The guideline on Drug misuse sets out clear, evidence-based recommendations
for healthcare staff on how to work with people who misuse opioids to
significantly improve their treatment and care, and to deliver detoxification
safely and effectively.
Author(s): National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
(UK)
This book is a fruit
of a collaborative work from several international scientists. It will be a
useful resource for researchers, students, and clinicians. Each individual
chapter could serve as a prescribed reading for postgraduate students and
clinicians specializing in and practicing clinical pharmacology and toxicology,
pharmacotherapy and pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacovigilance, and toxicovigilance,
as well as those involved in clinical research, drug discovery, and
development.
This guide is a list of antibiotics. The
highest division is between antibiotics is bacteriostatic and bactericidal.
Bactericidals kill bacteria directly, whereas bacteriostatics prevent them from
dividing.
This book
covers the following topics: Coagulation and Anticoagulation, Drug Action,
Enzyme Inhibition, Steroids, Adrenocorticoids, Cardiac glycosides, Oral
Hypoglycemic Agents, Drug Design, Cardiovascular Drugs, Steric Effects and Drug
Action, Enzyme Action, Biophysical Approaches to Drug Design.
This book introduces the
Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for Hospital Level.
The chapters are arranged according to the organ systems of the body. Conditions
and medicines are cross referenced in two separate indexes of the book.
Author(s): The
National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa
This guide will help you understand the relationship between
drugs, the body, and behavior and allow you to better evaluate drug use and
abuse, including use by you and your loved ones. It will increase your awareness
of controversies in the drugs field and enable you to make better decisions,
backed by critical thinking, when you face personal or social issues concerning
the use of drugs in the future.
This book provides selected but
vital information on the sources, tools, technologies and regulations regarding
the current status of medicine development.
This note provides the details about drugs and over-the-counter
medicines. This includes side effects, dosage, and special precautions. Also
contains the details about dietary supplements and herbal remedies to learn about their
effectiveness, usual dosage, and drug interactions.
Natural products are a constant source of potentially active
compounds for the treatment of various disorders.Plant derived secondary
metabolites have been used by humans to treat acute infections, health disorders
and chronic illness for tens of thousands of years. Only during the last 100
years have natural products been largely replaced by synthetic drugs.Books on
drug discovery will play vital role in the new era of disease treatment using
natural products.
Bioactive Food Peptides in Health and Disease highlights
recent developments on bioactive food peptides for the promotion of human health
and the prevention/management of chronic diseases. The book provides a
comprehensive revision of bioactive peptides obtained from both animal and plant
food sources.
Author(s): Blanca Hernandez-Ledesma and
Chia-Chien Hsieh