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Comments: 0September 30th, 2011 by admin
Comments: 0September 30th, 2011 by admin
Cocaine, as a stimulant, mimics the action of chemicals the brain produces to send messages of pleasure to the brain’s reward center. Like adrenaline, cocaine increases the heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate. When the stimulation goes too high, it can also produce feelings of panic, paranoia, hallucinations, and rage that can even progress to potentially fatal seizures and strokes.
Treatments for cocaine addiction vary, based on a lot of factors including the severity and length of the symptoms, the amount of damage done from the cocaine use, and the rate of recovery. The most common symptoms of addiction usually noted are drug cravings, irritability, loss of energy, depression, fearfulness, wanting to sleep a lot or difficulty in sleeping, shaking, nausea and palpitations, sweating, hyperventilation, and increased appetite. These symptoms can commonly last several weeks — even after one stops using cocaine.
Medications to treat cocaine addiction are not yet available, although researchers are working continuously to identify and test new options. The most promising experimental medication existing seems to be Selegiline, which still needs an appropriate method of administration. Disulfiram, a medication that has been used to treat alcoholism, has proven to be somewhat effective in treating cocaine abuse in clinical trials. Antidepressants are predominantly prescribed to deal with the mood changes that usually come with cocaine withdrawal. Treatments are being developed to deal with cocaine overdose.
Treatments such as cognitive-behavioral coping skills are effective in dealing with cocaine addiction, but they are just a short-term approach that focuses on the learning processes. Behavioral treatment attempts to help patients recognize, avoid, and cope with situations that can lead them to use cocaine again.
Staffed by caring, compassionate physicians, nurses, and counselors, treatment programs recognize the intensity of addiction. Based on that, treatment programs provide heavily researched medical treatment techniques, choosing the best for the patient from all of the treatment modalities available.
Comments: 0September 30th, 2011 by admin
Here’s a scene you’ve seen played out hundreds of times in everyday life. You’re watching TV, surfing the net, doing some reading, and you come across something lecturing you about heart disease – just like this article. So you immediately find your eyes glaze over. Your interest drops to zero and you find better things to think about. After all, everyone knows someone who’s had a heart attack. A couple of days later, they’re out and about, boasting about the number of stents holding their arteries open. Heart attacks are no big deal, right? But suppose we put it the other way round. Suppose we tell you that men with heart disease have a serious risk of erectile dysfunction? Hey, you mean something’s threatening your enjoyment of sex? Now that’s a lot more interesting, right?
So what exactly are we talking about? Its helpful to start with a few numbers.. In men under the age of 60, the rate of erectile dysfunction is about 12% of the adult male population. But this rises up to 42% of men as they add years over 60. In one sense, this is a perfectly natural part of the aging process as the level of testosterone falls in the bloodstream. In giving these simple percentages, we should not forget the body grows more likely to breakdown in other ways. We could list high blood pressure, diabetes, atherosclerosis, etc. If you are also overweight, still smoke, eat an unhealthy diet and largely sit around without exercising, you’re in the zone for serious health consequences. Even the Chinese are growing alarmed. A major new piece of research from Soochow University has confirmed the global trend in China. That aging men who show signs of erectile dysfunction at a relatively young age are lining up for cardiovascular disease, strokes, heart attacks and general death. Now while we might not care very much about a few more Chinese dying, this study involving 36,740 participants sends out a general warning to men everywhere. Lead an unhealthy life, find yourself affected by erectile dysfunction, and this will seriously increase the risk of “all-cause mortality” – a fancy way of saying death.
So if you’re affected by erectile dysfunction as a younger man, the message to you should be clear. You could use this site to buy some little blue pills at a very good price and, in the short term, this would almost certainly solve the problem. But if you change nothing else about your lifestyle, you are papering over the warning cracks. You should make an urgent appointment with your primary care physician for the standard tests for heart disease. Come away with a clean bill of health and the little blue pills from the online pharmacy will be waiting for you. But if the diagnosis shows high levels of carbohydrates in your blood, your vessels are slowly blocking. Your blood pressure will be rising and a heart attack threatens. This is easy to avoid with drugs and a few simple lifestyle changes. So, which is it to be? A long and healthy life, or a few more months of sexual activity thanks to Viagra? Remember, if your arteries are blocking up, Viagra will not work once the blockage passes 70%!
Comments: 0September 30th, 2011 by admin
Wow, don’t think I’ve ever seen a hire this young in Division I college football much less the NFL. Moreover, I don’t think I’ve seen a successfull move to the NFL by an established Division I head football coach to the NFL since Jimmy Johnson went to the Cowboys way back in the day? Steve Spurrier, Pete Carroll, and Butch Davis all went to the NFL with great resumes. Spurrier and Davis jumped the season following National Titles. Kiffin has never ran a program, ever.
This gentleman, Kiffin, has been the offensive coordinator at USC for two years since the departure of Norm Chow, who is now the offensive coordinator at Tennessee. Now, Norm Chow designed and built Pete Carroll’s offense at USC, which as coincidence would have it has the added bonus of displaying the most talented team in all of D1 college ball. Kiffin, hasn’t even been around long enough to make any significant changes in Chow’s system. As a matter of fact, last I checked, Chow won the National Title at USC with his offense and split. Since Kiffin took over, they have won the conference. And somehow this young man is experienced enough to take over the most unstable team in the NFL???
But I can’t say I didn’t see it coming, the Raiders aren’t exactly batting a thousand in the front office these days. I know what would turn the organization around, unload the only talent you have on the offensive side of the ball, and pick up self proclaimed coach killer Michael Vick.
Again, wow.
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Comments: 0September 30th, 2011 by admin
To most persons who are diagnosed with pre-diabetes or Diabetes2 the term A1C is like another language to them.