Addiction: From Tea and Coffee to Drugs of Abuse

Since ancient history mankind has use different types of drugs for diverse purposes, one of these drugs is the caffeine, the caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant wide world used and commercialized.
As for myself, like almost any person, I have tried a drug of abuse, and as you can imagine is the caffeine, I have to say that I take daily a cup of coffee, and for my experience, is good it helps a lot to wake up in the morning.
The caffeine for being a central system stimulant, will reduce fatigue and drowsiness, improving reaction time, wakefulness, and concentration (among others) being this some of the observable effects on a caffeine user.
Caffeine like any drug of abuse has some positive aspects and others negatives ones, for the beneficial aspects it can treat and prevent some diseases, like the apnea of prematurity, in fact caffeine is consider an essential medicine according to the “WHO”, but still has some negative aspects, for example caffeine can produce drug dependence, producing some withdraw symptoms such as sleepiness, headache and irritability.
Caffeine can produce some side effects, since physical effects to psychological ones, some example of physical effects are, increasing blood pressure causing vasoconstriction, increase the basal metabolic rate, and affect gastric acid secretion, on the other hand some psychological effects are insomnia, jitteriness, and other anxiety disorders. Aside this caffeine can be lethal over 10 grams per day for an adult, which are roughly 50–100 ordinary cups of coffee.
Now you may ask if a know some addicted to a drug of abuse, and I think is quite obvious, I think is hard to find someone who doesn’t use any type of drug, but in any case in my family I’m not the only one who use a lot of caffeine, my dad for example takes a lot more cups of coffee than me (like 3-4 cups per day).
I think drugs of abuse are very present is society, and for this many individuals are under the effect of any of them, as for my career (pharmacy), I believe that some of them obviously has some very negative effects to the professionals, like the hard drugs, or alcohol, but “safe” drugs like caffeine, I don’t see the problem of using them (I don’t say this because I use it ok?), of course in normal doses.

Post Graduate Studies

In our current time get a higher specialization has become an important aid, because in the current era, going to the university has something within the reach of more people, comparing to the old eras, when just a few privilege people can assist to the university, meaning this that in a globalized world, you need to have a bigger knowledge and highlight before other to get a better job, for this main reason I would take a post graduate course.

Currently if you ask me which subject or course I would like to take it would be the diploma of “clinical pharmacy”, because I like the idea of working directly whit a group of health professionals into a common goal, try to give to the patient the best life option before his disease or accident, but if we speak of a higher post grade title, like a Ph.D. I think I would like to course the “pharmacology”, study the course of action that medicine they exercise in the body.

If I have the possibility to make the course abroad in a good university I would gladly accept, but making the course is Chile is something I wouldn’t mind at all.

The form of how I would like to study it would be a part time course, because I think this way, I would have time for a job in the meantime while the course last and other activities, besides I think that classroom allow you to have a more interactive session than have a class though internet, and perhaps taking a blended system and take a part of the course in another country it may be a bit expensive.