Drugs Essays and Research Papers Page 3

Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke. The economic cost of smokers to society is phenomenal. It includes monetary costs, lost workdays…

Basically the precise sense of dissolution is “the process or act of dissolving”. United States Pharmacopeia for drug describes different methods and apparatus for dissolution test .The dissolution test basically performed on variety of drug products like capsules tablets etc. Elements that disturbs the dissolution process are: Stability. Solubility. API. Intrinsic dissolution. Following are the…

Drug abuse is the illicit use of any drug in a way that is not approved or supervised by a medical practitioner.There are two major types of drugs that are usually abused Stimulant /Depressants: these are drug that temporarily make the mind and body active. It means that when someone takes such drugs in excess,…

It seems as though every time we turn around there is a new health fad, be it a drug, herb or diet. Within the past 10 years the drug melatonin has hit the market and seems to have made quite a splash with the public and the media. At a time when an estimated thirty…

  The pharmacology of loratadine is similar to other antihistamines, but unlike other H1-blockers, loratadine is shown to exhibit competitive, specific, and selective antagonism of H1 receptors. Loratadine does not penetrate the CNS effectively and has a low affinity for CNS H1-receptors. It is also a piperidine histamine H1-receptor antagonist with anti-allergic properties and without…

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or otherwise popularly known as OCD is one of the most widely spread disorders across the country today. Many of us have small habits that make us feel better, but we can also live without them. For example, we can think of something as “lucky” or have a regular routine that feels comforting….

Opium has been known for millennia as a pain reliever and its use for surgical analgesia has been recorded for several centuries. The Sumerian clay tablet (about 2100 BC) is the world’s oldest recorded list of medical prescriptions. The first authentic reference to the milky juice of the poppy we find by Theophrastus at the…

The movie about the rise and downfall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Through a fast-paced comedic voiceover, actor Leonardo DiCaprio brilliantly brings to life how well Belfort made his empire of corruption last, and successfully relied on the hard use of different drugs to make it throughout the day and even accomplish his goals. Through the…

The decade from 1960 to 1970 was definitely one of those eras. The people didn’t follow the teachings of its elders, but rejected them for an alternative culture which was their very own. Made up of the younger population of the time this new culture was such a radical society that they were given their…

.. . These have included chromosome damage, brain damage, damage to white blood cells, possible sex debility, lung damage, and damage to the personality. Some investigators consider it a sign of brain damage when pot smokers show the so-called “antimotivational syndrome”-when they “drop out”, and opt the hippie viewpoint that so disturbed the older generation…