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Loop Diuretics (Potassium losing)

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Understanding Cannabis: Basics and Composition

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names,^{[n 1]} is a psychoactive drug derived from the Cannabis plant, primarily intended for medical or recreational use.^[16][17][18] The main psychoactive component of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of 483 known compounds in the plant,^[19] including at least 65 other cannabinoids.^[20]

Methods of Cannabis Consumption

• Smoking
• Vaporizing
• Ingestion (within food)
• As an extract

Effects and Side Effects of Cannabis Use

Cannabis is often used for its mental and physical effects, which include:

• A "high" or "stoned" feeling
• A general change in perception
• Euphoria (heightened mood)
• An increase in appetite

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Onset and Duration of Effects

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This pushes your blood through your body: heart (corazon)

Grammar: the comparative, superlative, and equative

Understanding Food Contamination

Food contaminants are substances which may be present in foods as a result of how they have been handled through the different stages of production or as a result of environmental contamination.

What are Foodborne Illnesses?

Foodborne illnesses result from eating spoiled food or food that has been contaminated. When a foodborne illness involves an infection, it is called a foodborne infection.

Common Foodborne Infections

• Salmonellosis

  Salmonellosis is a foodborne illness caused by eating food contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. These bacteria are often found in contaminated water, in poorly preserved foods made with egg, and in meat. Symptoms include headache, vomiting, and diarrhea. It is particularly serious

 positive: hard-working, brave, generous, honest, cheerful, kind, unique, easy-going.

could be both: sensible, sensitive, energetic, stubborn (obstinado), proud.

negative: lazy, arrogant, selfish, moody (malhumorado), nasty, pushy, rude.

claws, trunk, paws, tail, tusks (colmillos), whiskers (bigote),  

sour, spicy, sweet, salty

dare (atreverse) regret (lamentarse) support (apoyar) encourage (animar, fomentar) prove, give up, turn back, go wrong, struggle, taking risks, amazes, avoided

daring, sceptical (duda/desconfía de la vrd), tough (duro), inspiring, humble (Humilde), courageous, ambitious, determined, charming (simpatico), influential, fearless, passionate

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Common Antidepressants and Medications

• Serotonin: A neurotransmitter that carries signals between nerve cells.
• Mood Stabilizer: A medication that helps regulate mood swings.
• MAOIs (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors): A class of antidepressants.
• SNRIs (Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors): A class of antidepressants that increase serotonin and norepinephrine levels.
• Remeron (Mirtazapine): An antidepressant used to treat major depressive disorder.
• Wellbutrin (Bupropion): An antidepressant and smoking cessation aid.
• Amitriptyline: A tricyclic antidepressant.
• Skelaxin (Metaxalone): A muscle relaxant.
• Flexeril (Cyclobenzaprine): A muscle relaxant.
• Cephalexin: An antibiotic.
• Percocet: A pain medication containing acetaminophen and oxycodone.

Proper Hand-Washing

1. Remove all jewelry, makeup, nail polish, and false nails.
2. Prior to opening a scrub/brush pocket, squeeze it several times to activate soap. Remove scrub, sponge brush, nail pick, and throw them away.
3. Press the foot pedals to begin the flow of water. Wet your hands and forearms when the water is warm.
4. Don't set down the sponge. Use nail picks to clean under nails and throw them away when finished.
5. Scrub under nails of each finger and thumbnail on the opposite hand until clean. Clean each of the four surfaces of the thumb with a sponge.
6. In circular motion, wash the palms and back of hands, fingers and between fingers, wrists and lower arms. Rinse well from arms to hands with a clean dry paper towel or towels. Pat dry starting at

Chronic Pain:

• Common types of CP: acute pain, arthritis, low back pain, neck pain, musculoskeletal disorder (4th greatest impact on world population)
• Common causes of pain: Nociceptive (normally functions Nervous system), neuropathic (abnormally function nervous system)

Risk factors with CP:

• aging, genetic predisposition (migraine), chronic disease (cancer), injury (low back pain), surgery (nerve damage), socioeconomic factors (education, poverty, health insurance coverage)
• migraines most common in females, back pain in males

Functional limitations:

• squeezing, migraine headaches, disability headache, impact activity tolerance

Workplace implications:

• 26% indicate pain as issue in employment, 19% had lost jobs, 16% change job tasks, 13% changed jobs,

Formal

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The movie “thank you for smoking” is about a man, Nick Naylor, that defends the rights of the smokers. Nick being the protagonist of the tail, suffers a moral crisis because of his work so he begins to question what is the right thing to do, if he should leave the company or if he should stay.

At the beginning of the movie, the tabaco companies where having some problems with the government because they wanted to create a special package showing the danger that the product does. Nick didn’t agree about this, but the government said that young kids where buying tabaco and that wasn’t right.  However, Nick wanted to place the tabaco brand in movies as part of the company publicity and because of this, reporters attack the tabaco company