Hypoglycemia is most common in people with diabetes. For a person with diabetes, hypoglycemia occurs because of too high a dose of diabetic medication, especially insulin, or a change in diet or exercise. Insulin and exercise both lower blood sugar and food raises it. Hypoglycemia is common in people who are taking insulin or oral medications that lower blood glucose, especially drugs in the sulfonylurea group (Glyburide and others).
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment.
ment and that the Framers intended âcruel and unusualâ to refer to. certain methods of punishment. This Note insists, however, that one cannot effectively discuss the. Eighth Amendment in terms of original intent without examining the. word that follows âcruel and unusualâ in the constitutional text. The system of âpunishmentsâ that existed at the time of the Founding was fundamentally different from that which exists today.8 The Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause was written in the context of a system that relied to a large extent on public participation in punishments.