Narcotic Drugs
The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralysing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone). Legally speaking, the term "narcotic" may be imprecisely defined and typically has …
WikipediaPublications
CCSA: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction · 6 February 2024 English
Explores how people who use drugs and the climate emergency interconnect. For example, in 2021 flooding in British Columbia disrupted people’s access to opioid agonist treatment. Looks at how people …
allowing pharmacists to renew prescriptions of narcotic drugs during times of emergency. • Increase research …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 8 December 2023 English
The Legal Context of Criminal Law 1.1 A Brief History of Canada’s Drug Laws In this section, we offer a brief history of Canada’s drug laws from the initial introduction …
control, including the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol; the … Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988.78 Some … drugs_report_2019_en.pdf at 5. 78 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961; Convention on Psychotropic Substances … 1971; Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988. 79 Expert …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 8 December 2023 French
• Plateforme de la société civile pour la décriminalisation des drogues La Plateforme de la société civile pour la décriminalisation des drogues, composée de représentants de plus de vingt organisations …
drugs_report_2019_en.pdf at 5. 78 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961; Convention on Psychotropic Substances … 1971; Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988. 79 Expert …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 5 October 2023 English
(backache* or backpain* or dorsalgi* or arthralgi* or polyarthralgi* or arthrodyni* or myalgi* or fibromyalgi* or myodyni* or neuralgi* or ischialgi* or crps or rachialgi*).ab,ti. [...] ((back or discogen* or …
tilidine or tapentadol).mp. (32725) 45. exp narcotic drugs/ (31229) 46. narcotic*.mp. (12271) 47. (adolonta …
CDPC: Canadian Drug Policy Coalition · 26 July 2023 English
the international drug control regime, as set forth in the preamble of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), is the “health and welfare of mankind”. …
in the preamble of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), is the “health and welfare of mankind” …
City of Victoria, British Columbia · 19 April 2023 English
(3) For the purposes of this section, a person is deemed to manage a sightseeing vehicle licence if the person, directly or indirectly, (a) holds the licence, (b) has a …
(a) use of or other dealing in intoxicants or narcotic drugs; or (b) actions involving dishonesty, violence …
CAS: Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society · 2023 English
It’s not just a matter of injections but the narcotic drugs and all kinds of things in pain management …
CCSA: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction · 12 December 2022 English
Bulletin summarizes the diverse responses from provincial, territorial and American partners to the continued increase in stimulant availability and harms, particularly cocaine and methamphetamine.
frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances 2021. Vienna, Austria …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 31 October 2022 English
When cannabis tincture was withdrawn from the medical establishment in the UK in 1973, cannabis became regulated solely as an illicit drug. Within a decade cannabis-based drugs were back in …
product CBN cannabinol CND Commission on Narcotic Drugs (United Nations) CTU Clinical Trials Unit … the control of the UN Single Conven- tion on Narcotic Drugs. The Single Convention introduced four Schedules … the development of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and Bruun has examined the Nordic experience … demonstrated how the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs favoured a medical– industrial complex, focusing … discovered after the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. drug control, the medical research council …
CCSA: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction · 25 July 2022 English
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) annual report for 2021-2022
session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, CCSA, in partnership with the Thunderbird …
