In an inpatient survey the medication records of 2004 mothers both breast and bottle feeding were examined and the drugs taken in the early postnatal period recorded. No notable differences existed between the types of drugs prescribed for breast feeding and bottle feeding mothers. Iron, vitamins, and mild analgesics were taken routinely by the population, and antibiotics, laxatives, and hypnot...

S 7 DEVELOPMENT OF POLYLACTIC/GLYCOLIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR USE IN TREATMENT OF NARCOTIC ADDICTION A.D. Schwope, D.L. Wise, J.F. Howes 13 DEVELOPMENT OF INJECTABLE MICROCAPSULES FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF NARCOTIC ADDICTION C. Thies 19 LONG-ACTING NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST COMPLEXES A.P. Gray, W.J. Guardina 21 SUSTAINED RELEASE OF NALTREXONE FROM GLYCERIDE IMPLANTS M.F. Sullivan, D.R. Kalkwarf ...

OBJECTIVE To document the incidence and outcomes of narcotic use during pregnancy in northwestern Ontario. DESIGN Three-year prospective cohort study. SETTING Sioux Lookout and surrounding communities in northwestern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1206 consecutive births in a catchment area of 28 000 First Nations patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incidence of narcotic use, and maternal...

BACKGROUND Almost five decades ago, governments around the world adopted the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which, in addition to addressing the control of illicit narcotics, obligated countries to work towards universal access to the narcotic drugs necessary to alleviate pain and suffering. Yet, despite the existence of inexpensive and effective pain relief medicines, tens of million...

The article describes organized crime in the field of illegal trafficking narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues as an object criminological research. It was established that sphere Ukraine is characterized by a hierarchy, strictly and clearly organized, planned system interconnected criminal activity individuals, groups, syndicates, cartels, which carried out with division ...

INTRODUCTION Chronic diseases are major causes of death and disability and often require multiple prescribed medications for treatment and control. Public health emergencies (e.g., disasters due to natural hazards) that disrupt the availability or supply of these medications may exacerbate chronic disease or even cause death. PROBLEM A repository of chronic disease pharmaceuticals and medical...

Introduction: Higher education system in each country is mainly responsible for training specialists and efficient personnels in different levels of government. Regarding a community approach, if the system uses social factors properly, goals attainment will be facile. On the contrary, if the system is affected by common social traumas and deviations, it will result in dissonant maladroit gradu...

Ancient Egyptian and Greek pharmacopoeias reveal frequent use of different drugs, somniferous or narcotic, which contain poisonous elements. Among the toxic plants enumerated by Dioscorides, we find poppy and others. Egyptians were fond of taking these narcotic or euphoric substances attributed to nepenthes, but it is difficult to prove whether ancient people were aware of modern aspects of add...