Drugs such as morphine or codeine can be used to relieve diarrhoea this way.

Drugs of choice include azole or nitro derivatives, such as benznidazole or nifurtimox.

Drugs with medium risk include doxorubicin and platinum analogs such as cisplatin and carboplatin.

Drugs such as ouabain and digoxin are cardiac glycosides.

In any event, many countries are obligated by various international instruments and standards, such as the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the recommendations of the FATF to enact and enforce money laundering laws in an effort to stop narcotics trafficking, international organised crime, and corruption.

Drugs that block the presynaptic serotonin transporter are used for treatment, such as Prozac and Zoloft.

Drugs targeting the neurotransmitter of such systems affect the whole system ; this fact explains the complexity of action of some drugs.

Drugs that interfere with nerve function, such as curare, can also cause paralysis.

Drugs that can induce psychotic symptoms include amphetamine, caffeine ( which can worsen psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia and produce olfactory hallucinations at very high doses in normal volunteers ), cannabis, cocaine, desoxypipradrol, dimethyltryptamine, alcohol ( ethanol ), inhalants, gammahydroxybutyric acid ( and its precursors gammabutyrolactone and 1, 4-butanediol ), ketamine, LSD, mephedrone and methcathinone, mescaline and other phenethylamine hallucinogens, methamphetamine, MDMA ( very rarely, likely due to different phethylamines that are sometimes sold as MDMA, or even piperazine derivatives sold as " extacy "), opiates such as heroin, phencyclidine, piperazine-based drugs, psilocybin, and anabolic steroids at high doses.

Drugs that can induce psychosis experimentally and / or in a significant proportion of patients include amphetamine and other sympathomimetics, dopamine agonists, ketamine, corticosteroids ( often with mood changes in addition ), and some anticonvulsants such as vigabatrin.

at N. Y. U. and also for the Baltimore underground newspaper Harry and the New York Ace, before joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served as managing editor among other roles and authored articles such as " Foreigners Around the World " and " How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.

Drugs that inhibit the muscarinic cholinergic receptor ( anticholinergics ) such as atropine and scopolamine are called vagolytic because they inhibit the action of the vagus nerve on the heart, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs.

Drugs such as diazepam or other muscle relaxants can be given to control the muscle spasms.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

Vienna has regained a part of its former international stature by hosting international organizations, such as the United Nations ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Office at Vienna and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United European Gastroenterology Federation.

* Drugs that are prone to cause phlebitis in peripheral veins ( caustic ), such as:

Drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine may also produce similar symptoms.

Until the mid 1970s, anyone could walk from the Town Center to clothing stores such as Smith's Department Store & Adams Shoes, food stores such as Jones Market & Cantell's, doctor's offices, barber shops, banks such as Woronoco Savings and Third National, and two family owned drugstores ; Southwick Pharmacy & Community Drugs complete with their own lunch counters.

Cato has criticized President Obama's stances on policy issues since his inauguration, such as fiscal stimulus, healthcare reform, foreign policy, and the War on Drugs, while supporting his stance on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and liberal immigration policy.

Critics have used the term " perpetual war " in reference to non-military " wars ", such as the " War on Drugs ", " War on Poverty ", " War on Cancer ", Lou Dobbs's " War on the Middle Class ", or the " War on Terrorism " or Bill O ' Reilly's " War on Christmas ".

Drugs also included as POM are high-strength painkillers such as Oxycodone and Tramadol, medications such as Sildenafil ( Viagra ) and Diazepam ( Valium ), and certain topical preparations such as Corticosteroids.

This subject formed the basis of discussion at several meetings of the Pharmaceutical Society, and the results have been embodied in a work entitled Suggested Standards for Foods and Drugs, by C. G. Moor, which indicates the average degree of purity of many drugs and chemicals used in the arts, as well as the highest degree of purity obtainable in commerce of those used in medicine.

This work may also possibly serve as a standard under the Adulteration of Food and Drugs Act for the purity and strength of drugs not included in the Pharmacopoeia and as a standard for the commercial grade of purity of those in the Pharmacopoeia which are used for non-medical purposes.

* Alcohol and Other Drugs ( AOD ), a social work term

In 2008, The UK Drugs Policy Commission called allegations Phillips made regarding its work, " an absolute travesty and a wilful misrepresentation ".

Like most of Biafra's work, Lard's songs are angrily political ( the War on Drugs is a particularly common theme ) but often have a tinge of humour.

There are also several thematic fora, which work on specific themes ( Europe, Democracy, Drugs, Equal treatment.

In his late teens, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, so that his father could join his sister and work in her husband's chain of drug stores, Barthwell Drugs.

* United Nations Rule of Law: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, on the rule of law work conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In his 1988 book, Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health, Valenstein argues that while psychotropic drugs sometimes do work, they do not even begin to address the real cause of mental disorders, since in his view biochemical theories are an entirely " unproven hypothesis " used to excuse what he sees as often unconscionable marketing practices of the drug industry.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, often referred to as the Le Dain Commission after its chair Dean Gerald Le Dain, was a Canadian government commission that was begun in 1969 and completed its work in 1972.

Drugs such as tranquilizers, though they may work well in treating insomnia, have a risk of abuse which is why these treatments are not the first resort.

The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

However, according to a 2008 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, overall, ethnic Albanians, not only from Kosovo, supply 10 to 20 % of the heroin in Western Europe, and the traffic has been declining.

PCP is a Schedule II substance in the United States, a Schedule I drug by the Controlled Drugs and Substances act in Canada, a List I drug of the Opium Law in the Netherlands and a Class A substance in the United Kingdom.

Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline " Drugs Win Drug War.

The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 restricted the manufacture and distribution of opiates, including laudanum, and coca derivatives in the United States ; this was followed by France's Loi des stupefiants in 1916, and Britain's Dangerous Drugs Act in 1920.

Perot led the Texas War on Drugs Committee that proposed five laws, all of which were passed by the legislature.

Many gun control opponents point to statistics in advertising campaigns purporting that " approximately 9 or so children are killed by people discharging firearms every day across the US ," and argue that this statistic is seldom accompanied by a differentiation of those children killed by individuals from unintentional discharges and stray bullets, and of those " children ," under the age of majority — which is 18-21 in the U. S .— who are killed while acting as aggressors in street gang related mutual combat or while committing crimes, many of which are seen as arising from the War on Drugs.

Drugs may act by 1 ) serving as a precursor for the neurotransmitter ; 2 ) inhibiting neurotransmitter synthesis ; 3 ) preventing storage of neurotransmitter in the presynaptic vesicle ; 4 ) stimulating or inhibiting neurotransmitter release ; 5 ) stimulating or blocking postsynaptic receptors ; 6 ) stimulating autoreceptors, inhibiting neurotransmitter release ; 7 ) blocking autoreceptors, increasing neurotransmitter release ; 8 ) inhibiting neurotransmission breakdown ; or 9 ) blocking neurotransmitter reuptake by the presynaptic neuron.

Since Roundup is a key ingredient in the multibillion-dollar aerial coca eradication campaign undertaken by the government of Colombia with U. S. financial and military backing known as Plan Colombia, increasing popularity of Boliviana negra amongst growers could have serious repurcussions for the War on Drugs.

The prohibition of the use of the coca leaf except for medical or scientific purposes was established by the United Nations in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag: to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting " high " by pieing themselves continuously over and over, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to the stupidity of taking drugs.

In Canada, khat is a controlled substance under Schedule IV of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act ( CDSA ), meaning it is illegal to possess or obtain unless approved by a medical practitioner.

The mission of the Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines of the World Health Organization is " to help save lives and improve health by closing the huge gap between the potential that essential drugs have to offer and the reality that for millions of people -- particularly the poor and disadvantaged -- medicines are unavailable, unaffordable, unsafe or improperly used.

More recently, drug dealers and other gang members have been lynched by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, a Muslim vigilante organization.

The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 restricted the manufacture and distribution of opiates, including laudanum, and coca derivatives in the United States ; this was followed by France's Loi des stupefiants in 1916, and Britain's Dangerous Drugs Act in 1920.

Drugs were transported by truck to boats on the Putumayo River.

A 2011 study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime brought together a wide variety of data sources to create a worldwide picture of trends and developments.

* Drugs Policy and Harm Reduction-Research on the circulation of ideas around harm reduction and urban drug policies by Eugene McCann and Cristina Temenos ( Simon Fraser University ).

* MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the Irish Misuse of Drugs Act