... The first synthetic anabolic steroid was developed in 1953, having a strength building effect five times stronger than the natural hormone testosterone. Not since the development of the anabolic steroid has any performance enhancer been so effective and so desired by athletes. Today, black market sales of anabolic steroids are topping $400 million per year. One million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids (Schrof, 54). Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body. Hormones have ...

... illness, untreated depression, loss of importance in community, loss of finances due to retirement, and loss of a spouse or friends due to institutionalization. rates have tripled for the 15-24 age group, due to an increase in mental illness in young people, increased drug use, and availability of firearms. Gender also plays an important role. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, four times as many men, as women, complete . Women are about two to three times as likely to try to kill themselves, as men. It is believed that more men succeed in committing because they are more deliberate ...

... your kids about how harmful tobacco is from an early age. If you suspect your son or daughter of smoking take it seriously. Stop them before it's too late. Teaching of the effects of cigarette smoking is a must. Tell them that about 400,00 Americans die every year because of health problems due to smoking. The second part of prevention takes place in our government. Stricter fines for sales to minors would help out allot. If there were also laws about underage smoking in public more teens would think twice about smoking. In the end all of this would help deplete the smoking population. Once a teen is addi ...

... mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. They also order and oversee diagnostic tests and procedures, formulate treatment plans and offer psychotherapeutic and medicinal treatment (Durgin 1). Psychiatry offers an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career; it also requires the most extensive training of any of the professions. Since the beginning of civilization, people have attempted to understand the causes of human emotional behavior. Most primitive societies believed that mental illnesses were caused by a demon who took possession of the victim’s body. The early civilizations would treat the mental illne ...

... or not a fetus is or is not a human being at the time of conception. Many pro-life advocates say that the answer is conception. The moment when a mans sperm and a womens egg, are joined. "At that moment the fetus is formed as a unique person that is allowed to develop freely, would grow to function independently." So abortion is wrong. Many pro-choice proponents argue that human life begins at viability, the moment when a fetus can survive outside the mothers womb. That is why they believe abortion is an okay decision to make. Pro-life advocates believe that a babys life begins at conception. They state ...

... 1963). Many young people between 10-18 years of age experiment with smoking, smoking is a personal choice, and usually exploratory in nature. Typically, it takes place in rather young people and is largely dependent on: first, the availability of opportunity to engage in the behavior, second, having a fairly high degree of curiosity about the effects of the behavior; third, in finding it a way of expressing either conformity to the behavior or others (such as parents, older siblings or peers), forth, as in "Miller and Dollar's" explanation of Observational Learning, The Copying behavior effect. This research is ...

... which cells of the immune system that guard against infection become wrongly programmed and start killing themselves they are not killed by the virus, as had been thought. But Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the American National Academy of Sciences, goes further. HIV is not a new virus, he says. It is perhaps "as old as America". It is carried by a small, fairly constant proportion of the population and is harmless. It is present in many AIDS patients because most of them have risk factors in their lives such as drug abuse, sexual behavi ...

... a new activity. Research should be done to know what muscle groups are going to be used and slowly start to condition those areas. A doctor’s visit is not out of the question when starting some physical activities, and sometimes it is very much suggested. A person should get a physical exam done to check their blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight to make sure the exercises they are going to begin are appropriate for their fitness level. Once a person is cleared to exercise, they should always remember to stretch and warm up before doing the activity. Like any automobile, a person also needs to warm up their ...

... of their experience. Dissociation is often a defensive pattern that continues into adulthood and will result in a full-fledged dissociative disorder. Dissociative disorders main feature is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness. If the disturbance occurs in memory, Dissociative Amnesia of Fugue results; important personal events cannot be recalled. Dissociative Amnesia with loss of memory may result from wartime trauma, a severe accident or rape. Dissociative Fugue is indicated by not only loss of memory, but also travel to a now location and t ...

... neural tube fails to develop completly during the first month of pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy depends on a sufficient weight gains. Women who begin their pregnancies at a healthy weight need to gain about 30 pounds, which covers the growth and development of the placenta, uterus, blood, breast, and infant. By reamining active throughout pregnancy, a woman can develop the strength she needs to carry the extra weight and maintain habts that will help her lose it after birth. From conception to birth, all parts of the infant, bones, muscles, organs, blood cells, skin, and other tissue are made fro ...