Aripiprazole Treatment in the Adolescent Patients with Inhalants Use Disorders and Conduct Disorder: A Retrospective Case Analysis Pharmacologically, aripiprazole is a partial agonist at D2 and 5-HT1A receptors and an antagonist at 5-HT2A receptors with the different effect on dopaminerjic system from other antipsychotics. Partial agonists are effective for stimulants, opiate, cocaine and nicot...

BACKGROUND Little is known about drug use patterns among people living with HIV in comparison to an uninfected group in the general population. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between legal and illegal drug use and HIV infection in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States. METHODS Public use data files (2005-2014) from the National Survey on D...

We compared the hemodynamic and respiratory effects, recovery time, and cost of two gas inhalants (isoflurane and sevoflurane) for anesthetic induction and maintenance of beaver (Castor canadensis) during surgery to implant radio transmitters in the peritoneal cavity. Heart rate, respiratory rate, relative hemoglobin saturation with oxygen (SpO2), and body temperature were measured every 5 min ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the occurrence and school-level clustering of drug involvement among school-attending adolescent youths in each of seven countries in Latin America, drawing upon evidence from the PACARDO research project, a multinational collaborative epidemiological research study. METHODS During 1999-2000, anonymous self-administered questionnaires on drug involvement and related beha...

BRITS 1021 observations it was found that the immediate effect of the adrenergic drugs was similar. To obtain a measure of the duration of effect of the different inhalants, serial assessments were continued for three and a half hours after each inhalant therapy on two groups of asthmatic subjects containing 12 subjects in each group. From these serial studies it was found that the inhalants ga...

Volatile substance abuse is the intentional inhalation of volatile solvents, aerosols, gases or nitrates for the purpose of intoxication. This practice is more common among young people, due, in part, to the low cost and ready availability of these inhalants. In this report, we present the case of a 22-year-old male with a seven-year history of chronic paint sniffing. The patient presented with...

Methods 274 allergy-diagnosed patients, divided into Group A (aged 6–12 yrs) and Group B (aged 12–65 yrs), were enrolled in the study. They were classified as atopic if had at least one positivity when screened with ImmunoCAP Phadiatop and fx5 (Food mix 5; 6 common foods), a technology considered as the gold standard for IgE antibody blood testing worldwide. For identification of the sensitizin...