Question of the Day

Question: What is the current usage level of illicit drugs by American youth?

Question: What are the potential advantages of buprenorphine as compared with morphine treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome?

Question: What is the current status for use of the drug Rohypnol® in the United States?

Question: What is the historical significance of the drug aminorex?

Question: What is “bear spray”?

Question: What is endosulfan and what is the primary toxicity of this compound?

Question: Pulmonary toxicity is the most important dose limiting side effect of the chemotherapeutic agent bleomycin. What is the most common clinical presentation for patients with bleomycin pulmonary toxicity (BPT)?

Question: Hydroxychloroquine is commonly used in the treatment of a variety of rheumatologic diseases including lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis as well as for the treatment of certain malignancies (e.g. non-small cell lung cancer). What is the time course for the development of retinal toxicity in relation to the use of this drug?

Question: Which serious cutaneous disease resulted from the use of contaminated shaving brushes during the First World War and into the1920s?

Question: Under the Controlled Substances Act, what are the factors used to determine into which schedule a drug or substance should be placed or whether a substance should be decontrolled or rescheduled?5