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Drug Deaddiction

 Contents Preface Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Drug De-addiction Programmes in India 2. Assessment and Diagnosis in Substance Use Disorder 3. Epidemiology of Substance Use 4. Acute Effects of Alcohol, Opioid and Cannabis Use 5. HealthHazardsofLongTermAlcohol,Opioid and Cannabis Use 6. Treatment Principles and Issues in Manage- ment of Substance Use Disorder – An Overview 7. Pharmacotherapy […]

drug receptor interactions

_ _ _ _ Receptors are macromolecules involved in chemical signaling between and within cells; they may be located on the cell surface membrane or within the cytoplasm (see Table 1: Pharmacodynamics: Some Types of Physiologic and Drug–Receptor Proteins). Activated receptors directly or indirectly regulate cellular biochemical processes (eg, ion conductance, protein phosphorylation, DNA transcription, […]