Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
... write off death and illness as "just deserts" for illegal behavior, said William Martin, senior fellow in re...t distributes sterile needles for the injection of illegal drugs. Consequently, only 120 NEPs current operate in the United States, with funding from state or ...Patient with drug-resistant form of HIV identified
... sex with multiple partners and regularly took the illegal stimulant metamfetamine. His infection with HIV resulted in progression to symptomatic AIDS in 4-20 months. Martin Markowitz (Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Centre, New York, USA) and colleagues analysed the genetic make-up of the patient's virus and as...Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
...n prisons, in situations where care is provided to illegal immigrants, in forensic psychiatry, and in a variety of workplaces where institutional interests dominate. Starting with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as case examples, this forum will branch out to broadly explore the problem of dual loyalty and its imp...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
... less likely to be involved in crime, to have sold illegal drugs in the past year, and to have an official lifetime court record. "These results indicate that the SSDP intervention package in the elementary grades produced broad effects on positive functioning in school and at work and on emotional and me...LA BioMed Medical/Research briefs January 2005
...lar study at Harvard University to see whether the illegal drug ecstasy can ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days. To learn more about the study, see the project web site at www.canceranxietystudy.org . To contact the principal investigator of the study...Detoxification in nation's jails falls short
...wise, they expose the jails to a greater risk that illegal drugs will be used in-house, and raise constitutional questions about the right to medical treatment for arrestees. Kevin Fiscella, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Family Medicine and Community and Preventive Medicine and a former medical dir...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...tive cloning. Which we believe should also be made illegal in the United States. With the passage of Prop. 71, hope is on the horizon. The proposition has helped establish the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to dispense the grants and loans, supporting research from the lab and on through clin...Blacks and poor more likely to donate than receive many types of transplant organs
... While payment to donors of any kind is currently illegal in the United States, periodic efforts are made to allow financial incentives as a way to encourage donation. This study raises concerns about efforts to offer financial incentives since minorities and the poor may be disproportionately affected by s...Adolescent gamblers often suffer psychiatric problems
...within the past year, although gambling is largely illegal among adolescents. Pathological adult gambling is associated with substance use problems, depression, psychiatric treatment, poor health, arrest and incarceration, the researchers said. The same problems are found in adolescents who gamble heavily, t...Injury from epileptic seizures relatively rare, Mayo Clinic study find
... in many people without epilepsy. It is unfair and illegal to deprive people with well-controlled epilepsy of their opportunities to study or to work." Dr. So explains that most previous studies of seizure injury rate looked at patients treated for poorly- controlled epilepsy in epilepsy centers or emergenc...Gambling among adolescents and young adults associated with psychiatric problems
...thin the past year even though gambling is largely illegal among adolescents. The same problems associated with adult gambling are found in adolescents who gamble heavily, including substance use and depression. Wendy J. Lynch, Ph.D., of Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., and colleagues i...Licensed alcohol establishments continue to sell to intoxicated patrons
...ionally, this study also shows that these types of illegal alcohol sales may be even more likely at off-premi... is illegal." "Little attention has been paid to illegal sales to intoxicated customers," added Toomey, "just as sales to underage youth once received little...Better research needed to assess psychological and social effects of cannabis
...ng psychological health problems, the use of other illegal drugs, reduced educational attainment, and antisocial behaviour. However, whether these associations are causal (ie, cannabis use is a direct cause of psychological illness and antisocial behaviour) remains unclear. John Macleod from the University o...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
...xual behavior and 7 percent said they had injected illegal drugs, according to the paper which appears in the current issue of the journal AIDS & Behavior. "This is particularly distressing as it indicates that almost all participants could have been exposed to HIV infection at some point in their lives, se...Adult marijuana abuse, dependence increased during 1990s
...ated by use. "Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the United States, and its use is associated with educational underachievement, reduced workplace productivity, motor vehicle accidents, and increased risk of use of other substances," says NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. "This study s...Substance use, social stress compromise pregnant women's immune system
...l conditions and those who use tobacco, alcohol or illegal drugs have compromised immune system responses that threaten the health of both mother and baby, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Medical Center. The results suggest that elevate...Unethical promotion of medicines is rife in India
...government has failed to prevent the unethical and illegal promotion of prescription drugs, according to an editorial in this week's BMJ. Government policies adopted in the 1970s permitted manufacturers in India to produce generic versions of branded drugs discovered abroad. This has led to an unprecedented ...Painkiller linked to rise in overdose deaths
...re, the SAMHSA report shows that while seizures of illegal methadone pills more than doubled from 2001 to 2002, seizures of liquid methadone only increased by 11 per cent. The liquid form is the type most often prescribed for addicts. At post-mortem, methadone is often found along with other drugs, which ma...Bar characteristics, women's behavior in bars tied to their risk for bar-related aggression
...sion. The competitive activity of playing pool and illegal activities involving drug sales or prostitution in a bar were identified as increasing the risk of severe physical aggression. Results of the study were published in the December 2003 issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. While emphasizing ......uction (to reduce reliance onfirewood), to prevent illegal forest harvesting and to returncropland to forests. Through field observations, socioeconomicsurveys and advanced technologies, Liu and his colleagues areexamining how, collectively, these policies may be complementaryor counterproductive in protecti...