One hundred adult female patients scheduled for outpatient laparoscopic procedures were studied. Each patient received intravenous premedication about 30 min before induction of anaesthesia. The premedications were given in a double-blind random order and were either a placebo, morphine (0.04 mg/kg), meperidine (0.35 mg/kg), fentanyl (0.75 microgram/kg) or sufentanil (0.15 microgram/kg). All pa...

I an article in CMAJ’s rheumatology series, Simon Huang states that “narcotic analgesics should be avoided in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The general consensus as stated in guidelines on the use of narcotics as well as among physicians dealing with chronic pain disorders is that narcotics are almost certainly underutilized in the treatme...

OBJECTIVE Patients undergoing craniotomies have traditionally received opiates for the management of their postoperative pain. The use of narcotic pain medications can be costly, can decrease early walking, can lengthen hospital stay, and can alter a patient's neurological examination results. The use of alternative pain medications such as cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors may benefit patien...

Many contemporary HIV prevention interventions targeting injection drug users (IDUs) have been implemented using Harm Reduction as a theoretical framework. Among drug-using individuals, however, the abstinence-based “getting clean” models espoused by Narcotics Anonymous and other widely adopted approaches to drug treatment are often more readily accepted. This paper describes an ethnographic ex...

Purpose of the study: aim this study was to review law enforcement regarding precursors for manufacturing narcotic drugs in Indonesia.
 Methodology: This used normative legal research, which as positive norms that regulates human life, it several approaches, were examined various rules well case approach. The data collected through literature studies.
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To the Editor: Dr McLellan and colleagues state that drug addiction should be treated as a chronic medical disease. This contradicts our experiences as a sheriff (L.A.) and an emergency department physician (D.L.S.) who regularly encounter patients who provide false histories concerning trauma or pain syndromes, insist on narcotic analgesics, and vigorously refuse nonnarcotic analgesics or foll...

Effective and efficient link analysis techniques are needed to help law enforcement and intelligence agencies fight organized crimes such as narcotics violation, terrorism, and kidnapping. In this paper, we propose a link analysis technique that uses shortest-path algorithms, priority-first-search (PFS) and two-tree PFS, to identify the strongest association paths between entities in a criminal...

Narcotics and Psychotropic are humanity crimes which in recent years have shown a fairly high trend of increasing. This problem certainly causes many victims, especially among the younger generation at age learning. In Indonesia, legal regulations regarding acts drug abuse regulated Law no. 35 2009 concerning Narcotics. Based on these regulations, sanctions given for can be form criminal imposi...