Some people think that there are too lose of restrictions on not as strong doctor prescribed pain killers. These people are nervous that they are being abused and need to regulated better. While other people may argue that the restrictions would be an inconvenience to the patient.
These regulations seem innocent at first. The FDA is going to limit the amount of refills a person can have on their medication, which mean the patient would have to go into the doctors office more to get a refill on the drug. Their argument is that many people only use these type of pain killers for about 14 day but the are prescribed 5-6 refills that can last the person 6 months. This excessive amount of extra pills allows teenagers to get a hold of them or other people. With drug over dosses being about %70 from prescriptions from the doctor, they FDA is trying to limit this and bring down the amount of deaths per year. Another part of the regulation would be that the patient would have to go into the pharmacy to get the prescription filled instead of the doctors office just calling it in.
Some people are not happy about this. They know that they will have to go into the doctors office twice as much to get their medicine than they regularly would have. This will cost the patient more money in doctor visits and is inconvenient to them.
What I think is that their should be stricter regulations on prescription medication because I am a teenager and I see it abused all they time. May teens go into their parents cabinet and get their left over medicine and no one ever really notices. They get addicted to these and they some even die from it. If even a few less deaths happen because their are stricter regulations then I think it is worth a shot. But the fact that people will have to pay for doctor visits more because they need their medication is not fair, if someone does not have that type of money then they may go without and that is truly not right. The regulation that the doctor can not call that prescription in I think is ridiculous because the doctors office is going to be able to tell if you are who you say you are a lot better than a pharmacy is. This may give people more leeway on abusing the drugs.It makes me think that the doctors offices are understaffed and they are trying to compensate and get the FDA to approve it so they do not have to do as much work.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
College Dept
When it comes to college it does have its perks in the end but of course they are hard to see when you have so much stuff you have to do to get them. A person that has a college education is more likely to get paid a better amount, which seem obvious even though many of us college students think we will never find a job once we go into the job market. This is a very stressful idea, to put so much money and time into something that gives me no rewards.
Statistically there has been more people going to college which to me is good and bad. Does that mean by the time I get my degree all the jobs will be taken up or that I will settle for a job i do not really want because its the only one that will hire me. If i look at it like there will be better quality of things because we are more educated i guess it helps. Then there's the many people out there that cant find jobs because they dropped out of college or because their field is flooded. The statistics are good to the people who own and run companies but to me its just a sign that I need to get my degree quickly.
College is very expensive and it is interesting how many people a college has running it.I mean i go into an office and it's like there is always one to many people in there scratching their ass and then to find out all of these tutors get paid is crazy, especially when I know certain ones aren't even being used they are just there to get a pay check. I understand there are many things that need to be done to run a college but seriously get it together it cant need that many people.
Another thing that isnt mentioned is that so many people change their majors they are probably able to do many things will the knowledge they no longer need and they will never actually see they benefits for that in a paycheck. I worry that i will be one of these people. Its weird to me because i know the 3 degrees i am considering but it just seem like I cant choose which one i will be more happy doing once i put the effort into getting it. The statistics dont show how much money we loose because of our indecisiveness and I wonder if they did if we would get our act together faster and figure out what we are doing. If we could more of us would probably graduate in 4 years and not to mention the money we could save.
The debt for college is tremendous. Yes we have an idea of how much it will cost but many students dont have an idea of how much a dollar is worth. This is an important idea and can only be learned it took me until I made sacrifices on what to do with the money i earned to understand this idea. Many people buy cars and houses when they are still in debt and this does not help. They need to take the debt one thing at a time if they have a big college loan they need to pay off their next step shouldnt be buying a house even though it looks nice.
Yes college debt is terrible and maybe the colleges are over charging us but if we study get a career and pay off our student loans then get a house we should be fine and able to figure out what to do with the perks of having a degree.
Statistically there has been more people going to college which to me is good and bad. Does that mean by the time I get my degree all the jobs will be taken up or that I will settle for a job i do not really want because its the only one that will hire me. If i look at it like there will be better quality of things because we are more educated i guess it helps. Then there's the many people out there that cant find jobs because they dropped out of college or because their field is flooded. The statistics are good to the people who own and run companies but to me its just a sign that I need to get my degree quickly.
College is very expensive and it is interesting how many people a college has running it.I mean i go into an office and it's like there is always one to many people in there scratching their ass and then to find out all of these tutors get paid is crazy, especially when I know certain ones aren't even being used they are just there to get a pay check. I understand there are many things that need to be done to run a college but seriously get it together it cant need that many people.
Another thing that isnt mentioned is that so many people change their majors they are probably able to do many things will the knowledge they no longer need and they will never actually see they benefits for that in a paycheck. I worry that i will be one of these people. Its weird to me because i know the 3 degrees i am considering but it just seem like I cant choose which one i will be more happy doing once i put the effort into getting it. The statistics dont show how much money we loose because of our indecisiveness and I wonder if they did if we would get our act together faster and figure out what we are doing. If we could more of us would probably graduate in 4 years and not to mention the money we could save.
The debt for college is tremendous. Yes we have an idea of how much it will cost but many students dont have an idea of how much a dollar is worth. This is an important idea and can only be learned it took me until I made sacrifices on what to do with the money i earned to understand this idea. Many people buy cars and houses when they are still in debt and this does not help. They need to take the debt one thing at a time if they have a big college loan they need to pay off their next step shouldnt be buying a house even though it looks nice.
Yes college debt is terrible and maybe the colleges are over charging us but if we study get a career and pay off our student loans then get a house we should be fine and able to figure out what to do with the perks of having a degree.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Football a Rough Sport?
When I think of football I imagine my step dad and I watching all the U of M games and hope Ohio lost all of there games indefinitly. But the truth is...how good for you body is this sport. After reading an article I realized its not good for your body at all.
Some people may argue that it is good for you. Many foot ball players are in very good shape regardless of there mass. They work out it seems like constantly, even in the off seasons. For many people it may keep them out of trouble, even though now a days that seems like all the proffesional football players are doing is getting in trouble. It sound promising, I mean i know if I worked out everyday this body would look amazing but I am too lazy. lol.
What people neglect to remember is that they are basically hit by a train every time they step out onto the feild. Even though they have set rule to accomidate for all the violence its still there. Just becuase there are rule and reffs to inforce them doesnt mean it gets done 100% of the time. When I watch football on tv i see a lot of stuff happen and it may get called and it may not but the point is...it still happens.
Football is started to get played by little people, which is fine i think its adorable to see 5 year olds starting to figure out how to play as a team. The bad part is many of them are starting to do tackle football and to a big person 2 little bodies colliding cant cause that much damage, but to the little bodies its happening to it is actually a lot of damage. The brain damage that is caused from football is sometimes long term, which i dont think is acceptable. Why would someone put their child in that sort of position, its like beating the shit out of your 5 year old twice a week but they like it. When it comes to football they need to create better protection for at least young people or not have them play tackle football at all.
Over all yes football is an entertaining sport but as it goes for saftey and how smart you will be at the end....it is quite questionable.
Some people may argue that it is good for you. Many foot ball players are in very good shape regardless of there mass. They work out it seems like constantly, even in the off seasons. For many people it may keep them out of trouble, even though now a days that seems like all the proffesional football players are doing is getting in trouble. It sound promising, I mean i know if I worked out everyday this body would look amazing but I am too lazy. lol.
What people neglect to remember is that they are basically hit by a train every time they step out onto the feild. Even though they have set rule to accomidate for all the violence its still there. Just becuase there are rule and reffs to inforce them doesnt mean it gets done 100% of the time. When I watch football on tv i see a lot of stuff happen and it may get called and it may not but the point is...it still happens.
Football is started to get played by little people, which is fine i think its adorable to see 5 year olds starting to figure out how to play as a team. The bad part is many of them are starting to do tackle football and to a big person 2 little bodies colliding cant cause that much damage, but to the little bodies its happening to it is actually a lot of damage. The brain damage that is caused from football is sometimes long term, which i dont think is acceptable. Why would someone put their child in that sort of position, its like beating the shit out of your 5 year old twice a week but they like it. When it comes to football they need to create better protection for at least young people or not have them play tackle football at all.
Over all yes football is an entertaining sport but as it goes for saftey and how smart you will be at the end....it is quite questionable.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The Story of Me in a Perfect Place
In my perfect place there are many imperfect people. Of course that is okay because no one is perfect. One day I will not forget is when the first time I ever came here. It was during the fall and I was not actually here to do anything related to school. I was over in the feild house for a karate tournament. It was early and no one was really here yet besides some of the masters and other people like me, who like to practice when there is not as many distractions.
I walked into the giant basketball court area and think this place has got to be cool it was a rock climbing wall and a high ropes course, eventhough I am sure many colleges have these things, I thought this school was special. The tournament started off like all the others...boring. We (all the black belt judges) had to go and have a meeting about fair judging and how we score certian catagories, it is quite boring and repetative. After this though, is where the fun begins.
All the black belt competitors are divided into divisions, which we already know everyone in them, and are diverted out to rings. This process is very slow becuase there are not that many rings running since a majority of the people that run them are competing. Waiting to compete use to be nerve racking but now i am use to it and am not phased as much.
When we finally get to our ring the write our names down and tell us the order we are in, I am always mysterious first a majority of the time. I comepete and then must wait for all the other competitors to do the same. Once everyone is done we have to wait for someone to get the medals and during this time one or all of the judges will give us individual constructive critism. Then they say the places and we recieve our awards. My placement in the particular tournament was first in every event.
Then we judge the gups (which is everyone under black belt). I was lucky and got Chelsea as my center judge (the person that basically runs the show in the ring). She is like me in the fact that we want to judge as little as humanly possible. During all this stalling we actually talked about school. She is older than me and would obviously know more about college beceause i was still in highschool at the time. She oddly enough goes to this college and had plenty to tell me about it. The things she told me were not what the flyers said, you could say and are how the college truely is.
She was extremely helpful in helping me figure out what school I should go to and if this one was right for me. She was not fearful in talking about money, which is shocking to me how many people are, and this was very helpful.
I still talk to her now but I never see her on campus even though she goes here. Without her help Im not sure if this would have been the college for me, but in some ways I am glad that it is.
I walked into the giant basketball court area and think this place has got to be cool it was a rock climbing wall and a high ropes course, eventhough I am sure many colleges have these things, I thought this school was special. The tournament started off like all the others...boring. We (all the black belt judges) had to go and have a meeting about fair judging and how we score certian catagories, it is quite boring and repetative. After this though, is where the fun begins.
All the black belt competitors are divided into divisions, which we already know everyone in them, and are diverted out to rings. This process is very slow becuase there are not that many rings running since a majority of the people that run them are competing. Waiting to compete use to be nerve racking but now i am use to it and am not phased as much.
When we finally get to our ring the write our names down and tell us the order we are in, I am always mysterious first a majority of the time. I comepete and then must wait for all the other competitors to do the same. Once everyone is done we have to wait for someone to get the medals and during this time one or all of the judges will give us individual constructive critism. Then they say the places and we recieve our awards. My placement in the particular tournament was first in every event.
Then we judge the gups (which is everyone under black belt). I was lucky and got Chelsea as my center judge (the person that basically runs the show in the ring). She is like me in the fact that we want to judge as little as humanly possible. During all this stalling we actually talked about school. She is older than me and would obviously know more about college beceause i was still in highschool at the time. She oddly enough goes to this college and had plenty to tell me about it. The things she told me were not what the flyers said, you could say and are how the college truely is.
She was extremely helpful in helping me figure out what school I should go to and if this one was right for me. She was not fearful in talking about money, which is shocking to me how many people are, and this was very helpful.
I still talk to her now but I never see her on campus even though she goes here. Without her help Im not sure if this would have been the college for me, but in some ways I am glad that it is.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
A Perfect Place
This place is actually farther from home than I would like. If it were up to me I would have it only 10 minutes away, so I do not have to waste gas going there. Although getting to this place is not very difficult, I just get on a freeway and 2 cross overs and 1 exit ramp later I am there. Bright and early I park my car. The sun light is always at the height in the sky where it blinds my eyes and makes me wish I had remembered my sunglasses, which I rarely ever do.
The walk way over to the building is actual not to bad to look at. It has beautiful trees that are geometrically place to where the placement is perfect and these tree block the terrible sun from blinding my eyes. When I get to the door I always hope someone has it open and is letting me grab it before i walk in, so I do not have to pull the heaviest door in the world.
Once inside I can always count on the fact that it is going to be comfortable and a relief from the outdoors. The floor is dark and looks rather expensive to me, but it goes with all the other things in the building. When I get past the walkway there is a giant wall full of windows that I always find myself gazing out as a place for my mind to be at ease for a brief moment before I get back to what i was doing.
Then I was down a hallway to a room where many others will be shortly to talk and communicate all the things he/she knows to help me further what I know. This place is the CASL building. I spend so much of my time here, I am here more than I am at home, during the week. The class I like to go to the most is math, my teacher makes my brain work and allows me to think without it being to hard that I will give up or to easy that I am done to early. It allows me time to fell accomplished and think that one day these story problems will be real and I will be fixing real situations. Besides my math class, I also like the math learning center. I am surprised that they do not know me by name in there. It is a ritual of mine and my friend, to go there after our math class and get help or do our homework.
I do not feel judge here nor do I feel alone, even though most of the time its just my friend and I wondering about. There is always so many people there to help us that its hard to feel like we do not have support here. This place is helpful in more than people allow it to be and if they did there would be an overabundance of amazing people in this area. I feel like I am being pushed here to be a better me and this makes me feel like it is, in a non perfect world, a perfect place.
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