Drugs 101

Author : Margaret O. Hyde,John F. Setaro, MD
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761326373

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Drugs 101, 2nd Edition by Margaret O. Hyde,John F. Setaro, MD Pdf

What are illicit drugs? Why do people use them? What are the effects on the body of using drugs? Are some drugs more dangerous than others? What is addiction? Why are some people able to stop using drugs at will while others become addicted? Respected science author Magaret O. Hyde and Yale University School of Medicine physician John F. Setaro take a fresh approach to the problem of drug abuse among teens. This book looks at drugs and drug abuse honestly and realistically, from a review of the intoxicating and health effects of drugs to the war on drugs to the debate over legalization. The authors' straightforward descriptions of the physical, psychological, social, and legal effects of drug use will be highly informative to those teens in the process of making a decision of about drugs. The book will also benefit the one out of ten American teens who have already used drugs-and will be invaluable to the many for whom drugs have become a dependency. A self test for drug dependency and a list of website for organizations that can provide further information and assistance complete this practical, teen-friendly guide.

Author : Jay Levy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351677103

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The War on People who Use Drugs by Jay Levy Pdf

Opposition to harm reduction -- Needle and syringe programmes -- Opposition to needle and syringe programmes -- Injection paraphernalia availability -- Education -- Safer drug use -- Information on blood-borne infections -- Opiate substitution therapy -- Opposition to substitution therapy -- Substitution therapy availability -- The Malmö model - a second 'Swedish model'? -- Summary: variability of services and harm exacerbation -- 5. Experiences of service and healthcare provision -- Spatial segregation -- Social services -- Opiate substitution therapy -- Gaining access -- Disciplining and conditionality -- High threshold substitution therapy: barriers to seeking assistance -- Compulsory treatment -- Disseminating dominant discourse: biopower, geopower, discipline -- Summary: conditionality and discipline -- 6. The outcomes of Sweden's war on people who use drugs -- Impacts of the criminalisation of drug use -- Stigma -- Arrests and fines -- Disincentives to seek assistance: losing child custody, compulsory care, criminalisation -- Results of 'harm exacerbation' policies -- High threshold methadone -- Illegal needles, needle sharing, and needle reusing -- Blood-borne infections -- Ineligibility for hepatitis C treatment -- People who use drugs and the Swedish police and security forces -- Good intentions? -- Difficulties in reporting crime -- Violence -- Summary: exacerbated harm, danger, and violence for people who use drugs -- Conclusions: Harm exacerbation, social exclusion, and violence -- Summary of research: the Swedish model of drug prohibition -- Silencing -- pathologisation -- displacement -- The outcomes of law and policy: service provision, harm exacerbation, and violence -- Sweden's 'drug-free society': a utopian solution for all the world? -- In summary: Sweden's war on people who use drugs -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Critchley Cheryl,Marinos Sarah
Publisher : Parenting Guides Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 098762511X

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Drugs 101 by Critchley Cheryl,Marinos Sarah Pdf

The Social Issues Series is a guide to assist parents and teachers in dealing with the range of complex social issues facing young people today. Produced by experienced professionals passionate about making a difference, these guides inform parents, teachers and carers about sensitive issues. These are issues like drugs, social media and sex. Engaging and contemporary content is used to tell it like it is without being alarmist. The aim is to inform and spark open, honest and meaningful conversations between parents, teachers and teens. The pressure on young people to perform at school, conform on social media and experiment with a wide range of legal and illegal drugs continues to grow. Relevant support is required to help deal with all contemporary issues and this series will provide some insight. The Social Issues Series feature current research, experts and real-life stories about parents and teenagers doing their best to cope in an increasingly complicated world.

Author : J. Richard Morphy,C. John Harris
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781849733625

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Designing Multi-target Drugs by J. Richard Morphy,C. John Harris Pdf

Written by world-renowned experts, this is the first book to gather together knowledge and experiences of the rational discovery of multi-target drugs. It describes the current state of the art, the achievements, and the challenges of the field and lessons learned by researchers.

Author : Harold H. Traver,Mark S. Gaylord
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412822009

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Drugs, Law, and the State by Harold H. Traver,Mark S. Gaylord Pdf

Drug addiction and the illegal drug trade are recognized today as major international problems. Efforts to control trafficking and coordinate enforcement policy have until now met with only limited success. Although world opinion, led by the United States, has generally favored hard-line measures, some countries, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, strenuously resist them, while others, primarily poor Asian and South American countries, remain economically dependent on the demand for illicit drugs. Drugs, Law, and the State focuses on the conflicting cultural values and historical traditions that continue to thwart combined attempts among nations to impeded the flow of drugs. This volume is built around the idea that drug control policy largely reflects the society in which it is found. The authors analyze contrasting national policies through theories that emphasize the role of ideology, legitimacy, and history. This cultural orientation opens up new areas of research not often addressed by conventional criminology. Instead of asking why some people use illegal drugs while others do not, several chapters ask why and in what societies drug use is defined as a crime. Drugs, Law, and the State is composed of three sections. The first, “Drug Control Policy and the State,” uses the examples of Denmark, Spain, and Finland to analyze drug control policy in relation to the state as a defined interest group. Part Two, “The Political Economy of Drugs,” considers the political-economic nexus of the drug trade primarily in Asia, and surveys the role of organized crime from an international perspective. The concluding section, “Future Directions,” examines the current status of drug control policy in the United States and provides a set of alternative proposals in the direction of decriminalization. Drugs, Law, and the State offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem. It will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464967153

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Issues in Cancer Drugs and Therapies: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Cancer Drugs and Therapies / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Cancer Drugs and Therapies. The editors have built Issues in Cancer Drugs and Therapies: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Cancer Drugs and Therapies in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Cancer Drugs and Therapies: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Henry H. Brownstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118726792

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The Handbook of Drugs and Society by Henry H. Brownstein Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice. Includes 28 original chapters with multi-disciplinary and international perspectives by top social and behavioral scientists Reviews current knowledge in the field, including key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological debates Identifies ongoing controversies in the field, emergent topics, and areas in need of further inquiry Discusses individual drugs as well as topics like physiological theories of drug use and abuse, public health implications of drugs, patterns of drugs and crime, international drug trade and trafficking, and designer drugs

Author : Shyam Mohapatra,Shivendu Ranjan,Nandita Dasgupta,Raghvendra Kumar,Sabu Thomas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128140307

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Applications of Targeted Nano Drugs and Delivery Systems by Shyam Mohapatra,Shivendu Ranjan,Nandita Dasgupta,Raghvendra Kumar,Sabu Thomas Pdf

Applications of Targeted Nano-Drugs and Delivery Systems: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery explores the applications of Nano-drugs and their delivery systems, investigating the role they can play in key body systems and major diseases. The book explores how nanotechnology can be deployed in developing new drug delivery systems and how they enable pharmaceutical companies to reformulate existing drugs on the market, thereby extending the lifetime of products and enhancing performance by increasing effectiveness, safety and patient adherence, and ultimately reducing healthcare cost. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the subject matter, this book includes contributions by experts from different fields. Readers will find a reference and practical source of guidance for researchers, students and scientists working in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, and technology and biomedical science. Enables readers from different fields to access recent research and protocols across traditional boundaries Focuses on protocols and techniques, as well as the knowledge base of the field, thus enabling those in R&D to learn about, and successfully deploy, cutting-edge techniques Explores the applications of Nano-drugs and their delivery systems, investigating the role they can play in key body systems and major disease types

Author : Adam Prus
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506338934

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Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior by Adam Prus Pdf

Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior: An Introduction to Psychopharmacology, Second Edition by Adam Prus presents an introduction to the rapidly advancing field of psychopharmacology by examining how drug actions in the brain affect psychological processes. The book provides historical background to give readers an appreciation for the development of drug treatments and neuroscience over time, covering major topics in psychopharmacology, including new drugs and recent trends in drug use. Pedagogical features informed by the latest scholarship in teaching and learning are integrated throughout the text to ensure that readers are able to process and understand the material with ease.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349622399

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Reconsidering Drugs by NA NA Pdf

Lawrence Driscoll's fresh examination of the meaning of drugs from the Victorians to the present asks us to listen to historical and current voices whose positions on drugs are at variance with our "truths." Driscoll draws on the work of figures as diverse as William Burroughs, Sigmund Freud, Conan Doyle, and Anna Kavan to shed light on different or silenced ways of talking about drugs and to offer us a historical counter-memory. The result of his work is to unsettle and disturb the familiar parameters that frame our discussion of drugs, revealing that others are available: positions which expose our own constructions as surprisingly limited.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C045980279

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United States Code: Title 21, Food and drugs to Title 28, Judiciary and judicial procedure by United States Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780444641205

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Side Effects of Drugs Annual by Anonim Pdf

Side Effects of Drugs Annual: A Worldwide Yearly Survey of New Data in Adverse Drug Reactions, Volume 40, first published in 1977, and continually published as a yearly update to the voluminous encyclopedia Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs, presents clinicians and medical investigators with a reliable and critical survey of new data and trends in the area of adverse drug reactions and interactions, with an international team of specialists contributing each year. Topics covered in this release include Central Nervous System Stimulants and Drugs that Suppress Appetite, Antidepressant drugs, Lithium, Drugs of abuse, Hypnotics and sedatives, Antipsychotic Drugs, and much more. Provides a critical yearly survey of the new data and trends regarding the side effects of drugs Authored and reviewed by worldwide pioneers in the clinical and practice sciences Presents an essential clinical on the side effects of drugs for practitioners and healthcare professionals alike

Author : Louise O'Connor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847142399

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Drugs by Louise O'Connor Pdf

With the aim of showing how educators can use their skills to inform practical action on problematic drug issues, this text identifies the drug issues emerging in the classroom and highlights strategies for dealing with them.

Author : Eric Michael Scholar,William B. Pratt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anti
ISBN : 0195125282

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The Antimicrobial Drugs by Eric Michael Scholar,William B. Pratt Pdf

This is a thorough updating of a classic text that has been published in three editions since Pratt's Chemotherapy of Infection (OUP, 1973). Its treatment of the mechanisms of action, pharmacology and adverse effects of the drugs used to treat bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infectionshas been greatly expanded, and this edition includes two completely new chapters on the fluoroquinolones and the drugs used to treat AIDS. the frugs used to treat AIDS.

Author : William E. Schreiber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119794059

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An Introduction to Testing for Drugs of Abuse by William E. Schreiber Pdf

An Introduction to Testing for Drugs of Abuse An Introduction to Testing for Drugs of Abuse presents a distilled set of facts about the major drugs of abuse that are encountered in clinical practice. Individual chapters highlight the similarities in chemical structure, mechanism of action, and physiologic effects of each drug group, as well as their metabolism, therapeutic uses and potential for misuse or abuse. Special attention is given to the testing process, with an emphasis on interpretation of test results. Informative and entertaining cases appear at the end of each chapter. These cases illustrate the many situations in which drug testing is performed for medical, legal and employment purposes. Written in clear, concise language, this book provides practical guidance to pathologists, clinical chemists and technologists who are responsible for reporting and interpreting the results of drug analyses. It will be especially useful to residents and students who are learning about toxicology for the first time. Clinical practitioners – doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals – will find the information they need to order and interpret drug tests accurately. For more information watch the trailer here: https://players.brightcove.net/4931690914001/B1xdbomRDl_default/index.html?videoId=6310075842112