According to UAB's health website, "Substance abuse is used to describe a pattern of substance (drug) use leading to significant problems or distress such as failure to attend work/school, substance use in dangerous situations (driving a car), substance-related legal problems, or continued substance use that interferes with friendships and or family relationships. Substance abuse, as a disorder, refers to the abuse of illegal substances or the abusive use of legal substances. Alcohol is the most common legal…

attempt to create a Philosopher’s Stone 1743 – 1794 – Antoine Lavoisier established that elements are the fundamental building blocks of chemical substance. He defined an element as ‘a substance that could not be composed into simpler substances. He identified four groups; metals, non-metal, elastic fluids (gas) and earth after examining the physical and chemical properties. 1829 – Johann Dobereiner developed the Law of Triads; the middle element’s atomic weight was the average of the other two elements…

disaster prepare is termed “protective steps forever safety” and also consists of building evacuation (“fire drills”), sheltering via significant temperature like tornadoes, “shelter-in-place” via the external airborne danger for instance a chemical substance discharge and also lockdown. Lockdown will be safety actions whenever confronted with the react regarding assault. When a crisis arises, the primary top priority is definitely living safety. Your second top priority would be the stabilization…

people have turned to substance abuse or experience chemical dependency for a variety of reasons. Nurses experience chemical dependency as well. According to Kunyk (2013), “healthcare professionals, including nurses, are also potentially vulnerable to substance use disorders regardless of any special knowledge, skills or insights they might have owing to their education and professional experiences” (p. 54). This paper will define what chemical dependency is, report causes of chemical dependency in nurses…

a technique known as ‘randomized controlled trial’. Pharmacology is the scientific study of the effects of chemical substances on living systems. The chemicals which pharmacologists investigate include normal parts of the body, compounds extracted from other plants or animals, and as well as substances arranged by chemists. Toxicology is the study of the unfortunate effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments, and detection of poisoning. Especially…

From the first essay, my knowledge about addiction/chemical dependence has expanded and grown in many levels and ways. One of the most important aspects of substance abuse that gave me a better understanding is dependence and its cause and effect. Although I knew people like experimenting with drugs for many reasons such as out of curiosity, have a good time, peer pressure, and other “compelling” factors. However, for so long I could not grasp why or how some people even among siblings become addicted…

Plant hormones otherwise known as phytohormones are chemical substances synthesized within the cell for use in regulation, cell to cell communication, and growth and development of the plant. These hormones are usually transported to a different cell to elicit a response. However, there are some which are able to act within the cell in which they were synthesized. They are synthesized in low concentrations and they are small in size for ease of transportation through the cell wall. The location at…

1.0 INTRODUCTION Based on United State Pharmacopeia, pastes are defined as semisolid dosage forms that contain one or more drug substances intended for topical application. (Pharmaceutical Dosage Form, 2009) Pastes are also intended for application to oral cavity or mucous membranes besides the skin. Pastes are usually prepared from fats, fatty oils, petrolatum, paraffin, waxes, glycerin or water by mixing homogeneously powdered drug with the foregoing materials as bases. (General Requirements for…

Concentration of Iron in an Unknown Substance Jack Boswell Experiment 5 Megan Otting and Dr. Caster Introduction: The objective of this lab was to determine the concentration of iron (Fe+2) in an unknown substance using a spectrophotometer. Spectrophotometry is a process that uses a sample solution to determine how much light a chemical substance absorbs by measuring the intensity of a beam of light passing through the solution. Every substance transmits light over a specific wavelength range…

Introduction: Water is a chemical substance composed atomically of an oxygen atom, and two hydrogen atoms, giving it the chemical formula H2O . It has a bent molecular structure, with the centralised oxygen atom at the top of the molecule with two lone pairs of electrons above it, and the two hydrogen atoms branching out below, each connected to the oxygen by covalent bonds. VSEPR (Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion) Theory is utilised in chemistry for the prediction of a molecules geometry.…