then on contemplation, the person experiences a sense similar of the drug effects. ... Mind control is very useful because if you have the power to control your mind you will be able to do whatever you want, without any limitations. ... Yoga, as a "fashion" reducer of stress can help prevent and control breakouts. ... As we said above, yoga can be very beneficial because it helps people to control their minds, and by controlling them, they get to control their life. ...

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People with OCD know their obsessions and compulsions are irrational or excessive, yet find they have little or no control over them. ... In fact, an OCD sufferer is acutely aware of the excessiveness or irrationality of his/her fears or behaviors, yet is unable to control them. ... Drugs with potent effects on the brain chemical serotonin seem most effective. Clomipramine (Anafranil), the most widely studied drug for OCD, is now available by prescription. More than 20 controlled studies have proven clomipramine's effectiveness in treating OCD. ...

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An increase in individuality could be seen, as marijuana would be used as a kind of substitute for alcohol, and is not so much the social drug as alcohol is. ... It makes a good person curious as to whether they should try this harmful drug. ... The reason the U.S. government made this drug illegal in the first place was because people began questioning and becoming more awake and aware. ... Position A: The more commonly used legal drug, alcohol, allows our government to keep the nation asleep via the media, tradition, etc. Being under this control is not a good thing for the people of th...

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Obsessive compulsive disorder is marked by uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals (often feel they have lost control of their mind) * There is a genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders * Somatoform Disorders are physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors. ...

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Improvements have been seen in the field through several studies, but no "miracle drug" has yet been discovered to treat the many complex facets of this mental disorder. ... The therapist becomes familiar with the patients attitude and knowledge of the illness, and explains the causes of the disease and its" drug treatments. ... Often, the patients can learn how to control, or at least minimize, the delusions and their effects. ...

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This tells us that we need stricter gun control policies by law and in the home. ... Child rearing and controlling adolescent behavior is much more difficult in socially disorganized communities. ... In some settings, violence can be a means of achieving status, identity, power, social control and material possessions. ... Gun control, youth activities, and education can help all of this. ... This may seem like a large sum of money, but if you add up how much it costs to provide them care if they become addicted to drugs or alcohol, get put in prison, commit crimes, etc. it is much more. ...

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His negative behavior began at the age of five, beginning with a shoplifting experience, which led to a path of crime, drug use and social system abuse. ... Also I believe that had there been a more thorough attempt to diagnose and address the environmental factors, my brother's behavior could have been modified to remove or control its more negative characteristics. ... His negative behavior began at the age of five, beginning with a shoplifting experience, which led to a path of crime, drug use and social system abuse. ... Also I believe that had there been a more thorough attempt t...

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Often disabling and sometimes profoundly affecting all aspects of a person life, interfering with a persons ability to interact with people, management or control of emotions, and the ability to think clearly. ... Those people who develop symptoms slowly, don't receive treatment, misuse drugs and alcohol, live in industrialized countries, are male, live in social isolation, or have poor family support, may be at greater risks for recurring relapses or a poor prognosis. ...

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The parents can suffer problems that deal with drugs or alcohol, which may lead to them taking their own problems out on their children. ... Some of he characteristics include; personal charm, a controlled mood, and along with many others (Ronald Holmes). ... Therefore, analytic attention has been focused on control through violence without regard to the relationship of the killer to the social environment (Levin and Fox)....

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"The intervention group exhibited larger MMR responses to temporal structure violations in the music condition compared with the control group in both the auditory and prefrontal cortical regions" (5). This, basically, says that babies in the experimental group, given music, showed better brain activity than the controlled group. There were three hypotheses with this study: "that the 1-mo music intervention designed to help infants learn a specific temporal structure in music (i.e., triple meter) would result in a larger neural response (MMR) in the intervention group to viola...

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"Religious involvement greatly decreases drug use, delinquency, and premarital sex, and increases self-control for all age groups. In a 1985 study of girls, 9 to 17, less than 10 percent of those who attended religious services weekly reported drug or alcohol use, compared to 38 percent overall."...

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Exercising is also a healthy coping strategy and it would be a better substitute for antidepressants since these drugs can upset the processes within the brain. ... Taking responsibility entails taking control. ...

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In one study done by Patton (1990), he took the responses of college athletes about drug behavior among teammates, and why these student athletes would take them (competitive, control weight, overcome boredom) and used these statements to compare to original interview transcripts. ...

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You must learn to control your feelings when under extreme amounts of stress. ... Healthy friendships and relationships can also provide the means to control those feelings which are ruling you. ... People under extreme amounts of stress can become accident prone, and increase their usage of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. ...

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