Célia Pereira CaldasI, II IUniversidade Aberta da Terceira Idade, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20559-900, Brasil
IIFaculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Boulevard 28 de Setembro 157, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20551-030, Brasil
ABSTRACT This article highlights the phenomenon of "aging
While watching FOX, I saw this video by the famous oil man T. Boone
Pickens on our dependence on foreign oil and what it is doing to this
country besides the impact at the gas pump.Watch now:
Find more videos like this on PickensPlan.comHis
plan was also highlighted in an article he did this week in the Wall
Street Journal. Here's a snipp
This test helps determine your level of addiction to cigarettes. Write down the number of points identified by your answer for each question and total them.How soon after you wake up do you smoke your first cigarette?Within 5 minutes – 3 pointsBetween 6-30 minutes – 2 pointsBetween 31-60 minutes – 1 pointAfter 60 minutes – 0 pointsDo you find it difficult to refrain from smoking in places
As Americans spend $41 million in foreign oil an hour and are left broke at the pump, what plan does Obama have to solve this problem? Double required MPG from automakers and using clean, renewable energy is a great start. “We send a billion dollars to foreign nations every single day and we are melting the polar ice caps in the bargain,” said Obama. “That has to change.” Hit the link for
Peak Oil Parenting and How it Will Change a Culture of Dependence - Many times as parents we wonder about our parenting methods. Today, I'd like to take a closer look at how we view childhood in general and how our views toward children have changed over the centuries. It is after all, society's view of children that dictates the main parenting methods in use. Prior to the Industrial Revolution,
If you're interested in drug treatment or social policy, here's a helpful resource and recent statistics regarding drug dependence. It is a report that tells us how many people become dependent, and are still dependent, two years after their first exposure to a particular drug.
In recent times, dependence of Indian people on the Internet has increased very fast and on the yearly basis, number of people using Internet for their basic needs in increasing very fast in India. Mostly, this increase is coming from the younger generation of India which is finding Internet as a very convenient option for doing number of jobs. We can easily find number of services like Internet b
Co-dependence is the unconscious dependency that exists when we don't recognize and accept our need for others. Interdependence is the conscious acknowledgment of our need for one another.
The need for connection and contact between human beings is very important to acknowledge. Not only do we need intimate relationships with our partners, nuclear families, and close friends, but also we need a
It's time to put the pedal to the metal in finding alternates to oil and other fossil fuels. I getting tired of being held hostage by the oil companies and OPEC.The alternate fuels are out there. Their use has to be encouraged by governments and an enlightened public.Very soon, automobile companies will be releasing their green vehicles to consumers. Take a look at "The Tesla Electric Car", "The Chevy Volt", "The "Honda Fuel Cell FCX", and "The Zenn Electric Car".Probably, one of the most useful alternate energy products is solar energy from Nanosolar. An explanation of their product is given below in a YouTube video:It's time for the great financial powers that be to invest in something that will save the planet and
A woman faces many issues in marriage. After a woman gets married, she may have to leave her career mid-way to look after her home. A woman looks after her children and home and is practically employed for all the twenty-four hours without any pay. Her
Many teenagers when heading off to college are leaving home for their first-ever taste of freedom.Inevitably, alcohol will form a major part of their new lifestyle but research has shown:on average, students consumes 28.4 units a week many students consume up to 50-60 units a week the recommended daily units are 2 for women and 4 for men Most students drink in binges at weekends. This is more
Many teenagers when heading off to college are leaving home for their first-ever taste of freedom.Inevitably, alcohol will form a major part of their new lifestyle but research has shown:on average, students consumes 28.4 units a week many students consume up to 50-60 units a week the recommended daily units are 2 for women and 4 for men Most students drink in binges at weekends. This is more
Opioid dependence is more common than many people think. Every year, thousands of people become dependent on prescription pain medication after their diagnosed need for pain relief has passed. No one is immune to opioid dependence. It affects men and women of all ages, races, ethnic groups, and educational levels. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): 4.7 million people aged 12 and older were misusing pain relievers 32.7 million people aged 12 and older had used pain relievers for non-medical reasons (i.e., recreational use) in their lifetime Approximately 3.5 million people used heroin in 2005
Opioid dependence is more common than many people think. Every year, thousands of people become dependent on prescription pain medication after their diagnosed need for pain relief has passed. No one is immune to opioid dependence. It affects men and women of all ages, races, ethnic groups, and educational levels. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): 4.7 million people aged 12 and older were misusing pain relievers 32.7 million people aged 12 and older had used pain relievers for non-medical reasons (i.e., recreational use) in their lifetime Approximately 3.5 million people used heroin in 2005
The President was right to veto the SCHIP expansion recently passed by congress. To put it simply, all the grandstanding from lying Democrats and quisling Republicans that Bush is somehow denying health care to children is absurd. The facts about SCHIP simply do not support this notion.Under SCHIP, taxpayers pay for the health coverage of children in families of four earning as much as $72,000 per year. Democrats in Congress seek to open the program to families of four earning $83,000 per year or more. The President has made it clear that he is open to expanding the program, but not to cover well-off families before States enroll 95 percent of those lower-income children first.The foundation of SCHIP is utterly implausible in the first place. It assumes the efficient transfer of funds from taxpayers to the needy as their tax dollars go from their pockets to Washington and then back to state governments and ultimately back to the people who "need it." Like its uglier older sister, Medic
The market seems to have taken well to the liquidity injection by the Federal Reserve. Since the past two weeks of subprime debacles and stock market woes, the market is slowly gaining a foothold. Investors don’t seem to care that each day a few lending companies are collapsing and firing thousands of people. Growing foreclosure numbers, housing prices depreciating, and consumer spending cut
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The term “drug abuse” is defined by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as: “the non-medical use of a substance for any of the following reasons – psychic effect, dependence, or suicide attempt/gesture”. The term “non-medical” generally refers to the use of prescription drugs in a manner inconsistent with accepted medical practice. Important Terms and Concepts: self-administration – the end result of drug-seeking behavior; animal models tolerance – can be stated two ways: the effect of a specific dosage decreases with repeated administration, or a higher dosage is needed to produce the same effect with repeated administration. 1. mechanisms for the development of tolerance dispositional tolerance – due to changes in the pharmacokineticproperties of the drug (absorption, distribution, metabolism and/or elimination) pharmacodynamic tolerance – due to adaptive changes in the affected systems (e.g., down-regulati
President George W. Bush rolled out Monday plans to slash US reliance on oil supplied from unstable regions and so boost the energy-hungry country's defenses against extremist attack. The directive to cut gasoline usage by 20 percent in the next 10 years will make the United States "more secure for generations to come," help economic growth and safeguard the environment, Bush said. The so-called "20 in 10" plan was first laid out in Bush's State of the Union speech in January, seeking to slash US oil imports from the restive Middle East and make US energy supply less vulnerable to terrorism. The president Monday presented legislative proposals for Congress and ordered regulatory action from his cabinet members in charge of transportation, energy, agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by end-2008. "Our dependence on oil creates a risk for our economy because a supply disruption anywhere in the world could drive up American gas (gasoline) prices to even more painful
In the context of the current housing slump and lackluster GDPgrowth, it is interesting to read the following excerpt from Wikipedia. "A recession is traditionally defined in macroeconomics as a decline in a country's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two or more successive quarters of a year (equivalently, two consecutive quarters of negative real economic growth). However this definition is not universally accepted. The National Bureau of Economic Researchdefines a recession more ambiguously as "a significant decline ineconomic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a fewmonths." You can almost hear the buzz predicting an oncoming recession (though I continue to hear to the contrary). People are asking -- is it a sign for something bigger and more devastating? Eighty two year old Lee writes in his book 'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?': "Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who'sfed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We s
Experimenter administered drug injections, e.g., intraperitoneal (i.p.), intravenous (i.v.) or intracranial, is most frequently used to study the acute or chronic pharmacological effects of drugs regardless of the motivational state.A more optimal model to study dependence is the drug self-administration paradigm in which the animal itself can control their drug intake. In the conditioned operant drug self-administration paradigm the animal is trained to press a lever to obtain a drug delivery (systemic or intracranial). The lever pressing and presentation of a cue light during drug delivery is paired (conditioned) to the drug delivery. If the drug is rewarding it acts as a positive reinforcer and lever pressing will be continued.In studies where rats have 24h unlimited access to cocaine, self-administration will be continued until starvation and death (Bozarth & Wise 1985). Different paradigms can be studied when using the self-administration paradigm. In the fixed ratio (FR) sche
Cocaine Dependence and Mood Disorder Comorbidity. Cocaine dependence is characterized by changes in mood. According to Kaplan and Sadock (1998), mood is defined as a pervasive and sustained emotion that colors the persons perception of the world, and common adjectives used to describe mood include depressed, despairing, irritable, anxious, angry, expansive, euphoric, empty, guilty, awed, futile, self-contemptuous, frightened, and perplexed. In DSM IV, the term mood disorder is interchangeable with affective disorder, which only includes depressive disorders, i.e. major depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymic disorder, substance-induced mood disorder.In this thesis, mood disorder refers to both depressive disorders and anxiety, based on the prevalence of both in cocaine dependent subjects. There is also a high comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders (Merikangas et al. 1996; de Graaf et al. 2003).Epidemiological reports support a strong comorbidity between substa
Although drugs that are abused are highly addictive, not all individuals become dependent after using these substances. Genetic, social, and environmental factors all influence the propensity to develop substance dependence. It is therefore important to distinguish between substance use, abuse and dependence. Substance use refers to a controlled drug intake for non-medical purposes (e.g., social drinking). According to the American classification system for psychiatry disorders, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV; Association 1994), substance abuse is defined as controlled harmful drug intake that is continued despite negative effects (e.g., physical hazards or failure to fulfill obligations at work, school or home).Substance dependence is defined as uncontrolled drug intake in which the individual needs the drug in order to function. The diagnostic criteria for substance dependence are presented in Table 1. The development of substance dependence specificall
When do you feel the most inadequate or put down?
I feel inadequate when i see shiny happy people. I feel that way because I think I'm incapable and undeserving of happiness. It also makes me feel bitter, resentful and jealous.
How do you handle that situation?
I put myself down and isolate. I stay away from people as much as possible.
How would you like to handle it?
I'd like to be one of those shiny happy people. At the very least I want to show everyone and myself that I don't care what they think about me and I want to believe it myself.
What role do you play in your significant relationships?
It depends on what kind of relationship. To my family I was the responsible know-it-all. With men I've been the martyr. With friends I've been the chaotic one.
In what ways does it effect you?
My needs have gone unmet. I've lost my sense of self. I have a lot of pain and resentment built up inside me.
What do you need to change to gain balance of healthy give an
:: PSALM 119:25-32 The “D” sentences of this Hebrew acrostic psalm, contains a portion that sings of Depression, in the spirit of Devotion, Determination, and Dependence. The eight verses alphabetically arranged: v.25 - (D)epressed to the dust is my soul: quicken thou me according to thy word. v.26 - (D)eclared have I (to thee) my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. v.27 - (D)eclare thou to me the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. v.28 - (D)ropping (marg.) is my soul for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. v.29 - (D)eceitful ways remove from me; and grant me thy law graciously. v.30 - (D)etermined have I upon the way of truth; thy judgments have I laid before me. v.31 - (D)eliberately I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame. v.32 - (D)ay by day I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. REFLECTION The pain of the psalmist (v. 25) leads the psalmist to renew comm
