Barbiturates
A barbiturate is a drug that acts as a central nervous system depressant. Barbiturates are effective as anxiolytics, hypnotics, and anticonvulsants, but have physical and psychological addiction potential as well as overdose potential among other possible adverse effects. They have largely been replaced by benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines ("Z-drugs") in routine medical practice, particularly in the treatment of anxiety and insomnia, due to the significantly lower risk of addiction and overdose and the lack of an antidote for barbiturate overdose. Despite this, barbiturates are still in use for various purposes: in general anesthesia, epilepsy, treatment of acute migraines or cluster headaches, …
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UN: The United Nations · 9 July 2024 English
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their use. Several antiseizure medicines (e.g. barbiturates and benzodiazepines) are classified as “controlled …
UN: The United Nations · 25 June 2024 English
xviii, 312 p. graphs, tablesThe Global status report on alcohol and health and treatment of substance use disorders presents a comprehensive overview of alcohol consumption, alcohol-related harm and policy responses …
zolpidem, zopiclone, eszopiclone, zaleplon), barbiturates (e.g. barbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 30 May 2024 English
Schools enhance the lives of families in various ways, and one potential consequence of their closures is worsened parental well-being. We study the effects of COVID-19 pandemic school closures on …
mental health related drugs - benzos, Z-drugs or barbiturates - that are frequently co-used to alleviate nervous …
UN: The United Nations · 30 April 2024 English
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drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and psychedelics. The third …
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada · 29 April 2024 English
I am the Scientific Director of the First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (FN/CIS) 2019 and the Principal Investigator of the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported …
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EU: European Union · 4 April 2024 English
(INN) and its salts 90-69-7 202-012-3 220 Barbiturates 221 Mercury and its compounds, except those …
EU: European Union · 4 April 2024 English
(INN) and its salts 90-69-7 202-012-3 220 Barbiturates 221 Mercury and its compounds, except those …
Heritage Foundation · 15 March 2024 English
The parts below will discuss the history of psychedelic use, the early scientific interest in their potential therapeutic uses, their decline and fall as legitimate treatment tools, the rebirth of …
commonly used drugs like alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, and phencyclidine create more danger of murder …
UN: The United Nations · 26 February 2024 French
500 p. : graphs, tablesOn an annual basis the Psychotropics Control Section of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) secretariat publishes a technical report that provides an overview of the …
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GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 9 February 2024 English
In Togo, interviews were carried out in the nation’s capital, Lomé, and Cinkassé, a town on the border with Ghana and Burkina Faso and a main transit point for a …
for the control of drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates and psychedelics. Since then, and particularly …
