drugs

Drugs are chemical compounds intended for use in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. More informally, a drug is any non-food substance that causes changes in the structure or function of the body.

Drugs have played a major role in the history of medicine. Perhaps the most famous example is the accidental discovery of penicillin, a drug which proved to be a highly effective treatment for many infectious diseases, by the biologist Alexander Fleming.

Drug abuse occurs when the steady use of one or more addictive drugs, prescription or illegal, results in overuse with negative consequences. Even familiar drugs like aspirin can have significant side effects. Several blogs offer useful overviews on drugs, including Brain Blogger and Rx Blog.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “drugs”

• Creatine Reviews

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Creatine is very widely used by athletes as it offers many benefits with the least number of side effects compared to other drugs. Creatine provides instant energy to the body and is used when an individual is into high intensity sports like bodybuilding or weightlifting. It sets back fatigue and helps a person work ...
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• Blood Sistas: The Chronicals of Black Uptown Girlz Growing Up in the Hood

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 140
  By Munesta Faulkner Unique Expressions As a White girl growing up in rural Wisconsin, I had no idea what city life was like. Post-college, I traveled, hoping to broaden my horizons and learn a bit about urban living. After that, I thought I had some pretty good ideas about what growing up in the city was like: ...
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• Being There :: Kurt Vile @ Black Cat, DC

  
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  We will most assuredly be singing the praises of Kurt Vile ’s latest album Childish Prodigy come list-making time before year’s end, and his final performance of his tour this week at the Black Cat did nothing to dissuade such accolades. Shrouded in a curtain of hair, Kurt Vile’s sound and approach to songs ...
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• I never played tennis while high, says Andre Agassi

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Crystal meth would make it impossible to play • Reaction to book has not surprised him Andre Agassi claims it would be physically impossible to play tennis while high on crystal meth and says he never played the game while doped. In an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald in the wake of his admission that he ...
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• Science Weekly podcast: The sacking of Professor David Nutt and we relive the LHC emergency

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  We look at the sacking of the governments chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol . We ask what role scientific advisers should play in politics. Read all our coverage of the Professor Nutt controversy . In the newsjam we discuss whether ...
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• MARC GIVEAND – ENTOURAGE MOLESTER

  
  Jacky Jasper's Diary of a Hollywood Street King — Authority: 145
  Tweet This Story! Marc Giveand, who can frequently be found hanging with Ice T & Kool Keith has had serious allegations of DATE-RAPE leveled against him by several women who were in the company of Marc at several nightclubs in Los Angeles. Marc is also known to roll with fellow sleezeball former rapper TIM ...
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• I’m sorry lady, before entering this IBM Second Life, virtual conference, you’ll have to check your atomic Powered dildo at the door!

  
  AdScam/The Horror! — Authority: 505
  In a recent article on Marketing VOX, they are trying to make a case that Second Life is still alive and somewhat thriving in the corporate environment. Personally, I think it’s a crock of shit. I don’t care if IBM is holding virtual meetings on this wanky site and Linden Labs is claiming that 1,000 companies ...
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• Drug Warriors: blind or just innumerate?

  
  The Wisdom of Whores — Authority: 404
  As promised, a note on the UK’s latest data on HIV among drug injectors. Some of the US’s battalions of Drug Warriors have been crowing that the new figures show a rise in infection rates among junkies in the UK: clear evidence that the nation’s policy of making sterile needles and injecting equipment ...
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• Generic Metoprolol Succinate

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 139
  Click here to see it on AdPharm AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
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• Stephanie Seymour Shows Vanity Fair What She’s Got

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 159
  Stephanie Seymour and her estranged husband Peter Brandt are getting nasty. Well, we knew they were getting nasty, but now that she’s taken her clothes off for Vanity Fair it might get worse. Peter wants sole custody of their three kids, because he says Seymour is hooked on drugs and booze and has repeatedly ...
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• London Drugs Coupons: Get $15 Gift Card with $50 Revlon Purchase

  
  Canadian Freebies, Coupons, Deals, Bargains, Flyers, Contests Canada — Authority: 491
  Thanks Wayne   for suggesting this deal. From now until December 31st, 2009 with every $50 Revlon purchase get a free $15 London Drugs Gift Card (in store only). You can find the coupon in-stores at all London Drugs stores.
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• Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – Based on the rhetoric, America’s war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation’s readiness to turn the talk into reality Read more from the original source: ...
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• Combining cocaine, alcohol, creates toxic cocaethylene stored in liver, blamed for heart attacks

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 444
  ( Guardian UK ) “I first took coke when I was 18 and at university. I remember two friends who did chemistry told me I should get really drunk first because it would mix into this new chemical in my blood and make me even higher,” a 30-year-old woman who works in publishing told the Observer yesterday. What her ...
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• Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 108
  Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...
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• Evan Harris accuses Alan Johnson of a "litany of errors" over Professor Nutt dismissal comments

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Dr Evan Harris, the Lib Dem MP and science spokesperson has written a letter to Alan Johnson the Home Secretary drawing his attention to a number of factual inaccuracies in the statements Mr Johnson made to the House of Commons last Monday in the debate about his dismissal of Professor Nutt. Dr Harris charges Mr ...
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• Adverse Drug Event Rates in Six Community Hospitals and the Potential Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry for Prevention

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  CONTEXT:Medications represent a major cause of harm and are costly for hospitalized patients, but more is known about these issues in large academic hospitals than in smaller hospitals. OBJECTIVE:To assess the incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs) in six community hospitals. DESIGN:Multicenter, retrospective cohort ...
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• Natural Health Care For Your Arthritis

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 138
  Joints with arthritis may have: swelling, warmth, redness or pain. Joint pain, stiffness, tenderness, and swelling are the most prominent signs of the disease. In addition, many patients experience fatigue, weight loss, and a condition called crepitus — a cracking sound that is also called popping joints. Joints ...
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• Penny for the guy, Sir?

  
  AdScam/The Horror! — Authority: 505
  In case all you bloody Yanks didn’t realize it, last Thursday, November the fifth, was Guy Fawkes day. The 204th anniversary of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by a disgruntled British nobleman, in other words, a seventeenth century “Teabagger.” It was also the day, last week, when several dozen ...
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• Stephanie Seymour’s Naked Revenge

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  Supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who is embroiled in a bitter divorce with estranged husband Peter Brant, has taken her clothes off for Vanity Fair . Brant is a multimillionaire businessman and polo pony breeder who is seeking sole custody of the couple’s three children because, he claims, Seymour is hooked on drugs ...
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• Tamiflu And Relenza Against Swine Flu

  
  Health Tips — Authority: 121
  Newsbreak on the flash: A new strain of Swine Flu that has killed 149 and sickened nearly two thousand in Mexico has spread to the United States and is raising fears of a possible pandemic. Through this article you will…
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