Drugs Definition and 67 Threads

"Smart" drugs. Hello, i recently heard about "smart" drugs that could improve your brain activity or similar, for US forumers this will be more known i have heard about "tetra tab" and "Modaphinil" (or something similar, sorry I'm not a chemist) , of course they didn't make you a genious but...

Hey everyone, I found this really interesting article at Technology Review about a new procedure scientists have developed for administering drugs directly into the brain. This could potentially have major implications for the treatment of such neurological disorders as Alzheimer's and...

ok so, the other night i was dreaming... i was in chicago, where i used to live, near my old house. my long time friend and boyfriend corey was driving an old big chey of some sort. we stopped at a gas staion near my old house. i noticed some funny inuiendo in him when he got out. i asked him...

Any Star Trek fan will recognize this idea. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025474.100-all-the-pleasures-of-alcohol-with-no-downsides.html

Are there any damaging side effects to these types of drugs, such as LSD, mushrooms etc? For example with LSD assuming you get a good batch, don't mix it with anything else, and go on your trip in safe place, is there any damaging side effects long and short term.

According to the FDA, this is technically illegal, but millions of Americans do it, and some state governments, and a Senator, subsidizes this practice. The FDA and George W. Bush falsely scare us by saying the drugs may be unsafe, but Canada is a First World country and everything is safe...

I actually join an evening class to study about drugs, and today a classmate asked me to explain how our immune system reacted when we took some medicines to cure fever, for example. You know, I am not young any more, and it is really shameful if I told that young pretty lady that I knew...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but it's the closest. I've heard about these 'smart drugs' for a while and I'm about to order a few samples of Piracetam and Lucidril and I don't think either of those (or any 'smart drugs' :smile:) are approved by the FDA. I just quit...

According to the State Department's annual drug-trafficking report, a federal law took effect in 1985 authorizing the United States to penalize countries that do not control illicit narcotics production. Today, these same countries are now producing larger quantities of heroin, cocaine...

How does one go about arguing against things of this nature? For me, alcohol is a way to reach a state of euphoria and to rid myself of my psychological barriers (such as shyness). Of course, i see the problem with excessive drinking, since that could result in some sort of addiction to the...

This plain shocked me! -->This, I think, has got more to do with Politics than it does with Medicine, Bio etc<--- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Aids_Focus/0,,2-7-659_1637381,00.html http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2004/at50.htm#art1 African's are be used as Guinea...

For a project (grade 12), i have to do some research on therapeutic drugs, namely ASA. I do have some questions that i find difficult to search online for. 1. What types of methods are involved in creating different types of therapeutic drugs? (i know its broad, but can i please have at...

I accidentally posted this in the engineering thread as well (sorry mods). I'm studying mechanical engineering (BEng) at City University, in London. I'm currently using methadone, GHB, IV cocaine, IV methamphetamine and cannabis on a regular basis (this isn't some sort of sick joke!). I...

None of the drugs are legal here, malaysia. Is cannabis , marijuana, heorin etc legal in US? I read that Britney spears took drugs too.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62860,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/sleep.html?tw=wn_tophead_9/

Drugs are bad... M'kay? Before we get started let me explain that I AM NOT a Christian. However, I have read the Bible (as well as many other religious texts) and studied the Torah in an academic context. Now, let us begin. How many of you consider the recreational use of drugs to be a...