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- The Drug Discrimination Bibliography - Drug Discrimination is widely recognised as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse. This page provides access to Dr. Ian Stolerman's ongoing Comprehensive Bibliography of Drug Discrimination Research. Search bibliography for combinations of training drug, pretreatment drug, methodology.
- Drugs: The United States and Latin America - A few mordant words on drugs, drug abuse, and the disgraceful ties that bind Latin America and the United States.
- What You Need to Know About Drugs - Article explains how drugs affect the human body. Includes a look at why people use drugs, along with warning signs of drug abuse and tips for helping friends who are using drugs.
- Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist."
- Tackling drugs to build a better Britain - Cross-government portal to support the National Drugs Strategy and the work of Drug Action Teams. Provides information about the strategy, Drug Action Teams and the Government's policy on the use of illegal drugs.
- Drug Policy Alliance - An organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights. Formerly the Lindesmith Center.
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Prescription Medications - Resources on prescription drug misuse, abuse, and addiction. Includes information about different drugs and partner organizations.
- The Parkinson List Drug Database Index - Comprehensive and easy-to-understand patient information from this collection of 140 drug definitions. Consumer factsheet provides drug description, explains the medicine's mechanism of action, and lists side effects and drug interactions including relative risk of using with Parkinson's medications.
- US Drug Enforcement Agency - Drugs of Concern - Information about the effects and use of individual drugs, including cocaine, heroin, inhalants, marijuana, MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, steroids, and others. Includes statistics on illicit drug use in the United States.
- Drug Free Ambassadors - A drug prevention program sponsored by the Church of Scientology in Australia. Includes program history, facts on drugs and specific programs to help youth stay off drugs.
Wikipedia Articles
- Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufac - The Protocol bringing under International Control Drugs Outside of the Scope of the 1931 Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed in 1948, was a drug control treaty designed to eliminate some of the loopholes associate with its predecessor treaty, the 1931 Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs. It is perhaps most noteworthy as the first drug control treaty to implement ...
- I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) - I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) is the second single taken from Marilyn Manson's album Mechanical Animals. It features a guitar solo by former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.
- Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (Estonia) - Estonia's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, passed on June 11, 1997, is a law designed to fulfill that country's treaty obligations under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. The Act establishes four Schedules of drugs.
- Hazardous drugs - In pharmacology, hazardous drugs are drugs that are known to cause [which is the ability to cause a change or mutation in genetic material; carcinogenicity], the ability to cause [[cancer in animal models, humans or both; [which is the ability to cause defects on fetal] development or fetal malformation; and lastly hazardous drugs ...
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 - The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is an Act of Parliament, by which the United Kingdom aims to control the possession and supply of numerous drugs and drug-like substances, as listed under the Act, and to enable international co-operation against illegal drug trafficking. As passed in 1971 the Act updated UK legislation to bring it in to line with the requirements of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.