NIDA conducts and supports study on psychedelic and dissociative medications to aid inform wellness decisions and procedures connected to their use. This investigation contains attempts to better fully grasp the overall health effects of psychedelic and dissociative medicine, how substances in—or comparable to—these medications perfor… Read More

Nonteratogenic outcomes. Studies of infants suffering from extended-phrase barbiturate exposure in utero included the acute withdrawal syndrome of seizures and hyperirritability from delivery to a delayed onset of up to fourteen days. (See “Drug Abuse and Dependence” section.) Posted scientific studies in pregnant primates demonstrate w… Read More