Following the chief complaint in medical history taking, a history of the present illness (abbreviated HPI) (termed history of presenting complaint (HPC) in ...

Examples include: the easier to make derivative MDA being sold as MDMA, [68] heroin users unintentionally injecting brick dust, quinine, or fentanyl with which their heroin had been cut; [69] [70] and heroin/cocaine overdoses occurring as a result of users not knowing exactly how much they are taking. If the supply of drugs such as ecstasy came ...

Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse or drugs that have no recognized medical uses. However, psilocybin mushrooms have had numerous medicinal [222] [223] [224] and religious uses in dozens of cultures throughout history and have a significantly lower potential for abuse than other Schedule I drugs. [225]

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), is one of multiple dissociative disorders in the DSM-5, ICD-11, and Merck Manual.It has a history of extreme controversy. [10] [11] [12] [13]Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.

The technological singularity—or simply the singularity [1] —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. [2] [3] According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent ...