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Archive for October, 2008

Lifestyle Pharmaceuticals: The New Wave of Recreational Drugs

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Ambien Music In the last few years, I seem to have lost my ability for industrial-strength sleep. I suspect it’s hormonal, but I for one have never wanted to play the “ovary card.” Whatever I’m feeling, I’ll just power through it. Having said that, sleep is pretty darn important, so that’s the one concession I’ll make to chemical aids. I’ve decided MY personal “hormone replacement therapy” regimen is yoga, a decent haircut and Ambien CR.

Apparently the US Air force also considers Ambien a useful tool as an “approved pharmacological countermeasure.” Because of uncomfortable working and sleeping environments, and an ultra-fast paced environment, fatigue is a growing concern. Particularly when a flying boo-boo can cost you millions and millions of dollars, “operator alertness” is pretty important. As a result, various components of the U.S. military have authorized the use of specific pharmacological substances as “go” or “no-go” pills. Yes, that’s what I’m going to call it from now on. “An approved pharmacological countermeasure.” Right alongside my “approved retailogical and spalogical countermeasures.”

Mental Health Care

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Mental Health Care is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. There are various facets to mental illness. The most heard and common are Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, dementia etc.These generally stem out of depression. Let us try and analyze how and why depression sets in.

Depression is one of most common mental illness and can be cured by timely mental health care. It can include both emotional and physical symptoms. Both types are controlled by chemicals called neurotransmitters. Depression does have other symptoms which we usually associate with emotional distress; such as unexplained aches and pains, or digestive problems.