The authors estimated the prevalence of lifetime prescription opioid-use disorder among outpatients on opioid therapy using criteria from both versions 4 and 5 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Using electronic records from a large health care system, a random sample of outpatients undergoing long-term opioid therapy for non-cancer pain was identified and 705 p...

OBJECTIVE The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, third edition (DSM-III), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1980, included the first official definitions by the APA of tobacco dependence and tobacco withdrawal. Tobacco industry efforts to influence the DSM-III were investigated. METHOD Searches of previously secret tobacco industry documents, prima...

BACKGROUND Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common illness, but due to the underlying processes and the diversity of symptoms, some variability is exhibited. The risk of postpartum depression is great if the mother has previously suffered from depression, but there is some evidence that a certain subgroup of women only experience depression during the postpartum period. METHODS The study grou...

The performance of a hardware distributed shared memory (DSM) system is largely dependent on its architect’s ability to reduce the number of remote memory misses that occur. Previous attempts to solve this problem have included measures such as supporting both the CC-NUMA and S-COMA architectures in the same machine and providing a programmable DSM controller that can emulate any DSM mechanism....

This study evaluates the impact of the DSM-5 ADHD symptom wording changes on symptom endorsement among adolescents with ADHD. Parents of adolescents with systematically diagnosed DSM-IV-TR ADHD (N=78) completed counterbalanced DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 ADHD symptom checklists in a single sitting. General linear models were conducted to evaluate whether the new DSM-5 symptom descriptors influenced the...