Neuroleptic #drugs can make your eyes roll uncontrollably in a scary way that isn’t dangerous. #medicine
on 02026-08-19#video about #kava/#kratom mixes sold in gas stations in the #USA. Fuck, people are not intellectually or emotionally prepared for this. The YouTuber in question (Evan Edinger) claims to have been addicted to kratom for five years. #drugs
on 02026-06-15apparently #SARMs are the hot new thing in #bodybuilding because they have anabolic effects with less side effects than older #steroids. Also not all of them are steroidal. #drugs #medicine #life-extension
on 02026-05-27apparently #Trump’s Department of Justice has reclassified #marijuana from Schedule I (“hard drugs”) to Schedule II (“like Tylenol with codeine”). This is #news from April 23. #politics #drugs #USA
on 02026-05-09WHO "essential medicine" N-acetylcysteine ("NAC") is the standard treatment for #paracetamol overdose; it replenishes depleted glutathione reserves, which conjugate N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine (“NAPQI”), the toxic metabolite. It’s also a mucolytic, decreases the effects of alcohol, and sometimes helps with mental disorders. #drugs #toxicology #medicine
on 02026-04-22#FDA proposed rule from 02002 on #ibuprofen and other #NSAIDs to improve their labeling. Highly recommended by Dynomight. #drugs #medicine
on 02026-04-22#paracetamol is safer than #ibuprofen, but perverse incentives make it hard to find that out. #Dynomight #drugs #NSAIDs #medicine
on 02026-04-22#Zombies in #Haiti are speculated to originate in #drugs
on 02026-04-16#paper “Review: Lessons Learned From Clinical Trials Using Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs)” #drugs #medicine #history #magainin
on 02025-09-28#paper on the #history of #infliximab, “first such therapeutic mAb, an anti-TNF-α”. #drugs #medicine
on 02025-09-28"Infliximab" was approved in the #USA in 01998. #history #drugs #medicine
on 02025-09-28Four antiviral #flu #drugs are oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu), zanamivir (Relenza), peramivir (Rapivab), and baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza)
on 02024-12-10list of psychiatric #drugs from CrazyMeds, including mostly antidepressants and antipsychotics. #medicine
on 02024-01-13the best source for information on psychiatric #drugs was "Crazymeds", which is now offline
on 02023-06-17list and classifications of benzodiazepine #drugs
on 02017-07-01on NSAID #drugs and how they tried to avoid the stigma of the iatrogenic catastrophe of "steroid wrecks". #medicine #history #paper
on 02017-06-14hypertension #drugs from the 1970s that have saved a lot of lives (?)
on 02017-02-10“A Model for the Application of Target-Controlled Intravenous Infusion for a Prolonged Immersive #DMT #Psychedelic Experience.” … "based on the pharmacokinetic models of these drugs that allow you to simulate the level of drug in the brain… you can actually program an infusion machine, to control the infusion rate of the drug such that the level of the drug remains a constant level within some particular window with some degree of accuracy.” #drugs #toread
on 02016-08-12#paper “PRL-8-53: Enhanced learning and subsequent retention in humans as a result of low oral doses of new psychotropic agent” from 1978, when that kind of thing was done openly #psychology #drugs #nootropics
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of #marijuana #journalism impairs #human-rights. “Your ad wasn’t approved because the body/title text used in the ad promotes the use or sale of illegal #drugs.”
on 02016-07-11#drugs #science #medicine #health-care
on 02015-12-16holy shit, being randomly assigned to taper off #antipsychotics early instead of continuing on them more than doubles your chances of functional recovery at 7 years, from 18% chance of recovery to 40% chance, in one experiment (Wunderlink et al. 2013) #psychology #psychiatry #drugs
on 02015-11-16Portugal’s 2001 legalization of possession of all #drugs seems to have reduced drug-addiction-caused health problems.
on 02015-08-05