A series of 414 chronic pain patients referred to Are Hospital, Are, Sweden, for evaluation and rehabilitation were administered a structured diagnostic interview to detect alcohol and drug misuse and dependence according to DSM-III-R criteria. A total of 97 (23.4%) met criteria for active alcohol, analgesic, or sedative misuse or dependency; an additional 39 (9.4%) met criteria for a remission...

Objective The pathways from internalizing psychopathology to substance misuse remain largely unclear. We estimated associations between childhood problems and subsequent in 2 family-based samples. also investigated sex differences the role of externalizing comorbidity. Method studied with register-based after age 13 years. Sample 1 included all individuals born Sweden 1984 2000 (N = 1,768,516)....

We compared the prevalence of prescription opiate misuse among 2 cohorts of felony probationers (N = 1525). Multiple logistic regression was utilized to determine the independent correlates of prescription opiate misuse among rural (n = 782) and urban (n = 743) probationers participating in an HIV-intervention study. After adjustment for differences in demographic and drug use characteristics, ...

Islam, M., Nielsen, S., McRae, I., Haber, P., Demirkol, A., Murnion, B., Wilson, H., Conigrave, K. (2016). Prescribing and Dispensing of Benzodiazepines: Implications for Dependence and Misuse. In Victor R. Preedy (Eds.), Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse Volume 1: Foundations of Understanding, Tobacco, Alcohol, Cannabinoids and Opioids, (pp. 283-292). London: Academic Pres...

Drug misuse has significant impacts on families and communities and is a major concern for Australia. The misuse of licit drugs (such as alcohol and tobacco) continues to have the most significant negative impacts, but the use of illicit drugs is also a contributing factor in ill-health, injuries, violence and criminal behaviour, workplace problems and the disruption of family, community and th...

Dr Klein‟s assertions about the origins of registers on drug-related death are inaccurate, probably due to misunderstanding some of the fundamental epidemiological indicators of drug misuse, including mortality. Whilst it is true that there were many deaths involving the misuse of opium, typically as laudanum, in the nineteenth century, the need for civil registration of deaths in the UK introd...