August 25th, 2010 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs, Did You Know?
For the past six months, I have attended the public forums and workshops on poverty and early childhood education in Erie and America.
March 21st, 2010 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
Legal Herbal Products Laced With Designer Drugs: Not Your Father’s Marijuana
By Daniel J. DeNoon - WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
March 5, 2010 - K2, Spice Gold, and dozens of other currently legal “herbal incense” products are spiked with powerful designer drugs — and they don’t show up in drug tests.
As early as 2004, [...]
February 1st, 2010 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
The answer to the headline question, Is Marijuana A Medicine? (January 18, 2010), is no. To characterize smoked marijuana as a medicine implies that it is safe. Smoke is neither safe nor effective as a delivery system for any medicine. Moreover, unlike approved medicines, there is no regulation of the manufacturing process, distribution chain, quality or purity of the product. In contrast, synthetic THC has been readily available for prescription by any physician since 1985.
September 1st, 2009 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
Anna Nicole Smith. Heath Ledger. Michael Jackson. What common bond do these celebrities share? The answer is found not in how they lived, but how they died — prescription drug overdose.
July 16th, 2009 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
Cannabis, psychopathology, respiratory pathology, psychosis, depression, chronic bronchitis, chronic asthma, genotoxicity, oncogenesis
October 22nd, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs, Psychoactive Substances
Relief from pain. In some people, prescription pain relievers also cause euphoria or feelings of well being by affecting the brain regions that mediate pleasure. This is why they are abused. Other effects include drowsiness, constipation and slowed breathing. [...]
September 24th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
When a person smokes a cigarette, the body responds immediately to the chemical nicotine in the smoke. Nicotine causes [...]
September 24th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
Anabolic steroids are a group of powerful compounds closely related to the male sex hormone testosterone. Current legitimate medical uses include treatment of certain kinds of anemia. [...]
September 24th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
A class of drugs that enhance brain activity. Prescription stimulants were used historically to treat asthma, obesity, neurological disorders, and a variety of other ailments [...]
September 24th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in A - Z of Drugs
Prescription medications that act as central nervous system depressants. Barbiturates are prescription sedatives or “sleeping pills” and benzodiazepines are prescription “tranquilizers.” [...]
The world’s best business model has always been addiction. Tobacco and alcohol have been around for ages, but new temptations and spinoffs are being marketed all the time: meth, painkillers, energy drinks, you name it.
Importantly, the study also finds that the risk of violence from patients with psychoses who also have substance use disorder is no greater than those who have a substance use disorder but who do not have a psychotic illness – in other words, schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses do not appear to be responsible for any additional risk of violence above the increased risk associated with substance abuse.
Smoking marijuana over an extended period of time appears to greatly boost a young man’s risk for developing a particularly aggressive form of testicular cancer, a new study reveals. [...]
Relief from pain. In some people, prescription pain relievers also cause euphoria or feelings of well being by affecting the brain regions that mediate pleasure. This is why they are abused. Other effects include drowsiness, constipation and slowed breathing. [...]
On Sunday researchers at the University of Buffalo reported that Ritalin, used on children diagnosed with ADHD, may cause long-term changes in the brain. Many clinicians regard Ritalin as short-acting but the research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes [...]
The body produces many chemicals and hormones, i.e., histamines, steroids, thyroid hormone, digitalis-like substances, adrenalin, etc, all of which work by attaching to corresponding brain receptors. The key is that these natural substances produced by the body are present in nanogram amounts [...]
As California State Assembly member Tom Ammiano put it: “What if California could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue to preserve vital state services without any tax increase?” [...]
“The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan,” said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. Judging by the current situation, Afghanistan is losing. [...]
Among the things everybody knows is that Democrats, being the party of the little people, raise money in small contributions, whereas Republicans, being the party of fat cats, raise funds in huge basketfuls from wealthy corporate types. At least, that’s the way the world is usually portrayed by the “Today Show,” The New York Times and the Democratic Party. So it’s of more than passing interest to see [...]