Time/Place: Victorian London, circa 1887
Search terms used: "19th century hallucinogens", "Victorian hallucinogens", "Victorian aphrodisiacs", "hallucinogen sexual effects ( Read more... )

Setting: New England, 2011-2012

Character: Is a 15/16 year-old male with early-onset schizophrenia, and ADD. Has recently been diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia, and is presenting with positive symptoms (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/ ( Read more... )

I am writing a fantasy/dystopian story where the end of the current way of living/governmental structure came about due to the effects of a widely used narcotic. Set a few hundred years in the future, north america. The effects of the narcotic are fantasy based, but I was wondering if there is any factual basis for the way the effects are passed to ( Read more... )

I found out about this community from a fellow writer-friend, and my searches haven't been conclusive on this topic, so I'd thought I'd try my hand here ( Read more... )

I have a few questions about alcohol withdrawal and relapsing - I have some of the basic facts but have little idea what some of the effects will be. Hopefully someone here can help me out?

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I tried looking through the 'Medicine' tags. I'm looking to see if there is a drug-- pharmaceutical or homeopathic, that can paralyze the vocal cords, rendering a victim temporarily mute? Looking for one that could last for days.

SEARCH TERMS USED:
ENT drugs used
paralysis of throat
drug speech impaired
medicine impairing speech

I am working on a story set in a culture where ADHD is not a disorder, but the norm. People who don’t have it are impaired by their inability to multitask, their deficits in creative and lateral thinking, their difficulty noticing things that aren’t right in front of their faces, their obsession with schedules and routines, and so on. They may of ( Read more... )

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My story is taking place in Morocco a few years into the future, and one of my MCs has moderate sickle cell anemia. She doesn't have access to much medication because she's on the run from the authorities, but she has a small bottle of folic acid pills that she takes daily for the first half of the story ( Read more... )

Setting: A Nevada miner's camp in the 1850s ( Read more... )