OBJECTIVE To review the clinical features and complications of at-risk cannabis use and cannabis use disorder, and to outline an office-based protocol for screening, identifying, and managing this disorder. SOURCES OF INFORMATION PubMed was searched for controlled trials, observational studies, and reviews on cannabis use among adolescents and young adults; cannabis-related medical and psychi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the standard of reporting of harms-related data, in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) according to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement extension for harms. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES The Cochrane library, Ovid MEDLINE, Scopus and ISI Web of Knowledge were searched for relevant literature. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTIN...

The prospect of creating children through somatic cell nuclear transfer has elicited widespread concern, much of it in the form of fears about harms to the children who may be born as a result. There are concerns about possible physical harms from the manipulations of ova, nuclei, and embryos which are parts of the technology, and also about possible psychological harms, such as a diminished se...

annually, 4.7% of people aged 15-64 (184 million people) consume illegal drugs globally which is associated with numerous social and individual harms. according to expanded physical, psychological and social complications of addiction, treatment methods must include a combination of medical, psychological and social care. in terms of oral health, addiction aggravates direct or indirect oral pro...

This article analyzes the traffic stop–to-deportation pipeline in New York State, how it harms children of immigrants, and York’s Greenlight Law seeks to disrupt but has been hobbled by an implementation gap. It first establishes phenomenon documenting stops are a key cause deportations State. Second, (mostly US citizen) undocumented immigrants who more than 7 percent (more 300,000) State’s chi...

Abstract Green criminology is grounded in debates regarding the ethics, legality, and reality of harms vis-à-vis lives non-human animals environment. The complex, uncertain, ambiguous nature these reveals need for a more holistic approach: one that firmly ties together social ecological systems. In this paper, key aspects systems thinking (e.g., leverage points) are outlined to illustrate value...