Legal Position Between Narcotics Addicts and Narcotics Abusers in the Perspective of Law Number 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...

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 33-year follow-up of narcotics addicts.

BACKGROUND This study examined longitudinal patterns of heroin use, other substance use, health, mental health, employment, criminal involvement, and mortality among heroin addicts. METHODS The sample was composed of 581 male heroin addicts admitted to the California Civil Addict Program (CAP) during the years 1962 through 1964; CAP was a compulsory drug treatment program for heroin-dependent...

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