Medications meaning

Medication Means of Increasing Norepinephrine (NE) Activity Prominent Effects on Other Transmitters Clinical Uses... 

This decision is important in that it prevented the simple fact of drug addiction from making a person a criminal. It also acknowledged the growing belief that drug addiction was a disease appropriately treated by medical means. This does not mean that an addict who actually possesses drugs cannot be held criminally responsible for that possession, however. 

Medical means of getting an addict off morphine allows withdrawal with less drastic symptoms. Methadone, legally administered through drug rehabilitation programs, can be substituted for morphine just as it is for heroin. A totally synthetic opioid, methadone lasts longer within the body than either morphine or heroin. Methadone closely mimics the basic opiate stmcture. 

Medication Mean Baseline lOP (mm Hg) Mean lOP at 1 year (mm Hg) Mean lOP Change (mm Hg) p Value ... 

The goal of medication treatment is to reduce symptoms so that the person can function better and benefit more from other forms of treatment, such as individual, group, or family therapy and social or vocational rehabilitation. An important part of such therapy involves educating the patient to prodromal symptoms and effects and side effects of medications. It is also important to address patients beliefs that taking medications means they are sick (and conversely, that not taking medications means they aren t). Especially with paranoid patients, the belief that medications are a means of being controlled by others must be worked through. 

The method of patient recruiting, consenting, and blinding has been shown to influence patient beliefs and subsequent reporting of efficacy and safety of the medication. Means and type of vehicle delivery appear to affect patient perception of intervention strength, and adverse events.One study found that increased confidence in the manufacturer appeared to supplement relief obtained in both placebo and active medication groups. 

Prescription medications means the use (by a driver) of legally prescribed medications issued by a licensed health care professional familiar with the driver s work related responsibilities. 

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