Currently
available synthetic drugs often show severe side effects.
Not exact matches
Despite being outlawed in 2012 in the U.S., the
synthetic drugs known as «bath salts» — which really aren't meant for your daily bath — are still readily
available in some retail shops, on the Internet and on the streets.
However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new
synthetic methods and technologies now
available to the
synthetic and medicinal chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in
drug metabolism and chemical toxicology, as chemists deal with the ever more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.
Non-exclusive licenses are
available for research and sale of products and services across multiple fields including: research tools, kits, reagents; discovery of novel targets for therapeutic intervention; cell lines for discovery and screening of novel
drug candidates; GMP production of healthcare products; production of industrial materials such as enzymes, biofuels and chemicals; and
synthetic biology.
There are also
drugs such as Marinol (dronabinol) and Cesamet (nabilone), which are
synthetic versions of THC in pill form that are
available by prescription for AIDS patients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and a newer product called Sativex, a mouth spray with THC and cannabidiol.
In fact, food has been used as medicine for many, many years and in traditional cultures before
synthetic drugs were
available.