Psychoactive drugs
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History is littered with evidence of humanity's fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states. From early Romanticism to late-nineteenth-century occultism and from fin de Paris to contemporary psychedelic shamanism, psychoactive substances have playedcatalyzing people. Yet serious analysis of the religious dimensions of modern drug use is still lacking.
473p vimeyers 29-05-2024 4 2 Download
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Ebook Dual diagnosis nursing: Part 1 includes content: Understanding drug use and misuse, psychoactive substances and their effects, vulnerable young people and substance misuse, alcohol and dual diagnosis,… and other contents. Invite you to consult the details.
158p longtimenosee03 01-02-2024 2 0 Download
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Part 2 book "Rang and Dale's pharmacology" includes content: Chemical transmission and drug action in the central nervous system, amino acid transmitters, other transmitters and modulators, neurodegenerative diseases, general anaesthetic agents, analgesic drugs, local anaesthetics and other drugs affecting sodium channels, anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs, antiepileptic drugs, antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs, psychoactive drugs, drug abuse and dependence
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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.
17p vikissinger 21-12-2023 2 1 Download
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Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) represent an alternative to established illicit drugs. They are traded via the internet and exhibit small alterations in their chemical structure to circumvent law, however, their psychotropic effects are comparable. There is still poor knowledge about side effects and health risks.
15p viginny 23-12-2022 5 3 Download
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New psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to emerge in the drug market every year, becoming a global threat to public health and safety. These compounds are mostly synthetic cannabinoids and designer cathinones. However, synthetic opioids have appeared on the recreational drug markets in recent years, particularly fentanyl and its derivatives (“fentanyls”).
11p viginny 23-12-2022 10 3 Download
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Use of therapeutic caffeine in acute care postoperative and critical care settings: A scoping review
Caffeine is the most utilised psychoactive drug worldwide. However, caffeine withdrawal and the therapeutic use of caffeine in intensive care and in the perioperative period have not been well summarised. Our objective was to conduct a scoping review of caffeine withdrawal and use in the intensive care unit (ICU) and postoperative patients.
9p vidietmarhopp 28-12-2021 13 0 Download
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Cannabis products (marijuana, weed, hashish) are among the most widely abused psychoactive drugs in the world, due to their euphorigenic and anxiolytic properties. Recently, hair analysis is of great interest in analytical, clinical, and forensic sciences due to its non-invasiveness, negligible risk of infection and tampering, facile storage, and a wider window of detection.
20p vijiraiya2711 27-05-2020 14 1 Download
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Although the recreational use of psychoactive substances is common there is only limited systematic collection of data on acute drug toxicity or hospital presentations, in particular regarding novel psychoactive substances (NPS) that have emerged on the illicit market in the last years.
7p vienzym2711 30-03-2020 17 2 Download
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The nonmedical use of prescribed medicines among adolescents has increased significantly in recent years. Our study was designed to describe the prevalence of the nonmedical use of tranquilizers, sedatives, and sleeping pills (TSSp) among the school-age population residing in Spain from a gender perspective, and to identify factors associated with such use.
9p virome2711 13-01-2020 17 1 Download
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Polypharmacy (the concurrent use of more than one psychoactive drug) and other combination interventions are increasingly common for treatment of severe psychiatric problems only partly responsive to monotherapy.
11p viamsterdam2711 07-01-2020 10 1 Download
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(BQ) Continued part 1, part 2 of the document Harrison's manual of medicine presents the following contents: Cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, renal diseases, gastrointestinal diseases; allergy, clinical immunology, and rheumatology; endocrinology and metabolism; neurology; psychiatric disorders and psychoactive substance use; adverse drug reactions; women’s health,... and other contents.
495p thangnamvoiva2 25-06-2016 48 3 Download
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The third was conceived under the influence of a number of powerful smart drugs and psychoactives. He'd sort of run out of biological steam by the fourth kid, and just slapped an egg and some sperm together in vitro, letting some tech implant them.
7p nunongnuna 03-04-2013 46 2 Download
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Case studies for existing risks in the first section include drug use in Italian professional delivery truck drivers and using look-back risk assessment for syringe reuse in Canada. The first chapter by Oraby et al. describes the occurrence of syringe reuse reported in a Canadian health care setting on approximately 1,400 patients in the province of Alberta. Multiple syringe re-use events may act as a vector to transmit both RNA and DNA viruses.
208p wqwqwqwqwq 20-07-2012 45 6 Download
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The second chapter case study by Rosso et al. presents a medical survey that tests professional drivers for the presence of various psychoactive substances. Positives were identified by using a commercially available immunoassay rapid kit test which indicates consumption of psychoactive drugs. This is of interest and important since the dependence on drugs may pose a risk to drivers in their profession affecting their reaction time and driving judgment. This is one of the first and important contributions to the literature in this area.
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Psychoactive drug use is not just a phenomenon of the 20th century; many different types of drug have been used throughout recorded history. In this chapter we will outline the main classes of psychoactive drug. We are able to do this in a single chapter because, despite there being thousands of different drugs, they can be classified in a few main groups (Table 1.1). The crucial role of neurotransmitters will also be described because psychoactive drugs alter mood and behaviour by modifying nerve activity in various ways....
335p ptng13 25-06-2012 50 5 Download
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Caffeine, a nonselective adenosine A1 and A2A receptor antagonist, is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world. Evidence demonstrates that caffeine and selective adenosine A2A antagonists interact with the neuronal systems involved in drug reinforcement, locomotor sensitization, and therapeutic effect in Parkinson's disease (PD). Evidence also indicates that low doses of caffeine and a selective adenosine A2A antagonist SCH58261 elicit locomotor stimulation whereas high doses of these drugs exert locomotor...
10p toshiba23 18-11-2011 47 2 Download
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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: QT interval prolongation related to psychoactive drug treatment: a comparison of monotherapy versus polytherapy...
6p thulanh10 09-10-2011 48 1 Download