Legend medication

Legend Medication These are medications that must be prescribed and directly supervised by a medical practitioner and are known as a controlled substance. These include opioids, hypnotics, and potentially habit-forming or harmful medication. The medication label must read Caution Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription. ... 

The 1952 Durham-Humphrey Amendment of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was passed to categorize medication into those medications that require direct supervision by a medical practitioner, called Legend Medication, and those that did not require direct supervision, called over-the-counter medication. 

What is another name given to legend medication ... 

Legend medications are also known as controlled substances. 

Legend medications are those that are given by injection depress the nervous systems (hypnotics) dull the senses, relieve pain, and induce sleep (narcotics) are habit forming and those still under investigation. 

The 1970 comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act categorized legend medication into five schedules based on the medication s potential for abuse. 

If primum non nocere is behavioral maxim primum, then maxim secundum is proffering care with reasonable confidence and hope. Freud (1905) concurred when he wrote, State of mind in which expectation is colored by hope and faith is an effective [therapeutic] force with which we have to reckon (p. 289). The power of this state of mind, when shared between therapist and patient, is legend in our field, because of its proven influence on the process of medicating a patient for symptom relief. It is precisely this confidence and hopeful mindset that we attempt to factor out, or in, through the use of placebo controls in carefully regulated drug trials. But the effects of this second maxim are far from understood, particularly in children. 

Physicians, dentists, podiatrists, and veterinarians—and, in some states, specialized pharmacists, nurses, physician s assistants, and optometrists—are granted authority to prescribe dangerous drugs (those bearing the federal legend statement, "Rx Only") on the basis of their training in diagnosis and treatment (see Who May Prescribe ). Pharmacists are authorized to dispense prescriptions pursuant to a prescriber s order provided that the medication order is appropriate and rational for the patient. Nurses are authorized to administer medications to patients subject to a prescriber s order (Table 65-2). 

The Treasury Department s medical witness was none other than Commissioner Harry Anslinger, who offered his own medical opinion of the dangers of marihuana, an opinion that was liberally spiked with a historically inaccurate rendering of the hoary legend of the Assassins. After the Treasury Department presented its case it was time to hear from the other side. 

Each sample shall be marked Free medical sample - not for re-sale or bear another legend of analogous meaning. 

Europe and China. In 1643 this was listed in a medical pamphlet as Pulvus indicus by Hermann Van der Heyden from Belgium and was later included in the London Pharmacopoeia in 1677 [14,15]. In 1749 Linnaeus named this Peruvial tree as Cinchona, which probably symbolized the legend of Countess del Chinchon. The crude powder of this plant was used for over 200 years in different parts of the world as a specific remedy for malaria. Peru was the main supplier of the bark till 1880 and did not allow export of cinchona trees. However, it was possible to smuggle the cinchona seedlings to Java, where it was successfully planted and cultivated. Eventually Java emerged as the main producer of cinchona bark. 

Fig. 3-23. The figure legend that was published with this photograph in the official history of the U.S. Army Medical Department in World War I reads Gross changes in larynx and trachea of a soldier who died four days after inhalation of mustard gas. Purulent secretions in the smaller bronchi rather than at the glottis caused the respiratory failure that lead to the death of this soldier. The efficacy of tracheal suction in clearing the airway appears not to have been widely known during World War I. Reprinted from Weed FM, ed. Medical Aspects of Gas Warfare. Vol 14. In Ireland MW, ed. The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War. Washington, DC Government Printing Office 1926 Plate 10.

This chapter was based on Dr. Joy s lecture, Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare." The figure legends were provided by the textbook editors.)... 

The origins of coffee and tea as beverages are so old that they are lost in legend. Coffee is said to have been discovered by an Abyssinian goatherd who noticed an unusual friskiness in his goats when they consumed a certain little plant with red berries. He decided to try the berries himself and discovered coffee. The Arabs soon cultivated the coffee plant, and one of the earliest descriptions of its use is found in an Arabian medical book circa AD 900. The great systematic botanist Linnaeus named the plant Cojfea arabica. 

One legend of the discovery of tea—from the Orient, as you might expect— attributes the discovery to Daruma, the founder of Zen. Legend has it that he inadvertently fell asleep one day during his customary meditations. To be assured that this indiscretion would not recur, he cut off both eyelids. Where they fell to the ground, a new plant took root that had the power to keep a person awake. Although some experts assert that the medical use of tea was reported as early as 2737 BC in the pharmacopeia of Shen Nung, an emperor of China, the first indisputable reference is from the Chinese dictionary of Kuo P o, which appeared in AD 350. The nonmedical, or popular, use of tea appears to have spread slowly. Not until about AD 700 was tea widely cultivated in China. Tea is native to upper Indochina and upper India, so it must have been cultivated in these places before its introduction to China. Linnaeus named the tea shrub Thea sinensis-, however, tea is more properly a relative of the camellia, and botanists have renamed the shrub Camellia thea. 

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