Aim: Substance abuse has a detrimental impact on an individual, families and communities posing major public health challenges. Therefore, the present study been designed to level of prevalence drug among youth its association with socio demographic various risk factors.
 Methodology: The research was conducted 500 students in age range 12-25 years. district Kangra Himachal Pradesh, India....

BACKGROUND Evaluation of tamper resistant formulations (TRFs) and classwide Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for prescription opioid analgesics will require baseline descriptions of abuse patterns of existing opioid analgesics, including the relative risk of abuse of existing prescription opioids and characteristic patterns of abuse by alternate routes of administration (ROAs). ...

BACKGROUND In Japan and Asia, few studies have been done of physical and sexual abuse. This study was aimed to determine whether a history of childhood physical abuse is associated with anxiety, depression and self-injurious behavior in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms. METHODS We divided 564 consecutive new outpatients at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of Kyushu University H...

A retrospective record survey was performed using all child clients aged less than 7 years seen at a community mental health center during the period 1982-1984. The total number of 202 children fell into three groups: sexually abused (n = 37), physically abused (n = 35), and nonabused clinical children (n = 130). These groups were compared in order to learn more about sexual abuse in young chil...

Most substance abusers simultaneously use and abuse more than one substance, even when there is a clear drug of choice. This pattern creates a great challenge in relating neuropsychological findings in drug users to a certain drug. This review aims to: (i) discuss results from neuropsychological studies using different research methodologies that may improve our understanding of specific vs. ge...

OBJECTIVE To examine family physicians' career prevalence and monthly incidence of workplace abuse by controlled substance prescription seekers. DESIGN A 4-page cross-sectional survey. SETTING A family medicine continuing medical education event in Halifax, NS. PARTICIPANTS The survey was distributed to 316 family physicians attending the continuing medical education event. MAIN OUTCOME...

BACKGROUND Association between psychiatric morbidity and substance abuse among adolescent has been reported. However prevalence and pattern of such dysfunctions are unknown in our environment. AIMS To determine the prevalence of psychosocial dysfunction and depressive symptoms among adolescents who abuse substance and also note the influence of socio-demographic factors and type of substance ...

Objective: Adolescence is a transition period where drug experimentation common. Spirituality and religiosity have been recognized by literature as having possible role in stabilizing good physical mental health. To compare the spirituality among adolescents abusing psychoactive substance those not substances Nigerian hospital Methods: This was cross-sectional descriptive study conducted adoles...

Historically, substance abuse treatment has developed as a single-focused intervention based on the needs of addicted men. Counselors focused only on the addiction and assumed that other issues would either resolve themselves through recovery or would be dealt with by another helping professional at a later time. However, treatment for women's addictions is apt to be ineffective unless it ackno...

Illicit drug use may cause nervous system impairment as a result of direct and indirect effects on the integrity and function of nervous system tissue and, potentially, through immune effects. HIV-1 infection poses an additional risk of impairment, and this risk may be decreased as a result of antiretroviral drug treatment. Obviously, the goal of such therapy is to improve the potential clinica...