while for a long time it has been perceived that neonates and young children do not perceive pain as the adult, this notion had to be corrected on the basis of neurophysiological data and the ontogenisis of the nociceptive system. also, it has been demonstrated conclusively that neonates and the young infant perceive pain at a much lower nociceptive input which is largely due to a still immatur...

This article considers some of the psychophysiologic mechanisms that underlie the driven, apparently self-destructive behavior of addicted persons. The authors review the available literature on the association between suicidal behavior and substance abuse. These issues are discussed in the context of the epidemiology and phenomenology of self-destructive behavior.

INTRODUCTION Injecting drug abusers are vulnerable to many infectious complications. We describe a case of tetanus in a Singaporean who regularly abused buprenorphine. CLINICAL PICTURE A 49-year-old male was hospitalised for progressive generalised spasms associated with dysarthria and opisthotonus. Tetanus was diagnosed clinically. TREATMENT Supportive management was instituted in the inte...

A 25-year-old male, a thinner abuser, swam in a pond just after thinner-sniffing and he drowned. Death from drowning was confirmed by diatoms in the lung and kidney. The drowning would seem to be induced by the effect of considerable high concentrations of toluene, absorbed into the body from thinner-sniffing, in tissues of the cadaver.

Infections caused by Ewingella americana have been rarely reported in the literature. Most of the cases that have been reported were among the immunocompromised patients. We report a case of E. americana causing osteomyelitis and septic arthritis of the shoulder joint in a previous intravenous drug abuser. The causative pathogen was identified by synovial fluid analysis and culture.

OBJECTIVE Stigma is a frequently cited barrier to help-seeking for many with substance-related conditions. Common ways of describing individuals with such problems may perpetuate or diminish stigmatizing attitudes yet little research exists to inform this debate. We sought to determine whether referring to an individual as "a substance abuser" vs. "having a substance use disorder" evokes differ...

Sex abuse, particularly of children, is a crime which any rational person would wish to prevent. However, when an individual’s loyalties and responsibilities institution put them at odds with preventing sex it far too often the takes precedence. This grim phenomenon institutional complicity. It plague which, sadly, permeates institutions all types, be school, hospital, sports team, church, mili...

Motive's researching as a condition for improving the quality of domestic violence prevention
 The article is devoted to analysis motivation and motives crimes related violence. author presents his assumptions about factors in order improve qualityofprevention. There was an attempt approach causes from standpoint influence unconscious because this behavior has stable systemic cyclical char...