New Trends in Narcotic Addiction Control

Congenital narcotic addiction.

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Narcotic Addiction in Britain and America

Drug addiction in the U.S.A., in comparison with this country, remains a major ^ealth problem. Various theories have been postulated over the years to explain this difference, and Dr. Schur, in his book, has endeavoured to compare and contrast the tfect which varying administrative measures have had on the fate of the drug addict. puring a two-year research period in the U.K., he made a thoroug...

Creating the American junkie: addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control

tragedy and the discovery of teratogens, the legalization of abortion, and growing attention to the problems of women's alcoholism following the women's liberation movement. This volume amply lives up to its aim of exploring the intertwined relations between child health and society from the late nineteenth century to the present. It forms a significant contribution to the history of medicine a...

Two Patterns of Narcotic Drug Addiction in the United States

New trends in the treatment of nicotine addiction.

The aim of this study was to discuss the therapeutic substances used to treat nicotine addiction, not registered in Poland. This paper presents the results of the latest clinical trials and the possibility of their use in the treatment of nicotine addiction. The first two discussed drugs clonidine and nortriptyline are recommended by clinical practice guidelines AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Rese...