Death by drug overdose in celebrities trouble us. They have fame, influence, and money, and they can get whatever they want. However, they are trapped in the vicious cycle of addiction. The year 2016 started with the death of singer Natalie Cole, nine-times Grammy award winner, who lost her fight against substance abuse. Daughter of the Jazz legend Nat King Cole, Natalie died in Los Angeles at the age of 65. Los Angeles in California has gained a notorious reputation for being rife with a serious drug problem.
Many theorists have pointed out the need to intervene at a behavioral level for addicts. Dealing with an addict in the first stage, one needs to make changes in his psyche and behavior is dangerous. Once they have developed solid recovery tools, they can safely probe a patient’s psyche. For such patients, a phased approach is required.
For some, the patient needs to uncover therapy and acquire recovery skills simultaneously. Such patients require a treatment plan that understands underlying issues that stop the recovery.
Those patients with a major personality disorder who are dependent on drugs then therapy is of little use. It is important that psychotherapy is placed in a proper setting for it to take effect. People who have lifestyles and egos intact have shown improvement with the traditional psychotherapy. The failure to find pain, maladaptive, the way of thinking, feeling, and behaving leaves a person psychologically vulnerable to relapse and failure to achieve improvement.
Ego deficit creates an addict’s inability to experience, label, process, and manage his or her emotional life. They face an emotional flooding with inner emptiness with an outer rush of emotions which they try to drown with the help of drugs. Drugs that are used for their ability to either numb, excite, calm, energize, sedate, sexualize, narcotize, and induce both ecstatic and fantasy states.
They also have increased dependency on people around them; they manipulate the people so that they can be “taken care of.” They themselves do not have the nurturing capacity and hence look for supplies from the outer world. If they do not have a family, they include another person as their “object” or “subject.” They extremely narcissist and pass responsibility and blame on others. These bail them out of every sort of problem. By avoiding personal responsibility, they fail at taking care of themselves. They try and manipulate others to take care of them with childlike behavior.
It is the most important methodology to establish facts by taking complete biopsychosocial histories from patients and the direct behavior observation of the patient. The history is to be corroborated by the family and close friends, etc. Such history includes the following information: social history, medical history, educational history, sexual history, vocational history, family history, substance use history, and criminal history.
If you wish to give yourself or a loved one another chance then get in touch with Los Angeles drug rehab or California drug rehab centers for more information.
There are various parameters set by our body which is to be met, and this serves as an indication of whether all our organs are in their optimum form. Our blood pressure, our blood sugar levels, creatinine levels, etc. are supposed to be within the accepted range which is an indicator that we are healthy.
People are familiar with the concepts of blood pressure and blood sugar levels. However, people remain a little less-informed on the need to maintain normal creatinine levels. So, in order to up your knowledge about creatinine and why it is imperative to maintain normal creatinine levels, keep reading.
What is creatinine?
In simple words, creatinine is the chemical waste molecule that is a result of muscle metabolism. However, the mere presence of creatinine doesn’t indicate that the body is functioning abnormally. Every individual has creatinine in the body since it is a by-product of the wear and tear of the muscles. This creatinine is flushed out of the body by our kidneys, and thus normal creatinine levels are maintained in the body.
Why is it necessary to maintain normal creatinine levels?
Even creatinine levels function the same way blood sugar and blood pressure levels function. Unless normal creatinine levels are maintained, one cannot say that they are in perfect health. As mentioned earlier, creatinine is a waste product, and like every other waste material, it has to exit the body. The kidneys are assigned the role of cleansing the body of creatinine. However, after a blood check or a urine check, if the reports show high creatinine levels, this indicates that there’s something wrong with the kidneys.
Unless measures are taken to reduce creatinine levels, higher creatinine levels can result in kidney failure or some degenerative kidney disorder. Diabetes, high blood pressure, and certain drugs are known to increase the creatinine levels in the body. Unless measures are taken to maintain normal creatinine levels, the person is at risk of renal failure.
What are the normal creatinine levels?
Since the production of creatinine is a result of muscle metabolism, men have higher creatinine levels owing to greater muscle tissues. The level of creatinine can be determined by a blood check and a urine test. The normal creatinine levels for men, women, and children are as follows.
Normal blood creatinine levels are-
Normal urine creatinine levels-
Once the creatinine level exceeds the normal level, it is imperative that steps are taken to reduce creatinine levels.
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Like the European football, American football has two 11 member teams, and that’s what is only similar between both the games. The gameplay technique parts its way from the European football. A team that has the possession of the football is called as offense. This team tries to take the ball down the field by running with the ball or throwing it. A goal is considered scored when the player crosses the line of the goal and gets into the area called end zone.
The opposite team (which also has 11 players) is called the defense. Being the defending team, it tries to stop the opponent team from scoring a goal by trying to make it give up the possession of the ball. If the opponent team (that is running with the ball) gives up the possession and the defending team scores, then in the next round offensive and defensive teams switch roles. This happens back and forth, until four quarters of the game have been played.
Game time
The game is divided into four quarters, with each quarter being 15 minutes long. The half-time (which is end of 2 quarters) is separated by a 12-minute break. There are also 2 minute breaks at the end of first and third quarters. The second half starts with a kickoff in the same way the game had begun in the first quarter. At the end of first and third quarter, the team with the ball retains possession and advances into the following quarter.
The clock stops when the player goes out of bounds, and when a penalty is called. The clock starts again when the ball is re-spotted by the official.
The team gets penalized if they are unable to snap off the ball for the start of the next play. Each team when playing offensive has 40 seconds for doing so.
If the game is tied at the end of the fourth quarter, a 15-minute over-time period is played, this is called as sudden death. Sudden death is where the first team to score wins. The possession of the ball is determined by a coin toss
Field size
The field spans to 100 yards in length and 53 yards in width. There are little white markings on the field, they are called as yard markers that help the players and officials and spectators alike to keep the track of the ball. The important part of the field is called as the end zone. It is an additional 10 yards (at each ends of the field). When the team with the possession of the ball enters this end zone and does a touchdown, they score points.