Essays on Drugs

In the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Americans caught “gold fev” and were richly rewarded for finding caches of the soft, yellow, magical metal. The saying back then was “Thar’s gold in them thar hills!” Gold was big business; it involved big dreams and made…

“Monkey dust” is an off-white powder, which is the synthetic version of the natural compound referred to as MDPV which can be administered orally, through injections or through snorting. Cathinones is the family of drugs that MDPV belongs to, it includes the naturally occurring stimulant…

Introduction Nitrofurans are a such type of drugs that are usually used as a antibiotics or antimicrobials. The structural component is a furan ring with nitro group. The trade name of nitrofuran is macrobid. The mechanism of nitrofurantion is unique in nature. The frozen food…

In the past four decades, drug addictions have become a tremendous but taboo disease in America. According to a study by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health published in Science, death rates from drug overdoses in the U. S. have been growing…

Novel drug delivery systems is a field of which demands constant innovation. The healthcare industry is in continued search for delivery systems which can accurately deliver the drugs to target site with ideally no adverse effects. A poster-perfect drug delivery system is biocompatible and able…

The drug valium contains the active ingredient Diazepam. Diazepam affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with anxiety. Valium is used to treat anxiety disorders, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, or muscle spasms. Valium is sometimes used with other medications to treat epileptic…

In UK society today, illegal drug has often been seen as one of the most important topic over the past few years. The main focus of this article is to show with the increase in the number of using illegal drug have different effects on…

The essay is about the use of medication to address behavioral conditions, though it can be beneficial to some individuals, but it has unknown effects. The medications are used to correct behavioral issues have assisted in solving behavioral disorders which were previously mistaken for some…

Frustrated Issue: Expiring Medical Supplies I’ve found out that most medical supplies have drug expiration dates above the set limit of 0.005%, but it was frustrating to note that all these resulted from overstocking; poor prescription tendencies by medical practitioners; poor stock rotation, delivery of…

Drug use has occurred throughout history for thousands of years, for both recreational and medicinal purposes. There are even many types of drugs, including marijuana, opium, and tobacco. However, one may wonder how it came to be that some of these drugs became illegal in…