Government regulation of narcotic medications used in narcotic addiction treatment; Enactment of the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act (NATA) in 1974 to give the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) authority to stop diversion resulting from poor medical practice; Advantages of deregulation.Cooper...
Does Addiction Impair One's Ability to Drive? In response to the increasing concern over addiction to methadone, Congress enacted the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974, once again seeking to limit the public's access to opioid medications--this time, Methadone--by placing strict limits on ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook narcotic addict One who has become physiologically or psychologically dependent upon narcotics. See:drug addiction Medical Dictionary, © 2009 Farlex and Partners Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe ...
Title XXXV of this law provides a “Waiver Authority for Physicians Who Dispense or Prescribe Certain Narcotic Drugs for Maintenance Treatment or Detoxification Treatment” of opioid-dependent individuals. This part of the law is known as the Drug Addiction Treatment Act (2000) (Boatwright, 2002)...
and was introduced commercially as a morphine-like analgesic by the Bayer Company of Germany in 1898. Heroin was initially used as a morphine and codeine substitute for the treatment of tuberculosis and otherrespiratory illnesses. However, it quickly became apparent that this drug was more toxic th...
Narcoticsandantimigraine agentsprovide treatment for acute or chronic severe pain. These agents exert their effect on thebrainandspinal cordto alter the way impulses from peripheralnervesare processed. As a result, pain perception and tolerance are altered. ...
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narcotic - a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction drug - a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic hard drug - a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction Demerol, ...
side effects of dizziness, drowsiness, depression, lethargy, orthostatic hypotension, weakness in the extremities, and difficulty in being mobile, caused by therapeutic agents utilized for the treatment of alcohol or narcotic withdrawals symptoms in patients overcoming alcohol or narcotic addiction. ...
The cricketers and the others are unlikely to be arrested as under section 54 A of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, any person, who is charged with offences involving a small quantity of narcotic drugs and who voluntarily seeks to undergo medical treatment from a de- addiction cen...