The Encyclopedia of ADDICTIVE DRUGS

354 PCP meaning that alcohol increases the likelihood of a manic reaction. In mice marijuana has reduced hyperactivity caused by ...

PCP 355 normally—exactly the kind of deficit seen in children who have prenatal ex- posure to PCP. In mice PCP not only passes i ...

Pemoline Pronunciation:PEM-oh-leen Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number:2152-34-3 Formal Names:Cylert Informal Names:Popco ...

Pemoline 357 using a placebo, but investigators who rigorously reviewed studies about mul- tiple sclerosis fatigue found no evid ...

358 Pemoline persons who are also taking pemoline. Debate exists about how dangerous pemoline is to liver function when no other ...

Pemoline 359 Daytime Sleepiness with Pemoline (Betanamin).”Current Therapeutic Research: Clinical and Experimental27 (1980): 429 ...

Pentazocine Pronunciation:pen-TAZ-oh-seen Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number:359-83-1. (Hydrochloride form 64024-15-3) F ...

Pentazocine 361 Investigators have documented that people can briefly experience euphoria after taking the drug. Some users feel ...

362 Pentazocine if someone has been using opioids. That result supports classifying pentazo- cine as an opioid, but in humans na ...

Pentazocine 363 Brogden, R.N., T.M. Speight, and G.S. Avery. “Pentazocine: A Review of Its Pharma- cological Properties, Therape ...

Pentobarbital Pronunciation:pen-toh-BAR-bi-tal Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number:76-74-4 Formal Names:Cafergot, Nembuta ...

Pentobarbital 365 (so-called good cholesterol) and triglycerides (associated with heart attack and stroke) seem unaffected. In a ...

366 Pentobarbital does not appear to cause birth defects. Nonetheless pregnant women are sup- posed to avoid the drug. Additiona ...

Peyote Pronunciation:pay-OH-tih (also pronounced peh-YOH-teh) Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number:11006-96-5 Formal Names ...

368 Peyote became confused, and the issue was a matter of controversy when this book was written. The religion of Peyotism (of w ...

Phendimetrazine Pronunciation:fen-di-MEH-tra-zeen (also pronounced fen-dye-MEH-trah-zeen) Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Nu ...

370 Phendimetrazine is therefore considered addictive. In an experiment using rhesus monkeys to measure phendimetrazine’s addict ...

Phenmetrazine Pronunciation:fen-MET-rah-zeen Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number:134-49-6 Formal Names:Filon, Preludin In ...

372 Phenmetrazine bedwetting, the drug produced mixed results. The compound has also been used to treat asthma and Parkinson’s d ...

Phenmetrazine 373 Methamphetamine, Ephedrine, Phenmetrazine, and Methylphenidate in Man.” Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ...