Abstract This Article explores the similarities between principles which guide judiciary nowadays and those typical for functioning of Communist justice system, particularly susceptibility to obedience requests, orders, or meeting anticipations. The habitus judges authoritarian regime has persisted until these days was main reason judicial corruption revealed in “Threema scandal.” Article’s arg...

Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are the most widely consumed psychotropic drugs worldwide. They are largely consumed by normal individuals, but their use is even more frequent in psychiatric patients, Thus, patients with schizophrenia tend to abuse all three substances. The interrelationships between depression and alcohol are complex. These drugs can all create dependence, as understood in the...

Indigenous adolescents are overrepresented at multiple stages of the justice system, but we know very little about the role that mental health, particularly substance use disorder, plays in Indigenous pathways to arrest. This study examined the association between substance use disorder, its comorbidity with other disorders, and arrest using a longitudinal sample of Indigenous youth from the No...

INTRODUCTION Studies indicate that different areas of mental, physical, social and daily life functioning need to be considered in order to improve intervention outcomes in substance user patients. The aim of the study was to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients diagnosed with opioid dependence as compared to healthy controls and patients diagnosed with depression and schiz...

Alcohol dependence is common among patients attending acute hospitals. It can be the major reason for attendance or a significant cofactor. Assessment of these patients in the acute setting can be challenging owing to the multidisciplinary approach required. Doctors in acute hospitals are often inexperienced in managing dependence, a mental health problem. They might focus on the physical harms...

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether dysfunctional neural mechanisms might consider as aethiological factors for genesis of morbidity with Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) origin, specifically Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD). The autonomic cardiovascular control was examined with heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) in 122 individ...

Nagel contrasts two views. On the view she opposes, adult humans’ ‘understanding of action is fundamentally dependent on belief attribution’ in such a way that attributing knowledge somehow depends on being able to attribute belief (p. 3). On the view Nagel defends, ‘the capacity to recognize belief depends on some prior mastery of the concept of knowledge’ (p. 14).1 Put roughly, the contrast c...

Cocaine addiction is a growing health problem and among its complications highlights the high prevalence of mental disorders co-occurring with abuse and dependence. This psychopathological comorbidity varies according to the time of consumption and the age of the patient. Early detection of psychopathological disorders associated with drug consumption is necessary to optimize health care and to...

The Mind-Body problem is the problem of saying how a person’s mental states and events relate to his bodily ones. How does Oscar’s believing that water is cold relate to the states of his body? Is it itself a bodily state, perhaps a state of his brain or nervous system? If not, does it nonetheless depend on such states? Or is his believing that water is cold independent of his bodily states? An...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to examine the role of gender in the endorsement of symptoms included in both the International Classification of Diseases-10th Edition and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-4th Edition. METHOD Six hundred patients treated for alcohol-related problems in outpatient services in Mexico were evaluated with the Substance Abuse Modul...