MANAGEMENT AND THERAPEUTICS OF NICOTINE ADDICTION

Ideally, therapeutics for nicotine addiction should be available for the 80% of the world’s smokers who live in low- and middle-income countries. Within those countries, smokers have the lowest income, are the least educated, and have the poorest access to health care. Thus, from a world view, cost of therapeutics and access become important considerations. Prevention is obviously an important strategy, but strategies to prevent tobacco addiction...

NICOTINE ADDICTION

Nicotine AddictionAddiction is defined as a situation in which a drug unreasonably controls behavior. The primary criteria for drug dependence are highly controlled or compulsive use of a drug with psychoactive effects and the presence of drug-reinforced behavior. Additional criteria are stereotypic patterns of use, use despite harmful consequences, relapse following abstinence, and recurrent drug...

RABIES

DEFINITION: An acute infectious disease of warm-blooded animals characterized by involvement of the nervous system resulting in death. ETIOLOGYIt is caused by the RABIES VIRUS, a rhabdovirus of the genus lyssavirus. RHABDOVIRUS: any group of rod-shaped RNA viruses with 1 important member, rabies virus, pathogenic to man. The virus has a predilection for tissue of mucus-secreting glands and the...