Book Review: Drug Use & Misuse

Drug use, misuse, and the urban environment.

Urbanization is probably the single most important demographic shift world-wide throughout the past and the new century and represents a sentinel change from how most of the world's population has lived for the past several thousand years. As urban living becomes the predominant social context for the majority of the world's population, the very ubiquity of urban living promises to shape health...

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Book Review: Anti-VEGF Use in Ophthalmology

This is a review of a book entitled, "Anti-VEGF Use in Ophthalmology," written by Jay Duker, MD and Michelle Liang, MD. It is an excellent description of the history and development of anti-VEGF agents as well as an up-to-date and thorough account of their many clinical uses in Ophthalmology.

Psychoactive prescription drug use disorders, misuse and abuse Pharmacoepidemiological aspects

ii Psychoactive prescription drug use disorders, misuse and abuse iii All the passionate work I put into this thesis is dedicated to my parents, who always emphasized the importance of knowledge and of caring for the less fortunate. Background: There is a widespread and increasing use of psychoactive prescription drugs, such as opioid analgesics, anxiolytics, hypnotics and anti-epileptics, but ...

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