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Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs.
    #7754593 - 12/13/07 04:45 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The sleep deprived part is important. I feel retarded and probably sound like it too. I'm not really sure this post has any point.

For this lit class that I'm in. It was my final paper. I wanted cover the medical uses of illegal drugs and write a masterpiece publish-worthy paper. So the night before the paper is due, I start my research... research for about 45 minutes and go to trivia night at the bar like I always do on Tuesday nights. The plan was go play trivia for 2 hours, come back, write paper in about 4 hours and study for the final in that same class. Good plan right? I love writing when I drink.

Turns out we actually won trivia night this week. I get fucking reckless. I don't even remember going home I don't even know if I smoked pot. Apparently I stopped by my girlfriend's work and said hi. I woke up at 6am asking myself how I ended up in my kitchen because the last thing I remembered was being at the bar. Apparently I slept in my bed though. I was hungover as fuck, I ate some food, drank some water, went back to bed. I wake up at 9. No paper, no studying. Go take the final, did shittastic (whatevs, I did well on everything else in the class). But the paper was due by the end of the day (5pm), not the beginning of the class. Sweet, I have time to write it.

So I get home from class, dick around for an hour or two then get started. Then I realize the scope of what I got myself into. Search "lysergic acid therapy" on PubMed. 822 results. For one drug. A lot of the articles don't have full texts available when they're really important. Then you have to cite them. Then you have to do the other drugs.

I was about to undertake the most ridiculous task I'd done in a long time, because I wanted to do a good job on the paper. So I tell the professor, it's cool, just have it in tomorrow morning. So I continue working....

I've been awake since 9 AM yesterday. I honestly don't remember when I actually started the paper. Probably around 2PM yesterday. I emailed it to the professor at 2:45 PM, today.

So I worked for almost 12 straight hours on this thing. The minimum word limit on the paper was 600 words. My paper, after 12 hours of work? 2,737 words (with citations and all that shit). And I still think it's a massive piece of shit. Given the time frame I had, the enormous amount of articles that exist on the subject, and the fact that 95% of the logic in my brain disappears when I'm sleep deprived, there was just no way to write a good paper.

Anyone want to see it? (2737 words = long read)


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7754787 - 12/13/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I want to see it.:crankey:


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7754839 - 12/13/07 05:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Meh, I don't... no offense. :awesome:
Glad your still gittin' r' done though


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: TurntableJunky]
    #7754894 - 12/13/07 05:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Edit: had to delete the paper for personal reasons.


Edited by Gumby (12/29/07 02:41 PM)


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7754926 - 12/13/07 06:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Excellent work, brave, tired, psychonaut.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7754940 - 12/13/07 06:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)



Edited by sleepy (12/13/07 06:08 PM)


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. *DELETED* [Re: Gumby]
    #7754941 - 12/13/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Ferris]
    #7754976 - 12/13/07 06:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

"Only time will tell what new discoveries will be made and how quality of life will continue to improve."

i really like how illegal drugs help people who are suffering. its funny because they DO have medicinal value. if marijuana was legal would it replace opiates?


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. *DELETED* [Re: sleepy]
    #7754990 - 12/13/07 06:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Ferris]
    #7755008 - 12/13/07 06:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i edited, i was trying to be sarcastic. god this reminds me of how long its been since i wrote a paper.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: sleepy]
    #7755098 - 12/13/07 06:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The study Ricaurte did was 2002.
http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2002/2002_ricaurte_1435_1.pdf
Ketamine is still used on humans, I think PCP was discontinued being used on humans for the reasons you gave. I don't think the FDA banned methamphetamine for weight loss, I am pretty sure only the DEA can do that because its a controlled substance (like the DEA approved buprenorphine use for drug addiction). It might have not been scheduled at that point though, but I think it was still used for weight loss even when it was first scheduled in 71'.

Its not a bad paper, though I think you left out a lot of information. Way too short, but if 600 words was the limit I'm guessing it wasn't supposed to be very long.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: fapjack]
    #7755120 - 12/13/07 06:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

YEah damn man, 600 words is dick. You went far and away over the required amount. Think it was worth it?


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: fapjack]
    #7755147 - 12/13/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Actually, I just opened up the PDR its still being prescribed for weight loss.
"Desoxyn
METHAMPHETAMINE HAS A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE. IT SHOULD THUS BE TRIED ONLY IN WEIGHT
REDUCTION PROGRAMS FOR PATIENTS IN WHOM ALTERNATIVE THERAPY HAS BEEN INEFFECTIVE.
ADMINISTRATION OF METHAMPHETAMINE FOR PROLONGED PERIODS OF TIME IN OBESITY MAY LEAD TO
DRUG DEPENDENCE AND MUST BE AVOIDED. PARTICULAR ATTENTION SHOULD BE PAID TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUBJECTS OBTAINING METHAMPHETAMINE FOR NON-THERAPEUTIC USE OR DISTRIBUTION TO OTHERS,
AND THE DRUG SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED OR DISPENSED SPARINGLY."
http://www.horizon-bcbsnj.com/pdf/amphetamines.pdf


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: fapjack]
    #7755371 - 12/13/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

fapjack said:
The study Ricaurte did was 2002.
http://www.maps.org/w3pb/new/2002/2002_ricaurte_1435_1.pdf
Ketamine is still used on humans, I think PCP was discontinued being used on humans for the reasons you gave. I don't think the FDA banned methamphetamine for weight loss, I am pretty sure only the DEA can do that because its a controlled substance (like the DEA approved buprenorphine use for drug addiction). It might have not been scheduled at that point though, but I think it was still used for weight loss even when it was first scheduled in 71'.

Its not a bad paper, though I think you left out a lot of information. Way too short, but if 600 words was the limit I'm guessing it wasn't supposed to be very long.




Well the referencing the wrong Ricaurte study was the fault of one of my sources. They cited the 1985 study as the one that demonized MDMA.

I was under the impression that no variant of amphetamine was prescribed for weight loss. Maybe my sleep deprived brain just mixed it up with Adderall. I know they don't prescribe that for weight loss anymore.

I as far as the other errors are concerned, as long as the prof doesn't know any better, it shouldn't hurt me. Plus, by the time I wrote that part of the paper, I had already been up at least 24 hours :P

If I were to publish it somewhere, of course I'd correct it.

And yeah, I left out a TON of information. There was just SO much to cover and I was so exhausted that I just became apathetic and wanted to finish the shit so I could turn it in.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7755399 - 12/13/07 07:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

It was a good paper, but the subject you wrote about is more suited for a thesis than a term paper. You could write 100 pages and still not touch everything.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: fapjack]
    #7755559 - 12/13/07 07:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Hey I feel ya. I'm starting to forget my personality now because I can't function waking up at 6am every morning. I feel like its literally ruining my life. Hopefully things will start to turn around though. Didn't read your whole paper, only the first two paragraphs.

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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7755692 - 12/13/07 08:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Hey Gumby,

I like the topic idea, had a hard time reading it though. It was kind of choppy.

Then again, I am probably more sleep deprived right now than you were when you wrote it. So I had a hard time reading through your text...

_Swiggs a stella artois_+

Thanks for sharing your work with everyone.

Props for the topic idea... but you should have maybe picked just one chemical such as Psilocybin and wrote the whole paper on that only.


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: GGreatOne234]
    #7759301 - 12/14/07 05:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

GGreatOne234 said:
Props for the topic idea... but you should have maybe picked just one chemical such as Psilocybin and wrote the whole paper on that only.




Funny you should say that... I've already done that. Wrote a paper about it for a freshman english class several years ago.

If you wanna read it, feel free: http://www.shroomery.org/6233/Psychedelic-Mushrooms-Just-another-Drug-or-a-Powerful-Medicine

Thats another long one and it's probably got some errors in it, I've come a long way as a writer since I was a freshman in college. Either way I got a 96 on the paper... w00t!


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: Gumby]
    #7759847 - 12/14/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

What year are you in college?


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Re: Ramblings of a sleep deprived college student: I wrote a long paper about drugs. [Re: vigilant_mind]
    #7759914 - 12/14/07 07:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Pretty good, gotta love putting work off and barely getting it done in time... hehe :wink:


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