Methadone Marijuana

Carcinogenic activity. The dried leaf, administered intraperitoneally to rats of both sexes at a dose of 7 mg/kg/week, was active. The animals were irradiated with y radiation between 40 and 50 days of age and observed for 78 weeks. There was a greater incidence of tumors in animals given marijuana extract and y radiation than either marihuana or y radiation alone Cardiorespiratory effect. Fifty stable patients (25 males, 25 females) with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs were investigated. Forty-six MMT... 

As its first public act, the Dmg Abuse Council issued a widely circulated report advocating the decriminalization of marijuana, a tenfold increase in methadone (synthetic heroin) clinics, and the British system of legalized government-sponsored heroin addiction. Following the release of that report, the Kaiser Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund established a matching fund that more than doubled the annual revenues available to the Dmg Abuse Council to push dmg legalization. 

As with several other drugs, for example marijuana, PCP, and LSD, cocaine can precipitate panic disorder, which continues long after drug withdrawal (177). Among 280 patients in a methadone maintenance clinic, the prevalence of panic disorder increased from 1% to 6% over a decade (178). A marked rise in the frequency of cocaine abuse coincided with this outbreak. The authors suggested that episodes of panic occurring in cocaine users can result in hospitalization for either psychiatric or medical illnesses. 

Anglin, D., Brecht, M., and Maddshian, M., Pretreatment characteristics and treatment performance of legally coerced versus voluntatry methadone maintenance admissions. Criminology, 27,537,1989. Mieczkowski, T. and Newel, R., Comparing hair and urine assays for cocaine and marijuana. Fed. 

See also Amphetamine Benzodiazepines Cocaine Codeine Dextromethorphan Heroin Hydrocodone LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethyiamide) Marijuana Methadone Methyienedioxymethamphetamine Morphine Phencycii-dine Propoxyphene. 

Table IV-1-10 summarizes the properties of drugs of abuse. These include the CNS stimulants (cocaine j and amphetamines), the CNS depressants (benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and ethanol), the opioids j (morphine, heroin, methadone, fentanyl, and others), the hallucinogens (marijuana and other j...

Heroin, LSD, cocaine, marijuana, methaqualone Opium, morphine, coca, methadone... 

Classes of substances currently banned by the IOC include stimulants (amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, pseudoephedrine), narcotics (heroin, methadone), anabolic agents (testosterone, nandrolone), diuretics (acetazolamide, spironolactone), and peptide hormones and their mimetics and analogs (erythropoietin, human growth hormone). Alcohol and marijuana at specified levels are also prohibited. For the latter, a level of as little as 15 ng/mL of 11-nor-A°-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid is a violation of the rules. A complete... 

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