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

* Immunosuppressive drugs – Drugs which interfere with the immune's system's ability to etect and destroy foreign cells, including transplanted tissue from a non identical twin.

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

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

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

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.

Drugs most often associated with a particular route of administration:

* Sex, Drugs and Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits ( 1988 ) revision, with new introduction, of Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits

* Drugs most commonly associated with the adverse event Pyrexia ( Fever ) as reported the FDA

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.

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 1965, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) Expert Committee on Dependence-producing Drugs ' Fourteenth Report noted, " The Committee was pleased to note the resolution of the Economic and Social Council with respect to khat, confirming the view that the abuse of this substance is a regional problem and may best be controlled at that level ".

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.

On 16 December 2010, Bob Ainsworth, the former minister and Home Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary with responsibility for Drugs and Organised Crime explained why he thinks certain illicit substances should be legalised.

Drugs with shorter half-life's require more frequent administration to maintain the correct plasma concentrations, therefore potentially presenting more problems if levels of adherence and compliance are unreliable, but longer-lasting drugs can increase the development of resistance due to prolonged periods of low drug concentration.

Following the departure of Glass, the band had their biggest successes on the UK Independent Chart with the singles Sick Of Love, Church Of No Return and Zero Sex and the album Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ.

Drugs containing sulfhydryl groups, including penicillamine and captopril, may react with zinc and cause deficiency.

Most rheumatic diseases are treated with analgesics, NSAIDs ( Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs ), steroids ( in serious cases ), DMARDs ( Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs ), monoclonal antibodies, such as infliximab and adalimumab, and the soluble TNF receptor etanercept and Methotrexate for moderate to severe Rheumatoid arthritis.

* Permanent Obscurity: Or A Cautionary Tale of Two Girls & Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana ( as told to Richard Perez ) by Richard Perez ( Ludlow Press 2010 )- A cautionary neo-sexploitation tale featuring two East Village young women who embark on an ill-fated attempt at making a female domination film.

* Fun with Drugs – ( CD Maxi ) 1999 – Dependent Records

* UK: classified as a controlled drug, listed under Schedule IV, Part I ( CD Benz POM ) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, allowing possession with a valid prescription.

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 causing increased diuresis ( diuretics ) is generally an alternative, and have less risk of causing decreased glomerular filtration rate through the kidneys and resultant decreased kidney function.

Acetylcholine has the function of stimulating the salivary glands to actively produce saliva .< ref name =" Medications and Drugs ">" Medications and Drugs ," 6 May 2004, 25 Oct. 2009, < http :// www. medicinenet. com / pilocarpine / article. htm ></ ref > The increase in saliva flow is effective in improving the movement of tastants to the taste buds.

Drugs function by binding to specific locations on target molecules and causing a certain desired change.

Drugs that enter the blood stream can not penetrate and function in the brain, but instead must be administered into the cerebrospinal fluid.

Two generally true circumstances underlie the theory of thoughtful, therapeutic polypharmacy: ( 1 ) Drugs given for a single somatic locale act on biochemical mechanisms present throughout the body such that their nonlinear interactions can produce an ( unknown except empirically ) global physiological state of health ;( 2 ) The more independent variables, " handles ", to manipulate, the greater the likelihood of finding and stabilizing a small available parametric space of healthy function while minimizing unwanted effects.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

Drugs such as rivaroxaban and apixaban work by inhibiting Factor Xa directly ( unlike the heparins and fondaparinux, which work via antithrombin activation ).

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.