Where did the drug 'percocet' come from? How was it made?
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Percocet is oxycodone with acetaminophen (Tylenol) which is a very powerful and potentially addictive opioid analgesic medication synthesized from thebaine.\n\nOxycodone is one of the most powerful medications for pain control that can be taken orally. Percocet tablets (oxycodone with acetaminophen) are routinely prescribed for post-operative pain control. Oxycodone is also used in treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. When used at recommended doses for relatively short periods (several weeks), it provides effective pain control with manageable side effects.
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"Prostaglandins were first discovered and isolated from human semen in the 1930s by Ulf von Euler of Sweden. Thinking they had come from the prostate gland, he named them prostaglandins. It has since been determined that they exist and are synthesized in virtually every cell of the body.\n\nProstaglandins, are like hormones in that they act as chemical messengers, but do not move to other sites, but work right within the cells where they are synthesized.\n\nProstaglandins are unsaturated carboxylic acids, consisting of of a 20 carbon skeleton that also contains a five member ring. They are biochemically synthesized from the fatty acid, arachidonic acid. See the graphic on the left. \n\nThe unique shape of the arachidonic acid caused by a series of cis double bonds helps to put it into position to make the five member ring."
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Aspirin ultimately comes from a substance that accumulates in willow trees. Rheumatism has plagued the human race at least since the flowering of the great river cultures of the Middle East. Clay tablets from the Sumerian period describe the use of willow leaves to treat it. The Egyptians were also aware of the pain-relieving effects of potions made from myrtle or willow leaves.\n\nExtracts from the bark and leaves of the willow, myrtle and a number of other plants rely for their effect on the presence of salicylic acid, an organic compound composed of seven carbon atoms, six hydrogens and three oxygens. Edward Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, is generally recognized as the man who gave the first scientific description of the effects of willow bark. In 1763 he wrote a letter to the Earl of Macclesfield, then president of the Royal Society in London, in which he describes treating patients suffering from ague (fever) with 20 grains (approximately a gram) of powdered willow bark in a dram of water every four hours. \n\nHowever, aspirin as we know it IS man-made ... it is the acetylated form of the raw salicylic acid. It is the world's first truly synthetic drug (ie, not merely an artificial copy of a naturally occurring compound), it paved the way for the modern pharmaceuticals industry. AND it is probably the most successful medicine in history.
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hmmm.. I'm not even sure they have that anymore. It's a very bad poison. The greeks actually used that for the death penalty in as far back as 700 BCE. \n\nIt might still be made. I'm not sure. Google it and see if it has a preccedor.
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I did not use it, \n\nbut there is lost of information about that drug, check below links\n\nhttp://www.acompliareport.com/\nhttp://www.drugdevelopment-technology.com/projects/rimonabant/\nhttp://www.acompliaresources.com/science-of-acomplia.html
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Valium distributed outside the U.S. so if they are in the U.S. they were smuggled in or through a mail order company.  The pills actually say Roche-10. Roche is the maker of the pills.
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Your question confuses me.  It is made in a pharmacutical factory.
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It is Oxycodone. You can see a pic of it here.\nhttp://search.drugs.com/images/pills/custom/pill5068-1.jpg
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I am in pharmacy school. If you want to have notes on what chemicals are involved in making medicines in the traditional sense, you can find texts on chinese medicine in a library (there is some thinking involved as the chinese names for herbs and plants are different than the latin ones, and also the chinese use a different system of medicine than the west). If you want to know about chemical synthesis, look into the field of organic chemistry, which is difficult to understand or explain, hence the need for an advanced degree to do much lab work. But those are two places where you can look for your answers. Its rather difficult to obtain potassium permagnate and such because many of these chemicals can also be used for rapid oxidation reactions (ie, explosions). It is easy enough though, to order some essential oils and misscelanious herbs after reading a bit on chinese medicine and using that to treat maladies.
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It was developed as a substitute for morphine - hence the name. It was the drug for heros in pain. \nThe advantage to other opitates for treatment of pain is that it doesn't constipate as bad and it doesn't make the patient all fuzzy and dopey as bad either(you need less of it since it is several times stronger than morhine). It is no more addictive as other opiates when given under medical care for pain treatment. \nBut it is a Schedule 1 drug these days and cannot be used for medical purposes (at least in the US, it IS being used in the UK as a medical drug).
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perscription drugs such as amphetamines and barbiturates
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1. Originally, any drug derived from opium or opium-like compounds with potent analgesic effects associated with both significant alteration of mood and behavior and potential for dependence and tolerance.\n2. More recently, any drug, synthetic or naturally occurring, with effects similar to those of opium and opium derivatives, including meperidine and fentanyl and its derivatives.\n3. Capable of inducing a state of stuporous analgesia.
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Barbiturate-any of a class of sedative drugs related to a synthetic compound (barbituric acid) derived from uric acid.\n\nNarcotic-an addictive drug, especially an illegal one, affecting mood or behavior. Medicine a drug which induces drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility and relieves pain.\n\nNarcotics-Is a class of drugs, and do not singularly or specifically come from morphine or codeine,for example,one of the most widely used narcotics is Marijuana which contains neither.\n\nCodeine and morphine come from poppies and are just some of the other drugs listed as narcotics.
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NONE. What idiot told you that? And, if you burn it, it STINKS! Listen, i grew up in the seventies, and the only drugs I never did were heroin, meth, speed, no opiates except for, well, opium. NO you CANNOT get high from sage! EVER!!!!!That sounds like when i was a kid and people used to say you could get high from:Taking aspirin with coca-cola; and, smoking marigold seeds. Sound as stupid as "smoking sage"? You bet it does. 'S freaking ridiculous.
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The acetyl salicylic acid undergoes ester hydrolysis on long term standing to produce acetic acid (vinegar) and salicylic acid.  The problem was that salicylic acid was tough on stomachs and a means of 'buffering' the compound was searched for. The first person to do so was a French chemist named Charles Frederic Gerhardt. In 1853, Gerhardt neutralized salicylic acid by buffering it with sodium (sodium salicylate) and acetyl chloride, creating acetylsalicylic acid. Gerhardt's product worked but he had no desire to market it and abandoned his discovery. \n\nIn 1899, a German chemist named Felix Hoffmann, who worked for a German company called Bayer, rediscovered Gerhardt's formula. Felix Hoffmann made some of the formula and gave it to his father who was suffering from the pain of arthritis. With good results, Felix Hoffmann then convinced Bayer to market the new wonder drug. Aspirin was patented on March 6, 1889. \n\nThe folks at Bayer came up with the name Aspirin, it comes from the 'A" in acetyl chloride, the "spir" in spiraea ulmaria (the plant they derived the salicylic acid from) and the 'in' was a then familiar name ending for medicines. \n\nAspirin was first sold as a powder. In 1915, the first Aspirin tablets were made. Interestingly, Aspirin ® and Heroin ® were once trademarks belonging to Bayer. After Germany lost World War I, Bayer was forced to give up both trademarks as part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
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Looking for  the cure to the migraine headache chemists at the Swiss pharmaceutical company,  Sandoz discovered LSD, which contributed greatly to psychology. I dare you to come up with a better success story!
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all the answers you have are very close.. but here  is the real deal. oxycodone is the generic name for Oxycontin a powerful pain medication, most of the information about it you have received is correct i wont repeat it. HOWEVER...Percocet is a combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen, a different less powerful drug. any questions you have about your medication should be directed to your pharmacist or physician.. advice here is helpful.. but not always accurate.