Sunday, May 6, 2012
Psychedelic Drugs can help Cancer Patients?
This video is a news broadcast, from CNN (Cable News Network) about how drugs from the 60s may be able to help patients with cancer by making the side effects less prevalent in their lives. It goes through an interview with a couple people, including one certain patient that has been helped by the drug and the doctor that is authorized to conduct this treatment.
This is relevant to term 4 of honors biology because it has to do with possible drugs to help with cancer, and cancer has to do with the human systems because every type of cancer affects one of the systems in the body, and we as humans are always trying to find new drugs to help cancer patients. Also, most of the drugs having to do with many of the diseases having to do with the human systems have the goal of relieving symptoms, which is what this drug does.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Do you personally believe this should be a drug that cancer patients should use, if so, then in what instances? Do you think it is wrong that it has the same ingredient that shrooms have?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think it is an okay drug for cancer patients to use once they reach a certain point. If they are really suffering, then I think it is okay for them to use these drugs. I don't, however, think that every cancer patient should use these drugs. I don't think it's wrong that this drug has the same ingredient, because although, again, not everyone should use it, the people who are in enough pain to use it should get a rest from it, and that's exactly what the drug does.
DeletePeople who have taken hallucinogenic drugs have been known to have complete personality changes. What would be other options for drugs that help with side effects that would have less of a negative effect on the brain?
ReplyDeleteI don't think the side effects are really important, because this drug is mostly taken before death to lessen the patient's fear of dying. Other medications similar to this help the patient cope with depression, pain, and other side effects of having cancer. So the drugs would depend on the person. Since this list is very long, here are a couple websites that have some of these drugs or just help for the patient:
Deletehttp://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/03/2567221/combating-depression-with-medication.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer-pain/CA00021
http://www.oncolink.org/coping/coping.cfm?c=5
I'm sure there are plenty more websites, but these were the ones I thought would be helpful.