Nearly 17% of the female residential students of Dhaka University are substance abusers. Commonly used substances are cannabis (44%) and phensidyl (44%) while sedative ranks second (32%). Majority (87%) of the respondents procure them through friends and associates. Nearly 40% respondents perceive easy availability to be the main reason of abuse followed by peer pressure (26%) and depression re...

This paper presents lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates and comorbidity data for substance abuse disorders among homeless and runaway adolescents. Data are from baseline interviews of a longitudinal diagnostic study of 428 (187 males and 241 females) homeless and runaway adolescents aged 16 to 19 years (mean age = 17.4 year, SD = 1.05). The data were collected by full-time interviewers on th...

life traumatic experiences are major health problems in different communities. early trauma exposures such as physical and sexual abuse, and midlife traumatic events like exposing to disasters are predisposing and precipitating risk factors for many psychiatric disorders, although many people facing to trauma may not show any problematic symptoms and are quite resilient. neuropsychiatric eviden...

Substance abuse in adolescents is undertreated in the United States. Family physicians are well positioned to recognize substance use in their patients and to take steps to address the issue before use escalates. Comorbid mental disorders among adolescents with substance abuse include depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Office-, home-, and schoo...

Participants Participants were 58 women with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) linked to physical or sexual abuse when they were under 18 years old (based on DSM-IV criteria). All were self referred via advertisements or word of mouth.Mean age 34 years; 46% Caucasian; 20% African American; 15% Hispanic; 19% other ethnic groups. 48% had experienced both sexual and physical abuse, 39% had exp...

Using a sample of 438 parents in Los Angeles County, CA, this study examines the role of proximity to social services in child neglect. In an extension of social disorganization theory, it seeks to understand the potential sources of support in neighborhoods for families. It uses ordinary least squares regression to examine driving distance from parents' residences to four types of services (ch...

one of the main important and challenging issues in substance use disorders is the comorbidity of diseases. in fact, substance use disorder falls into a special circumstance that is unlike any other disease in medical science. substance abuse patients typically and on purpose use illegal drugs (poison) in aim of damaging their nervous system and change function of their brains by applying subst...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated rates of self-harm and substance use in women with either bulimia nervosa (BN) or binge eating disorder (BED) and assessed whether differences in self-harm and substance use are related to sexual or physical abuse. METHOD Alcohol abuse, self-harm, and use or abuse of various illicit drugs were evaluated in a sample of 53 women with BN and 162 women with BED. R...

While numerous studies have established the adverse independent effects of clinical conditions including neurocognitive dysfunction, psychiatric illness, and substance abuse/dependence on medication adherence among HIV-infected adults, fewer have studied their interactive effects. The current study examined this issue among 204 HIV-infected participants based upon current neurocognitive functio...