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An equianalgesic chart can be a useful tool, but the user must take care to correct for all relevant variables such as route of administration, cross tolerance, half-life and the bioavailability of a drug. [5] For example, the narcotic levorphanol is 4–8 times stronger than morphine, but also has a much longer half-life. Simply switching the ...
On 19 January 2018, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said that musician Tom Petty's 2017 death was an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl (among others). He was reportedly treating "many serious ailments" that included a broken hip.
In the Netherlands, midazolam is a List II drug of the Opium Law. Midazolam is a Schedule IV drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances. [81] In the United Kingdom, midazolam is a Schedule 3/Class C controlled drug. [82] In the United States, midazolam (DEA number 2884) is on the Schedule IV list of the Controlled Substances Act as a ...
Bellingham police and Whatcom County sheriff’s deputies have a new tool to fight the opioid epidemic — Washington state’s first dogs that are trained to find fentanyl.
In the package insert of a German pyrantel drug ("Helmex"), it says dosage is 10mg/kg, with one tablet containing 720mg of pyrantel embonate equivalent to 250mg of pure pyrantel. I will mark the passage with citation needed. --Victor--H 09:28, 19 July 2011 (UTC) Per Reese's insert, dosage is 11mg/ml for pyrantel base.
Hardee says these dogs are a major tool in their tool box, to find, identify and eliminate the drug from different communities. "The courts recognize the dogs as being a valuable tool and an ...
This is a list of fentanyl analogues (sometimes referred to as Fentalogs), [1] [2] [3] including both compounds developed by pharmaceutical companies for legitimate medical use, and those which have been sold as designer drugs and reported to national drug control agencies such as the DEA, or transnational agencies such as the EMCDDA and UNODC.
The rise of illicit fentanyl and the epidemic of related overdoses prompted CBP to take the then-unprecedented step in 2017 of training drug-sniffing dogs to detect it, a program that has proved ...