Simple checklists could improve child protection
... could help healthcare professionals pick up child abuse more effectively, suggests research published ahea...he authors. A spate of child deaths as a result of abuse in the UK has pointed to the repeated failures of child protection. And the 2003 Laming Report into ...Teens' herbal product use associated with illicit substance use
... provided to those teens found to have a substance abuse problem and to all patients regarding proper use of any type of medication, including herbal products. For more information on the safety and effectiveness of herbal products, please visit http://nccam.nih.gov/health/supplements.htm . The study foun...RSVP 3/28 telecon: Is equal coverage for mental health possible?
...ning that coverage for mental health and substance abuse services is comparable to coverage for other health problems. The main argument against parity has been a concern that more generous coverage of mental health services would result in large increases in spending. HOW: To participate in the teleconf...American Indians with alcohol problems have more medical conditions
Alcohol abuse and dependence are known to be major health proble...d on the association with formally defined alcohol abuse or dependence. "Furthermore," he said, "the majority of these studies drew their sample from a pat...Combining alcohol and Red Bull reduces the 'perception' of impairment
...he use of energy drinks might predispose people to abuse alcohol when its depressant effects or at least the perception of such effects are masked by them," said Roseli Boerngen de Lacerda, associate professor in the department of pharmacology at the Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil. For the curren...Study examines risk for misuse of ADHD stimulant medications
...ns appropriately, a small percentage are likely to abuse or to sell prescribed stimulants. The report, app...d for ADHD typically takes place in the context of abuse of other substances, our results show remarkable convergence with previous surveys of stimulant abus...ROZEREM (ramelteon) showed significant reduction in time to fall asleep
...ion sleep medication that has shown no evidence of abuse and dependence in clinical studies,* and as a resu...ROZEREM is not a controlled substance. A clinical abuse liability study showed no differences indicative of abuse potential between ROZEREM and placebo at d...OHSU joins the NIH in obtaining a 'two-of-a-kind' MRI magnet
...ducted using the 12T magnet. Substance and alcohol abuse studies by OHSU researchers will also be greatly aided by the addition of the 12T system....Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse
...tiracial children are at higher risk for substance abuse and violent behavior, in most cases the majority of the multiracial youth were not involved in these problems. "But there are growing numbers of multiracial children, and we need to know more about them," she said. "These behaviors don't start in a...Minimally invasive approach can take the pain out of herniated disks
...me, just because we stand upright and put a lot of abuse on our spines, the disks go through the aging process. So as you get 35 or 40, simple trauma, even a twisting motion like tennis or golf, sometimes will stretch it and sometimes you will get a tear in the disk's outer covering called the annulus," sa...Maternal difficulties may increase risk of behavior problems in children
...t into three categories: mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence. Three years later, researc... whether the father had mental health or substance abuse problems. Because mental health problems, substance abuse and domestic violence tend to accompany ea...Underage drinkers account for about 17 percent of consumer expenditures for alcohol
...ne of the JAMA/Archives journals. In 1998, alcohol abuse and alcoholism cost the U.S. $184 billion, more th...60,580 individuals age 12 years and older. Alcohol abuse and dependence was defined according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, F...Incarcerated women more likely to use birth control when given in jail
...of pregnancies, previous birth control use, sexual abuse and drug use along with demographic factors. The majority of women had no health insurance, a history of unplanned pregnancies, negative attitudes toward pregnancy, and expressed a desire to start or continue using birth control. Of the women surve...Therapeutic communities: A three country comparison
...g Abuse (NIDA) for a comparison study of substance abuse treatment in therapeutic communities in the United...ecent years has been the contribution of substance abuse to the spread of HIV/AIDS and the promotion of criminal behavior. The Therapeutic Community (TC) met...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, May 2006
...ae, severity, and outcome of patients with alcohol abuse with nonalcoholics hospitalized with community-acq... indicated that patients with a history of alcohol abuse had the highest incidence of S pneumoniae. Overall, 27 percent of alcoholics, 30 percent of former a...Intimate partner violence the hidden burden is common
...V and verbal threats. In addition, the severity of abuse was rated as moderately or extremely violent in 30% to 60% of reports, depending on the type of IPV. "A picture emerges of both physical and non-physical IPV as very common, chronic, intergenerational, and present in highly overlapping forms," accord...Intimate partner violence found widespread
... Bonomi and Thompson found the effects of physical abuse (slapping, hitting, kicking, or forced sex) to be stronger than those of nonphysical abuse (threats, chronic disparaging remarks, or controlling behavior) alone. But they also found that both...HIV Medicine Association applauds crucial HIV/AIDS bill
... other important issues as well, such as substance abuse and mental health concerns," Dr. Vaughn said. "We'...y lawmakers recognized this and included substance abuse and mental health treatment as core medical services." The bill includes another provision topping H...Witnessing intimate partner violence as children does not increase risk of victimization as adults
...demonstrate a link between adults having witnessed abuse as children and being in a current ongoing abusive relationship, we did show that Adult-CWs were more likely to be abused as children. So while we are not able to state that being an Adult-CW leads to being in an abusive relationship as a victim in ...New study finds that Ramelteon shows potential for circadian phase shifting
...hanism of action, ROZEREM has shown no evidence of abuse and dependence in clinical studies,* and as a resu...amelteon is not a controlled substance. A clinical abuse liability study showed no differences indicative of abuse potential between ROZEREM and placebo at d...