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Opium Interactions - Articles
The Opium Eater
by
Dr. Romeo V.
Posted
Wed 04 Aug 2010 9:47am
uses. Of course, nowadays, Papaver somniferum is best known under another name after its most famous product, the opium poppy.
Although the anesthetic properties of the milky, latex sap of the opium poppy have been known since ancient times, its use as a recreational drug is relatively more recent. Since Islamic law didn't ban opium use as it did
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U.K. Expands Production of Homegrown Opium
by
Dirk H.
Posted
Sun 07 Sep 2008 8:50pm
of cropland on a dozen different farms in Hampshire, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire have been converted to opium production.
The result, according to the London Daily Mail... troops have sustained casualties in an attempt to combat the soaring opium harvest in Afghanistan, and the attendant violence and corruption. So far this year, British troops have
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No Opium For Baby....
by
Andrea L.
Posted
Tue 23 Dec 2008 9:30pm
Last night as the evening wound to a close, everything in Mommy Land seemed to be ok. Michaela took her usual evening nap and we took a short little walk around the neighborhood to wind down the day. We got ready for bed as usual, but when I laid down to nurse her to sleep, it was quite apparent that all was not right. My little one decided that ...
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Drug-Drug Interactions to Watch Out For
by
Dirk H.
Posted
Mon 22 Nov 2010 1:42pm
of chemistry, noted that human populations vary widely in the version of genes they carry for P450 enzymes. According to Green, “adverse drug-drug interactions are a well-known problem... Family Physician , Tom Lynch and Amy Price explain that cytochrome P450 enzymes “can be inhibited or induced by drugs, resulting in clinically significant drug-drug interactions
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JAMIA: Pharmacy CDS tools spotty at identifying drug-drug interactions
by
Adam Chee
Posted
Thu 06 Jan 2011 12:00am
drug pairs13 of which were clinically significant DDIs, and six that were non-interacting drug pairs.
The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative... as a great way to introduce the topic to you readers
Many pharmacy clinical decision-support (CDS) systems don’t always identify well-known, clinically relevant drug-drug
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Older Adults At High Risk For Drug Interactions
by
Ed H.
Posted
Mon 29 Dec 2008 4:43pm
At least one in 25 older adults, about 2.2 million people in the United States, take multiple drugs in combinations that can produce a harmful drug-drug interaction... medications and dietary supplements, which can increase their vulnerability to medication side-effects and drug-drug interactions.”
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