Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance ...
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The 1963 Church of Scientology raidIn the early 1960s, the FDA got word of something it didn't like: The Church of Scientology was helping its members overcome mental problems with the use of a simple biofeedback device called the E-meter. With the market for psychotropic drugs so consistent...
described as Chocolate City/Vanilla Suburb, referring to the racial separation of blacks and whites. Cities were mythologized in the popular imagination as wild and dangerous places riddled with crime, gang violence, and drugs. Young black males and welfare mothers were the symbols of social ...
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and upper gastrointestinal bleeding, identifying high-risk groups by excess risk estimates The excess risk was particularly high in persons aged 75 years or more (1258 per 100,000 person-years) and in patients with a history of peptic ... J, Hallas,J, Lau...
of activities in the 1930s and 1940s, primarily in Europe and the USA, that resulted in the discovery and development of several new and patentable drugs. The sulfonamides are bacteriostatic agents, acting through a mechanism that involves inhibition of folic acid biosynthesis in bacteria, leaving...
Furthermore, each other specialty has its autoimmune diseases, relies on immunologic tests for diagnosis, and uses immunosuppressive drugs or i.v. immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment; yet there are only a handful of patients, those with a primary immunodeficiency, to whom no other specialist lays ...
The reluctance to prescribe nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as analgesics in the presence of chronic kidney disease and/or ESRD deprives many patients with chronic pain of the use of nonopioid analgesia, and may lead to reliance on opioid therapy for pain management. However, the use of op...
The acquisition and the development of knowledge on how drugs exert their pharmacological effect, particularly information such as dose response, onset, and duration of action and pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic relationships has demanded attention t