Ketamine‚ or the chemical name Ketamine Hydrochloride‚ was originally created to be used as a human anaesthetic‚ and is still used as an anaesthetic for children‚ people with ppor health‚ and in veterinary medicine. Ketamine is also used as a recreational drug due to it’s effects of causing a separation between perception and sensation. In other words‚ your mind drifts away from your body and you lose control of your body and the sensations that yoour body is feeling. This is why ketamine is grouped
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“Drug abuse and addiction are major burdens to society; economic costs alone are estimated to exceed a half a trillion dollars annually in the United States‚ including health‚ crime-related costs‚ and losses in productivity. However staggering as these numbers are‚ they provide a limited perspective of the devastating consequences of this disease‚” (Volkow‚ 2007 P. 2). The cost of drug addiction and drug abuse can be staggering in today’s society. 14 percent of people brought to emergency
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Every day in the United States‚ an average of two thousand teenagers use prescription drugs without a doctor’s guidance for the first time. Prescription drug abuse is the number one killer of middle aged Floridians‚ killing an average of 9 people per day in Florida. How should we fix this issue in Florida and save other people from putting their lives in jeopardy? I propose that anyone who has a record of prescription drug abuse should be forced to be the government’s guinea pigs. They have to completely
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3 types of drugs that are made from nature Opium poppy Poppy is one of the most important medicinal plants. Traditionally‚ the dry opium was considered an astringent‚ antispasmodic‚ aphrodisiac‚ diaphoretic‚ expectorant‚ hypnotic‚ narcotic‚ and sedative. Poppy has been used against toothaches and coughs. The ability of opium from poppy to serve‚ as an analgesic is well known. Opium and derivatives of opium are used in the pharmaceutical industry as narcotic analgesics‚ hypnotics‚ and sedatives
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XANAX Alprazolam (the clinical name for xanax) is used to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks. It works by decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain. Xanax is comes in both concentrated tablets and in liquid forms. Xanax is part of the class of drugs called benzodiazepines more commonly referred to as Benzo. Xanax is so addictive that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) only approves usage of the drug for 8 weeks at a time in the United States. A user of xanax will usually become more
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Sci Research article Pharm www.scipharm.at Open Open Access Formulation Optimization of Hydrodynamically Balanced Oral Controlled Release Bioadhesive Tablets of Tramadol Hydrochloride Bhupinder SINGH *‚ Ashu RANI‚ BABITA‚ Naveen AHUJA‚ Rishi KAPIL University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences‚ UGC Center of Advanced Studies‚ Panjab University 160 014‚ Chandigarh‚ India. * Corresponding author. E-mail: bsbhoop@yahoo.com (B. Singh) Sci Pharm. 2010; 78: 303–323 Published: Accepted:
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Prescription drug abuse has become an epidemic in the United States especially among the youth of our country. The Partnership for a Drug Free America says that 2‚500 teens a day abuse prescription drugs. Abuse of these narcotics can lead to serious mental and physical consequences. Why is this such a problem‚ what can we do to solve it‚ and how is it affecting our social lives? First we must explore what prescription drugs are being abused. The most popular abused drugs fall into three categories
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Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration forrecreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotineand makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals‚ to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment. Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is today
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When that one person who is suppose to be there for you no matter what‚ when that one person who is suppose to be there when your down to pick you up‚ but isn’t. The feeling you get when something reminds you of that person and sometimes you can no longer deal with it and you break down and bawl. No one can ever replace her‚ she was that women in my life who was suppose to love and care for me make sure I’m ok‚ hold me when everything isn’t ok and tell me that one it will be ok. I never had that
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“Embraced by the Needle” (published in the Globe and Mail) by Gabor Maté‚ states the effects on a person that do not have a loving and nurturing home in their younger years may turn to drugs later on. Maté is a staff physician at Portland Hotel; which is Downtown Eastside Vancouver where there is a population of drug addicts of 3000 to 5000. Most of Maté’s clients are mentally ill and are addicted to drugs like cocaine‚ alcohol‚ heroin‚ and tranquilizers. Maté states “Chemical and emotional vulnerability
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