__________________________________________________________________________________________ The issue presented in this article is the problem of specificity of the features which constitute the prohibited acts whose definitions contain the term "condition under the influence" and the term "condition after consumption." One must take note of the fact that the lack of definition of clear quantita...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stands alone among the core UN human rights treaties in setting out a human right to protection from drugs. Article 33 provides that “States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislative, administrative, social and educational measures, to protect children from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances a...

IN RECENT YEARS, numerous publications have appeared emphasizing the usefulness of mephentermine during various forms of anesthesia as a means of maintaining an adequate blood-pressure level." Lundy has employed mephentermine successfully as an effective antidote against narcotic drugs. Pharmacological studies of sympathomimetic drugs on pulmonary circulation have shown mephentermine to be a pu...

Narcotic substances have a pronounced toxic effect on the entire body and can lead to disability. Despite ongoing efforts combat drug addiction, in today's society, many drugs are available for potential use. Their destructive action leads numerous adverse ocular systemic manifestations. The most frequently, drug-users people of working age, whom visual impairment restrictions labor social acti...

Interviews were conducted with 265 orthopedic and chronic pain patients, using a structured diagnostic instrument (ADDIS/SUDDS) concerning their use of analgesics. Twenty-two percent of the patients met criteria for analgesic use disorders in accordance with DSM-III-R; 18.5% fulfilled DSM-IV criteria. Dextropropoxyphene was the most common analgesic prescribed and was used by 47% of the patient...

It has been reported! by Simon 1) that several synthetic analogs of the morphine series are strong inhibitors of bacterial growth. Simon attributes this effect to selective inhibition of ribosomal RNA synthesis (2, 3). We have studied the effects of the most potent of these drugs, levallorphan tartrate, on macromolecular synthesis in Escherichia coli. This d!rug was selected for study because i...