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Brick, John – 1987
The thousands of different drugs on the market can be separated into two categories: drugs that affect behavior, called psychoactive drugs, and drugs that do not affect behavior. Drugs get into the body by mouth, inhalation into the lungs, by injection into a vein, muscle or under the skin, and by absorption through mucous membranes. Regardless of…
Descriptors: Brain, Drug Use, Pharmacology

Aronoff, Gerald M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986
Reviews properties and pharmacological effects of medications for pain, including peripherally acting analgesics, centrally acting narcotics, and adjuvant analgesics including antidepressants. Discusses the role of the endogenous opioid system in pain and depression. Explores clinical management issues in both inpatient and outpatient settings,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Drug Therapy, Narcotics, Patients
Goldenberg, Myron Michael – 1990
This book covers those areas of pharmacology that are of importance and interest to the psychotherapist. The 1st chapter introduces the various types of drugs. The 2nd chapter presents an overview of pharmacology and its principles. The 3rd chapter reviews aspects of the human body of importance to understanding the workings of psychotropic drugs.…
Descriptors: Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Illegal Drug Use, Pharmacology
Ghodse, Hamid, Ed.; Khan, Inayat, Ed. – 1988
This book presents a wide-ranging analysis of what can be done to reduce the misuse of psychoactive drugs without compromising appreciation for their therapeutic value. Emphasis is placed on the need to give physicians guidelines for deciding to whom to prescribe, what to prescribe, how much, and for how long. Chapter 1 provides an introduction…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Drug Use, Foreign Countries, Medical Education

Pakes, Gary E. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1993
Describes a format for writing clinical investigator's brochures for the Food and Drug Administration summarizing information about a drug that is about to enter clinical trials. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Layout (Publications), Pamphlets, Pharmacology

Bonnardeaux, Jef-Louis – Impact of Science on Society, 1984
Presents information on psychotropic drugs for individuals who are not specialists in pharmacology. Discusses: alcohol and barbituates; dependence and withdrawal; central nervous system depressors (anaesthetics, narcotic analgesics, sedatives and hypnotic drugs, tranquilizers), central nervous stimulants (amphetamines, cocaine, tobacco, caffeine),…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Drug Use
Halkitis, Perry N.; Leahy, Julia M. – Nursing and Health Care, 1993
Explains computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and its basis in item response theory. Describes a CAT program in pharmacology. (SK)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction

Gage, L. Patrick – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1986
Recent advances in biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology and their implications for drug delivery systems are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs, Futures (of Society)

Storms, William W.; Joyner, David M. – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1997
Summarizes results from the Olympic Exercise Asthma Summit Conference, offering the latest on identifying and managing exercise-induced asthma (EIA). Concludes that effective pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment is available, but EIA is underrecognized and underdiagnosed. Physicians should look for it in all patients, including school…
Descriptors: Asthma, Athletes, Athletics, Clinical Diagnosis

Pallone, Nathaniel J. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Suggests ways that drug use/abuse might be associated with felony crime and discusses discrepancies of investigations into drug use/abuse and crime. Asserts that there is insufficient evidence to establish differential effects of specific substances that produce biochemical effects on acceleration of particular types of felony crime. (Author/PVV)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Crime, Criminals, Drug Abuse

Michelson, Larry K.; Marchione, Karen – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Examines theoretical, methodologic, and research issues as well as strengths, limitations, and possible interactions pertaining to behavioral, cognitive, and pharmacological treatments of panic disorder with agoraphobia. Compares attrition, outcome, and maintenance effects and presents composite indices of significant improvement, endstate…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Drug Therapy
Dean, Philip M. – Perspectives in Computing, 1983
One application of modeling is studying the ways in which molecules fit together to form chemical compounds. Describes the forces acting between molecules and how three-dimensional graphical modeling is employed in developing rational principles for drug design. (JN)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Chemical Bonding, College Science, Computer Graphics
Crider, Raquel A., Ed.; Rouse, Beatrice A., Ed. – 1988
This publication consists of papers and discussion from a comprehensive RAUS (Research Analysis and Utilization System) review focusing on factors relating to a multi-year increase in inhalant abuse among high school seniors. The document contains the following articles: (1) "Inhalant Overview" (Raquel A. Crider and Beatrice A. Rouse);…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Behavior Problems, Chemical Analysis