Benzodiazepines are one of the classes of drugs most commonly associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault. As a widely prescribed class of medications and abused drugs, benzodiazepines are extensively available. Their sedating and amnesic effects make them effective candidates for use in drug-facilitated assaults. Detection methods for benzodiazepines and their metabolites in biological flu...

The nontherapeutic use of prescription medicines by individuals involved in sport is increasing. Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are the most widely abused drug. Much of our knowledge of the psychological and physiological effects of human growth hormone (hGH) and insulin has been learned from deficiency states. As a consequence of the Internet revolution, previously unobtainable and expensi...

Drug abuse is considered as the most common poisoning in the world. Stimulants agent especially amphetamines and methamphetamines are among important abused substances. Different types of neurologic, psychiatric, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and cardiogenic complications have been reported to be related to methamphetamine consumption. Some of these substances could cause dysrhythmias which is...

Given the high rate of drug abuse in society, this study investigates how much its knowledge is available to secondary school students. Also evaluated perceived effect on their academic achievement subjects such as Computer science and allied subjects. A questionnaire was developed obtain respondents’ opinion with 304 responses analyzed for study. This research reveals that majority (97.4%) stu...

Superhydrophobic 3D-Assembled Metallic Nanoparticles In article number 2204234, Qiaoqiang Gan and co-workers report a reproducible sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) chip that combines three-dimensional-assembled gold nanoparticles on superhydrophobic nanoporous substrates. This can simultaneously realize strong localized field analyte enrichment. It demonstrates good reproduc...

Toxic pollutants in the environment, such as toxins and abused drugs, have posed a major threat to human health ecosystem security. It is extremely desirable develop simple, low-cost, sensitive, reliable techniques for detection of these environment. As booming analytical method, photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensors possess low background noise high sensitivity. The performances PEC are fundament...

Based on this, abuse liability of a drug is directly related to its reinforcing efficacy. This implies that an effective method for pharmacological treatment of addiction should have the following properties: (1) Reduces reinforcing effects of the abused drug, (2) Does not increase reinforcing effects of other drugs that are not currently abused by the patient, and (3) Does not reduce reinforci...

objective: previous studies, focusing on the effects of abused drugs, have used mice or rats as the main animal models; the present study tries to introduce a simple animal model. for this propose, we investigated the effects of oral morphine consumption by parents on the development of larvae, pupae and imago in drosophila melanogaster (d. melanogaster). materials and methods: in this experime...