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Transcriptional changes common to human cocaine, cannabis and phencyclidine abuse. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2006 A major goal of drug abuse research is to identify and understand drug-induced changes in brain function that are common to many or all drugs of abuse. As these may underlie drug dependence and addiction, the purpose of the present study was to examine ...
Elin Lehrmann +8 more
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Severe tremors induced by tiletamine e-cigarette and alcohol use: a case report [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBackground and objectivesPolydrug use has caused serious harm to public health, especially involving novel psychoactive substances. Tiletamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist commonly used as a veterinary anesthetic, has recently ...
Bojie Zhou +15 more
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Comeback of ketamine: resurfacing facts and dispelling myths [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021 Initially known as CI-581, ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 as a replacement from phencyclidine. It has since been used as an anesthetic and analgesic.
Abhijit Kumar, Amit Kohli
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A Fatal Case of Late Stage Lyme Borreliosis and Substance Abuse
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2023 A recent study demonstrated a 1,100% (12-fold) increase in substance abuse after acquiring Lyme borreliosis. Lyme borreliosis and substance abuse have never been adequately studied and deserves greater attention.
RC Bransfield, ME Embers, AJ Dwork
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Abstract 106: CHANTER Syndrome: A Case Report Of A 59 Year Old Man With Positive Outcome
Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2023 Introduction Cerebellar, Hippocampal, and Basal Nuclei Transient Edema with Restricted Diffusion (CHANTER) syndrome was first described in 2019 [1] as a pattern of radiographic findings that are distinct from ischemic, anoxic, or toxic brain injury ...
Sherif Elsayed +3 more
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Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2008 Drug abuse involving dextromethorphan, an antitussive, has been a social problem in various geographic locations since the 1960s. Ironically, high doses of the drug confer neuroprotective activity with central nervous system and behavioral effects ...
Eun-Joo Shin +4 more
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Synthesis and characterization of phencyclidine and his derivatives [PDF]
Hemijska Industrija, 2010 Phencyclidine (PCP) or 1-phenyl-cyclohexylpiperidine is the best known representative drug from the compound class of arylcyclohexylamines. On an account of pharmacological activities it belongs to the family of drugs known as a dissociative anesthetics.
Ilić Nataša C. +3 more
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Current Concepts on Drug Abuse and Dependence [PDF]
, 2015 Drug addiction is a complex disease characterized by compulsive and uncontrollable desire to seek and consume the drug. In time, drug-related terminology has undergone many changes, arising from the deepening of the mechanisms of action, but also about ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza +5 more
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Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Substance Abuse: A Narrative Review
طب انتظامی, 2023 Introduction One of the major problems in the world is drug abuse [1]. ... [2]. For accurate diagnosis of drug abuse, two important principles are the amount of substance remaining in the body and the time of testing ... [3, 4]. ... [5-10].
Fatemeh Heidarzadeh +6 more
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Developmental Neurotoxicity of Alcohol and Anesthetic Drugs Is Augmented by Co-Exposure to Caffeine
Brain Sciences, 2013 Anesthetic and anti-epileptic drugs used in pediatric and obstetric medicine and several drugs, including alcohol, that are abused by pregnant women, trigger widespread neuroapoptosis in the developing brain of several animal species, including non-human
Catherine E. Creeley +2 more
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