Cannabis use and misuse are serious public health concerns worldwide.1 Estimated at 4% of the global population aged from 15 years1 with much higher rates (up to 70%)2 among adolescents aged 1218 years, cannabis use is now widely regarded as ‘normative’ youth behaviour.2,3 Several concurrent developments signal an upsurge in cannabis use disorders (CUD) and the whole spectrum of associated heal...

ISSUES The major physical and psychological health effects of methamphetamine use, and the factors associated with such harms. APPROACH Comprehensive review. KEY FINDINGS Physical harms reviewed included toxicity and mortality, cardiovascular/cerebrovascular pathology, dependence and blood-borne virus transmission. Psychological harms include methamphetamine psychosis, depression, suicide, ...

Childhood obesity may have severe long-term consequences for health-indeed, for the overall course of a person's life. Do these harms amount to a problem of social justice? And if so, what should be done about it? Parents are usually granted considerable leeway to make decisions that affect their children's health. Social and moral theory has often overlooked the family, however, leaving us wit...

to physicians, meat is considered as the best nutrition because it includes rich protein that is necessary for the construction of body cells and tissues. also meat is regarded as the basic food meeting the nutritional and therapeutic needs of human beings. meat, because of containing the high nutritional value, has been a good indicator of economic growth and social welfare of communities. var...

Between 1906 and 1917 China (under the Imperial and then Republican regimes) enacted a highly effective intervention to suppress the production of opium. Evidence from British Foreign Office records suggest that the intervention was centred, in many areas, upon a highly repressive incarnation of law enforcement in which rural populations had their property destroyed, their land confiscated and/...