Pregabalin (PGB) is a psychoactive drug, approved by the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) for neuropathic pain associated with peripheral diabetic neuropathy, for postherpetic neuralgia, for epilepsy as combined therapy in adults with partial seizures and for fibromyalgia.1 PGB has also been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.2-4...

A series of 414 chronic pain patients referred to Are Hospital, Are, Sweden, for evaluation and rehabilitation were administered a structured diagnostic interview to detect alcohol and drug misuse and dependence according to DSM-III-R criteria. A total of 97 (23.4%) met criteria for active alcohol, analgesic, or sedative misuse or dependency; an additional 39 (9.4%) met criteria for a remission...

Introduction Drug consumption has become a social problem requiring political, social, and educational intervention in its prevention and treatment. In Latin America, the drug problem is highly related to the violence and the social exclusion of the metropolis. Forty percent of the 15-yearolds already smoke. On average, each person in the general population consumes approximately 6 kg of alcoho...

Background: Breastfeeding is one of the best ways to promote, develop, and secure the health of infants. Child abuse is one of the most common and most important problems in the world, and one of the factors that increase its incidence is substance dependency of the parents. Breastfeeding beyond the normal age range can be harmful to the health of the mother and baby, and may represent a pathol...

market, the rest of the scene gradually moved with them including the substantial proportion of drug users who preferred obtaining their prescriptions from less conspicuous chemist shops. Although the chemist proprietor reported in 1983 that the number of addict maintenance prescriptions he dispensed halved in the second half of 1982, after the publicity over Dr Khan's case, the thriving market...

Pregnant and Parenting Women ........................................................................................ 16 Prenatal Exposure and Effect on Children ........................................................................... 25 Children of Substance Abusers ......................................................................................... 30 Family Treatment, Evidence-Based ...

Many categories of Part-whole relationships have been analyzed earlier. Existing Part-Whole Taxonomies include some form of dependency classifier to account for dependency of whole on the parts. It is shown that the existing notions of dependency partially overlap and are also inadequate. The notion of logical dependency is introduced and it is unified with existing dependency classifier to obt...