Drug use, misuse, and the urban environment
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
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...
متن کاملThe Use and Misuse
Orthogonal regression is one of the standard linear regression methods to correct for the eeects of measurement error in predictors. We argue that orthogonal regression is often misused in errors-in-variables linear regression, because of a failure to account for equation errors. The typical result is to overcorrect for measurement error, i.e., overestimate the slope, because equation error is ...
متن کاملPsychoactive 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 ...
متن کاملDrug Misuse, Dependence and Addiction
Article history: Received on: 13/02/2013 Revised on: 15/02/2013 Accepted on: 09/03/2013 Available online: 28/03/2013 Drug addiction presents a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by persistent drug-seeking and taking behaviors. Given the significant detrimental effects of this disease both socially and economically, a considerable research has been dedicated to understanding a number of is...
متن کاملDrug misuse in adolescence.
Problems of adolescent drug misuse are increasingly common. A retrospective study was undertaken to compare the data from adolescents who attended the accident and emergency department of an urban children's hospital in 1981 and 1985. Epidemiological characteristics of both groups are detailed. The results are discussed and the feasibility of units specialising in the management of adolescents ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Drug and Alcohol Review
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-5236
DOI: 10.1080/09595230500102509