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Gangs, drugs, and delinquency
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
… (19%); 2) media predominantly framed illicit drugs as a law enforcement issue (83%) with only 15% of the paragraphs in the sample framing illicit drug as a public health problem; 3) media reporting on illicit drugs heavily relied on official sources (79%) lacking voices of the public health …
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Sex, drugs, and women's desire
… arousal problems. Flibanserin, and other drugs for low sexual desire in women, act on the brain. Women with low desire don't have a problem with physical arousal or with orgasm, but with desiring sex before it starts. Most women with low sexual desire disorder have partners with higher …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… sentiments that underpin an on-going War on Drugs in the United States.
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One Drug, Two Drugs, Three Drugs, More: A Critical Habilitative Narrative Inquiry into Autism Spectrum Disorder
With increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) being diagnosed since its inception, there is reason for significant concern in regards to the cause, treatment, and prognosis of the disorder. This work investigates some of the political, economic and social factors that impact …
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Tabletability Flip of Drugs upon Formulation
Tabletability is a key property that determines a powder’s ability to form tablets under applied stresses, typically represented by a plot of tablet tensile strength versus pressure. Tablet tensile strength reflects the contributions of interparticulate bonding area (BA) and bonding strength (BS) …
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Transdermal Iontophoretic Delivery Of Lipophilic Drugs
… technique for enhancing transdermal delivery of drugs. However, its ability to enhance the delivery of highly lipophilic compounds is poor due to lack of any charge and poor water solubility of molecules. Propofol, a sedative and anesthetic drug was chosen as a one of the model lipophilic drug in …
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Effect of Drugs on Rabbit Retina
The adverse effects of drugs in the eye are not easily detected, and the underlying pathogenesis not fully understood. The effects of four different kinds of drugs have been investigated in the rabbit eye, using electroretinography, ocular examination and histochemical methods. Rifabutin is a broad …
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Hair analysis for drugs of abuse
… of analytical methods to detect trace amounts of drugs in hair and also investigated the mechanisms by which drugs may be incorporated into hair. The major areas covered in this study can be summarized as follows: 1. The methods for the identification and quantification of opiates, amphetamines, …
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Supramolecular modification of selected antiretroviral drugs
A number of antiretroviral drugs that are currently in use for anti-HIV therapy have extremely poor aqueous solubility. This, along with the fact that many of these pharmaceutical compounds possess potential hydrogen bond donor and acceptor functionalities, makes them ideal candidates for attempted …
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Supramolecular modification of selected antitubercular drugs
The author's objective was to prepare new solid phases of the antitubercular drug isoxyl [specifically polymorphs, solvates, cyclodextrin (CD) inclusion complexes and cocrystals] and to isolate and characterise a range of solvated forms of the rifamycin antibioticsrifampicin and rifaximin.
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Metal complexes of anti-tubercular drugs
… is a continuing need to improve anti-tubercular drugs due to the development of resistance towards existing drugs. In some cases, metal complexes are known to improve the bioavailability of drugs. Hence the present study looks at the use of metal complexes of anti-tubercular drugs to improve the …
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Antiviral polymeric drugs and surface coatings
Viruses are a major cause of human morbidity and mortality in the world. New effective approaches to stop their spread are paramount. Herein, two approaches toward this goal are explored: (i) developing multivalent therapeutics (multiple copies of an antiviral agent covalently attached to a …
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Synthesis of sulfonylthioureas as anti-diabetic drugs
This dissertation discussed the synthesis, cytotoxicity and alpha-glucosidase inhibition of sulfonamides and novel sulfonylthiourea compounds. Three series of novel sulfonylthiourea [benzamido-benzenesulfonylthiourea (28a-28d), pyrrolidino-benzenesulfonylthiourea (33a-33c) and …
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Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Putative Antipsychotic Drugs
… stimulus properties of antipsychotic drugs, by establishing the typical antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine, and the atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine as discriminative stimulus in two different groups of rats. The rats trained to discriminate chlorpromazine from vehicle failed to do …
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Monitoring of occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs
Antineoplastic drugs are commonly used in the medical treatment of cancer and some other diseases. Workplaces e.g. hospital pharmacies and wards where antineoplastic drugs are used are contaminated with these drugs and health care workers are therefore at risk of getting occupationally exposed. …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
How were New World drugs received and understood in early modern England? In the seventeenth century, England’s first empire was being established and an increasing abundance of medicinal plants arrived in London from across the Atlantic. In this thesis, I argue that commercial and political …
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Controlled release of drugs from surgical suture
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1987.
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