BEZIT AND NARCOTICS POWER ACCORDING TO LAW NO. 35 OF 2009 CONCERNING NARCOTICS

Intrathecal and epidural narcotics.

This paper presents an overall review of epidural and intrathecal narcotics. The early laboratory studies and initial clinical applications are presented. This is followed by a description of the mechanism of action of narcotics acting both intrathecally and epidurally, and some of the similarities and differences between narcotics and local anesthetic drugs. Technique, dosages, indications, an...

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Both UNODC and U.S. surveys of opium poppy cultivation indicated a significant increase in cultivation and potential production in 2007, and production and export of synthetic drugs (amphetamine-type stimulants, crystal methamphetamine and Ketamine) from Burma continued unabated. (Note: 2008 UNODC Cultivation Report statistics were not available by our printing deadline.) The significant downwa...

No End in Sight: The Abuse of Prescription Narcotics

From teenagers dying from heroin overdoses to crime tied to Vicodin and OxyContin addiction to road fatalities in which sedatives and muscle relaxants are involved, 20,000 deaths in the United States in 2014 were attributed to problems associated with narcotics and prescription drug use. Our author, whose research involves the neurobiological basis of drug addiction, traces the history and evol...

Drugs and narcotics in history

administered anaesthesia also was remarkable: in patients' houses or lodgings, the private consulting rooms of surgeons and dentists, the great London hospitals, fashionable West End hotels, and Buckingham Palace. Presented with this range in social space and social position, one wonders whether the expectations about differential need for anaesthesia according to the individual sufferer's plac...

The Epidemiology of Heroin and Other Narcotics