Indiscriminate Drug Taking

Indiscriminate Drug Therapy

now closed to this country, and this, together with the necessity of conserving foreign exchange and avoiding the waste of shipping space by the importation of non-essential drugs and chemicals, renders the problem of finding adequate alternatives pressing \?Extract from preface to the Extra Pharmacopoeia, volume 1, 1941. Drug economy is surely as necessary to the war effort in India as it is i...

Drug-taking in delinquent boys.

A retrospective survey was conducted on 67 boys in a London remand home during the years 1965-7 inclusive who were known to have taken drugs. The boys were divided into a "hard" and a "soft" group according to whether or not there was evidence of narcotic taking. The groups were compared and the hard group showed a significantly greater incidence of abnormal personality, family history of psych...

Cluster Bombs: The Indiscriminate Killer

Extensively used by US forces in Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and by Israel in the 1982 siege of West Beirut, cluster bombs have received severe condemnation from human rights and humanitarian organisations. There is consensus in the international community that these weapons are unacceptable and in breach of international humanitarian law, with many calling for a morator...

Cluster Bombs: The Indiscriminate Killer

Extensively used by US forces in Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and by Israel in the 1982 siege of West Beirut, cluster bombs have received severe condemnation from human rights and humanitarian organisations. There is consensus in the international community that these weapons are unacceptable and in breach of international humanitarian law, with many calling for a morator...

Dangers of Indiscriminate Antibiotic Use