Sell, a nonviolent pretrial detainee was forced to take antipsychotic, mind-altering drugs. ... I believe a community has the right to be safe from people like this man. ... I believe this should be left to professionals to decide. Judith Appel, an attorney with the Drug Policy Alliance, agrees with me. She hopes, "people not courts can decide what drugs they will take"....
Believing that others are plotting against you is statistically abnormal and is usually diagnosed as a delusion of persecution. However, intelligence is believed to be distributed along a normal, bell-shaped curve, and people with IQ above 132 are statistically infrequent, or "abnormal". ... Disability or dysfunction is the primary criterion for identifying abnormal drug use. ...
However, the diagnosis is not used for people under 18 and there really is no drug or cure to control it, so treatment is not very successful. ... The child will also drink, do drugs, smoke and become sexually active a lot earlier than their peers. ... The drug and alcohol abuse will also follow them into adulthood. ... So by beating up people stronger than them, they believe they've done something positive. ...
There are several defenses a person can raise to show that he lacked the "intent" or mens rea to commit the crime. You have heard of most of these. 1. Entrapment. This defense is primarily used in drug and prostitution cases. The idea here is that the police induced or persuaded a person to commit ...
It seems like anymore, our world firmly believes that saying "out of sight, out of mind" in cases where the mentally ill are involved. ... According to USA Today, the United States spent $36.5 million on psychotropic drugs to treat offenders in prison in the last four years (Johnson, K). ... But even though that is a lot of money, those drugs are necessary to help keep the inmates happy and compliant. ...
Another hypothesis of this theory focuses on drug abuse. Some drugs that are available, such as amphetamines, can also make psychotic symptoms worse if a person already has the disease. ... These researchers believe that higher levels of dopamine are present in schizophrenic patients than in normal people. ... The lack or excess of the chemical dopamine is what a lot of researchers tend to believe is a major cause. ... They may also wrongfully believe that they are some historic person or a person of great importance. ...
"OMG you're so retarded!" "Ugh. I'm so depressed." "Dude. I swear I'm like bipolar sometimes." Sound like the white girls on your Twitter feed? How much do you want to bet that none of them are actually mentally ill? Retarded. Bipolar. Schizo. OCD. These words are thrown around without a single tho...
She believes her cell phone is tapped because its making funny clicking sounds, and that her roommate was not who he claimed to be, rather an imposter impersonating his voice. ... Her disorder should be treatable with high dosages of the toxic drug lithium, slowly decremented over time. ...
Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. It is not static, but ever changing; sensitive to changes in mood, environment, and physical experience. It is not based on fact. It is psychological in nature, and much more influenced by sel...
Introduction Would you risk everything just to be skinny? Just to be what you thought people wanted you to be? Even if it meant losing you life? Up to twenty-four million people have an eating disorder in the United States alone. The body type known as ideal is possessed by only 5% of American femal...
