Excessive alcohol consumption is a serious problem on college campuses but may not be adequately captured by traditional methods of defining binge drinking. This study examined a new approach to categorizing alcohol use and its relationship with illicit drug use. A survey was administered to 484 college students ages 18 to 25. Drinkers were divided into three groups based on the number of typic...

The ageing process is associated with an increased probability of accumulating health deficits, chronic conditions and geriatric syndromes, leading to a growing prevalence multimorbidity, defined as the co-occurrence two or more (of which, at least one physical condition). One most frequent direct consequences especially amongst older adults, polypharmacy, condition characterized by concomitant...

PURPOSE The National Centre for Epilepsy in Norway admits patients with refractory epilepsy from the whole country. The purpose of this study was to investigate how antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are used at the centre and compare it with the total consumption in the country and international guidelines regarding clinical use of AEDs. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prevalence study was carried out from p...

Both drug use and sex work considered as serious health and social problems. This study aimed to find the relation between them in young Iranian women. A mixed method of data collection applied from 300 young female sex workers in Tehran and 39 in-depth interviews with key informants. Result show that 84.4 % of participants used drugs before sex work. 46.2% of their fathers and 56.6% of their h...

background: high prevalence of risky behaviors in alcohol dependents have been shown in several studies, but correlation between alcohol abuse and risky behaviors and relapse in patients with opiate dependence has been less investigated. this study aimed to determine the effect of alcohol abuse in rate of risk-taking behaviors in opiate dependents patients treated on maintenance program in nort...

BACKGROUND Hyponatraemia due to antipsychotic use is a potentially serious problem; however, it is not known whether it is an adverse drug reaction (ADR) to antipsychotic use or is due to the underlying psychiatric disease. OBJECTIVE To estimate the strength of the association between antipsychotics and hyponatraemia or syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), using i...

The treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been revolutionized in recent years by the development of direct-acting antiviral regimens that do not contain peginterferon (pegIFN) and/or ribavirin (RBV). While direct-acting antiviral-based regimens have been shown to be greatly superior to pegIFN/RBV-based regimens in terms of efficacy and safety, they have a greater susceptibility to ...