OBJECTIVE The objective of the article is to present the available data from the literature on substance use disorders in healthcare professionals. Prevalence, risk factors, treatment options, and reentry into clinical practice are discussed. INTRODUCTION Impairment of a healthcare professional is the inability or impending inability to practice according to accepted standards as a result of ...

Objective: This study retrospectively was aimed to determine how the treatment and care processes of children ingestion corrosive substances are maintained. Material Methods: The population is with ingested substances, sample consisted pediatric patients who from surgery department a university hospital in western Türkiye. Medical nursing files substance university's electronic patient file wer...

Background: The phenomenon of substance use, abuse and dependence is a serious problem with psychological, social, physical and economic impact. The co existence of two disorders, known as co morbidity or dual diagnosis and the relationship between a psychiatric disorder and substance dependence is complicated and many scientists support that psychopathology often forms the ground for the devel...

Substance dependency has been related to an impairment in executive functions and to a dysfunction of the frontal cortex. In this study we developed two experimental tasks, which are physically identical, to analyze whether substance-dependent individuals are impaired in shifting response patterns (stimulus response links) or preferences (stimulus outcome links). To increase the specificity of ...

The numbers of myelinated and unmyelinated fibers were counted in dorsal roots of adult rats treated neonatally with capsaicin in doses ranging from 5 to 100 mg/kg. Substance P and somatostatin levels in the spinal cord, dorsal roots, and sensory ganglia also were determined in control and treated animals. Capsaicin administration lead to the loss of both small myelinated and unmyelinated fiber...

BACKGROUND Substance dependency is one of the biggest problems and worries of the world. It stunts the growth of society and causes various problems such as reduction in public health, increase in mortality, rise in social and domestic traumas, loss of educational and occupational opportunities, involvement with the judicial system, and development of the substance-abuse cycle. OBJECTIVES The...

The level set method provides a natural framework for modelling multiphase phenomena in a Eulerian basis. The method is based on the evolution of the signed distance function from interfaces between phases of the flow, and automatically captures complex topological changes of the free surfaces such as breaking and merging. We present an extension to the level set method for modelling the intera...

abstract background and objective: nas is a combination of signs and symptoms that due to physical and mental dependency, develops in neonates born from drug addicted mothers. the onset of nas varies in accordance with the type, amount, frequency and duration of substance used. because of diverse and unclear pattern of substance abuse in iranian addicted pregnant mothers in comparison with west...

This study examined to study how respondents rely on the Internet to fulfill the various life goals dimensioned into understanding, orientation and playing goals, and how this dependency relates to the generation of social capital. Further, it examined the resources of social capital in terms of bonding social capita and bridging social capital. In this study quantitative research approach was ...