How can you drink alcohol and be against drugs without being a hypocrite?
Seriously? The same people that support drug prohibition usually have no problem picking up an alcoholic beverage. A drug is a drug, alcohol is a drug. To me, you can not use any substance and then have the nerve and turn around and tell people that they can not use another substance because you don’t agree with it. Alcohol has one of the, if not the worse withdrawal for people who are addicted. It’s sad really, because the intoxication level for alcohol is higher than most illegal drugs. If you don’t believe me, you can look it up yourself.
i agree with you
any mind altering substance is considered a drug…that includes alchohal
but really, everybody is on "drugs" Cafeen is considered a drug, tylonal is considered a drug, overthe coundter medicines are considered drugs……so when you think of it, everybody in the world, (including children) are on drugs…….the only difference is that some drugs are legal and others are not
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Weezer – We Are All On Drugs
Music video by Weezer performing We Are All On Drugs. (C) 2005 Geffen Records Inc.
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What is your opinion on drugs that are said to be harmless?
I am fully aware that there are many drugs that are indeed harmful to users.
However, there are some drugs that do not have any permanent side effects (whether they be mental or physical) including chemical addiction. These drugs still remain illegal though they are far less dangerous than even alcohol.
What is your opinion on this?
Is there an explanation for why this is?
Our government is dominated by puritans.
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What should be done to keep hard drugs out of prisons?
Having been there, there are alot of drugs in prisons and it doesn’t help anybody. People who are addicted can get worse and some people get into hard drugs in there.
As far as I saw drugs came in in all sort of ways but I stayed pretty much clear of anything hard. Without stopping visits or stuff like that what do you think could be done to keep drugs out?
I dont know what should be done. What can you do when, familes, friends and even lawyers have been caught slipping drugs passed the guards.
Ive saw people go into prison for petty crimes, and come out herion addics.
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Are there alternative treatment to drugs for getting rid of negative thoughts and "anxiety" dreams?
Thank you to those who respondedd to my question about Ativan. It appears that drugs are OK for a quick fix situation but a no-no over time (longer than 3 months). It appears all these drug remedies are wolves in sheep clothing. That begs the question what the alternatives to drugs are?
You need to read this natural medicine manual; God’s Medicine Is Best by Linda Wise. Lots of natural remedies…you may find this book in your local library.
If you are interested what the dreams mean, go to:
www.ancientdreamreader.com
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From Katt’s Newest DVD, IT’S PIMPIN’ PIMPIN’. This hilarious clip is about what Ritalin can do to you. If you like the clip check out more on CLYDETV and be sure to buy It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’.
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How do chemotherapy drugs interact chemically with cancer to kill the cancerous cells?
I have to give a chemistry project tomorrow in class and I need to have a basic understanding of what goes on chemically between chemotherapy drugs and the cancerous cells. Like what element interacts with what and how the chemo drugs stop the cancer cells from replicating. If anyone even has a most basic chemical explanation as to what occurs I would really appreciate it.
If you want a really general overview with how each type of chemotherapeutic agent works, wikipedia is the best place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy
Elementally speaking, a small number of elements are used to form complexes, which can bind to DNA causing apoptosis. The best example of this is cisplatin, which is platinum based.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisplatin
The most basic explanation is that the majority of chemotherapy drugs act against cancer cells by inhibiting mitosis. There are many different ways to act against mitosis, such as inhibiting microtubule growth, inhibiting topoisomerases (enzymes which allows the compacting of DNA via formation of coils).
good luck with your project!
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How do chemotherapy drugs interact chemically with cancer cells to get rid of the cancerous cells?
I have to give a chemistry project tomorrow in class and I need to have a basic understanding of what goes on chemically between chemotherapy drugs and the cancerous cells. Like what element interacts with what and how the chemo drugs stop the cancer cells from replicating. If anyone even has a most basic chemical explanation as to what occurs I would really appreciate it.
Chemotherapy works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells. So chemotherapy eliminates not only the fast-growing cancer cells but also other fast-growing cells in your body, including, hair and blood cells.
Some cancer cells grow slowly while others grow rapidly. As a result, different types of chemotherapy drugs target the growth patterns of specific types of cancer cells. Each drug has a different way of working and is effective at a specific time in the life cycle of the cell it targets.
So, the chemicals are designed to go after specific cells that have a particular metabolic rate.
Chemotherapy has NOT been very effective and the 5 year survival rate is very poor. It is expensive; a cancer patient is worth about $300,000 to the medical community.
In 1972, according to the American Cancer Societies own figures, 33% of cancers had a five year survival rate. We should also point out that at that same time 33% of cancers went away on their own. Today, according to the ACS, the five year survival rate for cancer has risen to 40%. However, what they do not tell you is that:
1.The statistics are invalid because they combine data of both local and metastasized cancers; and that the comparisons are not randomized [Ulrich Abel, Advanced Epithelial Cancer", 1990 (no longer in print) ]
2.Cancers not factored into the original statistics are now factored in, such as skin cancers, many of which are not fatal and that the statistics are purposely inflated by including people with benign cancers.
3.Technology has helped us to find cancers earlier, thus the survival time from diagnosis to eventual death has lengthened.
4.They are now including in their stats non deadly skin cancers.
By shrinking tumors, chemotherapy encourages stronger cancer cells to grow and multiply and become chemo resistant. Then there are the new cancers caused by chemotherapy, or secondary cancers. This quaint side effect is often overlooked in the lists of side effects in a drug’s accompanying literature, though you can find this information quite easily at the National Cancer Institute. We pride ourselves in America for being technologically advanced and that our technology is rooted in a foundation of good science.
Wrong.
When it comes to medicine, little at all is based upon science. Again we shall point to the Office of Technological Assessment’s paper: Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies in which we are told that fewer than 20% of all medical procedures have been tested, and that of those tested, half were tested badly.
Medicine in America is not about healing.
Most telling, according to Ralph Moss in his book Questioning Chemotherapy, is that in a good number of surveys, chemotherapists have responded that they would neither recommend chemotherapy for their families nor would they use it themselves. In an unpublished cohort study in which it was revealed that only 9% of oncologists took chemotherapy for their cancers.
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors,” Allen Levin, MD UCSF The Healing of Cancer.
Additionally, Irwin Bross, a biostatistician for the National Cancer Institute, discovered that many cancers that are benign (though thought to be malignant) and will not metastasize until they are hit with chemotherapy. In other words, he’s found that many people who’ve been diagnosed with metastatic cancer did not have metastatic cancer until they got their chemotherapy.
For many cancers, chemotherapy just does not improve your survival rate. Some of these are colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, bladder, breast, ovarian, cervical and corpus uteri, head and neck. Knowing this, oncologists still recommend a regimen of chemotherapy, why?
The answer you will get from oncologists that are honest is this: “We give it to patients so they won’t give up hope and fall into the hands of quacks.” Quacks? Implicit in the definition of quackery is the sale of worthless or dangerous nostrums for profit. Who exactly are the quacks? Just because someone is wearing a white smock, has a title, and works in a nice air conditioned office, does NOT take away what he is. Con men don’t look like crooks or they would never get anyone to buy into what they are selling. Looking credible does NOT mean they are.
Dr Ulrich Abel, who poured over thousands and thousands of cancer studies, published his shocking report in 1990 stating quite succinctly that chemotherapy has done nothing for 80% of all cancers; that 80% of chemotherapy administered was absolutely worthless.
To give a fair and accurate assessment of chemotherapy in your report, you should also tell people how it is NOT very effective and only a smal
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Ali-G, funny interview about drugs