One of the areas in West Nusa Tenggara Province where cases drug abuse are rampant is Bima City & Regency. Data on by age 15-25 years and Regency even reached 63% compare to its total case. So that researchers interested choosing a theme related level scientific literacy abusers This study quantitative determine with sample 25 people using instruments collect data. The results then showed h...

Law number 35/2009 on Narcotics regulates the special minimum punishment. However, judges violate criminal limit, causing legal certainty and justice friction. This article examines in consideration of punishing narcotics crime cases. research uses normative empirical approaches through literature, document analysis, case studies, resource person interviews. Based results discussion, it is conc...

BACKGROUND Many health professionals engage in providing health services for drug users; however, there is evidence of stigmatisation by some health professionals. Prescription drug misusers as a specific group, may also be subject to such judgment. This study aimed to understand issues for primary care health practitioners in relation to prescription drug misuse (PDM), by exploring the attitud...

OBJECTIVE Using a longitudinal, randomized controlled trial, this study assessed the impact of a community-based outreach versus a more traditional criminal justice system-based referral program on women's distress and safety following police-reported intimate partner abuse (IPA). METHOD Women (N = 236 women) with police-reported IPA were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 interdisciplinary communit...

the acute coronary syndrome due to the left main coronary artery (lmca) thrombosis is a clinically rare and catastrophic event.   we describe a young man ( smoker, alcoholic, and drug abuser) with a history of recent surgery and typical chest pain who had non-occlusive lmca thrombosis in coronary angiography. the thrombosis was successfully treated with two 180 µ/kg intracoronary boluses of ept...

Introduction Septic arthritis of the hip is a rare entity in acute presentation of hip pain in adults. Even though hip is the second most commonly affected joint, adult patients with septic arthritis not related to a surgical procedure represent <0.00001% of total acute admissions. Case Report We present a 32-year-old female intravenous drug abuser, positive for Hepatitis B and C who had star...

BACKGROUND The growing trends in opioid abuse, assessment of the abuse liability of prescription opioid products, and growing efforts by the pharmaceutical industry to develop 'abuse-resistant' formulations highlight a need to understand the features that make one product more 'attractive' than another to potential abusers. We developed a scale to measure the 'attractiveness' of prescription op...