CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Chloral Hydrate, Barbiturate, Sedative
29 Mar 2016
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Intro: physicians prescribe so their patients cand be taken out of their. Abnormal" condition to attain a state of normalcy opposite of persons who take psychoactive drugs: pharmaceuticals medicinal drugs. Neuroleptics seize hold of the nerves. Mechanism of reducing the body"s organic functioning. Patent held by pharmaceutical company that initially markets the drug is only valid for 20 years and can take up to 10 for the drug to reach the market. If it is successful a generic version will try to be created. Physicians become aware of some of their undesirable side effects and search for less toxic substances: total volume of prescriptions may remain stable/ rise but the particular drug products will rise and fall precipitously. Retard, dull, obtund signals passing through the cns: alcohol. Served a sedative function for a lot of human history but has complex and contradictory effects to be considered an effective calming/sleeping agent: laudanum.
