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Cocaine And Its Dangers
Number of words: 779 - Number of pages: 3.... is very expensive and so dealers push up their profits by mixing it with anything else that is white and powdery." "In the mid nineteenth century, cocaine is used in eye, ear and throat surgery." "Now, they have been largely replaced by synthetic and local anesthetics such as lidocaine."
There are different ways of taking cocaine, because it is in a powdery form. "The most popular ways to take cocaine is snorting into nostrils or taking it orally." "To get a faster and even stronger "high", users take street cocaine and mix it with chemicals and make a paste, called freebase." "Fre .....
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Abortion: A Matter Of Choice
Number of words: 2536 - Number of pages: 10.... place to go where abortions can be performed cleanly and with minimal risk.
Legalization of abortion is the only choice no matter what side one takes in the debate. Women will try to do what they think is necessary to live as they wish, no matter what the risk. In order to live as she chooses a woman may give up her freedom, her morals, her beliefs, her family, or even her life. Abortion has been around for thousands of years in every inhabited corner of the globe. It has always been accepted as a means to prevent the suffering of both woman and potential child. It has been practiced widely .....
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Abortion Should Be Made Illegal
Number of words: 844 - Number of pages: 4.... is walking down the street carrying a
child in her arms. Another woman is walking down that same street carrying a
child, only this woman is carrying the child in her. Both children are
dependent on their mothers, both just dependent in different ways. (Schwarz 35)
Take another example "Suppose a woman suffers a miscarriage, A sympathetic
doctor will not tell her, "You have lost your fetus"; he will say; "You have
lost your child"." (Schwarz 35) If an abortion is picked the term "fetus" is
used as a cold scientific "neutral" word which switches the persons mind from
reality, and also w .....
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Alzheimer's Disease: "Where Has Yesterday Gone"
Number of words: 2690 - Number of pages: 10.... by Larry Squire, "forgetting is
quite normal and usually develops in the third decade of life, and by one
estimate 85 percent of the healthy elderly – those over 65—suffer some memory
impairment (59)."
According to Dr. Seligmann, "forgetting is the process through which
information in memory becomes inaccessible, either because it is stored but is
not at that time retrievable (51)." This is one of the most important factors in
forgetting. Memory loss is rapid at first and then gradually levels off. There
are many types of "dismembering" enemies that hamper ones recall and retrieval .....
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The Uses Of Marijuana
Number of words: 546 - Number of pages: 2.... available to these patients.
Hemp, which is known as the stalk of the plant can be used for fuel. It can be burned as is or processed into charcoal, methanol, methane, or gasoline. Fuels made from this plant are known as biomass fuels. These fuels are virtually free from metals and sulfur, so they don't cause nearly as much pollution as fossil fuels. It may one day replace gasoline. With wanting to conserve the forests, hemp is an alternative to paper. The problem with pulp paper is there are so many chemicals used to make it, which are very harmful to our environment. With hemp we are .....
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Depression
Number of words: 955 - Number of pages: 4.... affects many people of all ages. It is estimated that one in five people will suffer from at some point in their lives. strikes men and women of all ages. might also bring a person to suicide. Often family members try to help them and it is sometimes hard to help them. They often need to get professional help to get over their . There are also drugs in the market today that can also cause a person to go into . can be very hard on a family because they do not know what to do.
There are two major forms of that people can have. One form is called Bipolar disorder. It is diagnosed only .....
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The Morality Of Abortion
Number of words: 1401 - Number of pages: 6.... and supportive. It is a far
greater crime to treat a child poorly for eighteen years then it is to terminate
a fetus that cannot think, feel or is aware of its existence.
On the second point of making the way that conception occurred a non-
factor I am not saying that having the babies of rapists or in cases of incest
is okay. Still, for the argument that abortion is immoral, you must argue that
the action is immoral, not the child. The child cannot be either at this point.
If we are then talking about the act of abortion then who is to determine right
and wrong. A court of law should h .....
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Herpes
Number of words: 142 - Number of pages: 1.... should be treated by a doctor for many reasons. Treatments
are aimed at easing pain, more so than curing the disease.
How it is spread
Herpes is spread by direct contact with the Herpevirus. A virus
inside the sores. If you touch a sore with any area were the skin is thin,
(eyes, mouth or genitals), the Herpevirus is spread. Herpes can be spread
even when the sore is not visible. Herpes victims with the sore in on
place can infect themselves in others.
Symtoms
The signs of the virus are itching or tingling and sores. .....
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AIDS
Number of words: 2987 - Number of pages: 11.... by
the early 1990s but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition,
although the vast majority of documented cases have occurred in the United
States, AIDS cases have been reported in about 162 countries worldwide. Sub-
Saharan Africa in particular appears to suffer a heavy burden of this illness.
No cure or vaccine now exists for AIDS. Many of those infected with HIV may not
even be aware that they carry and can spread the virus. It is evident that HIV
infection represents an epidemic of serious proportions. Combating it is a
major challenge to biomedical scientists and heal .....
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Ebola
Number of words: 1298 - Number of pages: 5.... from Ebola, it may stay in the semen for up to seven weeks. In the
African outbreaks it has also been transmitted by the reuse of needles because
the health care systems are so under financed. Ebola wasn't thought to be an
airborne virus, but recent studies by the US Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases and the CDC found that monkeys showed Ebola like symptoms
after being exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The studies also found that the virus
is many times present in the respiratory systems of Ebola victims. Although the
1989 outbreak in Reston, Virginia was .....
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