An alcohol misuse prevention curriculum for tenth-grade students was developed, implemented, and evaluated through twelfth grade with 1041 students from four school districts. The curriculum emphasized social pressures resistance training, immediate effects of alcohol, risks of alcohol misuse, and social pressures to misuse alcohol. There were desirable program effects on alcohol misuse prevent...

BACKGROUND There have been very few observational studies of drug and alcohol misuse in first-episode psychosis in the UK. METHOD Using an observational database of first episode psychosis in Northumberland, a county in Northern England, information on patients aged 16 to 36 years were collected at presentation and annual follow-up between October 1998 and October 2005. Patterns of drug and a...

BACKGROUND Well-designed prospective studies of substance misuse in first-episode psychosis can improve our understanding of the risks associated with comorbid substance misuse and psychosis. AIMS To examine the potential effects of substance misuse on in-patient admission and remission and relapse of positive symptoms in first-episode psychosis. METHOD The study was a prospective 15-month ...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the relation between substance misuse and psychiatric illness in the UK general practice population in terms of (a) the relative risk of developing one condition given prior exposure to the other and (b) the proportion of cases of one condition attributable to exposure to the other. DESIGN Population based prospective observational study using the general practice resea...

The paper explains the issue of establishing a maritime domain cadastre and importance boundaries domain. Particular is given to clear definition concept in order make it what area can be declared why its spatial coverage. Legislation has tried establish as separate part cadastre, but not yet been achieved. Today, are entered land registers kept by municipal courts. authors consider important i...

This issue of American Family Physician features a summary of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP’s) updated position paper on opioid abuse and pain management.1 Chronic pain and opioid misuse have intersected as significant public health crises, and family physicians deserve the most accurate guidance to address these issues. Despite growing concerns about overprescribing of opioi...