Adolescents' peer culture plays a key role in the development and maintenance of risk-taking behavior. Despite recent advances in developmental neuroscience suggesting that peers may increase neural sensitivity to rewards, we know relatively little about how the quality of peer relations impact adolescent risk taking. In the current 2-year three-wave longitudinal study, we examined how chronic ...

Risk taking is often associated with creativity, yet little evidence exists to support this association. The present article aimed to systematically explore this association. In two studies, we investigated the relationship between five different domains of risk taking (financial, health and safety, recreational, ethical and social) and five different measures of creativity. Results from the fi...

Pulmonary hypertension developed in two women who had been taking fenfluramine for over eight months for weight reduction. On withdrawing the drug symptoms and electrocardiographic evidence of pulmonary hypertension disappeared in both cases. In one patient, however, the evidence recurred after rechallenge with fenfluramine.These findings are strong evidence that fenfluramine may cause pulmonar...

Pulmonary hypertension developed in two women who had been taking fenfluramine for over eight months for weight reduction. On withdrawing the drug symptoms and electrocardiographic evidence of pulmonary hypertension disappeared in both cases. In one patient, however, the evidence recurred after rechallenge with fenfluramine. These findings are strong evidence that fenfluramine may cause pulmona...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the correlation between risk-taking and relapse among methamphetamine (MA) abusers undergoing the Matrix Model of treatment. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on male patients who were stimulant drug abusers undergoing the matrix treatment in the National Center for Addiction Research. A sampling was done using the availability method includin...

This article discusses the variables that contribute to drug trafficking and usage in Afghanistan as well illegal cultivation taking place there, money generated financial advantages of using drugs, international market, these aspects. The prevention drug-related crimes measures stop have also been mentioned.

The question of addiction concerns the process by which drug-taking behavior, in certain individuals, evolves into compulsive patterns of drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior that take place at the expense of most other activities, and the inability to cease drug-taking, that is, the problem of relapse. In this paper we summarize one view of this process, the "incentive-sensitization" view, wh...

Women exhibit more rapid escalation from casual drug taking to addiction, exhibit a greater withdrawal response with abstinence, and tend to exhibit greater vulnerability than men in terms of treatment outcome. In rodents, short-term estradiol intake in female rats enhances acquisition and escalation of drug taking, motivation for drugs of abuse, and relapse-like behaviors. There is also a sex ...

Adolescents involved in criminal activity have been found to have markedly higher rates of HIV risk-taking than their peers who are not incarcerated. This sample of 300 adolescents in detention in New South Wales in 1999 revealed high levels of substance use and HIV risk-taking behaviours compared with their school attending peers. More than a third of the sample had injected a drug and 29% use...

Medication errors specific to home care include taking the wrong dose or quantity of medications, omitting medications, or taking an unauthorized drug. This article includes information regarding types of errors, contributing factors, and potential solutions to the identified problems.