How Drugs Work

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.05.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Information
  4. Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Appendix A - Bibliography
  7. Appendix B - Standards
  8. Endnotes

Toxic Effects of Mercury, Alcohol, and Cannabis on Human Cellular Function

John Miklaszewski

Published September 2012

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Endnotes

  1. Illinois School Report Card 2011, http://schools.chicagotribune.com/school/clay-elementary-school_chicago/#demographics updated June 15, 2011
  2. Husar, John, "Benefits of eating Fish Outweigh Mercury Content Concern", Chicago Tribune, 9/6/1992
  3. Lyndersen, Kari, "An Abandoned Area Starts to Hum Again, Raising New Fears", Chicago News Cooperative, July 22, 2011
  4. Saltzman, Mark, Biomedical Engineering - Bridging Medicine and Technology, ( New York: Cambridge University Press), 2009 170-1
  5. Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering, 175-6
  6. Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering, 177-78
  7. Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering, 178
  8. Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering , 179-80
  9. Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering , 205-216
  10. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule - How Drugs Work, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2007 94-5
  11. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule , 96-8
  12. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule , 96-8
  13. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 213
  14. Williams, R.T. "Hepatic metabolism of drugs." GUT 1972 (International Journal on Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
  15. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule , 221
  16. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule , 211
  17. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 212-13
  18. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 213
  19. Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004, World Health Organization 2004
  20. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 215
  21. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 215
  22. Aldridge, Susan, Magic Molecule, 215-6
  23. Pope, Gruber, et al., "Neuropsychological performance in long-term cannabis users", Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2001 Oct
  24. Marijuana: Drug Facts, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nation Institute of Health November 2011
  25. Jonnes, Jill, Hepcats, Narcs and Pipe Dreams (New York: Scribneer), 1996, 130-140
  26. American Elements http://www.americanelements.com/pb.html
  27. Mayo Clinic Staff, "Lead Poisoning", http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lead-poisoning/FL00068 , March 10, 2011
  28. EPA - Lead, http://www.epa.gov/lead/, updated July 12, 2012
  29. Castellino, Nicolo, Castellino, Pietro, and Sannalo, Nicola, Inorganic Lead Exposure - Metabolism and Intoxication (Boca Raton: CRC Press 1995), 180
  30. Castellino, Inorganic Lead Exposure, 148-153
  31. Castellino, Inorganic Lead Exposure, 190-191
  32. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (2003), Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home, Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  33. Clarkson, Thomas and Magos, Laszlo, "The Toxicology of Mercury and Its Chemical Compounds", Informa Healthcare, 2006 p. 610-612
  34. Clarkson, "Toxicalogy of Mercury," 613
  35. Clarkson, "Toxicalogy of Mercury," 624
  36. Clarkson, "Toxicalogy of Mercury," 625-26
  37. LeBlanc-Fisher, C, Westphal, L, and Longoni, M, "Fish Consumption Risk Perception Among Anglers in an Industrial Urban Area", Northeastern Recreational Research Symposium, 2009 , 53-54
  38. Risch, Martin, Mercury in the Grand Calumet River/Indiana Harbor Canal and Lake Michigan, Lake County, Indiana, August 2001 and May 2002, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2005
  39. http://www.gdrc.org/kmgmt/c-learn/methods.html#expectations, University of Texas, Teaching Resource Center dated 7/23/12
  40. Britannica Online for Kids, s.v. "living things," accessed July 30, 2012, http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9275509/living-things

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