Abstract: Introduction: The use of psychotropic substances is highly prevalent among students in the health area. This situation reveals an inversion values, which future professionals who will give advice on drug and abuse make inadequate consumption drugs. Objective: research aims to collect comparatively analyze profile substance by students, as well subjective significance students. Methods...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of one month psychotropic drug use in São Paulo, Brazil, and to assess the gap treatment between the presence of mental disorders and psychotropic drug users. METHOD A probabilistic sample of non-institutionalized individuals from the general population of São Paulo (n = 2336; turnout: 84.5%) who were 15 years or older were interviewed by a trained researc...

Although increases in the nonmedical use of OxyContin (oxycodone) in the United States have been reported recently, few data are available to assess whether such use has diffused into general populations in Canada. In a school survey of 7726 Ontario students in grades 7 to 12, 1.3% of the students (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.9% to 1.7%) reported lifetime use of OxyContin, and 1.0% (95% CI 0...

BACKGROUND Currently the combined cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatment is the best option to quit smoking, although success rates remain moderate. This study aimed to identify predictors of continuous abstinence in an assisted smoking cessation program using combined treatment. In particular, we analyzed the effects of socio-demographic, smoking-, and treatment-related variables. ...

BACKGROUND Psychological stress plays an important role in the onset and course of Meniere's disease. Surgical therapy and intratympanic gentamicin treatment are options for cases that are intractable to conventional medical therapy. Psychotherapy, however, including autogenic training (AT), which can be used for general relaxation, is not widely accepted. This paper describes the successful ad...