To the casual observer, the history of medicine seems one of continuous progress. In reality, for every therapeutic accomplishment that has withstood the test of time there have been several ineffective or even harmful treatments that are now forgotten; yet they were based on theories regarded as plausible at the time. Examples abound, also in the archives of the Dutch Journal of Medicine: trea...

Although an association exists among risk factors of age of child, substance use and child maltreatment, less is known about the differences between substance abusing families who maltreat their children and substance abusing families who do not maltreat their children. The relationship among substance use and maltreatment needs to be further explored to identify specific assessment techniques ...