The pattern of substance abuse varies between different places and is ever-changing. Ecstasy and ketamine are two relative newcomers that have stayed and caused much harm. Emerging abuse of therapeutic substances should be identified in order to prevent its proliferation. Piperazines are a group of synthetic chemicals with psychoactive properties. They are popular party drugs elsewhere and were...

Bee pollen is a honey bee product containing over 250 biologically active substances such as phenolic bases, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, enzymes and coenzymes, vitamins bio-elements. The composition of may vary due to plant sources its botanical geographical origin. has been used since ancient times in traditional medicine for therapeutic effects wound healing hepatoprotective. reported...

Ten years have passed since Directive 2004/24/EC regulating herbal medicinal products across the EU were published. The directive created the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products within the European Medicines Agency whose remit includes the creation and publishing of official EU monographs on herbal medicinal products. These monographs include the official uses of the products and their evide...

Inflammation is considered a natural reaction of the immune system that can be caused by several factors such as pathogens, chemical substances, and damaged cells. Since classical era, therapeutic substances have been made from medicinal plants. According to recent studies, nanotechnology provides fresh approach maintaining standard quality, distribution, bioactivity compounds. This review emph...

Screening for bioactive substances has revolutionized the process for identifying novel molecular targets for drug discovery. Such active biological substances have already been generated by nature for millennia but the technical know-how to isolate and characterize them has only been available for a short time. These new possibilities have increased our interest in the establishment of innovat...

The relative failure of symptomatic therapeutic trials for Alzheimer's disease using non-selective cholinergic agonists brings about the need for longitudinal studies with parallel designs aimed at disease stabilization, using trophic substances or amyloid suppressors.

Nurses report a negative, stereotypical, and moralistic view of substance-abusing patients. Unaddressed bias may impede delivery of quality care. There is limited research of the needs specific to medical-surgical nursing staff interacting with substance-abusing patients. Nursing therapeutic commitment refers to the degree the nurse feels prepared with an adequate knowledge base, professional s...