Lifting weights focuses on my whole body and mind. ... I feel myself getting more energized, then I stop and go start my workout. ... I start at 365 pounds as I attempt my first rep, boom I have done it, now second rep, boom again, now third, boom I'm doing it, I'm doing it I say to myself. ... I then start to think even though my body says it's done I know my mind decides when I'm done so I up the ante and begin set two. ... Weightlifting focused not just on my body but me as a person. ...

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"Psychologically it affects the central nervous system as a depressant, which leads to a decrease in activity, anxiety and tensions." " At younger ages even a one sip of alcohol can start reactions in the body. Physically it weakens the body in it's entirety." ... "Although the drinking amount may be going down the age that alcohol drinking starts isn't," says a child psychologist. ... Symbolic Interaction which stresses that the human behavior is largely dependent on the meanings and definitions that emerge from small group interaction relate to the ways youth start getting involv...

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It is a drug that is stored in human body fat. ... That means, if you think you need the drug, and then your body will tell you need the drug. ... The person will start to see illusions, and they will become mentally confused. They will start to have panic reactions and will hallucinate, or see flashbacks. ... It shouldn"t feel like death though, but more like new life, for you get a second chance at starting over your life. ...

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Our minds and bodies run like fine tuned machines when we take care of ourselves. Doctors prescribe medicines (which are legal drugs) to heal our bodies when we are sick, but dangerous drugs are not recommended by medical professionals. ... Products like wine, beer, liquor are very harmful for our children because their bodies and especially their nervous system are still developing. ... An addict's body craves the drug and becomes dependent upon it. ... Once we start smoking it is very difficult to stop and smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and other diseases. ...

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There are many reasons why some children and young teens start smoking marijuana. ... Teens who use marijuana on a daily basis start to lose interest in how they look and how they react to everyday problems. So far the only long-term effects that marijuana has on your body are lung cancer, asthma, psychological dependence, and immune system damage. ... When my brother finally got caught with marijuana at school it tore my family apart because my parents started blaming each other for what happened and they also blamed each other for not seeing it sooner. ... And ifyou think about using marij...

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Drugs don't do any good to your body they only cause pain. ... He first started to hang with drug dealers. After that, he started to do drugs. ... She told me that her brother started to use drugs. ... People who do drugs get addicted to them, and if they don't get the amount of drug required by their bodies they get weak. ...

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A drug that leaves the body quickly, is more habit forming because the high the person felt when the drug was in the body has suddenly been removed. ... This sudden decrease of the drug in the body makes it much more habit forming, than that of a drug that leaves the body slowly. ... Therefore watching it, forces a person to watch television even more, the start of an addiction. ...

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Soon after rehabilitation started, I learned that my mother was an alcoholic and the problems associated with alcoholism were both physical and mental. ... Your body gradually inherits a tolerance over a period of years and becomes dependent on the drug. ... The physical complications are astounding and to imagine my mother's body and her risks are devastating. ... If you have never seen a liver with this disease, picture a moldy overcooked hamburger patty stuck in your body. ... Her body became so dependent on the drug that when she went to rehab, she could not quit cold turkey. ...

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Breathing becomes very slow, body temperature drops and heartbeat becomes irregular. ... In its pure form, heroin is relatively non-toxic to the body, causing little damage to body tissue and other organs. ... Physical dependence occurs when a person's body adapts to heroin and the body gets used to functioning with the drug present. ... If a dependent person suddenly stops taking heroin, or severely cuts down the amount they use, they will experience physical withdrawal symptoms because their body has to readjust to functioning without the drug. ... So the best thing to do is to ne...

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According to a professional study in 2014, marijuana can lead to some fatal consequences to the human body, mental health or behavioral aspects. ... Short-term use of marijuana may harm the body and mind. ... Long-term use of marijuana may destroy not only the body and mind, but also the whole life career. If a person starts using marijuana for recreational goals when he is a teen, he will become highly addicted several years later. ...

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All three can lead to drug abuse and addiction: Which can ultimately lead to fatal effects on the human body. ... Depression can affect any and all organs in the human body. ... Heroin affects many parts of the human body, including blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys and brain. ... However when you abuse drugs to solve one problem, you are only starting a new problem which can fatally affect your health. ...

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As described in the text "Opium and the Exotic East," people, although warned of the hazards, continued to smoke opium clearly because they enjoyed the effects that it took on their bodies. ... In the text "Missionaries and Opium," the author states how people would start using opium for medicinal reasons, for instance to "cure the toothache" or "to get rid of the headache." ... If the people of China knew what smoking could do to their bodies, their minds, and their lives, how could they possibly be victims of imperialism and capitalism and not their own temptation to abuse the drug. ... ...

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On the other hand, people believe that marijuana is a gateway drug and will only cause Americans to start using harder drugs and have a negative effect on our society. ... They argue, that marijuana affects the body in only negative ways. ... Physical effects include an increased heart rate, a weakened ability for your body to fight diseases, and a higher chance of getting lung cancer. ... There are too many negative effects on the body. ...

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Most people never consider the fact that consuming alcohol can be just as harmful as illegal drugs, not only on the body, but on the mind and spirit as well (#1). ... Many times alcoholism starts during a person's high school and college years; however some teenagers and young adults frequently abuse alcohol and never think about the physical, mental, and emotional toll that alcohol can have on a person's life (#3). ... Most alcoholics start out by building up a tolerance, causing them to drink higher amounts of alcohol to get the same effect; this tolerance is the starting point of ...

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Most people never consider the fact that consuming alcohol can be just as harmful as illegal drugs, not only on the body, but on the mind and spirit as well. ... Many times alcoholism starts during a person's high school and college years; however some teenagers and young adults frequently abuse alcohol and never think about the physical, mental, and emotional toll that alcohol can have on a person's life. ... Most alcoholics start out by building up a tolerance, causing them to drink higher amounts of alcohol to get the same effect; this tolerance is the starting point of an alcohol...

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This surge of crack usage started across the US between 1984 and the early 1990's. ... In any way you use it, crack will travel up your body and to your brain. ... With Crack in your system, that percentage will slightly fall with each use.Your brain basically controls your whole body, you shouldn't damage what controls your whole body. Crack affects your body not just in the inside, but on the outside of your body too. ...

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The sicknesses and infections took over the body and killed so many in a few days Influenza, polio, smallpox, typhoid fever, yellow fever. ... Malaria started in during the Civil war as well. ... The health was so poor, people started dying from tooth infections even. ... In 1885, it was starting to be sold in stores in many different forms such as cigarettes, needle, and powder. ... Cannabis is finally slowly starting to become legal in certain states but it is changing quite quickly. ...

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People back then started thinking outside of the normal, fundamentalist state of mind. ... People started to realize how silly some of the old religions and customs were, and they started new ways of thinking. ... Critics say that it is up to the user to decided, its their body, it should be their choice. They believe that its the users natural born right to use whatever they want and do whatever they want to their own bodies. ...

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. : : Body of the Essay : : Adolescence is the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood; it generally refers to a period ranging from teen years through 20s. ... They get addicted to drugs and start to revolve their lives around drugs. ... Addiction is the disease that eventually starts to plague the adolescents that decide to take the wrong path. ...

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It is considered a hallucinogen, it relaxes your body and mind and decreases your reaction skills. ... You start with weed, you get bored with that and you want to be more high, so you start to do other drugs. ...

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I started smoking at age fourteen because I wanted to fit in. ... At the ages of around twelve children start to go throw puberty. ... This is when kids are supposed to start growing up. ... Substances start getting abused. ... People would have great influence and could uses there bodies for evil. ...

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What do we do to the people who will start the drugs by legalizing it? ... Not only there will be more problems, legalizing drug will give the impacts especially to young people as if drugs will not give any harmful effects to their bodies. ... It is obvious that more and more people will start using drugs somehow and many more people will get addicted. ... Even if we only use them inside the hospital, many people would start to believe that drug is not harmful. ... So we have to stop thinking about legalizing and start thinking what we should do about problems we have right now. ...

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A greater amount of young people have started to abuse drugs over the last few decades. ... Ecstasy has been presented as having little or no side effects, but studies show that its use alters, certain brain functions and also damages the liver and other body organs. ... In one way or another, the use of these drugs alters the normal functioning of the human body, and in the long run they can cause serious damage. ...

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I really don't know why they want to put their bodies through the pain. ... I wonder if when my uncle first started experimenting with drugs at a young age if he ever thought about the consequences and what his bad decisions would lead to. ... God expects us to take care of our body and keep it healthy. ...

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Technically, this statement is correct because any substance that can change the function of the body is a drug. ... Scaring teenagers to believe that alcohol is always destructive to the body is ineffective because alcohol in moderation causes no major harm. ... Education about alcohol needs to start early and in the home. ...

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