UNLABELLED This paper reports the study of drug consumption carried out within the population of undergraduate students from 2 colleges of Alfenas, in the state of Minas Gerais state. Both licit and illicit drugs were studied, including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, crack, inhalants, glue, tranquilizers, stimulants, and others. METHODOLOGY The research included a wide bibliogr...

OBJECTIVE Very little is known about car driving in palliative patients. We have asked patients in at home palliative care environments about their driving habits during palliative care. METHODS At admittance to the palliative care program and at regular visits the patients were asked a few questions about age, diagnosis, sex, driving license, driving, medication and functional status. RESU...

Tests for attention bias potentially offer more rapid assessment of affective state in animals than existing cognitive methods. An attention bias test has previously been developed for sheep and validated as a measure of anxious states. The 3 minute test assessed behavioural responses of sheep in an enclosed arena after brief exposure to the threat of a dog. Experiment 1 of the current study ai...

BACKGROUND Falls are common events among hospital inpatients and constitute a major health problem in the rehabilitation setting. Many risk factors for falls have been identified for stroke patients, such as muscle weakness, medication side effects, hypoglycemia, hypotension, etc. OBJECTIVES To assess the risk factors for falls among patients hospitalized for rehabilitation following acute st...

Arthrocentesis of the equine interphalangeal joints and synoviocentesis of the digital synovial sheath is commonly performed for diagnostic analgesia as part of a lameness examination and to medicate these structures. The techniques for arthrocentesis are the same for the forelimb and the hind limb. Restraint is achieved by applying a lip twitch to the horse. Tranquilization or sedation is rare...

Data related to tranquilliser/hypnotic use is presented from a large (n = 9,003) random representative United Kingdom sample of adults (18+ years). On the day of interview 4.2% of females and 2.1% of males reported current use of tranquillisers. Increased probability of current use was significantly related to female sex, older age, increased symptoms of psychological malaise and physical ill-h...

Crime is defined by society, or by representatives of our society, the lawyers, who legally define it. I suppose if we had no lawyers we would have no crime at least we would have no legal definitions, but criminal behavior would still be a major burden. A useful definition of crime is any behavior which is harmful or potentially harmful to other people. It may be divided into at least three ma...

According to "The Neuropsychology of Anxiety" [Gray, J.A., 1982, The Neuropsychology of Anxiety: An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-hippocampal System, Oxford University Press, Oxford; Gray, J.A., McNaughton, N., 2000, The Neuropsychology of Anxiety: An Enquiry into the Functions of the Septo-hippocampal System, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford], anxiolytic drugs of all types ac...

Phenothiazine derivatives, widely used as effective tranquilizers, have lately attracted attention as effective multidrug resistance modulators. The interactions of a newly synthesised phenothiazine derivative,