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  2. Recreational use of dextromethorphan - Wikipedia

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    As a cough suppressant, the polistirex version lasts up to 12 hours. This duration also holds true when used recreationally. In 1981, a paper by Gosselin estimated that the lethal dose is between 50 and 500 mg/kg. Doses as high as 15–20 mg/kg are taken by some recreational users.

  3. Dosage (pharmacology) - Wikipedia

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    Dosage typically includes information on the number of doses, intervals between administrations, and the overall treatment period. [3] For example, a dosage might be described as "200 mg twice daily for two weeks," where 200 mg represents the individual dose, twice daily indicates the frequency, and two weeks specifies the duration of treatment.

  4. Performance-enhancing substance - Wikipedia

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    Performance-enhancing substances (PESs), also known as performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), [1] are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. Many substances, such as anabolic steroids , can be used to improve athletic performance and build muscle, which in most cases is considered cheating by organized ...

  5. Dextromethorphan - Wikipedia

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    Dextromethorphan, sold under the brand name Robitussin among others, is a cough suppressant used in many cough and cold medicines. [6] In 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the combination dextromethorphan/bupropion to serve as a rapid-acting antidepressant in people with major depressive disorder.

  6. Clark's rule - Wikipedia

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    The procedure is to take the child's weight in pounds, divide by 150 lb, and multiply the fractional result by the adult dose to find the equivalent child dosage.For example, if an adult dose of medication calls for 30 mg and the child weighs 30 lb, divide the weight by 150 (30/150) to obtain 1/5 and multiply 1/5 times 30 mg to get 6 mg.

  7. Loading dose - Wikipedia

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    So, the maintenance dose of foosporin is 100 milligrams (100 mg) per day—just enough to offset the amount cleared. Suppose a patient just started taking 100 mg of foosporin every day. On the first day, they'd have 100 mg in their system; their body would clear 10 mg, leaving 90 mg.

  8. Area under the curve (pharmacokinetics) - Wikipedia

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    It was proposed to be used instead of AUC in animal-to-human dose translation, as computer simulation shows that it could cope better with half-life and dosing schedule variations than AUC. This is an example of a PK/PD model, which combines pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. [13]

  9. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    at intermediate hours hor. tert. horis tertiis: every third hour h.s. hora somni (at the hour of sleep) at bedtime [or] half-strength ambiguous (2 meanings, easily conflated); spell out IBW ideal body weight (for dosing based on clearance estimation) ID intradermal IJ, inj. injectio: injection: mistaken for "IV", meaning intravenously i.m., IM