Psychoactive drugs effects

Hershkowitz, M. and Szechtman, H., Pretreatment with A1 tetrahydrocannabinol and psychoactive drugs effects on uptake of biogenic amines and on behavior, Eur. J. Pharm., 59, 267, 1979. 

The initial testing was cautious, mainly establishing the minimal effective doses for each of a series of new belladonnoids. Sometimes, however, the quality and quantity of on-site staffing was not what it should have been. On one visit, I became quite upset with the prison staffs lack of expertise regarding psychoactive drug effects. Dr. Kligman came down to Edgewood to meet with some of us and discuss this problem. 

Murphy DL, Donnelly C, Moskowitz J Inhibition by lithium of prostaglandin El and norepinephrine effects on cyclic adenosine monophosphate production in human platelets. Chn Pharmacol Ther 14 810-814, 1974b Murphy DL, Lake CR, et al Psychoactive drug effects on plasma norepinephrine and plasma dopamine B-hydroxylase in man, in Catecholamines Basic and Clinical Frontiers. Edited by Usdin E, Kopin IJ, Barchas J. Ehnsford, NY, Pergamon, 1979, pp 918-920... 

Groups of compounds that need special attention are (i) antibiotics due to the possible contribution to resistance (ii) hormones, due to their effects already observed in veiy low concentration and (iii) some cytotoxics that can cause cancer. However, for other APIs such as diclofenac and psychoactive drugs effects on wildlife (fish, vultures) may be revealed as well. 

Stimulation of appetite and weight gain has frequently been observed as a side effect of long-term therapy with various psychoactive drugs. Prominent examples not... 

We have talked with people who participated in our study over the last year. As you know, many of them have experimented with a wide variety of psychoactive drugs, including MBDB. When asked about MBDB their response seems to be lukewarm in terms of how it compares to subjective effects, and whether these effects are comparable to those of MDMA. Is that accurate ... 

Greer, G., and Tolbert, R. Subjective reports of the effects of MDMA in a clinical setting. J Psychoactive Drugs 18 319-327, 1986. 

Downing, J. The psychological and physiological effects of MDMA on normal volunteers. J Psychoactive Drugs 18 35-340, 1986. 

The goal of this chapter is to review recent morphologic studies in which current anatomic me ods have been used to characterize the neurotoxic effects of psychoactive amphetamine derivatives. Several strategies combining anatomic with biochemical data have been employed to analyze the effects of selected drugs in this class. These studies show that psychoactive drugs that have selective neurotoxic effects can be useful experimental tools to study the neural mechanisms of elusive brain functions such as affective state control and perceptual integration. 

Cannabis sativa, one of the oldest plants farmed by man, has been known for its medicinal properties for at least four millennia (Peters, 1999). The psychoactive-euphoric effects of this plant, as well as its facile and wide climatic range of cultivation, have rendered it a very popular recreational drug. Today, cannabis, or marijuana, is still the focus of strong social, legal, and medical controversy over its therapeutic utility. 

Do all psychoactive drugs have a mixture of good and bad behavioural effects ... 

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