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Reported side effects include difficulty sleeping, stomach aches, headaches, lack of hunger (leading to weight loss) and dry mouth. Less common side effects include palpitations, high blood pressure and pulse changes.

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Your a drug addict…get help now!

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Much like an amphetamine…makes you feel confident & loosens your inhibitions. The danger is there is a big comedown with tiredness & anxiety. Over usage can cause hallucinations & paranoia

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Some people get jittery and it can cause insomnia. Otherwise, I’m not super familiar with this drug.

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Methalphenadate is a very important drug many who take it wouldn’t be able to live there lives if it wasn’t available. I don’t know what you mean by black boxed but the reason why America uses 90% isn’t much of a head scratcher its a very big country that along with UK and Australia has lead the way in treating innatention and hyperactivity. Prescribed stimulants need to be monitored by the gp if not the specialist and I believe this is enforced by law. To add if your an adult taking any kind of medication then you need to do it responsibly and if your giving it to a child your are responsible for them and you need to monitor them and communicate.Common side affects are a loss of appetite, nausea, my dad works for a charity and he has never heard of anyone on ritalin who has had symptoms more severe than this, for some who have tourretes and tics it can either make the symptoms worse but it often improves them also.

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This might sound weird but after many years of being both emotionally unstable and suffering regular and prolonged bouts of depression I had a food sensitivity test. Having eliminated the problematic foods I have discovered I am actually one of the most stable people I know, not at all given to mood swings or depression.

Also, I work as a colon hydrotherapist and I have noticed that every time someone comes to me who is depressed they are always the ones who drink no or very little water. Dehydration can make you depressed.

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Marijuana is not a good treatment for anxiety and depression. The science has spoken.

It is good in the short term, but people who smoke a lot of weed become more anxious than normal and have more depression. NOT EVERYBODY, but a lot of them.

Prescription strength antidepressants and anti anxiety pills work better than weed and they don’t have the side effects of weed

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Acupuncture does work if the acupuncturist knows what they are doing. Actually there is an acupuncture technique without the needles, and you can learn and use this technique on yourself. This technique is called Emotional Freedom Technique, it eliminates many conditions, especially depression and anxiety. All negative emotions are caused by a disruption in the bodies energy system, eliminate the disruption and the problem goes away. It also eliminates a subconscious problem you might have.

Happy Journeys.

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It would definitely help your OCD. How were you feeling when you smoked it? Did you feel like it helped? If so, theres your answer.

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Serotonin can react Very badly to any allergies you may have and can inter-react badly will a host of other drugs. If you take too much 5-HTP, you may develop a dangerous group of symptoms known as serotonin syndrome. This condition may cause hallucinations, difficulty walking, and muscle spasms. It is not known how best to treat a 5-HTP overdose so any treatment will typically involve supportive care, which consists of treating the symptoms that occur as a result of the overdose. If you think you have overdosed on 5-HTP, seek medical attention right away.

There is also the small possibility that you got a bad batch?
Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) is an incurable and sometimes fatal flu-like neurological condition that is believed to have been caused by ingestion of poorly produced L-tryptophan supplements.

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Embryonic cells are called dedifferentiated. Differentiation is when a cell, in this case stem, differentiates or changes into another type of cell ( a heart muscle cell, a skin cell..etc.) So embryonic cells can become any other cell and the adult somatic cells cannot.

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Embryonic stem cells are able to turn into anything they want (pluripotent) , while adult stem cells have limited outcomes (multipotent)

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Almost everyone is for adult stem cells, so just start looking at the different pro life groups.

There really isn’t much they can do about the situation of killing embryos, since, of course, its not the embryonic stem cell research that kills them. Rather its IVF that kills the embryos, and produces the embryos that are used… A procedure that is legal, socially acceptable, covered by any decent medical insurance, and in general is NOT fought by any societal or prolife group.

Sure, they can work on lobbying against embryonic stem cell research, but as long as IVF exists, those embryos will still be dieing.

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Embryonic stem cells are undifferentiated, meaning they have not yet developed to serve any specific function in the body yet. Most adult cells are differentiated, so they can only be used for a specific purpose like certain cells of the organs or tissue. So the advantage is that you can harvest the embryonic cells and use them for whatever you need, whereas you are limited with adult cells (unless you acquire actual undifferentiated stem cells, which is very difficult in adult humans.) However, the premise of using embryonic human stem cells is quite controversial and the topic of much discussion in the scientific community.

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Pro-Life advocates (like Catholics) believe that life is a sacred gift from God and needs to be treated with all human dignity from the moment of conception to the point of natural death.

For this reason, the destruction of living human embryos to harvest embryonic stem cells is immoral.
• The end never justifies the means
• A moral good can never come from a moral evil

Here are just a few of the common myths about Stem Cell Research:

Myth: Stem cells can only come from embryos.

Truth: Stem cells can be taken from:
• Umbilical cords
• The placenta
• Amniotic fluid
• Adult tissues and organs including bone marrow, fat from liposuction, regions of the nose and even dead bodies up to 20 hours after death

Myth: The Catholic Church is against stem cell research.

Truth: The Catholic Church approves three of the four types of stem cell research:
• Against Embryonic stem cells
• For Embryonic germ cells (from miscarriages)
• For Umbilical cord stem cells
• For Adult stem cells

Myth: Embryonic stem cell research has the greatest promise

Fact: Up to now, no human being has ever been cured of a disease using embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, have already cured thousands. There is the example of the use of bone marrow cells from the hipbone to repair scar tissue on the heart after heart attacks. Research using adult cells is 20-30 years ahead of embryonic stem cells and holds greater promise.

Based on the “The Ten Great Myths in the Debate Over Stem Cell Research” by Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. Http://www.ncbcenter.org/10Myths.pdf

Adult stem cells are currently used for the medical treatment of:
• Anemias
• Cancers (multiple types)
• Child Leukemias
• Cornea Regeneration
• Crohn´s Disease
• Diabetes, Type I
• Heart Disease, Acute & Chronic
• Krabbe Leukodystrophy
• Liver Cirrhosis
• Lupus
• Lymphomas
• Myelomas
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Paralysis
• Osteopetrosis
• Parkinson´s Disease
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Stroke
• Systemic Vasculitis
• and more

For more information, see the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s resources on stem cell research: http://www.ncbcenter.org/stemcell.asp
And:

http://stemcellcures.org/

http://www.stemcellresearch.org/

Here is “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions” that Pope Benedict XVI gave to President Obama: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html