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...

Research on the mode of action of narcotic analgesic drugs and the mechanism of the development of tolerance and physical dependence is one of the oldest of scientific pursuits. For many years the first step in the action of these drugs was postulated to be their binding to highly specific "receptor" sites. This specific drug-receptor interaction was thought to trigger certain chemical or physi...

A forensic and pharmaceutical, organizational legal study of illegal circulation, danger drug addiction from cannabinoids was conducted. Psychoactive substances were classified as narcotic drugs. Global experience in the circulation cannabis psychoactive summarized. Also analyzed scientific works domestic foreign authors on subject study. The use by different categories population analyzed. For...

In 1961 the "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" was adopted by the United Nations to explicitly address the need for narcotic drugs to curtail suffering and keep the distribution of these drugs in the control of health professionals. Fifty years later, neither goal has been reached for a variety of reasons. Governments have avoided putting in place systems to assure adequate supplies to relie...

BACKGROUND Pain can adversely affect every aspect of a patient's daily activity, and consequently, it has a great influence on the quality of life. Studies have shown that health care professionals have little knowledge of and inadequate attitudes toward the assessment of pain and its treatment with analgesics. OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the knowledge, atti...