.... accompanied by other systemic abnormalities. FAS has no racial barriers and has been reported by variable ages from neonatal to young adult. Fetal alcohol exposure has life long effects and consequences that are not restricted to any one race or socio-economic group. /Fetal Alcohol Effects does not go away, brain damage is permanent, and birth defects are also permanent. Metal retardation is permanent and irreversible, behavioral problems are permanent; all of these problems associated with /Fetal Alcohol Effects are forever and once alcohol has done the damage there is no recovery. According to the writer, an experimental study was done among alcoholic male rats, and th ....

.... physical illness is the sufferer's fault-and no one should think depression is, either. Like any other illness, depression has certain symptoms. Once these have been recognized, you can take measures to treat them. Some are: feeling sad, worried or depressed; feeling as if your life is dreary and unlikely to improve; had crying spells; become irritated over little things that didn't used to bother you; find you no longer enjoy hobbies and activities that once made you happy; feel a lack of self-confidence or feeling like a failure; lost your appetite, or are eating more than usual; have had trouble sleeping, or been sleeping too much; had trouble concentrating and making dec ....

.... and technology, extensive personal care, and an ordering of the physical and social environment to be therapeutic in itself. There are, as it were, two complementary systems of treatment which may often overlap: One system is concerned with eliminating a curable disease and the other with relieving the symptoms resulting from the relentless progress of an incurable illness. There must be openness, interchange, and overlap between the two systems so that the patient receives continuous appropriate care. The patient should not be subjected to aggressive treatment that offers no hope of being effective in curing or controlling the disease and may only cause further distress. Ob ....

.... 1983 French oncologist Luc Montagnier and scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirus from the lymph node of a man at risk for having AIDS. At the same time, scientists working in the laboratory of American research, scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All three groups of scientists had isolated what is now known as HIV, the virus that caus ....

.... in mental health miss the diagnosisof severe depression at least half the time(Salmans 16). People are not made aware of what to look for in a depressed person. Prolonged sadness and changes in daily routine are often the most obvious signs. These still sometimes come up short when dealing with depression. Fewer than one-third of [people] ever receive treatment or even recognize that their misery could be relieved(Whybrow 7). When dealing with depression people often deny that anything is wrong. Feelings of shame often begin to emerge when someone does finally admit that they don't feel "normal". When things are abnormal life suddenly takes on a dull new look. ....

.... off society's money, taxes and insurance. Every type of insurance goes up because of , including auto, health and homeowners. Worst of all, the crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue. Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons.. Drugs have very harmful effects on the user and the people with whom the user interacts. The user is affected in many ways. The most popular drug in America, alcohol, is generally thought of as socially acceptable and relatively harmless. But it can have devastating effects. Alcohol might seem very harmless but it can harm the user very easily. Alcohol is easy to obtain and consume. I ....

.... is tantamount to murder (Kolner 5). In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first tri ....

.... of life, such as schoolwork, family, friendship, health or recreation. Experts say parents can best help a child though the grieving process by waiting until the child is ready to talk about the loss. Children can often pick of visual clues from they parents. *** Stages of grief .*** Young children may not see death as “real." This is conformed by cartoon characters who “die” and “come back to life” again. Children ages five and under may be filled with questions about what death is, how it happens, and why it happens. These questions are part of a young child's grieving process. The questions of whether a young child should be allowed to attend the funeral ....