Prescribed drugs and its various effects on the body and mind

In your text, there are drugs that have various effects on the body and mind. Research and write an essay regarding the impact drugs has on an individual's personality as well as what it does physically and emotionally.

is not completed yet, please advice of grammatical errors as well. thanks.

Prescribed drugs help people to live a healthier life. They are chemicals or substances legally approved to cure or prevent diseases. However, they also produce undesirable side effects, such, that they affect negatively an individual's mind, and body. Side effects vary upon several factors on their consumption. For example, type, amount, frequency, body size, chemistry, and mixing drugs. Nevertheless, even when doctors do not want to recognize the side effects in some of these artificial drugs, they may also cause psychological and emotional changes.

The issue arises when the side effects of some of these drugs not accepted as side effect, might need to be treated with other drugs in which case causes a vicious cycle. For example, Xanax (alprazolam) is one of the most commonly prescribed medications used in USA to treat anxiety, but few knows that it may cause depression, memory impairment, and in some cases difficulty concentrating. Halcion (triazolam) is another drug similar to Xanax, but, the duration of its sedative effect is very short making it one of the most popular sleeping pills used in the USA. However, in recent years there have been reports that Halcion may impair memory the day after people take this sleeping pill. Some others have reported even experienced a "jump back" anxiety effect after taking this medication. At last, there's no scientific way for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to keep track on the adverse reactions for this drug. So, in reality nobody knows how dangerous can this drug really is.

It happens very often that some doctors don't review a patient's medication. Instead, they add a new prescription drug to combat the side effects that are not being recognized as coming from another drug. Let's say a patient is prescribed an antidepressant to relief the blues caused by a blood pressure drug. In fact, depression and fainting are two of the most widespread side effects from antihypertensive medications. In the last few years, warnings have been part of medical journals and newspapers, along new research, indicating that overmedication and adverse reactions to medications are not just common but perhaps becoming epidemic among people of all ages. Furthermore, in recent days, a federal advisory panel voted to recommend a ban on two very popular painkillers in the entire world, "Percocet" and "Vicodin". The reason is their side effects on the liver. Both drugs combine some type of narcotic with acetaminophen, a very popular ingredient in over-the-counter products such as Tylenol or Excedrin. It is reported that high doses of acetaminophen are leading cause of liver damage. Nevertheless, acetaminophen is also combined in at least seven some other prescription drugs, and if the FDA pays close attention to the advice of experts they may be banned as well.

Any human body is susceptible to suffer an adverse reaction, as a direct result of side effects induced from prescribed medication. Weight gain/loss , sexual performance issues, gastrointestinal issues, different degrees of fatigue, uncontrollable muscle tremors, vision changes are just a few of them physical side effects.

Certain type of medications known as "Anti-rejection," may even cause a change on a patience physical appearance. These drugs decrease the response of the immune system to an organ transplant and help by preventing their rejection. Their negative side effects included, and are not limited to, puffiness, excessive hair growth, gain weight, pimples, cushingoid (change of face to a rounder shape), and swollen gums. Although, these side effects can go away after some treatment, they will still cause an amount of emotional distress on a patient. Bone loss is another side effect caused by steroids that can affect physical ability.

I see a problem with organization. Besides not being broken into paragraphs, the second chunk of text meanders from point to point without a clear purpose or method of organization. Try jotting down a word or phrase for each point that you want to make and then use outlining or mapping to put them into some sort of logical order.

i followed your advice and re-arranged it. do you thing the paragraphs are too long?

Let me stay with content and organization before moving on to grammar and punctuation. I'd like to see your introduction include a preview of the information you will cover, and I would like for there to be some method of organization determining in what order you will discuss the somewhat random side effects you discuss. As it stands you cover side effects due to interactions between medications before you discuss (in the next to last paragraph) the kinds of adverse reactions that anybody might have in response to a single drug. That doesn't make sense.

Staying with content, where did you get all of this information? You are giving details you could not know (unless you are already a doctor specializing in this area) from your own life experience. Therefore, you must provide citations.

As to grammar and punctuation, let's look at specific sentences once you get the organization straightened out. I will say, however, that you need to resist the urge to throw in so many commas. A comma indicates a pause. Read this aloud, pausing for every comma:However, they also produce undesirable side effects, such, that they affect negatively an individual's mind, and body. Sounds strange, doesn't it?

As you reorganize this essay, think also about looking at the drugs' intended effects, whether they are as desirable as people claim, and whether the drugs actually produce them. Also, not all side-effects have to be negative, and drugs meant for one purpose have at times been marketed for another after a beneficial side effect has been discovered, though this is less common than the occurrence of negative side effects. Which raises the interesting question of how common negative side effects are on these drugs. Do they adversely affect only a small percentage of people who use them, or are they pretty much universal? Thinking about some of these issues will help you craft a stronger introduction, which should lead to a clearer sense of what to discuss when in the body of your essay.

Oh, and if the essay will deal with the effect of drugs on the body and the mind, you have at least one way of subdividing your essay built into your prompt.

well, i've been working on my introduction statement. this is so far what i got. I gave it some organization and logic.

what do you think?

Medicines are legal drugs prescribed by doctors to cure diseases or to improve an individual's life. Contradictory some of these drugs produce undesirable adverse effects that may affect negatively and differently each person. In the medical field they are also known as ADR's (Adverse drug reactions). On the one hand we have the psychological side effects caused by them. Some of the most common emotional side effects involve anxiety, mood swings, and depression. However, such unpleasant reactions vary depending on the individual's age, gender, race and many more factors. On the other hand there are as well negative physical effects that impact a patient's life when taking prescribed medications. Weight gain/loss , sexual performance issues, gastrointestinal issues, different degrees of fatigue, uncontrollable muscle tremors, vision changes are just a few of them physical side effects. At last, any human body is susceptible to suffer an adverse reaction as a direct result of prescribed medication.Just do what you read on the instructions for every medication before you take it, "Always talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you have any worries about possible side effects."

Contradictorily, some of these drugs produce undesirable adverse effects that may affect negatively andeach person differently each person .

In the medical field, such side effects are also known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs) .

Always spell out first, rather than use the acronym first. Also, note that no apostrophe is used when making the acronym plural.

I am not sure that the "On the one hand . . . on the other hand" structure is appropriate here. The psychological and physical side effects are not really opposed to each other. Rather, they are two different aspects of the same unfortunate phenomenon.