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Begining of Pharmacies The history of hospital pharmacy in the United States from the Colonial period to the 1930s is explored. America's first hospital pharmacist was Jonathan Roberts, hired in 1752
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Narcotics 101Raw opium is by nature an impure substance, but it can be smoked or ingested to produce narcotic effects. The substance was known to the ancients and was described in Homer’s Iliad. seeds has been known about for centuries and is documented in Roman and Egyptian writings.
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AMAScientific advancement, standards for medical education, launching a program of medical ethics, improved public health — these were the goals of the American Medical Association (AMA).
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PenicillinPenicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold.
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Control Act Addiction was causing half the crimes committed in metro-politan areas, and a quarter of all reported in the entire nation. Drug use was found to be "contagious" and addicts at large were spreading the habit "with cancerous rapidity."
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War on Drugs"We must now candidly recognize that the deliberate procedures embodied in present efforts to control drug abuse are not sufficient in themselves. The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency."
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Psychological Prescriptions The first prescription was written by a Psychologist that was part of the Department of Defense's Psychopharmacological Demonstration Project (PDP). The PDP was a training program designed to train Military Psychologists and test whether Psychologists could be trained to be safe effective prescribers.
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Page 34 An individual practitioner may issue multiple prescriptions authorizing the patient to receive a total of
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FDA's Commitment for Change While society as a whole has a role to play – the majority of new or occasional nonmedical users of pain relievers obtained the drug from family or friends for free or took them without asking – I’d like to tell you what FDA is doing to address this public health crisis.
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Prescription Abuse Rising Increasingly, they are discovering that prescription drugs such as Xanax, Percocet, Vicodin, Lortab, OxyContin, etc. have "recreational" uses, as well as medical uses.
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