Propanidid due to its fast induction, early recovery and absence of cumulative action avoiding post recovery hangover is a useful agent and a better substitute for the established inducing agent, thiopentone It has all the advantages of thiopentone but lacks tbe disadvantages of the same. Its extremely short duration of action suits the short procedure of electroconvulsive therapy which gets ov...

BACKGROUND The college years are a time for developing independence and separating from one's family, and they are also a time in which substance use often escalates. This study examined the relationships between use of substances and interpersonal guilt, an emotion that can arise from feelings about separation among college students. METHODS In total, 1865 college students completed a survey...

This study describes reported substance use among Kenyan healthcare workers (HCWs), as it has implications for HCWs' health, productivity, and their ability and likelihood to intervene on substance use. The Alcohol Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was administered to a convenience sample of HCWs (n = 206) in 15 health facilities. Reported lifetime use was 35.8% for alco...

Substance use during pregnancy and the postpartum period may have significant implications for both mother and the developing child. However, the neurobiological basis of the impact of substance use on parenting is less well understood. Here, we examined the impact of maternal substance use on cortical gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) volumes and whether this was associated with individua...

My area of research is the relationship between a word’s semantics (or meaning) and its syntactic behaviour. The underlying idea is that if two words mean similar things then they will occur in documents in similar contexts. In other words, in a given sentence it is generally possible to substitute each word with a synonym (i.e. another word with the same meaning). For example, in the following...

PURPOSE To determine the social contexts associated with the past-year substance use (multiple substances, alcohol, marijuana, and nonmedical use of prescription opioids, stimulants, and tranquilizers) among U.S. high school seniors. METHODS A secondary analysis of nationally representative survey data from 10 cohorts (2002-2011) of the Monitoring the Future study, including 24,809 high schoo...

Avoiding a hangover is a great goal to have! Many folks who participate in moderate or higherrisk drinking [2] experience a hangover at some point (though some people can experience a hangover with just one drink). A hangover isn't just one symptom; it's a set of possible symptoms a person may experience after consuming alcohol. With a bit of planning, symptoms of hangovers can be minimized whe...

Homelessness is associated with substance use, but whether substance use precedes or follows homelessness is unclear. We investigate the nature of the relationship between homelessness and substance use using data from the unique Australian panel dataset Journeys Home collected in 4 surveys over the period from October 2011 to May 2013. Our data refer to 1325 individuals who were homeless or at...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is a critical developmental stage when young people make lifestyle choices that have the potential to impact on their current and future health and social wellbeing. The relationship between substance use and criminal activity is complex but there is clear evidence that the prevalence of problematic substance use is far higher among adolescent offenders than the general a...

BACKGROUND Youth substance use programming and educational strategies are frequently informed by prevention approaches that emphasize abstinence goals, which often do not resonate with youth in their lack of acknowledgment of young people's social context and how young people perceive positive effects of substance use. Further, approaches to drug prevention have been critiqued as adopting a one...