Drug

A drug is any substance other than food, that when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin or dissolved under the tongue causes a physiological change in the body.

In pharmacology, a pharmaceutical drug or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, diagnose a disease or promote well-being. Traditionally drugs were obtained through extraction from medicinal plants, but more recently also by organic synthesis. Pharmaceutical drugs may be used for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders.

Pharmaceutical drugs are often classified into drug classes—groups of related drugs that have similar chemical structures, the same mechanism of action (binding to the same biological target), a related mode of action, and that are used to treat the same disease. The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC), the most widely used drug classification system, assigns drugs a unique ATC code, which is an alphanumeric code that assigns it to specific drug classes within the ATC system. Another major classification system is the Biopharmaceutics Classification System. This classifies drugs according to their solubility and permeability or absorption properties.

Shithead (card game)

Shithead (also known as Karma, Palace, Shed, Three Card Game and by many other names) is a card game similar to the Finnish game Paskahousu. In the game the object is to lose all of one's cards, with the last player to do so being the "shithead", who must deal the next game and may be subject to some minor forfeit of the group's choice, such as fetching the next round of drinks.

The game, and variations of it, is popular in many countries amongst backpackers, and as a result is widespread. Although the basic structure of the game generally remains constant there are often regional variations of the game's original rules.

Rules

There are many variations of the rules, and there is no universally accepted set. A common set of rules is listed here.

Setup

From a standard, shuffled deck of 52 cards, each player is dealt three face-down cards in a row. Players are not allowed to see or change these cards. On top of the face-down cards, they are dealt the same number of face-up cards. Three cards are again dealt to each player (face down), and this becomes the player's hand.

Drugs (journal)

Drugs is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Adis International (Springer Science + Business Media) that covers topics in drugs and therapeutics. Besides research articles, the journal also publishes "Adis Drug Evaluations and Profiles", evidence-based, single-agent reviews.

Abstracting and indexing

Drugs is abstracted and indexed in:

  • MEDLINE
  • EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
  • International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  • Current Contents/Life Sciences
  • Science Citation Index
  • CINAHL
  • PASCAL
  • Chemical Abstracts Service
  • Sociedad Iberoamericana de Información Científica
  • According to the Journal Citation Reports it received an impact factor of 4.343, ranking it 9th out of 87 journals in the category "Toxicology" and ranking it 32nd out of 254 journals in the category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy"

    References

    External links

  • Official website

  • Fair

    A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. It is normally of the essence of a fair that it is temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks.

    Types of fairs

    Variations of fairs include:

  • street fair: a fair that celebrates the character of a neighborhood. As its name suggests, it is usually held on the main street of a neighborhood.
  • fête: an elaborate festival, party or celebration
  • festival: an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela or eid.
  • county fair or agricultural show: a public event exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry.
  • state fair: an annual competitive and recreational gathering of a U.S. state's population, usually held in late summer or early fall. It is a larger version of a county fair, often including only exhibits or competitors that have won in their categories at the more-local county fairs.
  • Fair (band)

    Fair is an alternative rock band currently signed to Tooth & Nail Records. It was created in 2005 from members of Aaron Sprinkle's touring band – Sprinkle, fellow Poor Old Lu alum Nick Barber, Erick Newbill, and Joey Sanchez.

    The band released their first album, The Best Worst-Case Scenario, on June 6, 2006.

    Members

  • Aaron Sprinkle – guitar, lead vocals.
  • Erick Newbill – guitar, vocals.
  • Joey Sanchez – drums, percussion.
  • Nick Barber – bass guitar, vocals.
  • Discography

    Albums

    References

    External links

  • Official site
  • Official Purevolume
  • Official MySpace

  • Fair (surname)

    Fair is a surname and may refer to:

    People

  • Brian Fair (born 1975), American singer
  • C. Christine Fair (born 1968), American professor of political science
  • C. J. Fair (born 1991), American basketball player
  • Dick Fair (1907–1982), Australian actor
  • Elizabeth Fair, English novelist
  • George Fair (1856–1939), Major League baseball player
  • Jad Fair (born 1954), American singer,
  • James Fair (disambiguation), several people
  • Mike Fair (born 1946), American politician
  • Yvonne Fair (1942-1994), American singer
  • Fictional characters

  • Zack Fair, a character from the video game Final Fantasy VII
  • See also

  • Fair (band)
  • List of people known as the Fair
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