One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of cancer is the development of drug resistance by the cancer cells. The design of cancer chemot...

Magnetic colloids are very promising stimuli-sensitive materials for drug delivery because of their magnetic field responsiveness. An applied magne...

The systemic effects of a drug that are related to the overall level of the medication in the bloodstream. Drug toxicity may occur with overdosage ...

A drug policy most often refers to a government's attempt to combat the negative effects of drug addiction and misuse in its society. Governments t...

The use and misuse of drugs is a major social, health, political and economic issue globally. This book presents a series of chapters on the impact...

The use of over-the-counter (OTC), prescription, and illicit drugs is increasing in the U.S. population. The National Transportation Safety Board (...

Throughout the history of social assistance programs, administrators have attempted to limit access only to those families considered "worthy" of a...

This book reports updated data from the literature on potential drug-drug interactions occurring between drugs used to treat each individual diseas...

The issue of alcohol-impaired driving has received broad attention over the years, but drug-impaired driving also contributes to fatalities and inj...

Everyone knows that driving while under the influence of alcohol is dangerous and unacceptable, and there are methods to identify and apprehend tho...

The notion that drugs can induce valvular heart disease (VHD) has occurred since the sixties and has received a lot of attention in recent years. O...

Over 12 million people with epilepsy have seizures that cannot be controlled by antiepileptic drugs. The term "drug-resistance" is abundantly used ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem of global proportions. It is the second leading cause of death from an infectious agent, killing...

This book provides a wide range of research in both illegal and legal drug substances from around the globe such as examinations of FDA approved ph...

Although approximately one million cardiac arrests occur every year in the USA and Europe, cardiac arrest remains a clinical condition still charac...

Luigi Zoja argues that the pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can in large part be ascribed to a resurgence of the collective need for initiat...

From the earliest days of the Americans colonies the apothecary has been a central place in community life. It was there that people went for the h...

In 1964, Patricia MacKay immigrated to Canada from England in search of the wild-open lands and cowboy culture that captivated her as a child. In t...

Performance and recital repertoire for tomorrow’s rhythm section. Comprising of original music for drummers and bass players, with fully annotated ...