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The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates

Book by Jan-Willem Gerritsen; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Alcoholism--Economic Aspects, Alcoholism--Social Aspects, Narcotic Habit--Economic Aspects, Narcotic Habit--Social Aspects

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...in a revised regulatory regime for opiates of which we have more definite knowledge...societies, in the regulatory regime for opiates. They set out to secure a monopoly on the preparation and prescription of opiates. Achieving this monopoly was far...
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Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America

Book by David T. Courtwright; Harvard University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Heroin Habit, Morphine Habit, Narcotic Addicts--History, Opium Habit--United States--History, Opium Trade--Law And Legislation--United States--History, Opium--Therapeutic Use--History

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...suited these purposes very well. 170 Opiates also suited the purposes of frustrated...disillusioned women drowned their sorrows with opiates. Alternately, repressed drives and suppressed...symptoms, which were in turn alleviated with opiates. The soothing properties of opiates were...
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Encyclopedia of the Human Brain - Vol. 3

Book by V. S. Ramachandran; Academic Press, 2002

Subjects:

Brain--Encyclopedias, Neurology--Encyclopedias, Neurosciences--Encyclopedias

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...establish a diagnosis of opiate-induced toxicity...who have been using opiates on a chronic basis...who need to receive opiates over prolonged periods of time. Opiate treatment also often...buprenorphine. Vi. OPIATE DISPOSITION AND CLEARANCE...Absorption Many of the opiates are well-absorbed...
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Crime in Biological, Social, and Moral Contexts

Book by Lee Ellis, Harry Hoffman; Praeger Publishers, 1990

Subjects:

Criminal Behavior, Criminal Behavior--Genetic Aspects, Human Biology--Social Aspects, Sociobiology

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...of the endogenous opiates, this effect is counteracted by the opiate antagonists e.g...of the endogenous opiates. This aggression is usually blocked by opiate antagonists. In some...of the endogenous opiates is substantially higher...
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False Messengers: How Addictive Drugs Change the Brain

Book by David P. Friedman, Sue Rusche; Routledge, 2002

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Brain--Effect Of Drugs On, Drugs--Physiological Effect

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...unrestrained use of opiates led to a tidal wave of opiate addiction. That wave...a backlash against opiates. For most of this...appropriate doses of opiate analgesics, and medical...drugs was miserly. Opiates were administered in...

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The Validity of Self-reported Opiate and Cocaine Use by Out-of-treatment Drug Users

Journal article by Deborah Brooks Nelson, Lynne Kotranski, Salaam Semaan, Karyn Collier; Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 28, 1998

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Cocaine, Drug abuse, Substance abuse treatment

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...reported using other opiates, and 11% reported using...Overall, self-reported opiate use in the previous 48...accurately report their opiate use were evenly divided...9% reported using opiates but tested negative on...and 8% reported no opiate use but tested positive...
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An Application of Social Conflict Theory to Arrestees' Use of Cocaine and Opiates

Journal article by Celia C. Lo; Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

Arrests, Drug use, Theory

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...including cocaine and opiate use. Hypotheses are...variables and the use of opiates and cocaine. SOCIAL...relationship with the arrestees opiate use. Arrestees who were...positive for the presence of opiates. Compared to the results...cocaine-use model, opiate users were less distinguishable...
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The Rocky Road to a "Drug Free Tennessee": A History of the Early Regulation of Cocaine and the Opiates, 1897-1913

Journal article by Jeffrey Clayton Foster; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1996

Subjects:

Narcotic laws--History, Narcotics--Social aspects, Tennessee--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Act believed that opiate addiction was a disease...physicians to prescribe opiates for the maintenance...level, while the opiates exhibited such a...something about the opiate user population in...This widespread opiate addiction in the...doctors administered opiates, the perceived panacea...
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The Epidemiology of Cocaine and Opiate Abuse in Urban Canada

Journal article by Christiane Poulin, Pamela Fralick, Elizabeth M. Whynot, Nady El-Guebaly; Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 89, 1998

Subjects:

Cocaine, Drug addiction, Heroin

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...Winnipeg. Regarding opiates, based on most responsible...for both cocaine- and opiate-related morbidity...pertaining to cocaine and opiates. The mortality rate...Based on mortality data, opiate abuse appears to be an...information on cocaine and opiates suggests the availability...
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Comparing Opiate Users in Methadone Treatment with Untreated Opiate Users: Results of a Follow-up Study with a Toronto Opiate User Cohort

Journal article by Benedikt Fischer, Louis Gliksman, Jurgen Rehm, Natalie Daniel, Wendy Medved; Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 90, 1999

Subjects:

Drug addiction, Heroin, Methadone, Public health, Toronto Ontario Canada, Treatment

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...parameters of untreated opiate addiction in Toronto...addicts; injected opiates multiple times daily...or fewer illicit opiate purchase episodes...purchased illicit opiates were more likely...amount of illicit opiates than untreated subjects...money on illicit opiate substances. MT subjects...

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Investigating Opiate-overdose Deaths

Magazine article by Todd F. Prough; FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Vol. 78, April 2009

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Autopsies, Bodily injury, Carbon dioxide, Cellular telephones, Crime, Criminal investigations, Drug overdose, Drug trafficking, Evidence, Heroin, Hypodermic needles, Latent fingerprints, Legislation, Personal digital assistants, Prescription drugs

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...the human body. The opiate class of narcotics...exception of alcohol, opiates account for the largest...Victims Victims of an opiate overdose often exhibit...of such an overdose. Opiates act as a central nervous...foam cone. Autopsies of opiate overdose victims often...
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People of the Opiate: Burma's Dictatorship of Drugs

Magazine article by Dennis Bernstein, Leslie Kean; The Nation, Vol. 263, December 16, 1996

Subjects:

Drug abuse--Myanmar, Drug traffic--Myanmar, Myanmar--Political aspects

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...and extralegal. "Exports of opiates alone appear to be worth about...hotels are coming from major opiate-growing and opiate-exporting organizations and...organizations. "Barriers between the opiates sector and the legal economy...
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Drugs Approved for Opiate Dependence

Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 37, January 2003

Subjects:

Drug addicts--Care and treatment, Drug addicts--Drug therapy, Suboxone (Medication)--Adverse and side effects, Suboxone (Medication)--Product introduction, Subutex (Medication)--Adverse and side effects, Subutex (Medication)--Product introduction

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Drugs Approved for Opiate Dependence. The FDA has approved two new products to treat opiate dependence. In October 2002...withdrawal from heroin and other opiates. The new products represent...in maintenance treatment for opiate addiction. Naloxone was added...
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Two New Drugs Approved for Opiate Addiction

Magazine article by Jillene Magill-Lewis; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, November 4, 2002

Subjects:

FDA, FDA approval, Food & Drug Administration, Guidelines, Prescription drugs, Reckitt Benckiser PLC, Substance abuse treatment, United States

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Two New Drugs Approved for Opiate Addiction by Jillene Magill...specifically for treatment of opiate dependence. Both products...a semisynthetic, partial opiate agonist, and naloxone, an...dependence potential of other opiates, such as methadone and oxycodone...
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Opiate of the Philosophers

Magazine article by John Haldane; Commonweal, Vol. 133, March 10, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Opiate of the Philosophers. by John Haldane Breaking the Spell Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Daniel C. Dennett Viking, $25.95...

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Anyone for Caf? Culture? Viennese Social Whirl: Originally Part of a Pharmacy Offering Opiates with the Coffee, the Griensteidl, Painted by Reinhold V?lkel in 1896, Was Known as Caf? Megalomania for the Rapacious Ambitions of Its Literary Clientele

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 8, 2008

Subjects:

Pharmacy

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Viennese Social Whirl: Originally Part of a Pharmacy Offering Opiates with the Coffee, the Griensteidl, Painted by Reinhold V...originally part of a medicinal pharmacy, offering optional opiates with the coffee to soothe a stressed-out inner city. Men...
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Risky Eco-Disarmament ... with Opiates

Newspaper article by Jr. Frank Gaffney; The Washington Times, September 16, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Risky eco-disarmament ... with opiates by Jr. Frank Gaffney A new front has just been opened in what promises to become one of the great political battles of the late...
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Tests Find Alcohol in Many Suicides; Drugs Uncovered in 10 Percent

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 25, 2006

Subjects:

Central nervous system agents--Reports, Central nervous system agents--Statistics, Suicide--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...states, also showed that 10 percent had opiates, cocaine, marijuana or amphetamines...fewer than half were tested for cocaine or opiates; fewer than 40 percent were tested for...alcohol (33.3 percent), followed by opiates (16.4 percent), cocaine (9.4 percent...
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Afghanistan Rises as Heroin Source; U.S., Canada See Illegal Trade Swell despite Anti-Drug Efforts

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 3, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...regional submarkets, including: Afghan opiates for markets in neighboring countries...the Near and Middle East, and Africa; opiates produced in Southeast Asia for markets...Asian countries, as well as Oceania; and opiates produced in Latin America, which are...
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Doctor Is Accused of Inadequacy; HEALTH: Panel Hears Patients Left in Comas

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), June 9, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sent home. Many had never been given opiates before, but Dr Barton wrote prescriptions...include a lack of proper assessment before opiates were prescribed and an irresponsible method of prescribing opiates. "There was an almost universal failure...

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Opiate Drug

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

OPIATE DRUG any of a group of drugs derived from opium . Used medicinally to relieve...certain synthetic drugs that have morphinelike pharmacological action. All opiates are considered controlled substances by U.S. law and are available only...
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Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...stereotypical application to opiate-drug users was invalid because...Morphine , a strictly controlled opiate , and synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl, are most...general, heroin and the other opiates come into the United States from...
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Opium

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...paregoric stops diarrhea. Medicinal opiates were freely available in the United States...Besides indiscriminate medical use, opiates were available in the United States in...unhindered, resulting in an epidemic of opiate addiction by the late 1800s. The generous...
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Methadone

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...drowsiness, but lasts much longer (one to two days) and does not create the sometimes fatal respiratory depression that opiates do. Its continued use as a heroin substitute eventually restores sexual, immune, and adrenal function. When methadone is...
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Obesity

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...obesity can come from an eating disorder . It has been shown, for example, that binging for some people releases natural opiates in the brain, providing a sense of well-being and physical pleasure. Other studies have found a strong relationship between...

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