Surgery on the Narcotic Addict

Punishment of a Narcotic Addict for the Crime of Possession: Eight Amendment Implications

Narcotic anesthesia for cardiovascular surgery.

Intraspinal narcotic anesthesia in open heart surgery.

Intraspinal narcotic anesthesia was performed in 180 open heart surgery patients. 0.1 mg/Kg of morphine or 1.5 mg/Kg of meperidine was administered as the primary anesthetic in the subarachnoid space using the barbotage technique. Of the 180 patients scheduled for open heart surgery, morphine was administered to 95 patients, meperidine to 55 and a mixture of morphine and meperidine to 30 patien...

Comparison of the Effects of Methadone and Morphine on Postoperative Pain Scale following Thoracic Surgery in Opium Addict Patients

Background & Aims: Post operative pain is cause of suffering in most patients and can cause a lot of problems. Analgesic effects of many narcotics have been widely studied. In this study, the effects of methadone and morphine on postoperative pain scale following thoracic surgery in opium addict patients were assessed. Methods: In this clinical trial and double blind study, sixty opium addict p...

The Addict in the Street

to our knowledge of the drug-taking teenagers, is disappointing for the British scene. The introduction by Jeremy Larner is excellent. However, the edited versions of tape-recordings by drug addicts is repetitive and lacks both direction and emphasis, although it was interesting to peruse the stories of two addicted brothers and an interview with an addict's mother. One imagines that this formu...