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  Other Drugs > Street Drugs : CampusHealthandSafety.org
Although street drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, are not new to college and university campuses, this increase is troubling.
As street drugs have become increasingly purified, users are able to ingest the drugs in a variety of ways.
Street drug use on campus threatens the health, safety, and academic performance of all students on campus.
www.campushealthandsafety.org /drugs/street-drugs   (338 words)

  
 Street Drug Alternatives
Street drug alternatives are generally labeled as containing botanicals, and some are also labeled as containing other ingredients, such as vitamins, minerals, or amino acids.
FDA considers these street drug alternatives to be unapproved new drugs and misbranded drugs under sections 505 and 502 of the Act.
FDA does not believe that street drug alternatives are intended to be used to augment the diet to promote health or reduce the risk of disease.
www.fda.gov /cder/guidance/3602fnl.htm   (474 words)

  
 Healthopedia.com - Drug Abuse and Addiction (Substance Abuse)
Drug abuse occurs when a person feels the need to use a drug repeatedly for various reasons.
Drug addiction is said to be present when a person continues to abuse a drug after serious problems related to the drug use have occurred.
Drug abuse is a widespread problem that affects people from all socioeconomic levels.
www.healthopedia.com /drug-abuse-and-addiction   (315 words)

  
 STREET DRUGS
There are fashions in drug use and the use of a certain drug may be associated with a particular (and perhaps desirable) lifestyle or subculture.
Some drugs however can overlap these categories, for example ecstasy is both a stimulant and a hallucinogen, and, while low grade cannabis (hash) works as a depressant, stronger versions such as skunk may also have hallucinogenic properties.
Drug and alcohol and prescribing service for users and their families, including counselling and support (group and one-to-one) and tranquilliser service.
www.counselling.cam.ac.uk /drugs.html   (1134 words)

  
 STREET DRUGS
For several street drugs, a particular supplier/dealer may have a particular name for their 'product' or formulation allowing a user to ask for a particular concoction by name.
The user who prefers to spend available income on the drug of choice is at risk for malnutrition which then may be compounded by the pharmacologic effects of the drug.
While these drugs may be packaged to appear as amphetamines, sedatives or hallucinogens, they actually are often large doses of legal substances, such as caffeine and ephedrine.
www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Field/3481/streetdrugs.html   (5724 words)

  
 Street Drugs - Call Center
It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the fl sticky substance known on the streets as "fl tar heroin." Although purer heroin is becoming more common, most street heroin is "cut" with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine.
Today, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, meaning that it has high potential for abuse, but can be administered by a doctor for legitimate medical uses, such as a local anesthetic for some eye, ear, and throat surgeries.
Cocaine is generally sold on the street as a fine, white, crystalline powder, known as "coke," "C," "snow," "flake," or "blow." Street dealers generally dilute it with such inert substances as cornstarch, talcum powder, and/or sugar, or with such active drugs as procaine (a chemically-related local anesthetic) or with such other stimulants as amphetamines.
www.netpicker.net /StreetDrugs.html   (2601 words)

  
 The Body: Street Drugs and HIV Drugs
HIV drugs may cause a potential threefold to tenfold increase of MDMA in the blood stream and you could overdose and die.
Drugs that are used to treat TB and/or MAC infection such as Rifampin and Rifabutin can and do reduce the levels of methadone.
If you are prescribed these drugs to treat TB or MAC and are on methadone maintenance, you will need to increase your dose of methadone.
www.thebody.com /wa/fall98/streetdrugs.html   (474 words)

  
 What You Need to Know About Street Drugs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Illegal or street drugs are taken to make the user feel better, forget something painful, remove inhibitions, feel like part of the group, or some other reason that involves altering reality for a while.
Street drugs may contain impurities, poison, or the dose may be too strong.
Street drugs are often purchased from "pushers" or sellers on the street (hence the name street drugs).
vanderbiltowc.wellsource.com /dh/content.asp?ID=103   (517 words)

  
 Illegal Street Drugs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On the streets, cocaine may be diluted with cornstarch, talcum powder, sugar, or other drugs.
Street names for LSD, which is a hallucinogen, include acid, twenty-five, Sid, Bart Simpsons, barrels, tabs, blotter, heavenly blue, L, liquid, Liquid A, microdots, mind detergent, orange cubes, hits, paper acid, sugar, sugar lumps, sunshine, ticket, wedding bells, and windowpane.
Needle sharing when using street drugs is one of the leading ways to transmit HIV and other diseases.
www.egetgoing.com /drug_addiction/street_drugs.asp   (952 words)

  
 The Body: Anti-HIV Medications + Street Drugs: Some Cocktails Don't Mix
There hasn't been much research on how street drugs and HIV medications interact -- because there is little financial incentive for the pharmaceutical companies to do the work, and because the government believes "just say no," is the only way to deal with drugs.
However, this drug and the other protease inhibitors have sometimes been known to have opposite effects (they cut methadone levels in real life, while test tube experiments predicted they would increase them), so caution is in order.
Street drugs are often not what they are sold as, they are frequently cut with substances that may interact with drugs themselves and their potency can vary wildly, even in the same batch.
www.thebody.com /pwa/NFUwin98-99/street_drugs.html   (1131 words)

  
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 Street Drugs and Stroke | AHealthyMe.com
Nearly four decades after the Grateful Dead wrote the lyrics to "Casey Jones," the drug that inspired the song is enjoying a resurgence among many who weren't even born when Jerry Garcia, the band's late leader, composed the riffs to it on his electric guitar.
This is partly because street drugs are often cut with other stimulants or even substances such as talcum powder, and may be used in combination with tobacco and alcohol.
Researchers say, however, that the more times someone uses stimulant street drugs such as cocaine and "meth," the higher their chances of having a drug-related heart attack or stroke, particularly if he or she has other risk factors.
www.ahealthyme.com /topic/cokestroke   (1133 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Street Drugs: Books: Andrew Tyler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A sane, balanced and impartial source of advice and information on what is known about various drugs, their history and how they are used.
All in all it is a book which would as easily sit on the shelf of an informed drugs counsellor as it would on the shelf of the user.
In an age where drug information is usually gleaned from stories of bravado, and mates, this book tells you as it is. If you buy one book on drugs - then buy this one.
www.amazon.co.uk /Street-Drugs-Andrew-Tyler/dp/0340609753   (612 words)

  
 Psychiatric Medication and Street Drugs at ALLPSYCH Online
There are many ways that drugs get classified, many psychologists and other mental health professionals group them into 12 general categories based on their effect.
Many of the drugs discussed on this page can be prescribed and monitored by a physician and when used appropriately can have positive rather than negative effects.
This drug can lower the muscle recovery time from training and over all fatigue, can produce surges in self esteem, increased energy and sex drive, increased appetite, and a greater tolerance for pain.
allpsych.com /drugs.html   (1029 words)

  
 Street Drugs
So, here goes: One main class of street drugs is the psychostimulants, which include amphetamines (including, methamphetamines, and MDMA (Ecstasy)) and methylphenidate and cocaine.
In one set of studies, Dr. Una D. McCann, associate professor of psychiatry and behavior sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her husband, Dr. George A. Ricuarte, associate professor of neurology, also at Johns Hopkins, examined monkeys, baboons and humans and found that MDMA is toxic to neurons that make serotonin.
The list of abusable drugs – including alcohol, LSD and mescaline - is endless, but we have to stop somewhere, so we’ll end with marijuana, a sedative and a light hallucinogen.
www.myhealthsense.com /F021104_streetDrugs.html   (1160 words)

  
 Church of Scientology 'Say No to Drugs' Anti Drug Campaign
To counter the scourge of drugs, and the torrent of messages promoting them, the Church of Scientology has long sponsored the largest non-governmental, anti-drug campaign on Earth—“Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life”—a community drug education and drug prevention program to educate children and adults about the dangers of drugs.
The straight facts about the drugs and illegal substances most frequently abused by youth and adults alike, empower the individual and enable him to make his own informed decision about drugs, their risks and the role they should or should not play in his life.
At its core, the Church of Scientology’s drug prevention campaign is a grass-roots movement made up of people-Scientologists and non—Scientologists alike—who are united in the commitment to take action to combat drug abuse through effective education.
www.notodrugs-yestolife.org /index.htm   (678 words)

  
 Where can I find information about interactions between HIV medications and street drugs?
In general, a relatively large amount is known about how legal drugs are metabolized in the body, and specific pharmacologic studies are sometimes conducted to explore how they may interact with drugs to treat HIV or other conditions.
For drugs that are completely illegal, it is unlikely that much research will be done to determine their potential to interact with HIV or other medications.
Drug interactions in the real world may be quite different from what is expected from theoretical modeling.
hivinsite.ucsf.edu /InSite.jsp?doc=2098.4616&page=pr-04-02   (612 words)

  
 Street Drugs and Their Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The dental practitioner and staff, as health care providers, have an obligation to be familiar with every aspect of a patient that will have an impact on their dental treatment.
He has been appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Prescription Drug Abuse, serves on the Maryland State Dental Association’s Well-Being Committee and was a member of the University Interdisciplinary Committee for Drug Abuse Education.
Drawing on this unique background, Dr. Crossley has become nationally and internationally recognized as an expert on street drugs and chemical dependency as well as the clinical pharmacology of dental drugs.
www.utmem.edu /dentistry/CE/CrossleyStreetDrugs.htm   (649 words)

  
 Drug Addiction - Drug Related Street Terms/ Slang Words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Drugs are illegal in most places in the world today.
A very effective way of going underground is the development of a secret code language known and understood only by those who live in that world.
Like any language that boasts a number of users drug related street terms are now more numerous than can begin to be recorded or described.
www.addictions.org /slang.htm   (258 words)

  
 Street Drugs - New Advances, May 2, 2006
In those patients who abuse drugs - especially the amphetamines - who develop mania, about 50% of them will have psychotic symptoms along with their mania.
Suspicion of drug use usually is entertained because of physiological parameters - like hypertension, tachycardia - or oftentimes it’s because of mental status changes; confusion, psychosis, belligerence, agitation.
We frequently get urine drug screens, although - as I hope we’ll be able to point out today - my hope is that we can identify or some close to identifying the offending substance based on physical examination history.
www.ccspublishing.com /journals3a/street_drugs.htm   (2232 words)

  
 Drug & Alcohol Addiction Information - Street Drugs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Street names for cocaine are coke, snow, blow, Peruvian marching powder, or C. Hallucinogens
Street names for Rohypnol include roofies, roopies, rope, ropies, R2, or roaches.
Street names are Ketter, Special K, Lady K, Vitamin K, or just K. Heroin
www.egetgoing.com /Drug/Sdrugs.asp   (915 words)

  
 NIDA - Information on Drugs of Abuse - Commonly Abused Drugs Chart
Schedule I drugs are available for research only and have no approved medical use; Schedule II drugs are available only by prescription (unrefillable) and require a form for ordering.
Schedule III and IV drugs are available by prescription, may have five refills in 6 months, and may be ordered orally.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nida.nih.gov /DrugsofAbuse.html   (1377 words)

  
 Street Drugs - Moviefone
in the movie, all drugs but heroin and cocaine are legal (in the...
Not to mention the impurities (heroin is only 2-11% pure) in hard street drugs.
Street Drugs - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /movie/street-drugs/1152017/main   (117 words)

  
 HIV+ : Standard of Care : Street Drugs
Street Dose: varies, cut with lidocaine, dextrose, glucose, talc, causic soda, ephedrine, PCP.
Street Dose: oral microdot, blotter acid; often impure, cut with speed or PCP, and rarely, strychnine (rat poison).
IV use linked to hepatitis, HIV, and septicemia; Highly addictive, tolerance develops quickly; withdrawal is painful because heavy users no longer have natural resistance to pain.
www.aidsinfonyc.org /hivplus/issue1/soc/street.html   (304 words)

  
 Street Prices For Prescription Drugs | Buy Cheap Prescription Drugs With Paypal | Encyclopedia Of Prescription Drugs | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Imposter drugs, prescription drugs, A Family Guide
Imposter drugs are legal drugs that have effects and side effects similar to illegal drugs.
Imposter drugs are marketed to youth with promises of a "natural high"—as safer than illegal drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Government agency in charge of food and drug safety, does not regulate imposter drugs and their ingredients for consumer use through their drug approval process.
family.samhsa.gov /talk/imposter.aspx   (484 words)

  
 Canada No Prescription Drugs | Prescription Drugs Identification | Street Prices For Prescription Drugs | Aarp ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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