Drug overdoses are sometimes caused intentionally to commit suicide or as self-harm, but many drug overdoses are accidental, the result of intentional or unintentional misuse of medication.

The Drug Free Australia calculations compared the registration data for overdose histories published in the MSIC ’ s 2003 evaluation document, which allowed comparison rates of overdose from a period before a heroin drought reduced overdoses Australia-wide, with rates of overdose drawn from data in the 2010 evaluation.

Drug Free Australia has expressed concern that the evaluators, in using injecting room overdose data to calculate quite incorrect ' lives saved ' estimates, failed to examine the extent to which overdoses were over-represented in the injecting room against data they had available to them on clients ’ prior histories of overdose.

Drug Free Australia has shown that the 2003 and 2008 MSIC evaluators indefensibly failed to factor the vastly elevated number of overdoses in the centre into their calculations of lives saved.

In the United States ( US ), as of the mid-1980s, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has increased its involvement in reviewing the development of medical device software, due to patient overdoses caused by coding errors in a radiation therapy device ( Therac-25 ).

Drug use connected with the parties has remained high with the resident doctor Ed Schulhafer sending out a memo to residents following another GHB fatality in 2007 stating: " This tragic incident follows an unprecedented number of GHB overdoses at the Pines Party, July 29.

MARS has 510 ( k ) approval from the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) for drug overdoses and poisoning as of June 2005 and is available in the USA since the end of 2005.

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0. 5 milliroentgens per hour ( mR / h ) ( 0. 13 µC /( kg · h ) or 36 pA / kg ) at a distance of from any external surface ; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.

Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I.

On 6 February 2009, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first human biological drug produced from such an animal, a goat.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), with support from the TSE ( Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ) Advisory Committee, has since 1997 been monitoring the potential risk of transmitting animal diseases, especially bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), commonly known as Mad Cow disease.

For pharmaceutical grade gelatins strict regulations from the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), the European CPMP's regulation and European Pharmacopoeia must be met.

In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.

Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents ; 4 from the United States Secret Service, 2 from the United States Customs Service, 1 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and 1 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Drug references began to appear in their songs, in " Day Tripper " ( 1965 ), and more explicitly in " Tomorrow Never Knows " ( 1966 ), from their album Revolver.

* Information to healthcare professionals on fluoroquinolone safety from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) had documented design defects in medical devices that contributed to recalls from 1983 to 1989 that would have been prevented if Quality Systems had been in place.

Some products containing SLES have been found to also contain low ( up to 279 ppm ) levels of 1, 4-dioxane, with the recommendation from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration that these levels be monitored.

The Pure Food and Drug Act banned food and drugs that are impure or falsely labeled from being made, sold, and shipped.

A formalin-inactivated vaccine once was available in the United States for adults at high risk of contracting the plague until removal from the market by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

* A Poison that can Heal from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has not found any harmful effects of pollen consumption, except from the usual allergies.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved this chemical for many uses, and it is generally considered safe.

In Corrections, the Department ensures court-ordered, pre-sentence chemical dependency assessments, related Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative specific examinations and treatment will occur for offenders sentenced to Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative in compliance with RCW 9. 94A. 660.

Drug or toxin or chemical resistance is a consequence of evolution and is a response to pressures imposed on any living organism.

In 1994, almost three years after the publication of PiHKAL, the United States ( US ) Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) raided Shulgin's chemical lab.

Ortho-phthalaldehyde ( OPA ) is a chemical sterilizing agent that received Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) clearance in late 1999.

High-level disinfection kills all organisms, except high levels of bacterial spores, and is effected with a chemical germicide cleared for marketing as a sterilant by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).

Iontophoresis ( a. k. a. Electromotive Drug Administration ( EMDA )) is a technique using a small electric charge to deliver a medicine or other chemical through the skin.

Generally recognized as safe ( GRAS ) is an American Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) designation that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe by experts, and so is exempted from the usual Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( FFDCA ) food additive tolerance requirements.

Drug discovery often involves the use of QSAR to identify chemical structures that could have good inhibitory effects on specific targets and have low toxicity ( non-specific activity ).

:" the Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals.

" Ironically, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras oil in 1960 because it contains the carcinogen and liver-damaging chemical safrol.

Drug metabolism often converts lipophilic chemical compounds into more readily excreted polar products.

Drug metabolism can result in toxication or detoxication-the activation or deactivation of the chemical.

A new chemical entity ( NCE ), or new molecular entity ( NME ), is, according to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by the FDA in any other application submitted under section 505 ( b ) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Under the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, all new chemical entities must first be reviewed by an advisory committee before FDA can approve these products.

On account of its relation to the MDxx chemical class, MDP2P, as well as safrole and isosafrole, are in the United States ( U. S .) Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) List I of Chemicals of the Controlled Substances Act ( CSA ) via the Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act ( CDTA ).

* British Drug Houses, a big chemical company that was merged with Merck KGaA

F. Taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies, ( i ) if wholesome foods without additives are consumed or ( ii ) if a food is consumed that contains a food ingredient at or below the level and for a use found to be safe, or agricultural chemical or environmental contaminant at or below the level found to be safe, by the Food and Drug Administration or approved by the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

The State Food and Drug Administration is not responsible for regulating pharmaceutical ingredients manufactured and exported by chemical companies.