Drugs of abuse

Medical narcotics must be administered under medical supervision because of their potential for misuse and abuse, leading to more dangerous and addictive substances. The control of medical narcotics requires close monitoring to ensure that they remain safe and effective. This study proposes a methodology that can effectively identify the overprescription of medical narcotics in hospitals and patients.

12p vishanshan 27-06-2024 3 1   Download

These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chro-matographic, liquid chromatographic, or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents, including antibiotics, vitamins and hormones, drugs of abuse in body fluids, dosage forms, or food stuffs. Over 5000 publi-cations were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds, arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups.

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Ebook Interpretation of MS–MS mass spectra of drugs and pesticides includes the following main contents: Provides a general discussion on the fragmentation of even-electron ions (protonated and deprotonated molecules) in both positive-ion and negative-ion modes; This is the reference book for the interpretation of MS–MS mass spectra of small organic molecules; Covers related therapeutic classes of compounds such as drugs for cardiovascular diseases, psychotropic compounds, drugs of abuse and designer drugs, antimicrobials, among many others.

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Part 2 book "Basic and clinical pharmacology" includes contents: Introduction to the pharmacology of cns drugs, sedative hypnotic drugs, the alcohols, antiseizure drugs, general anesthetics, local anesthetics, skeletal muscle relaxants, pharmacologic management of parkinsonism and other movement disorders, antipsychotic agents and lithium, antidepressant agents, opioid agonists and antagonists, drugs of abuse,... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Molecular biology of drug addiction" includes content: Molecular mechanisms of opioid dependence by using knockout mice, molecular genetic approaches, different intracellular signaling systems involved in opioid tolerance dependence, inhibitors of enkephalin catabolism - new therapeutic tool in opioid dependence, recent advances in the molecular mechanisms of psychostimulant abuse using knockout mice,... and other contents.

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Part 2 book "Small animal toxicology essentials" includes content: Insecticides; other pesticides; plants; dietary supplements and herbs; zootoxins; mycotoxins and mushrooms; food associated intoxications; drugs of abuse; otc drugs; prescription drugs; household and industrial toxicants; metals and minerals; miscellaneous toxicants.

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The researchers recommended stronger awareness of the implications of drug use and the re-structuring of academic programmes that can minimize stress. Also, the need for a free functional counseling unit to enable students obtain professional advice that will help promote mental well being was advocated.

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The study found out that various models of treatment were used for treatment of clients admitted in drug rehabilitation centres in Nairobi. The commonly used models included the 12 step program of the Minnesota model, Therapeutic community model, Medical model and in most places a mixture of the various models.

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In this study, we assesse and examine the relation of health education intervention with health knowledge and behavior, some these disruptive behaviors include smoking, drugs, injury, disease, individual abuse, stress, mental and emotional health among students of different colleges under PAAET (The Public Authority for Applied Education & training).

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The aim of this qualitative case study was to find out the types of psychoactive substance abuse information communicated to Drug Addicts from Sabon Gari metropolitan area of Kaduna State, Nigeria particularly in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)’s detention and rehabilitation centre.

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Part 1 book "Veterinary toxicology - Basic and clinical principles" includes content: General; organ toxicity; nanoparticles, radiation and carcinogens; drugs of use and abuse; metals and micronutrients; insecticide; herbicides and fungicides; rodenticides.

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Ebook "Pharmacology demystified" includes content: An inside look at pharmacology, drug action and drug interactions, pharmacology and the nursing process, substance abuse, principles of medication administration, route of administration, dose calculations, dose calculations, vitamins and minerals,... and other contents.

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Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is an uncommon pyogenic infection, localized between the dura mater and vertebral periosteum, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. SEA development is connected with medical comorbidities and risk factors facilitating bacterial dissemination; multiple factors are believed to play a role, including aging, increased alcohol abuse, use of intravenous drugs, a greater prevalence of medical comorbidities, and increased rates of spinal surgery that furthers iatrogenic spinal infection.

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Part 2 book "Modern medical toxicology" includes content: Cardiac drugs and lipid lowering agents, anticoagulants and related drugs, cardiotoxic plants, toxic gases, miscellaneous drugs and poisons, hydrocarbons and pesticides, gastrointestinal and endocrinal drugs, substances of dependence and abuse, . biochemical and haematological tests, analytical instrumentation, food poisoning.

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Rapid chemical detection of drugs of abuse in biological fluids such as blood and saliva is a concern within medicine and law enforcement. As an outcome, a label-free detection platform takes biological fluid samples with concentrations ranging from extremely high to very low.

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Part 1 of ebook "Clarke’s analytical forensic toxicology" presents the following content: introduction to forensic toxicology; pharmacokinetics and metabolism; drugs of abuse; other substances encountered in clinical and forensic toxicology; workplace drug testing; alternative specimens; postmortem toxicology; clinical toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring, in utero exposure to drugs of abuse;...

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The wide and prolonged use and abuse of antibiotics in livestock and poultry farming, aquaculture, and farming to treat and prevent animal diseases, as well as production purposes, made microorganisms adapt to drugs, facilitate the resistance of many types of antibiotics, and decrease the effectiveness of medicines. To assess the counseling skills of community pharmacists for antibiotics by using the simulated patient approach.

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Prescription medication (PM) misuse and abuse is a major health problem globally, and a number of recent studies have focused on exploring social media as a resource for monitoring nonmedical PM use. Our objectives are to present a methodological review of social media–based PM abuse or misuse monitoring studies, and to propose a potential generalizable, data-centric processing pipeline for the curation of data from this resource.

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The main objective of this thesis is to illustrate the benefits of using a cultural studies approach in the field of health communication research in Thailand. In this thesis I apply a cultural studies approach to examine the construction of meanings involving drug use and abuse in Thai television advertisements and dramas. The thesis has as its focus analyses of television texts and audience responses.

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In this paper, this drawback was intended to be addressed by the use of hexanol-based supramolecular solvents (SUPRAS) with restrictedaccess properties. The aim was to develop a fast and interference-free sample treatment workflow for the determination of opioids, cocaine, amphetamines and their metabolites in human hair.

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