Drug breakthroughs and development have been a great blessing to mankind. Problem arises when these are used in non-medical context such as use for recreational purposes, using drugs outside the label directions, with malicious intent found homicidal cases. Young generations get trapped into vicious cycle of drug addiction that has deleterious effects on their mind body. Drugs including psychom...

Psycho-emotional disorders, such as anxiety acute and chronic stress, are significant risk factors for the development complicated course of both major cardiovascular other common non-communicable diseases. The psycho-emotional disorders significantly reduce patients’ motivation adherence to lifestyle changes drug therapy, worse quality life, increase disability healthcare system expenditures. ...

Abstract: Aim: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that related to poor physical health, early death and severe functional impairment. worldwide condition affects 1% of the population. It refers category symptoms involve disorganized bizarre thinking, delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate affect psychosocial functioning. Aim/Background: The main aim study assess prescribing pattern ef...

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...

Background: Substance abuse among Nigerian in-school youth has been on the rise in recent times with attendant physical and mental health consequences. This study aimed at determining awareness knowledge of, attitude to, prevalence of substance senior secondary school students Lagos State Nigeria. Methods: was a descriptive cross-sectional conducted using multistage sampling technique. A pre-te...

Stroke incidence in Copenhagen, Denmark was recorded in a random population sample of 19,327 persons invited for two health examinations with 5 years' interval from 1976 to 1983. Stroke incidence increased exponentially with age. After adjustment to the age and sex distribution of the Danish population in 1980, the estimated incidence of first stroke was 1.41/1000 women and 2.48/1000 men; the t...

The ability of several homologous benzodiazepine and heterologous nonbenzodiazepine ligands to alter the conductance increase induced in spinal cord neurons by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was determined. Complete dose-response curves were carried out on individual neurons, reducing error introduced by cell-to-cell variability. The efficacies of modulation differ for "classical" benzodiazepin...

The aim of this study was to identify plant species among the diverse flora of the caatinga ecosystem that are used therapeutically. Research was undertaken in the municipalities of Piranhas and Delmiro Gouveia, in the Xingó region (state of Alagoas, NE Brazil). In order to identify the medicinal plants used in this region, semi-structured questionnaires were applied. The species cited were col...

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...