Medicine cabinet

take a quick peek in the medicine cabinet. There are a lot of drugs and medicines inside there. I could spend pages and pages talking about the chemistry of their reactions and interactions, but I m just going to say a few brief words about a couple of them. 

Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. More than 55 billion aspirin tablets are sold annually in the United States. 

Science proceeds by hard work, training, intuition, hunches, and luck. That luck is sometimes called serendipity, which is another name for an accidental discovery. Or, as 1 like to say, finding something you didn t know you were looking for. Chapter 20 tells the stories of ten serendipitous discoveries. But because I m in the medicine cabinet anyway, I may as well mention a couple of serendipitous discoveries right now. 

Male pattern baldness ciffects many millions of men and women in the world. Minoxidil, the current over-the-counter treatment for baldness, was discovered quite by accident. It was being used as an oral treatment for high blood pressure, when patients reported hair growth. Now it s usucdly applied topically instead of orally. 

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Among the most common over-the-counter drugs you might find in a medicine cabinet are mild pain relievers such ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), and acetaminophen (Tylenol). 

Long before the age of plastics and nylons, I. G. Farben-industrie was known to many Americans as simply the world s best druggist. Every reputable pharmacy, every physician s bag, every good family medicine cabinet, stocks some of Farben s 6000 medicines. The firm invented a drug that is still the best cure for epilepsy. They made atabrine, the quinine-substitute for treating malaria. And from the aspirin tablet alone, I. G. Farben made a vast fortune. 

At 36 hours, H had recovered sufficiently to take over Z s supervision and L was able to get a little rest. By this time, Z was becoming more active, trying to leave the room through the medicine cabinet, or saluting the drapes that screened the latrine. 

Z remained the center of attention. When he found the door locked, he again attempted to escape through the medicine cabinet. As he contorted his body into various alarming positions, H finally pulled him back from taking a header. 

Ruhoya ISR, Daughton CG (2008) Beyond the medicine cabinet an analysis of where and why medications accumulate. Environ Int 34 1157-1169... 

As relationships deepen and appear to have long-term potential, questions of disclosure become more pressing. Two interviewees talked specifically about the need to consider their medicine cabinets once it became clear that a potential partner might be spending time in their apartments. The similarity of their comments is striking ... 

Drug use by teenagers in 2004 appears to have declined, though use of inhalants and oxycodone (OxyContin ), a prescription opioid pain reliever, are on the rise. Recent reports indicate that a ready source of drugs of abuse for adolescents is prescription drugs found in the home medicine cabinet, as well as prescription drugs available on the Internet. ... 

The path a drug travels from a lab to your medicine cabinet is usually long, and every drug takes a unique route. Often, a drug is developed to treat a specific disease. An important use of a drug may also be discovered by accident... 

You are probably familiar with the 2% alcoholic solution of iodine known as tincture of iodine. It is found in almost every home medicine cabinet and is used as a disinfectant for wounds. Iodine has many other uses — in photography and in the preparation of various medicines and dyes. 

The government also realized that the legal sale of amphetamines was a problem. During the 1960s, youths curious about drugs could find amphetamines in their parents medicine cabinets. 

Mescaline is said to be the oldest known hallucinogenic drug. Before drugs were manufactured in a lab, cooked up in someone s basement, or stolen from a medicine cabinet for illegal and abusive use, they were found in plants. Often, drugs in plants were discovered quite accidentally. 

There are a variety of ways to deal with the number of things that will ail you during pregnancy (and which you usually rely on the medicine cabinet to take care of). Below, a collection of all-natural home remedies from friends, many of which were found to be more effective than conventional medication. 

Only as he stood in front of the medicine cabinet that evening, holding the bottle of Ritalin in his hand, did the thought occur to Sam that his mother might notice the pills were gone. He shrugged and put the pills in his jeans pocket anyway. He would just have to come up with an explanation for the pills disappearance. 

Teens also cited ease of access of prescription medications as a major factor. Specifically, the majority stated that parents medicine cabinets, and/or medicine cabinets in the homes of friends, are major access points. Some individuals obtain prescription drugs for abuse by doctor shopping, by which the individuals continually switch physicians to get new prescriptions so that they can obtain enough medication to feed their addiction. Individuals may also illegally purchase medications from legitimate patients who... 

In Chapter 2 the significance of the placental transfer of drugs from the maternal circulation into the fetus was discussed. At that time, the prototypic teratogen thalidomide was discussed along with several contemporary drugs such as alcohol and cocaine. By the time that thalidomide was finally removed from the market and the medicine cabinets, it had caused severe deformities in approximately 10,000 children in 46 countries. 

Hydrogen peroxide, found in many medicine cabinets, has the formula H202. How many elements are in this formula ... 

Would you expect to find such a hazardous chemical in over-the-counter medications Check your medicine cabinet at home. You may find phenol listed as an ingredient in throat sprays and in lotions to relieve itching. You may also find it used as an antiseptic or disinfectant. 

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