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DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Drug Descriptions, Narcotics Narcotics are used therapeutically to treat pain, suppress cough, alleviate diarrhea, and induce anesthesia. Narcotic use is associated with a variety of unwanted effects including drowsiness, inability to concentrate, apathy, lessened physical activity, constriction of the pupils, dilation of the subcutaneous blood vessels causing flushing of the face and neck, constipation, nausea and vomiting, and most significantly, respiratory depression. In general, shorter acting narcotics tend to produce shorter; more intense withdrawal symptoms, while longer acting narcotics produce a withdrawal syndrome that is protracted but tends to be less severe. www.usdoj.gov /dea/concern/narcotics.html   (1163 words)

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914. The act was supported by the Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan who urged that the law be passed to fulfill the obligation of the new international treaty. The use of the term 'narcotics' in the title of the act to describe not just opiates but also cocaine — which is a central nervous system stimulant, not a narcotic — initiated a precedent of frequent legislative and judicial misclassification of various substances as 'narcotics'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act   (478 words)

Opium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Opium is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). An early form of opium smoking involved the consumption of madak, a blend of tobacco and opium that became common in Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries. Opium can be smoked, sometimes in combination with tobacco, but a high temperature is required to vaporise the alkaloids, so special opium pipes with spherical porcelain 'bowls' are traditionally used. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opium   (2776 words)

Drugs of Abuse Publication, Chapter 4 Morphine is the principal constituent of opium and ranges in concentration from 4 to 21 percent. This narcotic is associated with a number of toxic side effects and is among the top 10 drugs reported by medical examiners in drug abuse deaths. Their acceptability as narcotic treatment drugs is predicated upon their ability to substitute for heroin, the long duration of action, and their mode of oral administration. www.dea.gov /pubs/abuse/4-narc.htm   (4030 words)

The legal framework Narcotics Act was implemented to enable Switzerland to fulfil the commitments it had made by signing the International Opium Convention of 1912. Act was, on the one hand, to regulate the use of narcotics for medical purposes and, on the other hand, to fight against both the abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics. Narcotics Act, the following narcotics cannot be cultivated, imported, manufactured or sold: smoking opium, heroin, hallucinogens (such as LSD) and hemp for the extraction of narcotics or hash. www.druglibrary.org /Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/canadasenate/vol3/chapter20_switz_legal_framework.htm   (615 words)

Growing opium poppies Opium is prepared by cutting the unripe seed pods of the oriental poppy (Papaver somniferum) collecting the lactose, and allowing it to dry in a shady area outdoors for several days. Opium smokers increase its purity by boiling it in water until it forms an aqueous solution which is then filtered, the residue being boiled and filtered several times more to extract the maximum yield. Opium consumption reached its peak around the turn of the century when it was estimated that there were about a quarter of a million addicts in a population of 76 million. www.opioids.com /jh/gardening.html   (2330 words)

A fond farewell... - www.ezboard.com Opium was brought to the U.S. before the Civil War as part of the world-wide export trade in that drug, which was produced and sold by British companies based in India. Opium and its derivatives had been banned under the Harrison Act of 1914, and, somewhat ironically, Congress was, at that time, worried that people who had supposedly been driven off opiates would turn to cannabis and cocaine. The passage of the Opium Act and the liquor prohibition laws enacted by all Canadian provinces in the second decade of the 20th brought the two issues together. p098.ezboard.com /ffranksters77603frm9.showMessage?topicID=2113.topic   (18906 words)

UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1992 Issue 1 - 004 Narcotics are illegally produced from raw opium in refineries along the border between Myanmar and Thailand and are transported from the Golden Triangle to illicit markets outside Thailand. The promulgation of the Psychotropic Substances Act was the result of Thailand having become a party to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 [1]. The Narcotics Act lists opium as a narcotic in Schedule 11 and opium seeds as a narcotic in Schedule V. The penalty for opium is as severe as that for morphine and cocaine. www.unodc.org /unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1992-01-01_1_page005.html   (1712 words)

Narcotics Narcotics are drugs that alleviate physical pain, suppress coughing, alleviate diarrhea, and induce anesthesia. Natural narcotics are derived from the Opium poppy and synthetic narcotics are made to act like the major constituents of Opium (thebaine, morphine, codeine). Legal, synthetic narcotics such as OxyContin (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone) are prescribed as pain-relievers but are often diverted for illegitimate uses. www.streetdrugs.org /narcotics.htm   (67 words)

MedlinePlus Drug Information: Narcotic Analgesics For Pain Relief (Systemic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Narcotic (nar-KOT-ik) analgesics (an-al-JEE-zicks) are used to relieve pain. Narcotic analgesics may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor. Some narcotic analgesics given by injection may be given at home to patients who do not need to be in the hospital. www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202390.html   (4512 words)

Narcotic Drugs - Definition, Description, General use, Precautions, Side effects, Interactions, Prevention, Parental ... Opium, which was the first of the opioids to be widely used, had been a common folk remedy for centuries that often led to addiction for the user; in fact, many popular Victorian patent medicines for "female complaints" actually contained opium. Narcotics can be dangerous because of their potential for deadly interactions with other medications as well as their potential for dependence and addiction. Substances known as narcotic or opioid antagonists are drugs that block the actions of narcotics and are used to reverse the side effects of narcotic abuse or an overdose. www.healthofchildren.com /N-O/Narcotic-Drugs.html   (1880 words)

narcotics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Narcotics are drugs that act as pain relievers and sleep inducers (downers). Narcotics can also be smoked in pipes (or mixed with marijuana), inhaled through the nose, or obtained through a misuse of cold medicines containing codeine. Should a person undergoing narcotic antagonist treatment use a narcotic, he or she would feel violently ill, and instantly experience withdrawal symptoms- it is a form of preventive medicine. www.helpdesk.gwu.edu /~sapc/narcotics.html   (350 words)

The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914) Its official title was "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." Far from appearing to be a prohibition law, the Harrison Narcotic Act on its face was merely a law for the orderly marketing of opium, morphine, heroin, end other drugs-in small quantities over the counter, and in larger Quantities on a physician's prescription. Opium and other narcotic drugs (including cocaine, which Congress had erroneously labeled as a narcotic in 1914) were being used by about a million people. www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cu8.html   (3331 words)

Most parts of poppy plant narcotics, rules LHC: Calls for larger bench to answer certain questions -DAWN - National; ... The new act, which overrides al the enactments of the past, has omitted the words like ‘from which narcotics can be extracted’ and this means that all poppy plants except seed are not narcotics. Referring to the provision of the act which allows the cultivation of poppy crop, Justice Khosa wrote that the permission is qualified to such poppy plants from which opium is not extracted. The court held as answer to the third question that vires of different sections of the act, particularly what was said to be harsh punishments, could not be brought into question on the touchstone of fundamental rights as stipulated by the constitution in the petitions moved for bail and other purposes. www.dawn.com /2005/05/21/nat11.htm   (782 words)

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, 1914 - Full Text It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain by means of said order forms any of the aforesaid drugs for any purpose other than the use, sale, or distribution thereof by him in the conduct of a lawful business in said drugs or in the legitimate practice of his profession. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, the insular possessions of the United States, and the Canal Zone. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to decocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to other preparations of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine. www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htm   (480 words)

Opium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) In the United States, the unrestricted availability of opium, the influx of opium smoking immigrants from the Orient, and the invention of the hypodermic needle contributed to the more severe variety of compulsive drug abuse seen at the turn of this century. In a legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives and their semi-synthetic or totally synthetic substitutes. Cocaine and coca leaves, which are classified as "narcotics" in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), are technically not narcotics and are discussed in the section on stimulants. www.hcso.tampa.fl.us /SOD/fopium.htm   (211 words)

International Narcotics Control Act of 1992. PL 102-583.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Section 482(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by striking out "$ 115,000,000 for fiscal year 1990" and inserting in lieu there of "$ 147,783,000 for fiscal year 1993 and $ 171,500,000 for fiscal year 1994". Section 4501(b) of that Act is amended by striking out "Section 4601 of this title" and inserting in lieu thereof "Section 489(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961". If an Act is enacted during 1992 entitled "An Act to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States" that contains amendments identical to amendments made by this section, the amendments contained in this section that are identical to the amendments contained in that Act shall not be effective. embajadausa.org.ve /wwwh1692.html   (6704 words)

legalization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) It prohibits the practices of opium smoking, opium eating, coca-leaf chewing, hashish (cannabis) smoking and the use of the cannabis plant for non-medical purposes. Title II of this law, the Controlled Substances Act, is the legal foundation of narcotics enforcement in the United States. The Controlled Substance Act regulates the manufacture and distribution of drugs, and places all drugs into one of five schedules. www.nyu.edu /odae/legalization.html   (1351 words)

Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia According to the Afghanistan Opium Survey for 2003 brought out by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Afghan government, Afghanistan produced 3,600 tonnes of opium this year. Opium is cultivated in 28 of the country's 32 provinces. Narcotics is financing weapons purchases by warlords, encouraging lawlessness and threatening security in Afghanistan. www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EL09Ag02.html   (1098 words)

Erowid Psychoactive Law Vault : Harrison Narcotics Act (1914) The Harrison Narcotics Act was passed in 1914. The Act gave physicians the right to prescribe narcotics to patients, but the courts interpreted this to mean that physicians could prescribe narcotics to patients in the course of normal treatment, but not for the treatment of addiction. An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes. www.erowid.org /psychoactives/law/law_fed_harrison_narcotics_act.shtml   (573 words)

Conditions : Cannabis Seeds (Marijuana Seeds) Supplier - Top quality Dutch Seeds Importing, stocking and supplying cannabis seeds is not subject to regulation in pursuance of the 1961 Single Treaty on Narcotics. In countries such as the Netherlands (Holland), freedom to trade Cannabis seeds is clearly incorporated in the national Opium or Narcotics Act legislation. BDS, does not wish to induce anyone to act in conflict with the law. www.buydutchseeds.com /cms_view.php?id=22   (531 words)

International Narcotics Control Act of 1992 Act is amended by inserting "or archipelagic waters" after "sea". Act of 1986 (which is title II of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986) are repealed Act of 1961, as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act, is amended -- www.usembassy-mexico.gov /bbf/bfdossier_certDrogas_inact.htm   (7830 words)

The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914) A second conference was held at The Hague in 1911, and out of it came the first international opium agreement, The Hague Convention of 1912, aimed primarily at solving the opium problems of the Far East, China. in one avoirdupois ounce."5 Far from appearing to be a prohibition law, the Harrison Narcotic Act on its face was merely a law for the orderly marketing of opium, morphine, heroin, end other drugs-in small quantities over the counter, and in larger Quantities on a physician's prescription. There should be intelligent treatment of the incurables in outpatient clinics, hospitalization of those not too far gone to respond to therapeutic measures, and application of the prophylactic principles which medicine applies to all scourges of mankind.15 www.drugtext.org /library/reports/cu/cu8.html   (2923 words)

Hemp Germplasm Trials in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) In May of 1997 there was an amalgamation of the Narcotic Control Act which governed illicit aspects of cannabis drugs and the Food and Drugs Act, to produce the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. In March 1998, new regulations (under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act) were provided to allow the commercial development of a hemp industry, and several hundred licenses were issued to cultivate the crop, with about 5,000 ha grown. Only accession 30, a form with narcotic tendencies that was unintentionally grown, failed to produce seeds, consistent with the observation that most narcotic forms are not photoperiodically adapted to mature in southern Ontario. www.hemphasis.com /biorpap.htm   (4211 words)

Tobacco : the most dangerous drug in the world If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the sneers of the whole assembly and the short answers of the waiters soon convinced him that he had better go elsewhere.' There were opponents to the habit who contemptuously referred to snuff users as 'snivellers'. A mid-eighteenth-century detractor, who described tobacco as a narcotic akin to opium, warned that snuff-taking was liable to cause the loss of the sense of smell, addiction, nasal tumours and cancer. This would make sense if we acted in such a utilitarian fashion as some would have us believe, but human nature is altogether too capricious to function in such a straightforward way. www.biopsychiatry.com /tobacco   (5022 words)

Hemp In 1961, the Canadian Narcotics Control Act (CNCA) allowed Cannabis to be grown, at the discretion of the Health Minister, for research purposes only. A THC level of 0.3 per cent is specified in some studies as delimiting narcotic and non-narcotic strains of Cannabis, although narcotic strains generally average three to five per cent THC, about 10 to 15 times the delimiting value. Increased world wide demand for products developed from the hemp fibre, hurds and seed has resulted in a renewed cultivation d hemp h Europe and the crop is being considered by other countries. www.eap.mcgill.ca /CPH_4.htm   (2008 words)

US CODE: Title 21,812. Schedules of controlled substances   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) (1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate. (2) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in clause (1), except that these substances shall not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium. (7) Not more than 500 milligrams of opium per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams, or not more than 25 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, nonnarcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts. www.law.cornell.edu /uscode/21/812.html   (1307 words)

Bud Seed.com - High quality Marijuana and Cannabis seeds for growing Importing, stocking and supplying cannabis seeds is not subject to regulation in pursuance of the 1961 Single Treaty on Narcotics. In countries such as the Netherlands (Holland), freedom to trade Cannabis seeds is clearly incorporated in the national Opium or Narcotics Act legislation. BS, does not wish to induce anyone to act in conflict with the law. www.budseed.com /COU.php   (530 words)

INDUSTRIAL HEMP (Cannabis sativa) Part 1-Print In 1938 the cultivation of Cannabis sativa including fibre industrial hemp was declared illegal through the Opium and Narcotics Act. It was banned internationally in 1961 under the United Nations’ Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, to which Canada is a co-signer. The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) came into force on May 14 1997 replacing the Narcotic Control Act and Parts III and IV of the Food and Drugs Act and was published in March 12, 1998 (Health Canada 1998) to permit the commercial cultivation of industrial hemp in Canada. www.klienwachter.com /adarticles/article.php?id=1731&act=print   (1494 words)

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