DRUGS

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Drugs

This term is immediately associated with illegal chemicals such as marijuana and cocaine. But if you call it "medicine", people think of it as a treatment for diseases using antibiotics, analgesics and topical ointments. We refer to the term "drug" as being bad

and the term "medication" to be good.

These are all chemicals which are ingested, injected or applied to the body.

Illegal Drugs

Marijuana, , cocaine, and LSD are illegal sustances widely used in the country. Pictures can be seen by clicking on the appropriate drug.click here. People are able to synthesize illegal substances like cocaine.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a chemical substance that is used to kill cancer cells, most chemotherapeutic agents kill neoplastic cells by affecting DNA synthesis or funciton, though the drugs vary in their mechanism of activity within the cell cycle.Click here

Chemotherapy helps cancer patients but with many side effects from the chemicals such as nausea, vomiting, and hair loss.

The bark of this Taxol brevifola, a slow-growing evergreen, is ground and extracted to produce a small amount of the promising anticancer drug called taxol. (picture and information)

Altenative Drugs

Many people today are finding relief in the treatments using a variety of natural substances. The use of homeopathic medicine is on the rise. You can make your own

by following a recipe. Look for additional information on homeopathic medicine.

Drug Information

Drug information can be obtained form

World Wide Drugs.

Information about drugs and personal experiences of patients can be accessed through a drug database.

Physician GenRx is a useful source of infomation about drugs concerning dosing, side effects and other useful data.

Pain management for cancer patients.

Information about drugs that can accessed through the internet are provided.

Drug facts will provide access to other sites.

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