What is the difference between a barbiturate and a  narcotic?
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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. They are two different compounds.\n\nIt looks like you want to compare a specific property of the alcohols. Please specify!
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Intubation is the insertion of a rubber tube, called an endotracheal tube, into the windpipe of the patient. This tube is connected to a ventilator, a machine that forces the lungs to expand and contract as well as providing concentrated oxygen to the patient.  This process is necessary in surgery, as the drugs used to induce an unconscious state cause the patient to quit breathing on their own.\n\nInduction is the process of rendering a patient unconscious before performing a medical procedure, usually surgery.  Occasionally, the patient is also chemically paralyzed.  This makes certain medical procedures (including intubation) much easier and safer to perform.
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Methadone is a narcotic and is used to help with narcotic withdrawal.  By giving it to an addict one can avoid the withdrawal reactions once the addict stops the narcotic.  In such cases only a registered drug abuse center can dispense the medication.  Also, methadone is very effective for people with chronic pain because it lasts longer than painkillers such as codeine, hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (Percocet).
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There is no Rynos for a kind of painkiller. If you are unsure of the pills, bring them to the police but allow yourself to keep some of the pills to bring to a drugstore or a chemist. They might help you figure it out? Just how old is your brother? Why would he need pills? If you are unsure of his motives, just observe his behavior. If he looks sedated then its a opium derivated. If he acts manic then suspect a stimulant. If he acts too relaxed*not sedated* then its a depressant.
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I'm an anesthesiologist.  The drug you list is not familiar to me.  The closest I can think of is remifentanil (a narcotic). or romazicon (reversal agent)\n\nWe use different drugs for different things. \n\n For general anesthesia, we use a drug to get people off to sleep (induction) - common induction agents are propofol, etomidate, pentothal, ketamine.  To keep people asleep, we usually use inhalation anesthetics, such as isoflurane, desflurane, sevoflurane, possibly with nitrous oxide.  We may also use a paralyzing agent such as succinylcholine, rocuronium, vecuronium, atracurium, cisatracurium or pancuronium.  For pain relief, we typically use a narcotic such as fentanyl, morphine, hydrocodone, alfentanil, or sufentanil.  Many patients also get midazolam, which is a sedative and amnestic.\n\nFor neuraxial (spinal/epidural) regional (nerve blocks) or local anesthetics, we use drugs called "local anesthetics".  Common local anesthetics are lidocaine, procaine, bupivicaine, tetracaine, chloroprocaine  (pretty much anything that ends in "caine" is a local anesthetic)\n\nPatients may also get drugs to prevent nausea, reverse the paralyzing agents, raise or lower blood pressure or heart rate, or treat anything else that might come up.\n\nHope that helps.\n\n(Many of the drugs listed by "The Nurse" are not anesthetic drugs, but may be given in the perioperative period; some of the anesthetic drugs that are listed are no longer used)
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The US and Canada drug authorities are completely different.  Same reason why over-the-counter Tylenol in Canada has codeine in it, but only available by Rx in the US.
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Those two are opiate derived and will be hard to get. You'd have to find a site in a country where opiates are over the counter, and I don't know of any. Many other pain medicines however can be obtained from Europe or Canada. As long as they aren't a class controlled substance you should be fine.
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XANAX is the correct name of the drug.  Go to Google and type it in, you'll have lots of info.
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normally means a narcotic pain reliever
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It means the drug is new or different from other drugs.  many drugs are in classes (barbiturates, benzodiazapines, opiates, etc), and one would see a novel drug as being a completely new drug--lacking structural similarities with any yet-characterized class of drugs, and likely exerting its mechanism of action in a different way than known drugs.
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well I have both, Percocet is a narcotic while tramadol aka Ultram is like a narcotic but not in the same class, both works good for pain.
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The major difference between methamphetamines and amphetamines is the manufacture and strength. Methamphetamines are more potent than amphetamines.
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I take Xanax almost daily...  In layman's terms it is LIKE but  NOT THE SAME as alcohol when it comes to its effect on the brain.  Its effect tends to differ from me from time to time.  Sometimes it does make me more talkative, yes.  It depends on the situation I take it in, how I felt when I took it, and how long it had been since my last dose.
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The drug class is narcotic pain reliever (analgesic), also known as opiates.  Tylenol #2 contains 15 mg, Tylenoll #3 contains 30 mg, and Tylenol #4 contains 60 mg of codeine.
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Drug use is merely any taking of substances to modify perceptions.\n\nDrug abuse is when drug use gets to the level that it interfers with normal activity or becomes a primary motivator for actions.\n\nDrug dependency is when the use of a drug becomes extensive enough that to maintain physical status (sometimes mental is included) that drug is required.
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There is a difference between dependance and addiction. Dependence is where you need it to go to sleep. Addiction is where you use it to get "high". I use to take ambien and one didn't work so I would take 2 and then 3. Before I knew it, I had to have it to go to town, first thing in the morning, and then before I could go outside. I was taking 30 or 40 a day (not making this up). That's addiction. I wasn't using it to sleep..I needed the "feeling" I got from it. It is a very addictive drug. There are plenty of drugs like ambien. The newest one is rozerom. Not sure how it works. You can also try stuff like benedryl to sleep..some nights I have to take that. It's good that you are worried about getting addicted. However unless you are misusing or taking for a reason other than to sleep..I would not worry much.