. Substance use among teenagers appears to be more a function of peer approval and peer drug use. This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ self-derogation and their responses to Peers’ Approval of Drug Abuse (PADA) among male secondary school students. In this study, 3000 students 7 th to the 9 th grade secondary schools completed a sel...

starting in 1990 many programs were initiated to prevent and control the spread of hiv/aids in prisons in accordance with the policies of the ministry of health. this study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of harm reduction programs vis-à-vis drug abuse and dependency in 7 prisons in iran.the methodology used is before-after testing and the sample population is incarcerated prisoners in 7...

Hospital Physician October 2007 15 O pioid dependency is a common problem that remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in the United States. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that in 2002 approximately 2.5 million Americans used pain relievers, mostly opioid agonists (eg, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, methadone), for nonmedical use. Approximately 3.7 million Americans hav...

OBJECTIVE To study a group of injecting drug users to establish the degree of illicit drug use in prisons, the prevalence of risk behaviours for HIV infection, and the uptake of treatment for drug dependency with drugs within the prison system. DESIGN Anonymous, self administered, questionnaire. SETTING Two drug agencies in central London; one operating a scheme for exchanging needles, and ...

conclusions anesthesiologists need to be aware of dextromethorphan’s clinical pharmacology because recreational abuse of the drug has become increasingly common in adolescents and young adults. case presentation a 30-year-old man with a history of a nasal fracture was scheduled to undergo an elective septorhinoplasty. he reported daily consumption of large quantities (1440 to 1800 mg) of dextro...

The aim of the paper was to asses the relationship between socioeconomic status, the prevalence of allergy and physical development. The data were obtained from 478 female students and 195 male students aged 19-24. The prevalence of allergy in the group surveyed was 14.6% (14.6% in women and 14.4% in men). Allergic diseases were more frequent in students of high socioeconomic status. The result...

Carriers are protective transporters of drugs to target cells, facilitating therapy under each points view, such as fast healing, reducing infective phenomena, and curing illnesses while avoiding side effects. Over the last 60 years, several scientists have studied drug carrier properties, trying adapt them release environment. Drug/Carrier interaction phenomena been deeply studied, kinetics mo...