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| | Chapter 4, Other Experiential Approaches |
 | | Psychoactive medication may be useful in some young children with autism who have severe behavioral problems that have not responded to behavioral techniques. | | | Psychoactive medications are those which primarily affect person's behavior, mood or thought processes. | | | Several psychoactive medications have been studied to determine if they can reduce maladaptive behaviors in young children with autism. |
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http://www.health.state.ny.us/community/infants_children/early_intervention/autism/ch4_pt5.htm
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| | APHA - American Journal of Public Health Editorials - Des Jarlais editorial |
| | The present system for regulating psychoactive drug use in the United States clearly has many deficiencies, which is not surprising, given that the system originated prior to scientific understanding of the effects of drugs and often within contexts of intergroup cultural conflicts (i.e., racist stereotyping of certain forms of drug use within certain racial/ethnic groups). | | | Many psychoactive drugs are sufficiently dangerous that their unregulated commercial exploitation would lead to unacceptable levels of social and individual harm. | | | Within a traditional economic framework, the value of nonmedical psychoactive drug use would be measured by what consumers are willing to pay, and this would lead to very high estimates of the value of nonmedical psychoactive drug use. |
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http://www.apha.org/journal/editorials/editdjar.htm
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| | Psychoactive drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Here is a general breakdown of the ways psychoactive drugs can work. | | | There are many ways in which psychoactive drugs can affect the brain. | | | While some drugs affect neurons presynaptically, others act postsynaptically and some drugs don't even attack the synapse, working on neural axons instead. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug
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| | Psychoactive Substances and Violence |
| | Alcohol is the only psychoactive drug that in many individuals tends to increase aggressive behavior temporarily while it is taking effect. | | | The links between violence and psychoactive substances involve broad social and economic forces, the settings in which people obtain and consume the substances, and biological processes that underlie all human behavior. | | | Controlled experiments under laboratory conditions produce the strongest confirmation of factors that influence behavior, but practical and ethical constraints generally limit those methods to studies of behaviors that are far milder than the potentially lethal violence that occurs in homes and communities. |
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http://www.rism.org/isg/dlp/ganja/analyses/roth1.html
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| | The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Psychoactive Drugs and Athletic Performance |
| | The physiologic actions of psychoactive drugs and their use by high school and college athletes are discussed here. | | | Psychoactive drug use by high school and college athletes is extraordinarily common. | | | Psychoactive drug use among young athletes often results from these drugs' perceived, and sometimes actual, enhancement of performance. |
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http://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/1997/01jan/schwenk.htm
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| | American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psyhchiatry Policy Statement |
| | Monitoring on-going use of psychoactive medications requires sufficient time to assess clinical response, side effects and to answer questions of the child and family. | | | It is important to balance the increasing market pressures for efficiency in psychiatric treatment with the need for sufficient time to thoughtfully, correctly, and adequately, assess the need for, and the response to medication treatment. | | | In making decisions to prescribe such medications the physician - specifically the child and adolescent psychiatrist - should consider data from studies in adults in treating the target disorder and/or symptomatology, any clinical or anecdotal reports of use in child and adolescent patients, studies conducted outside the United States and the experience of colleagues. |
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http://www.aacap.org/publications/policy/ps41.htm
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| | Stairway to Recovery: Glossary of Terms |
| | A planned interaction with an individual who may be dependent on one or more psychoactive substances, with the aim of making a full assessment, overcoming denial, interrupting drug-taking behavior, or inducing the individual to initiate treatment.The preferred technique is to present facts regarding psychoactive substance use in a caring, believable and understandable manner. | | | Application of planned procedures to identify and change patterns of behavior that are maladaptive, destructive and/or injurious to health; or to restore appropriate levels of physical, psychological and/or social functioning. | | | The restoration of an optimum state of health by medical, psychological and social means, including peer group support, for an alcoholic/addict, a family member or a significant other. |
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http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/addiction/berman/glossary
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| | portland imc - 2001.08.29 - Issues of Psychoactive Democracy |
| | The nature of decentralized psychic harassment by psychoactive drug exposure defeats individual freedoms by a parody of a grassroots movement while sacrificing the foundations human dignity and rights to a level of socio-biological animal herd behavior and ethics. | | | Their acceptance of chemical psychic control of other human beings caused grievous harm to the concept and practice of egalitarianism in democracy leading to our present state of repression of direct democracy. | | | The truth be known, psychoactive substance use is the medium of our species progress showing the best of our humanity and the worst of our veniality. |
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2001/08/3242.shtml
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| | Skeptical Inquirer: Psychoactive Herbal Medications |
| | Thus, a psychoactive herbal medicine can be examined on multiple levels, from molecular interactions to behavioral and cognitive effects. | | | Another key element in the experimental study of psychoactive herbs is randomized assignment of subjects to the various control and experimental groups. | | | The psychological and behavioral effects of such plants were likely recognized in prehistoric times, and their uses have been passed down across generations. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_1_25/ai_68966520
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| | A Chronology of Psychoactive Substance Use |
| | Many Americans view the contemporary drug situation as a unique problem unlike any experienced before; in fact, the use of drugs or psychoactive substances seems to be an almost universal phenomenon which has long been a complex, often highly volatile social concern. | | | Psychoactive drug use begins to become more widespread and diverse. | | | EXCERPT FROM THE 'PURPOSE AND RATIONALE' OF In our efforts to develop a more rational approach toward drug use, an historical perspective is critically needed. |
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http://www.taima.org/en/psychoactive.htm
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| | Use of Prescription Psychoactive Drugs in Medicaid, 1995, National Mental Health Information Center |
| | This table takes a subset of the psychoactive drug users, those that take antidepressant drugs and breaks down their use by the individual antidepressant drug. | | | It also shows the percentage of MH/SA service users that take prescription psychoactive medications, and the percentage of all prescription drug claims for this group that are represented by psychoactive medications. | | | The percent of the psychoactive drug users who also have a MH/SA condition ranges from 41.7% in Alabama to 60.9% in New Hampshire. |
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http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA02-3712
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| | NIH Guide: PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY OF WIDELY AVAILABLE PSYCHOACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS |
| | Studies designed to understand the acute effects of psychoactive natural products on cognition, learning and memory, and motivation (e.g., conditioned reinforcement or incentive motivation) are needed. | | | Moreover, the short- and long-term effects of these psychoactive natural products on the brain and other body organ systems are unclear. | | | Issues related to vulnerability of children and adolescents to both the reinforcing and adverse consequences of psychoactive natural product use are of interest. |
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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-084.html
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| | WHO Psychoactive substances |
| | It presents current approaches proposed by WHO to change education and training in substance use disorders to help meet the increasing demand for services and trained personnel, changes in health systems and the need for quality care for patients presenting such problems. | | | WHO encourages use of this document as a basis for discussion and as a lever for proposing and implementing initiatives which can improve the ability of professionals to deal with the problems of psychoactive substance use at the individual, family and community levels. | | | The aim here is to offer a concise description of the main evaluation methods and to encourage users to adopt evaluation methods to help develop and maintain effective and efficient treatment servies and treatment systems. |
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http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/psychoactives/en
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| | The Body: Other Psychoactive Drugs |
| | The injectable drug is used where rapid action is necessary and in cases where the muscle rigidity makes taking the tablets difficult or impossible. | | | Benztropine should not be used by anyone with a known allergy to it. | | | Benztropine blocks the nerve signals that cause the rigidity, allowing the muscles to relax. |
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http://www.thebody.com/pinf/other.html
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| | Psychoactive drug use and progression of HIV infection. |
| | Relations between psychoactive drug use, the nervous system, and the immune system are a promising area for basic research. | | | Although the current epidemiologic data do not provide support for the hypothesis that psychoactive drug use will have any important effects on the course of HIV infection, possible interactions between psychoactive drugs and antiviral medications and medication adherence issues among drug users are important areas for AIDS research. | | | Keywords: JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL Animal Disease Progression Human HIV Infections/*PHYSIOPATHOLOGY Male Psychotropic Drugs/*PHARMACOLOGY |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1999/jun/A9960974.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive Substances |
| | Takes a look at not only common drugs, plants, and animals, yes animals, used for psychoactive experiences, but more importantly, it gives a very impressive view of obscure substances that most other 'drug encyclopedias', that cost about the same price or more, don't even mention. | | | As Mr Rudgley sweeps from soma of the ancient Indo-Iranians to Ecstasy in the British rave scene, he is careful always to put his psychoactive substances into a wider cultural or even ritual context, an aspect that has been largely lost in Western drug use. | | | From ergot to Ecstasy, author Richard Rudgley provides in-depth ethnographic and historical information on past and current use, as well as the changing social attitudes toward this motley assortment of fun-loving chemicals. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031219868X?v=glance
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| | New Statesman: The Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive Substances. - book reviews |
| | In the introduction to this diverting but.rather silly book about drugs the author states that it is "designed to provide historical and cultural information concerning psychoactive substances. | | | But like Richard Evans Schultes - the man who more or less single-handedly created the field of ethno-pharmacology - he does believe in the centrality of intoxication to an understanding of human consciousness. | | | Rudgley, like Schultes, looks towards traditional peoples for an enduring perspective on our relationship with psychoactive substances. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4377_v127/ai_20485038
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| | CSP - 'Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy' - Front Matter |
| | These substances, when used properly, can engender mystical/spiritual experiences that are life changing. | | | This inner relationship has been cultivated by many shamanic and spiritual/religious traditions over millennia using a great variety of methods. | | | In my view, this guide firmly establishes that: |
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| | Submission Guidelines for the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Haight Ashbury Publications |
| | The editors of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs welcome manuscripts of a multidisciplinary nature relevant to all aspects of psychoactive drug use and abuse. | | | The Journal publishes a wide variety of articles, including critical and historical reviews, theoretical analyses, and speculative theses with a systematic focus, as well as reports on basic or applied research (on humans) of major significance. | | | [The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs] [Catalog of Available Issues and Books] |
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http://www.hafreeclinics.org/journal/guidelines.htm
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| | ADHD: are drugs the answer? |
| | The few studies that have been done in this area all point to the use of psychoactive drugs as an extremely effective way of tackling the problem and better than other more traditional methods, such as a change in diet or behavioural therapy. | | | However, the experience of the drug in the US has caused wide concern. | | | Child prescriptions for the behavioural drug Ritalin rocketed again in the UK last year. |
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http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/features/adhd.htm
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| | "Short-term Effects of Cannabinoids in HIV Patients" |
| | Retrospective analyses from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study evaluating outcomes in 1662 seropositive users of psychoactive drugs found that none of the drugs used by participants was associated with enhanced clinical or immunologic expression of HIV infection (Kaslow 1989). | | | No evidence for a role of alcohol or other psychoactive drugs in accelerating immunodeficiency in HIV-1-positive individuals. | | | Plasma testosterone levels before, during and after chronic marihuana smoking. |
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http://www.maps.org/mmj/proto.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Practitioner's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs |
| | This updated, spiral-bound volume provides immediately useful information for prescribing and administering psychoactive drugs, with important information and highlighted in boxes Pub: 10/97. | | | Amazon.ca: Books: The Practitioner's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs | | | Look for books like The Practitioner's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs by subject: |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306410931
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| | Happiness in a Bottle? (Psychoactive prescription drugs are truly dangerous) (press release) |
| | And yet, the question many parents are quietly asking is whether the drugs so readily prescribed to our children are increasing the risk of school shootings. | | | These are the questions that are addressed by Label Me Sane, a California organization dedicated to raising awareness regarding the dangers of prescription psychoactive drugs. | | | (Psychoactive prescription drugs are truly dangerous) (press release) |
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http://www.newstarget.com/006994.html
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| | Psychoactive Plants |
| | Another, called “white pigeon” imparts a sense of heightened perception, as tho one were flying over the rainforest like a white pigeon. | | | One plant may induce red visions, another will include people in the visions; still another will make one fierce and strong. | | | Psychoactive drugs are classified as stimulants, hallucinogens, or depressants based on their effects. |
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http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/landau/psychoactiveplants.htm
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| | Psychoactive Substances and Driving Disability: Epidemiological Roadside Survey in North-East Italy |
| | Psychoactive substances and driving: state of the art and methodology, Alcohol Drugs Driving 10, 1-55. | | | Methodology in Man-Machine Interaction and Epidemiology on Drugs and Traffic Safety, Addiction Research Foundation of Italy, Padova, pp. | | | Search for drugs and psychoactive substances by means of a standardized analytical procedure on blood and urine samples identified by the label "Analyses". |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/MISC/driving/s27p8.htm
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| | Urban Dictionary: psychoactive |
| | An adjective; mainly used to describe drugs that alter ones mental process or behavior. | | | THC, MDMA, LSD, Cocaine, PCP, Mescaline, Peyote, Methamphetamine, Alcohol and many other drugs are psychoactive. | | | Psychoactive drugs are usually catergorized into the groups of stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, inhalants, anabolic steroids, narcotics, and some consider cannabis to be its own catergory. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=psychoactive&defid=1397142
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| | A Rationale for Psychoactive Gardening: Rebuilding Our Indigenous Relationship with Plants |
| | We must be careful not to simply consume a plant without respect and understanding about how it grows, where it comes from, and the nature of its uses and effects. | | | By taking personal responsibility for contributing as much as we consume, we live indigenously and 'righteously'. | | | The problem is that we've largely lost the positive cultures into which the use of such plants were embedded. |
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http://www.wilderdom.com/vignettes/PsychoactiveFarming.html
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| | Psychoactive food : chocolate |
| | Surprisingly, perhaps, recent research suggests that pure theobromine may be superior to opiates as a cough medicine due to its action on the vagus nerve. | | | Chocolate's theobromine content may contribute to - but seems unlikely to determine - its subtle but distinctive psychoactive profile. | | | Sceptics claim one would need to consume several pounds of chocolate to gain any very noticeable psychoactive effects; and eat a lot more to get fully stoned. |
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http://www.chocolate.org
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| | The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Catalog Haight Ashbury Free Clinics |
| | Founded by David E. Smith, M.D., in 1967, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs is an authoritative quarterly periodical containing timely information of a multidisciplinary nature for clinicians and other professionals in the drug abuse field as well as interested nonprofessionals. | | | The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Catalog Haight Ashbury Free Clinics | | | Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs, |
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| | Researcher Investigates Effects Of Psychoactive Drugs On Children And Adolescents |
| | The group is examining what, if any, negative effects Zoloft and other psychotropic drugs have on young people. | | | Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D., dean of Temple University's College of Health Professions, chairs the American Psychological Association's Working Group on Psychoactive Medications for Children and Adolescents. | | | Researcher Investigates Effects Of Psychoactive Drugs On Children And Adolescents |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050326095558.htm
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| | Psychiatric study for cancer patients to measure psychoactive medication |
| | The specific aim of the study is to learn whether the psychoactive drug, psilocybin, might be effective in reducing anxiety, depression and physical pain, and therefore improving quality of life for Stage IV cancer patients. | | | Psychiatric study for cancer patients to measure psychoactive medication | | | Stage IV cancer patients who suffer from anxiety may want to investigate a new research study recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) taking place at The Research and Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/hrae-psf030104.php
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| | Psychoactive Drug Mechanisms -- Neurotransmitter.net |
| | The action of the psychoactive drug 2C-B on isolated rat thoracic aorta. | | | Hallucinogenic drugs are partial agonists of the human platelet shape change response: a physiological model of the 5-HT2 receptor. | | | Endogenous psychoactive tryptamines reconsidered: an anxiolytic role for dimethyltryptamine. |
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http://www.neurotransmitter.net/drugmechanisms.html
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| | Treatment methods, particularly for psychoactive drug dependence |
| | A method of treating a human for preventing dependence on a psychoactive hapten, said method comprising a first step of withdrawing said human from said psychoactive drug and a further step of administering to said human, in a form adequate to produce antibodies, an antigenic conjugate of said hapten with a macromolecule. | | | Immunoassays of psychoactive drugs including psychotomimetic drugs, narcotic drugs, and tetrahydrocannabinols and treatment methods based on the antigenic properties of protein conjugates of these drugs. | | | The method of claim 1 wherein the psychoactive hapten is chosen from the group consisting of N,N-dimethyltryptamine and its congeners, LSD 25 and its congeners, amphetamines and their congeners, alkaloid narcotics, and cannabinoids. |
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http://www.pharmcast.com/PatentToSubWeb/Licensing/AvailablePatents/MeirStrahilevitz/Strahilevitz_4620977DrugDep111202.htm
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| | Psychoactive Drugs |
| | Practitioner's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs for Children and Adolescents | | | A Primer of Drug Action: A Concise, Non-Technical Guide to the Actions, Uses, and Side Effects of Psychoactive Drugs | | | Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs |
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http://www.carejournal.org/index.php?c=2040
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| | Psychoactive Drugs and Their Effects |
| | Psychoactive drugs d of various neurotransmitters or affect the effectiveness of neurotransmitters | | | Some psychoactive drugs cause the vesicle membranes to be weak, so they tend to break (example: reserpine, a blood-pressure medication, affects dopamine, seratonin, and norepinephrine this way) | | | Finally, psychoactive drugs can stimulate the release of the neurotransmitter (black widow spider venom stimulates the release of acetylcholine; amphetamines affect norepinephrine and dopamine release) |
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http://www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/smith/general/lectureoutlines/2neuroscience/psychoactivedrugs.html
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| | Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Haight Ashbury Publications |
| | Established in 1967 by David E. Smith, M.D., founder and medical director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (ISSN 0279-1072) is an authoritative quarterly periodical containing timely information of a multidisciplinary nature surrounding the use and abuse of psychoactive drugs. | | | Throughout its 35 year history, the Journal has been on the leading edge of developments in the field of drug use, abuse, and treatment. |
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| | Report to Congress - Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy - Feb 1995 |
| | Because the user is unable to reduce or discontinue use and behavior associated with procuring, preparing, or being intoxicated, drug use consumes increasing amounts of the individual's life. | | | Psychoactive substance dependence has been described as a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and physiologic symptoms that indicate that the person has impaired control of psychoactive substance use and continued use of the substance despite adverse consequences. | | | For example, persons dependent on psychoactive drugs may exhibit a compulsion to use a drug over a longer period than originally intended. |
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http://www.ussc.gov/crack/chap2.htm
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| | The Psychedelic Library — Book Menu |
| | Marks' investigation reveals that the Agency was deeply involved in research with psychoactive drugs, psycho-surgery, electroshock, hypnosis and other methods on Agency operatives, students, mental patients, defectors, prisoners and prostitutes; many of these subjects were unwitting or involuntary collaborators. | | | The extraordinary story, compiled from documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, of how the CIA conducted a series of secret programs to find ways to control human behavior. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/bookmenu.htm
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| | History House: What A Gas: Part I |
| | The Consumers Union replies that, "[w]hile casual readers today may interpret such practices as mere satisfaction of the desire for pleasant odors, this is almost certainly an error; in many or most cases, a psychoactive drug was being inhaled. | | | Stone altars have been unearthed in Babylon and Palestine which have been used for burning incense made of aromatic wood and spices. |
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| | Annals of General Psychiatry Full text QT interval prolongation related to psychoactive drug treatment: a comparison ... |
| | We found that the psychiatric population treated with antipsychotic monotherapy had much less risk of developing an increase in QTc interval compared to those treated with antipsychotics plus an antidepressant or lithium. | | | Thus, detecting the patients with a reduced repolarization reserve [28,29] will lead to personalized psychotropic therapy according to the predisposition of that patient to develop cardiac side effects with a certain drug. | | | Non psychoactive drugs, like cardiovascular drugs, were allowed only if they were not reported to alter QT interval. |
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| | Marijuana |
| | American psychologist William James: introduced idea of using psychoactive substance in the study of psychological processes. | | | By end of 19th Century- other drug (barbiturates and narcotics common) use declined. |
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| | Technorati Tag: psychoactive |
| | Devoted entirely to the human relationship with psychoactive experiences, Erowid’s goal is to... | | | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | Separate tags with "OR" to search multiple subjects. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/psychoactive
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| | Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders |
| | The Certificate of Proficiency has proven to be a useful tool in helping the public identify licensed psychologists whose scope of competence includes the treatment of patients for alcohol and substance use disorders. | | | Georgia's Department of Human Resources has approved the APA's Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders as one way in which licensed psychologists may be included in the Registry of Clinical Evaluators and the Registry of Substance Abuse Treatment Providers who evaluate and treat DUI offenders. | | | Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders |
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| | The Implications and Limitations of Genetic Models of Alcoholism and Other Addictions |
| | According to this view, there would be no point to ferreting out individual variations in susceptibility to addiction. | | | Recently, however, there has been a growing clinical awareness that approximately the same percentage of people become addicted to a range of psychoactive substances, including alcohol, Valium, the narcotics and cocaine (McConnell, 1984; Peele, 1983). |
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| | Psychoactive Herbs In Veterinary Behavior Medicine |
| | Following that is Suggested Clinical Applications of Psychoactive Herbs; Basic Approaches to Common Behavior Problems in Pet Cats and Dogs; Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Drugs in Veterinary Behavior Practice; Traditional Jewish Medicine: Parallels to Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine; and Online Resources. | | | There are references included, but not all reflect scientific studies. | | | There are photos (some in color) of some of the plants (should you be inclined to collect them yourself). |
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| | Commercial Activities related to Psychoactive Fungi Use in Thailand |
| | If these activities are just a part of the 50's-60's dispora of psychoactive substances awareness then the people have adapted rather well, it would seem. | | | Given that elderly men and women as well as young children engage in the practice of collecting, marketing, to some extent, consuming psychoactive fungi, as well as creating art masterpiece, the question that jumps to the fore is, how ancient is this knowledge in Thailand? | | | However, I sis meet several farmers and women and children who had [local] knowledge of psychoactive fungi. |
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| | NIDA - What's New - Meetings - Meeting Summary - Psychoactive Botanical Products Workshop |
| | He discussed his behavioral and "receptorome" research with Salvinorin A, cathine and cathinone (active ingredients Qat [Catha Edulis]), and ephedra. | | | The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. | | | Basic and applied research that is needed to investigate psychoactive botanical products, including issues related to acute vs. chronic use, effects when taken during pregnancy, developmental effects. |
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| | Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion |
| | Timothy Leary, before going off the deep end and proselytizing for a tail-chasing sort of revolution (just how do you both “tune in” and “drop out”?), with his colleagues at Harvard, did useful therapeutic work with alcoholics and criminals, getting the former to dry up and demonstrating a lower recidivism rate in the latter. | | | An “entheogen” is a psychoactive substance, such as LSD or psilocybin, which induces in the user “an experience of transcendent reality,” in the words of the author of the foreword, Brother David Steindl-Rast, to | | | In an age when psychoactive substances, such as Ecstasy, have been reduced to use for partying, dancing, and sex, this collection of essays is a reminder that it wasn’t always like this. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Women's Healthcare Symposium: Substance abuse in pregnancy |
| | Potential deleterious effects on the developing fetus raise numerous medical, ethical, economic, and legal questions. | | | Few issues have caused more controversy and debate in both the medical and lay press than substance abuse--defined as use of any psychoactive substance to such an extent that significant physical, emotional, and social consequences result. |
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| | Growing the Hallucinogens |
| | Additional information about Hyoscyamus niger may be found here. | | | For medical, legal, or spiritual advice, we urge that you consult the appropriate practitioner. | | | The general application of the law appears to be that it is legal for a person to cultivate these plants, as long as no steps are taken that could be interpreted as intent to ingest them for psychoactive effects. |
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http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Plants/growing.html
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