L’Extase totale : Le IIIe Reich, les Allemands et la drogue Norman Ohler La Découverte, 2018, 283 p. La Cliothèque, Jennifer Ghislain, Pierre-Yves Marzin | 3 Nov 2018 https://clio-cr.clionautes.org/lextase-totale-le-iiie-reich-les-allemands-et-la-drogue.html Norman Ohler est un journaliste et réalisateur de documentaires allemand. Il découvre les documents laissés par Théo Morell, médecin personnel d’Hitler, documents dans lesquels il évoque un Patient A qui subit « des injections quotidiennes, des substances douteuses, des doses croissantes ». C’est le point de départ de son enquête. Pervitine, la drogue du IIIe Reich Malgré une politique anti-drogues, la pervitine, à base de méthamphétamine, devient un médicament grand public. Délivrée librement, puis sous ordonnance à partir de 1939, [...]
Lire la suitePrescription Opioid Distribution after the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana in Colorado Amalie K. Kropp Lopez, Stephanie D. Nichols, Daniel Y. Chung, Daniel E. Kaufman, Kenneth L. McCall and Brian J. Piper International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, 17, 3251 doi : 10.3390/ijerph17093251 Abstract : There have been dynamic changes in prescription opioid use in the US but the state level policy factors contributing to these are incompletely understood. We examined the association between the legalization of recreational marijuana and prescription opioid distribution in Colorado. Utah and Maryland, two states that had not legalized recreational marijuana, were selected for comparison. Prescription data reported to [...]
Lire la suiteImpact of co-administration of oxycodone and smoked cannabis on analgesia and abuse liability Ziva D. Cooper, Gillinder Bedi, Divya Ramesh, Rebecca Balter, Sandra D. Comer and Margaret Haney Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018, 0, 1–10 Doi : 10.1038/s41386-018-0011-2 Cannabinoids combined with opioids produce synergistic antinociceptive effects, decreasing the lowest effective antinociceptive opioid dose (i.e., opioid-sparing effects) in laboratory animals. Although pain patients report greater analgesia when cannabis is used with opioids, no placebo-controlled studies have assessed the direct effects of opioids combined with cannabis in humans or the impact of the combination on abuse liability. This double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject study determined if cannabis enhances the analgesic effects [...]
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