Drugs that block the effects of dopamine at the pituitary or deplete dopamine stores in the brain may cause the pituitary to secrete prolactin.

Drugs that interfere with NMDA receptors block LTP and also have major effects on some types of memory, especially spatial memory.

Drugs that block the effects of dopamine at the pituitary or deplete dopamine stores in the brain may cause the pituitary to secrete prolactin.

Drugs that block the CXCR4 receptor appear to be capable of " mobilizing " hematopoietic stem cells into the bloodstream as peripheral blood stem cells.

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.

Drugs including the monoamine oxidase inhibitors ( MAOIs ), tricyclic antidepressants ( TCAs ), tetracyclic antidepressants ( TeCAs ), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ), and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors ( SNRIs ) are most commonly associated with the term.

Drugs affecting the central nervous system include: hypnotics, anaesthetics, antipsychotics, antidepressants ( including tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, lithium salts, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs )), antiemetics, anticonvulsants / antiepileptics, anxiolytics, barbiturates, movement disorder ( e. g., Parkinson's disease ) drugs, stimulants ( including amphetamines ), benzodiazepines, cyclopyrrolones, dopamine antagonists, antihistamines, cholinergics, anticholinergics, emetics, cannabinoids, and 5-HT ( serotonin ) antagonists.

Drugs that increase overall serotonin levels in general are capable of causing mydriasis in the same way as the 5-HT2A-mediated psychedelics.

Drugs affecting serotonin ( 5-HT ) in the intestines can help reduce symptoms.

Drugs which have been introduced for uses other than analgesics are also used in pain management.

Drugs used are nitrates, beta blockers, or calcium channel blockers.

Drugs that are more rapidly metabolized with carbamazepine include warfarin ( Coumadin ), lamotrigin ( Lamictal ), phenytoin ( Dilantin ), theophylline, and valproic acid ( Depakote, Depakote ER, Depakene, Depacon ).

Drugs affect " younger " tumors ( i. e., more differentiated ) more effectively, because mechanisms regulating cell growth are usually still preserved.

Drugs such as ouabain and digoxin are cardiac glycosides.

Drugs that utilize this mechanism include nutlin and MI-219, which are both in phase I clinical trials.

* Drugs ( anti-depressants ( SSRIs ) and nicotine are most common )

The elements of the crime of money laundering are set forth in the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

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 are placed in the body and only activate on encountering a particular signal.

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.

* 1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.

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.

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 are researched for their physiochemical properties, physical side effects, and psychological side effects.

Drugs that may prove more effective and safer than existing drugs for insomnia are in development.

They also claim that laws against these crimes may have unintended consequences that are the reverse of that intended: for example, the War on Drugs puts the distribution of illegal drugs into the hands of criminals, and creates artificial scarcity, making their distribution highly profitable.

Drugs are available to treat this condition.

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.

Drugs which can be taken sublingually are absorbed through the oral mucosae, so that they bypass the liver and are less susceptible to the first pass effect.

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

* FDA Public Health Advisory-Public Health Advisory for Antipsychotic Drugs used for Treatment of Behavioral Disorders in Elderly Patients, fda. gov

Drugs used only in the treatment of refractory status epilepticus include paraldehyde ( Paral ), midazolam ( Versed ), and pentobarbital ( Nembutal ).

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.

: Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKUltra / MKDelta materials were also used for harassment, discrediting, or disabling purposes.

The writer Clifford A. Pickover has used Shrub Oak as a backdrop in several of his books, including Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves, " Liquid Earth ( Neoreality Series )" and A Beginner's Guide to Immortality.

Drugs that are effective at maintaining normal rhythm after electric cardioversion, can also be used for pharmacological cardioversion.

Drugs used for women include Clomiphene citrate, Human menopausal gonadotropin, Follicle-stimulating hormone, Human chorionic gonadotropin, Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs, Aromatase inhibitor, Metformin.

Drugs which can be used for sedation include propofol, etomidate, ketamine, fentanyl, and midazolam.

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 such as tropicamide are used in medicine to permit examination of the retina and other deep structures of the eye, and also to reduce painful ciliary muscle spasm ( see cycloplegia ).

However, they have also been used by Irish republican paramilitaries and by anti-drugs vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs ( RAAD ).

Coca eradication is a controversial strategy strongly promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its " War on Drugs " to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine and soft drinks, namely Coca-cola.

Drugs commonly used to treat overdose are Physostigmine to counteract central and peripher anticholinergic effects and Diazepam to control convulsion.

For many drugs and chemicals not in the Pharmacopoeia there is no standard of purity that can be used under the Adulteration of Food and Drugs Act, and for these, as well as for the commercial quality of those drugs and essential oils which are also in the Pharmacopoeia, a legal standard of commercial purity is much needed.

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.

Drugs such as fludrocortisone, midodrine, ephedrine and SSRIs can also be used to treat symptoms.

Drugs used to treat adults include metronidazole, albendazole and quinacrine.