Essays on Pharmacology

This chapter introduces the pharmacology of crack cocaine to help readers evaluate the claims that have been made regarding its danger to individual users and society. Because, materially and pharmacologically, crack is cocaine, most of what is known about cocaine applies to crack as well….

1. Corticosteroids CS have reduced the NS mortality rate to around 3% (Hodson et al., 2007). CS have well-recognized serious adverse effects such as cushingoid features, obesity, growth retardation, hypertension, osteoporosis, cataracts, impaired glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, emotional deprivation, behavioral changes and avascular necrosis of the…

Millions of addictive pharmaceuticals are prescribed to pregnant mothers every year, and as that rate of prescriptions increases, so does the rate of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. Neonatal withdrawal syndrome (NWS) explains the various signs that a neonate will display when exposed to psychoactive drugs in…

Phar­macy prac­tice in many emerg­ing coun­tries such as Nepal is still in the de­vel­op­ment phase. The ev­i­dence on phar­macy prac­tice tar­geted to can­cer pa­tients in Nepal is very lim­ited. There is lit­tle re­search on on­col­ogy phar­macy prac­tice af­ter Khanal et al. pub­lished an ar­ti­cle on­col­ogy…

In this work PC Nanosome of Zolmitriptan was formed by using the Ether injection method. Thin film hydration/probe method also used but its not the appropriate method for Nanosome preparation because larger particles size and more agglomerates were found by this method At the Preformulation…

Phi 205 Section 500 July 15, 2018 Ethics of Big Pharma vs Little Consumers The pharmaceutical industry is among the most admired and criticized of all. This contradiction stems from the fact that the industry, on one hand, provides cures to life-threatening diseases and at…