Drug Abuse Rates By Country
Drug Abuse Rates By Country
Prescription Drug Abuse In College
Prescription drug abuse is everywhere, including on college campuses across the country. The abuse of drugs like Adderall, Concerta and Vivance, commonly used to treat attention deficit disorders, has exploded among college students. These stimulant drugs are attractive to students who believe they need an extra boost when studying for a test or writing a term paper. They are among the most abused class of prescription drugs.
“I take it to study for tests mostly,” said a student at Tufts University in Boston. “It mellows me out and makes me not notice distractions. I just sit down and focus. It takes away my personality.”
Many students take the drugs to relieve stress from heavy course loads. Because many of their friends already have prescriptions for these drugs, access to a supply is simple.
Stimulants are prescribed to people with attention deficit disorders and learning disabilities to help release dopamine in the brain. Sufferers of ADD produce insufficient quantities of dopamine in their brains.
“Stimulants are diagnosed for attention deficit disorder to increase the amount of dopamine the brain produces,” said Dr. Nandini Talwar, a staff psychiatrist at Tufts University. “The theory is that someone with ADD isn’t producing enough dopamine in certain parts in their brain, and the medication makes up for this, especially in the frontal lobe of the brain, where tasks of concentration, learning, focus and organization are centered.”
These drugs can have dangerous side effects when abused. With long-term use, the drugs can cause dependency and cerebral atrophy.
“It’s like taking a version of cocaine. These are very highly abusable medicines,” Talwar said. “They increase heart rate, blood pressure and can lead to cardiac issues. It is also an appetite suppressant and can cause people to not eat.”
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Whey don’t the English get it? Tell the world the truth about how repugnant you are or accept high immigration
No country has higher has a greater contrast between a hugely positive national stereotype and the repugnant reality.
Immigrants come here expecting the Brits to be polite and sophisticated – an educated country that produced the likes of Shakespeare, Newton and Brunel.
Instead modern England is a land of ‘yobs’ and ‘chavs’ with the highest rates of crime, drug/Alcohol Abuse, teen pregnancies and STDs in Europe, and with a dismal record on education*
This is a country better represented by Jade Goody than the Oxbridge elite.
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eg http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3223679.ece
If I knew my company would post my in this country I would never have taken the job.
You are quite correct about the problems besetting modern England. Societal break up commenced in the 1970′s and has continued apace, with the break up of the family unit and the erosion of authority. This, sadly, cannot be easily blamed on immigration, though overcrowding and “ghettoisation” of communities certainly does not help.
However, where you are wrong, is in biting the hand that feeds you. If you feel so strongly about the “repugnant reality” of “England” (a ridiculous assertion as this is, in fact, the UK and the good and the bad are equally represented in each country of the union) then perhaps you should consider why you are here.
It is easy to criticise and adopt a moral high ground, however ignoring those same morals for the sake of a job is, in itself, repugnant. So I suggest you act on your strong feelings and return to the polite, sophisticated, well off, under-crowded, educated country of your birth. Whatever mystical Eden that might be!
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