Drug Abuse

Second-line TB drugs: 'It is more difficult to assess adverse effects in children'
If children are given the same dosage in mg/kg than adults for most of the first-line drugs, the drugs do not reach the same concentration in their blood when compared with adults getting the same mg/kg body weight dosage. As you suggest, children also …
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Reclassifying ketamine as a class B drug will have unwanted side-effects
Armed with a growing body of information in the last few years – via health services, drug projects and across the media – about the dangers that heavy ketamine use can inflict on the body, it appears that people are already taking heed. Last year, the …
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