Young People and Substance Misuse

Substance misuse and older people: better information, better care.

Substance Misuse Education for Physicians: Why Older People are Important.

This perspective article focuses on the need for training and education for undergraduate medical students on substance-related disorders, and describes initiatives undertaken in the United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, United States (US), and Norway to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed by future doctors to treat patients adequately. In addition, we stress that in postgraduate tr...

An exploration of substance misuse in people with intellectual disabilities.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) who misuse substances and how such problems impinge upon their well-being. The aim of this paper is to describe how alcohol and drugs affect the health of people with IDs. METHODS A questionnaire was forwarded to all the community ID teams and mainstream addiction teams across Northern Ireland:...

Drugs for Young People: Their Use and Misuse

TREATMENT OF COMMON ACUTE POISONING. By Henry Matthew and A. A. H. Lawson. (Pp. vii+ 151. 16s). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1967. THIS concise well indexed book should be in the hands of all casualty officers. It is written by two general physicians who have had extensive experience of the treatment of acute poisoning at the Poisoning Treatment Centre at the Edinburgh Royal Infir...

Substance misuse during pregnancy.

The use of illicit substances such as cocaine and heroin during pregnancy is common. and heroin during pregnancy is common. Anonymous screening of consecutive urine Anonymous screening of consecutive urine samples testing positive for pregnancy from samples testing positive for pregnancy from a UK inner-city clinic demonstrated that a UK inner-city clinic demonstrated that approximately 16% of ...