Volatiles are frequently abused as inhalants. The methods used for identification are generally nonspecific if analyzed concurrently with ethanol or require an additional analytical procedure that employs mass spectrometry. A previously published technique utilizing a capillary flow technology splitter to simultaneously quantitate and confirm ethyl alcohol by flame ionization and mass spectrome...

Taurine acts as a partial agonist at the glycine receptor (GlyR) in some brain regions such as the hippocampus, striatum, and nucleus accumbens. Ethanol, volatile anesthetics, and inhaled drugs of abuse are all known positive allosteric modulators of GlyRs, but their effects on taurine-activated GlyRs remain poorly understood, especially their effects on the high concentrations of taurine likel...

Drug abuse is a problem of increasing worldwide significance. In addition to the obvious socioeconomic problems associated with the use of so-called street drugs, the abuse of ethical pharmaceuticals may also result in serious untoward health effects depending upon a wide range of variables (Chiang and Goldfrank 1990). One possible medical complication of drug abuse is modulation of the immune ...

SEVERAL years ago as I began to work through my voluminous files on American folk medicine, I became interested in some of the unusual remedies that have been employed to combat respiratory ailments in the United States and Canada. This interest was considerably heightened in 1964 when two Virginia scholars called attention to the use of grist mills in the treatment of whooping-cough in their o...

The goal of this study was to elucidate the neurotoxic effects of repeated exposure to gasoline, perchloroethylene or toluene on male rats, in addition to evaluate the interventive role of certain nutraceuticals against the neurodegenerative insult produced by inhalants abuse. The experimental groups were assigned as follows: Gp(1) control; Gp (2) exposed to gasoline vapors (3200 ppm) for quart...

objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the otitis media with effusion (ome) groups that improved when treated with adenoidectomy and ventilation tube (vt), to the group of the recurred after surgery and detect the possible role of allergy in ome. material and methods: this study was performed on two groups. the patient group consisted of 38 patients with recurrent ome with allergy an...