Using a food-reinforced two-lever operant procedure, rats were trained to discriminate 0.04 mg/kg fentanyl from saline. At different time intervals after the establishment of discriminative responding, stimulus generalization experiments were performed with equivalent dose ranges of fentanyl (0.0025 to 0.02 mg/kg) and morphine (2.5 to 20 mg/kg). It was found that the ED50 values of both compoun...

Narcotic drug trafficking is a criminal and punishable offence in every country the world over. The use of certain narcotic drugs, on other hand (especially marijuana), has been legalised some countries, but under strict regulations. Like as signatory to United Nations Conventions Ghana implemented severe punitive sanctions for drug-related offences deter people from engaging this crime. This p...

The use of ketorolac was studied in patients undergoing lumbar laminectomy and those receiving lumbar fusion with or without instrumentation. Laminectomy patients in the ketorolac group used significantly less narcotic analgesic than did those in the narcotic treatment group. Ketorolac patients in both surgical categories experienced better pain control than narcotic group patients did. Laminec...

Narcotic use in pregnancy has been a noticeable clinical development con­ fronting the nursing and medical staff at the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre.3 This regional mater­ nity centre provides prenatal services and obstetric services to a catchment area of 28 000 primarily First Nations people.4 The services include 400 de­ liveries annually. Narcotic use during pregnancy became a cl...