According to a 2007 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 21 per cent of eighth graders and 48 per cent of 12th graders reported using illegal drugs in their lifetime. Providing young people with the facts about the dangers of drug abuse is the best way to help them make good decisions.
"How to Say No to Drugs" explains how drug use affects the body and can lead to addiction, as well as how young people can comfortably avoid peer pressure to use drugs.
Grade 1-3 This serviceable title introduces the differences between medicinal and non-medicinal drugs. The text touches on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs that treat asthma and colds. A few questions are directed to readers, and clear, color photos on every page enhance learning. Back matter includes What Ive Learned, a list that summarizes and reinforces facts, and Have a Drug-Free Plan, which features questions and answers that kids can practice to learn how to say no to non-medicinal drugs. A useful choice.
Prepared by noted critical care experts at the National Institutes of Health and leading medical centers, this handbook is a quick-reference guide to the choice and administration of drugs in critical care. It contains 126 easy-to-scan tables listing drugs of choice for specific clinical situations; dosages, dilutions, and infusion rates; and indications and adverse effects of drugs. Emphasis is on toxicities, compatibilities, and clinical considerations that would guide the choice of drug. This thoroughly updated Third Edition includes many new drugs and has an expanded section on neurologic and psychiatric therapeutics.
It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell
Gordon Brown likes to boast that our schools are the envy of the world. Sadly - as ever - he's fibbing. FRANK CHALK has spent his adult life in the modern education system, so - unlike the Prime Minister - he knows what he's talking about. He is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school… a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up. IT S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.
Some drugs which are not aimed at treating heart disease have nevertheless been found to have profound effects on heart muscle. Cardiotoxicity is one of the major forms of toxicity seen in drugs and it accounts for most drug recalls and delays experienced in regulatory approvals.
