81 results about "Substance abuse" patented technology

Pharmaceutical dosage forms are provided for use in deterring abuse of opioids or other medications, which help avoid harm to a patient dependent on the medication. In one case, a pharmaceutical oral dosage form is provided that includes a plurality of microcapsules, each microcapsule of the plurality containing an opioid agonist medication in a controlled release form, and a partial opioid agonist sequestered in the pharmaceutical dosage form, such that upon oral administration of the pharmaceutical oral dosage form the partial opioid agonist will pass through the gastrointestinal tract without uptake by the body.

Abuse resistant polyglycol-based pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed. The composition contains one or more polyglycols and one or more active substances and it is resistant to crushing, melting and / or extraction. Moreover, such compositions have the same or lower solubility in ethanolic-aqueous medium, i.e. they are not subject to ethanol-induced dose dumping effect.

A system and method for detecting improper drug use utilizes the morphine equivalency of a drug regimen of a patient having an injury to compare the morphine equivalency of the drug regimen of the patient to that of a peer group having the same diagnosis. The comparison may be conducted based on the aggregate morphine equivalency for respective periods of time following the injury or the initial treatment and based on the rate of change in the morphine equivalency for that or another period of time. Based on the results of the comparison, potential instances of drug fraud and / or drug abuse are identified and an alert is generated, and appropriate action is taken, where needed.

The invention discloses a prescription auditing method and a system thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of extracting medicine taking characteristic information of a patient, and identifying prescription information; according to the medicine taking characteristic information and a pre-trained medicine taking recommending model, obtaining recommending medicine information; and performing rationality auditing on a medicine taking doctor's advice in the prescription information according to the recommending medicine information, the medicine taking characteristic information, a preset expert rule database and a medical body knowledge database. The prescription auditing method and the system thereof have advantages of assisting a prescription pharmacist and a doctor for realizinghigher scientific performance and higher rationality in medicine taking, reducing medical cost of the patient and sanitation resource wastage, realizing in-time finding of the unreasonable medicine taking condition, and maximally alleviating and even settling a medicine abuse problem.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for use in the treatment, prevention, and / or alleviation of drug abuse and / or its symptoms. In particular, the invention demonstrates that compositions comprising compounds of formula I are useful in such treatment, prevention, and / or alleviation: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, Ar, y, and n are as defined herein.

The invention provides methods for diagnosing, assessing or quantitating drug use, drug abuse or narcosis or for differentiating drug use, drug abuse or narcosis from brain injury in a subject by tracking eye movement of at least one eye of the subject, analyzing eye movement of at least one eye of the subject, comparing eye movement of at least one eye of the subject the normal or mean eye movement; and, optionally calculating a standard deviation or p value for eye movement of at least one eye of the subject as compared to the normal or mean eye movement.

Compounds of the general formula (1), wherein one of W, X, Y and Z is N or CR4 and the others are each CH; and R4 is a specified substituent. These compounds inhibit monocamine reuptake, and are useful in the treatment of pain, emesis depression, post traumatic stress disorders, attention deficit disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, pre-menstrual syndrome, substance abuse and sexual dysfunction.

The present invention is directed to the production of PKC isozyme epsi (PKCepsi)-deficient cells and non-human animals. The present invention is further directed to the identification of PKCepsi as a target for drugs that reduce anxiety. According to the present invention, PKCepsi-inhibiting compounds act in synergy with drugs acting at the GABAA receptor. The present invention is also directed to the use of modulators of PKCepsi to modulate alcohol consumption, self-administration of other drugs of abuse, and the effects of alcohol consumption as well as the use of inhibitors of PKCepsi, either alone or in conjunction with allosteric agonists of GABAA receptors, to treat conditions, such as addiction, withdrawal syndrome, skeletal muscle spasms, convulsive seizures, and epilepsy, that are amenable to treatment by allosteric agonists of GABAA receptors. Additional aspects of the present invention are diagnostic methods for identifying individuals at risk for becoming alcoholics or abusers of other drugs and kits for performing such diagnostic methods. The present invention relates to: cells and non-human animals deficient for the PKC isozyme epsi (PKCepsi); the use of PKCepsi as a target for drugs; the use of inhibitors of PKCepsi in methods of reducing anxiety and treating conditions associated with insufficient activity of the GABAA receptor; the use of modulators of PKCepsi in methods of modulating alcohol consumption, modulating self-administration of other drugs of abuse, and altering the effects of alcohol; pharmaceutical compositions comprising inhibitors of PKCepsi and allosteric agonists of GABAA receptors; and the identification of individuals with enhanced susceptibility to alcoholism or other forms of addiction.

An automated system and method for determining drug testing. The system enters a participant or subject into the system who is to be monitored during a probationary or other program for alcohol or drug abuse offenders. The system provides a watch for the participant to wear and record sleep pattern information of the participants through their movements and intensity of those movements. The system uploads the sleep pattern information into the computer system and conducts various tests to analyze the sleep pattern information for determining if the participant or subject has been using alcohol or other drugs and should be subjected to a confirming urinalysis exam.

The invention discloses antibiotic-free daily fodder for piglets. The fodder contains a microecological preparation, a complex enzyme preparation, phytosterol, antimicrobial peptides and an acidifier. Accordingly, a corresponding preparation method is established for pretreatment of raw materials and comprises puffing treatment of corn and soybeans. Anti-nutritional factors can be reduced, and the palatability and the digestibility are improved. Actual use shows that the problem of diarrhea due to early-stage weaning of the piglets can be solved through pretreatment of the raw materials and addition of an additive under the condition that antibiotics are not added, the antibiotic-free daily fodder has a good piglet feeding effect and can basically replace antibiotics, and drug abuse is avoided.

The present invention provides novel triazole derivatives with improved receptor activity and bioavailability properties as ghrelin analogue ligands of growth hormone secretagogue receptors according to formula (I) that are useful in the treatment or prophylaxis of physiological and / or pathophysiological conditions in mammals, preferably humans, that are mediated by GHS receptors. The present invention further provides GHS receptor antagonists and agonists that can be used for modulation of these receptors and are useful for treating above conditions, in particular alcohol disorder, drug abuse, growth retardation, cachexia, short-, medium-, and / or long term regulation of energy balance, short-, medium-, and / or long term regulation (stimulation and / or inhibition) of food intake, intake of rewarding food, adipogenesis, adiposity and / or obesity, body weight gain and / or reduction, diabetes, diabetes type I, diabetes type II, tumor cell proliferation, inflammation, inflammatory effects, gastric postoperative ileus, postoperative ileus and / or gastrectomy (ghrelin replacement therapy).

Substituted C-furan-2-yl-methylamine and C-thiophen-2-yl-methylamine compounds, processes for their preparation, medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use in treatment methods and in the preparation of analgesics, in the preparation of a local anaesthetic, an antiarrhythmic, an antiemetic, a nootropic agent and / or a medicament for the treatment and / or prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases, urinary incontinence, diarrhea, pruritus and / or inflammations, and / or a medicament for the treatment of depression and / or alcohol and / or drug and / or medicament abuse, and / or a medicament for increasing vigilance.

The present invention provides novel 2-pyridinyl[7(pyridin-4-yl)pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-yl]methanones with at least one substituent on both the 2- and 4-pyridinyl ring having the chemical structure of formula I: The invention further provides compositions and methods employing the novel 2-pyridinyl[7-(pyridin-4-yl)pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-yl]methanones of formula I to modulate GABA and GABAA receptor physiology to elicit therapeutic responses in mammalian subjects to alleviate neurological or psychiatric disorders, including stroke, head trauma, epilepsy, pain, migraine, mood disorders, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders, mania, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, seizures, convulsions, tinnitus, neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, depression, bipolar disorders, mania, trigeminal and other neuralgia, neuropathic pain, hypertension, cerebral ischemia, cardiac arrhythmia, myotonia, substance abuse, myoclonus, essential tremor, dyskinesia and other movement disorders, neonatal cerebral hemorrhage, and spasticity, as well as other psychiatric and neurological disorders mediated by GABA and / or GABAA receptors.

The present invention relates to the use of anatiomeric pure escitalopram and / or of low dose medicaments thereof for the improved treatment of depression, in particular major depression disorder, neurotic disorders, acute stress disorder, eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia and obesity, phobias, dysthymia, pre-mentrual syndrome, cognitive disorders, impulse control disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or drug abuse. The medicaments may also be used in the treatment of major depression disorder in "treatment resistant" patients.

The present invention provides composition of matter for and methods of treating pain and drug abuse using novel chimeric hybrid molecules containing an opioid moiety of chemically modified morphine (3) that binds to and activates the human mu (μ) opioid receptor, with the opioid moiety linked through a novel linker-hinge (4) to a substance P peptide fragment moiety (5) that binds to and activates the human substance P receptor. The hybrid alkaloid / peptide chimeric molecules produce clinically efficacious opioid analgesia with little or no development of opioid tolerance or formation of opioid dependence. The hybrid alkaloid / peptide analgesics may be administered intrathecally, systemically or orally.

The invention describes the use of an injectable form of Idebenone to induce protect from neuronal damage, improve recovery after brain trauma; stroke, intoxication, neurodegenerative diseases, memory loss or neuropathology associated with neuroinflammation or infection damage and to restore cognitive function, suppress disorientation, alcoholic and drug abuse associated syndromes and other signs of neuronal damage.

Aminomethyl-phenyl-cyclohexanone derivatives of formula I or Ia, their diastereomers, enantiomers and salts formed with a physiologically tolerated acid. Also disclosed are processes for preparing the same, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same for the treatment of pain, inflammatory reaction, allergic reactions, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, gastritis, cardiovascular disease, respiratory tract disease, coughing, mental illness, epilepsy, urinary incontinence, itching, and diarrhoea.

The invention is based, in part, on the discovery that secretin and secretin analogs can be used to treat affective disorders that include symptoms of anxiety. Secretin and secretin analogs can be administered to patients to treat affective disorders, such as mood, psychotic, mental, substance-abuse withdrawal, eating, and sexual disorders, as well as other disorders with attendant sensory processing dysfunction, including symptoms of anxiety and / or fear. In addition, secretin and secretin analogs can be administered to improve cognition, including learning and memory, as well as to lessen the effects of conditioned startle. Secretin has the added benefit of causing no negative side effects upon administration and being easy to administer.

The invention relates to new chemical compounds acting on the serotonin transporter (SERT), and associated pharmaceutical compositions, methods for use as therapeutic agents, and methods of preparation thereof. In particular the new chemical compounds are useful for the treatment of a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disorders—for example anxiety, depression, epilepsy, obsessive-compulsive disorders, migraine, cognitive disorders, sleep disorders, feeding disorders, panic attacks, disorders related to withdrawl from drug abuse, schizophrenia, or the like, or in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.

The present invention relates to methods of alleviating pain with the administration of norketamine with a narcotic. More particularly, the invention provides a method of alleviating pain through the administration of a dose of norketamine, which, if administered alone would provide sub-optimal analgesic relief, yet provides analgesic relief when combined with a narcotic. In some embodiments, the combination of norketamine with a narcotic, further allows for the administration of a dose narcotic, which would be sub-optimal if used alone, but provides adequate pain relief in combination with norketamine. The invention relates to self-management of pain on an outpatient basis comprising administering via conventional routes, including transdermal, nasal, rectal, oral, transmucosal, intravenous, intramuscular, and other routes, one or more doses of norketamine / opioid compositions effective to alleviate pain to a subject suffering from pain. Uses of norketamine / opioid compositions would also apply, to treating headaches, drug abuse, mood and anxiety disorders, as well as other, neuropsychiatric disorders, both motoric and cognitive, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, which are thought to be caused by neurodegeneration.

Methods and kits for assessing severity index for alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and other reward deficiency syndromes. It has been discovered that a multifaceted non-specific RDS behaviors should be considered as the true “reward” phenotype (endophenotype) instead of a single subset RDS behavior such as alcoholism. In an embodiment of the present invention, it has been discovered that there are at least eleven risk alleles associated with ten candidate genes. The methods and kits of the present invention satisfy the need to classify patients at genetic risk for drug / alcohol seeking behavior prior to or upon entry to residential and or non-residential chemical dependency and pain programs.

The present invention relates to combinations and methods for the treatment of neurological disorders related Amyloid beta toxicity and / or neuronal death and / or glucose impaired neuronal metabolism. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel combinatorial therapies of Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's disease related disorders, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, Huntington's disease, peripheral neuropathies, alcoholism or alcohol withdrawal, neurological manifestations of drug abuse or drug abuse withdrawal, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury or brain ischemic events based on baclofen, acamprosate and at least one medium chain triglyceride.

The invention discloses propellane compounds, a preparation method and application thereof, in particular aromatic or fat thick heterocyclic propellane compounds, a preparation method thereof and applications for treating drug abuse as an opioid receptor excitant or an antagonist and for using as a novel analgesic agent and so on. The structures of the compounds are shown in a general formula (I).

The present invention relates to compounds of formulae IA and IB wherein R1 and R2 are each independently lower alkyl or —(CH2)m—O-lower alkyl, or together with the N atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic ring; R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 is lower alkyl; hetaryl is 3H-imidazole-2,4-diyl or 1H-pyrazole-1,4-diyl; n is 1 or 2; and m is 1 or 2; and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. These compounds may be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, neuroprotection, schizophrenia, anxiety, pain, respiration deficits, depression, ADHD, drug addiction, such as amphetamine, cocaine, opioids, ethanol, nicotine, cannabinoids, or for the treatment of asthma, allergic responses, hypoxia, ischaemia, seizure and substance abuse, or for use as sedatives, muscle relaxants, antipsychotics, antiepileptics, anticonvulsants and cardiaprotective agents for coronary artery disease and heart failure.

Disclosed are a syringe capable of measuring an inner temperature of a patient body and a method of manufacturing the same. In the syringe, a different metal from that of a syringe needle is deposited on an inclined surface of a tip portion of the syringe needle to form a thermocouple junction with the metal of the syringe needle, whereby the region causing pain in a patient body can be diagnosed while allowing administration of medicine thereto, thereby enabling efficient treatment and significantly reducing potential harm due to drug abuse.

The present disclosure relates to devices for deterring drug abuse and methods thereof. More particularly, the disclosure relates to devices for deterring drug abuse by using physical deterrents and / or deterrent substances, including a mechanism that releases a deterrent substance when improper access of the drug is attempted, and methods thereof.

The invention provides a sulfocompound with a nerve protection effect from pineapple fruit and preparation and application thereof, belonging to the field of medicine. A sulfur-containing compound with a nerve protection effect is separated from the pineapple fruit through various separation means. The compound has a structural formula (I). Cell experiments indicate that the compound has a better protection effect on nerve cells, and can prevent or treat Parkinson, Alzheimer, Huntington, drug abuse, depression and stroke diseases caused by degeneration or injury of nerve cells resulting from various factors.

Substituted C-furan-2-yl-methylamine and C-thiophen-2-yl-methylamine compounds, processes for their preparation, medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use in treatment methods and in the preparation of analgesics, in the preparation of a local anaesthetic, an antiarrhythmic, an antiemetic, a nootropic agent and / or a medicament for the treatment and / or prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases, urinary incontinence, diarrhea, pruritus and / or inflammations, and / or a medicament for the treatment of depression and / or alcohol and / or drug and / or medicament abuse, and / or a medicament for increasing vigilance.