British Narcotics Policies

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...

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...

A.2 Opiate Narcotics

INTRODUCTION The term narcotic has had wide and inconsistent usage in lay, legal and scientific circles. Some use the word to characterize any drug which produces stupor, insensibility or sleep; many apply it only to derivatives of the opium plant ( `opiates'); others consider the term equivalent to 'addiction-producing'; and in legal matters, 'narcotics' may refer to almost any allegedly dange...

Narcotics in Rheumatology

Patients with rheumatic conditions often suffer from related chronic pain. When first-line traditional medications such as acetaminophen and anti-inflammatory medications do not suffice, then other options are needed. The traditional medications may ultimately not provide sufficient pain relief, or alternatively, they can pose as a contraindication due to underlying hypertension, renal, and/or ...

The Epidemiology of Heroin and Other Narcotics