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Militaries worldwide have used or are using various psychoactive drugs to improve performance of soldiers by suppressing hunger, increasing the ability to sustain effort without food, increasing and lengthening wakefulness and concentration, suppressing fear, reducing empathy, and improving reflexes and memory-recall, amongst other things.
"Awake and Alive" is the third single of the 2009 album Awake by the Christian rock band Skillet and is the fourth track on the album. It was released on February 15, 2010, to Christian Hard rock and Rock radio. [ 1 ]
Phenylephrine, sold under the brand names Neosynephrine and Sudafed PE among others, is a medication used as a decongestant for uncomplicated nasal congestion in the form of a nasal spray or oral tablet, [5] to dilate the pupil, to increase blood pressure given intravenously in cases of low blood pressure, and to relieve hemorrhoids as a suppository.
Pharmacological torture is the use of psychotropic or other drugs to punish or extract information from a person. [1] The aim is to force compliance by causing distress, which could be in the form of pain, anxiety, psychological disturbance, immobilization, or disorientation.
It remained available in Italy under the brand name Parmodalin (10 mg of tranylcypromine and 1 mg of trifluoperazine) until its discontinuation in 2019. Likewise, a combination with amobarbital (potent sedative/hypnotic agent) for the amelioration of psychoneurosis and insomnia existed under the brand name Jalonac.
It is available in the form of an inhaler containing 50 mg total per inhaler and delivering between 0.04 and 0.15 mg of the drug per inhalation. [2] Inhalers with a total of 113 mg levmetamfetamine were previously marketed in the United States, but the total amount was eventually reduced to 50 mg. [ 2 ]
The drug has an affinity (K i) of 0.087 to 0.5 nM for the serotonin 5-HT 2A receptor and 0.44 to 10 nM at the serotonin 5-HT 2C receptor, whereas its functional inhibition (IC 50 Tooltip half-maximal inhibitory concentration) values have been reported to be 1.9 nM at the serotonin 5-HT 2A receptor and 91 nM at the serotonin 5-HT 2C receptor.
An equianalgesic chart is a conversion chart that lists equivalent doses of analgesics (drugs used to relieve pain). Equianalgesic charts are used for calculation of an equivalent dose (a dose which would offer an equal amount of analgesia) between different analgesics. [1]