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Series
Technical report volume 985
Publisher
World Health Organization
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how pharmaceutical companies have used slick marketing techniques to promote dangerous medications to American physicians and consumers, examining how the industry has transformed the practice of medicine and damaged American life.
Author
Series
IOM publication volume 79-04
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Author
Series
Technical report volume 933
Publisher
World Health Organization
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Technical report volume 914
Publisher
World Health Organization
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Patterns of prescription drug use may reflect underlying patterns of health conditions and health care access in the population. Polypharmacy, often defined as the simultaneous use of five or more prescription drugs, is more common in an aging population where multiple coexisting chronic conditions often occur; however, safety concerns may arise. The United States and Canada share many cultural and historical ties, but with different models for health...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
" There is growing alarm over how drugs increasingly empower terrorists, insurgents, traffickers, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centuries, Peter Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries. In his path-breaking Killer High, Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs--ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit,...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hooked explains the chemistry of certain drugs, their effects, and their history of use and illegality. Relates cycles of social and legal acceptance followed by rejection as drug effects were recognized, used and overused. Explores the social and legislative changes that have transformed (and, some would argue, created) the drug culture of the 20th Century.
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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Successful web designer Wilson Joel's life spirals out of control after the sudden suicide of his wife. Unable to read the note she left him, Wilson forges new, unpredictable relationships with friends, co-workers and his stunned mother-in-law. But when he starts taking a dangerous drug, it could take what's left of his blown-apart life and extinguish it completely.
Series
SEARO technical publications volume no. 56
Publisher
World Health Organization
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English