Multidisciplinary forensic and pharmaceutical, organizational legal, technological study of alcohol-containing liquids as factors in the formation development polydrug addiction among public population Ukraine was conducted. Determined that combined intake several psychoactive substances leads to new variants addiction. Noted substances, main are containing ethyl alcohol. Classification stages ...

This study examines differences in psychosocial characteristics, substance use history, and psychiatric comorbidity in relation to heroin use among youths aged 15 to 22 incarcerated in 2003 for illicit drug use in northern Taiwan. Factors associated with heroin use included experiences of child abuse, having friends with illicit drug use, poor school attendance, polydrug use, and early age of d...

PURPOSE Using a case-control design, patterns of drug use, psychological symptoms, and behavioral characteristics associated with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA ) use were surveyed in a sample of older adolescents (median age 20). METHODS One hundred (42 MDMA users; 58 non-MDMA users) older adolescents were recruited using the "snowball" technique and interviewed regarding their use ...

(5.11.2009, LISBON EMBARGO 10:00 CET/Brussels time) There is little to suggest any improvement regarding cocaine and heroin use in Europe, the two substances that remain at the heart of Europe’s drugs problem, says the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). Polydrug use is also a major concern, as the range of available substances grows and drug-taking repertoires become increasingly complex (). But on a mo...

Recent research has shown that large proportions of regular ecstasy users (REU) experience psychological distress, apparently independent of their ecstasy use [1]. It has been suggested that specific drugs, as well as polydrug use alone, may impact on psychological wellbeing among users [2]. There is some evidence that cannabis use is associated with psychological distress among REU [1, 3]. Met...

Previous vector architectures divided the available register file space in a fixed number of registers of equal sizes. We propose a novel register file organization which allows dynamic creation of a variable number of multidimensional registers of arbitrary sizes the Polymorphic Register File. We have selected Floyd 64x64 as our benchmark. Simulation results suggest a speedup of up to 8X compa...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of Serrated polyps of colonic polyps samples in Hazrat_e Rasoul_e Akram Hospital over ten years. MATERIALS The target group in this study was patients with colonic polyps in Hazrat_e Rasoul_e Akram Hospital. Pathologic evaluation of these patients was done. Serrated polyps, by location, gender, age and type of polyps were div...

To confirm associations with a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), each with only a small effect size, as hypothesized in the polygenic theory for schizophrenia, the International Schizophrenia Consortium (2009, Nature 460:748-752) proposed a polygenic risk score (PRS) test and demonstrated its effectiveness when applied to psychiatric disorders. The basic idea of the PRS te...