PURPOSE OF REVIEW During the last few years, drug abuse has risen to the point that almost 20 million Americans are current abusers of illicit substances. These patients present to us as anesthesiologists in a variety of circumstances: in obstetrics for labor and emergencies, in trauma for emergency surgeries or life-saving (resuscitative) situations and in everyday elective surgeries. Therefor...

OBJECTIVE To compare the rate of drug use prevalence and to investigate opinions regarding such use among undergraduate students at the University of São Paulo--São Paulo campus in 1996 and again in 2001. METHODS Both studies followed the same procedures of sampling and data collection. A random sample of undergraduate students, divided into the areas Humanities, Exact Sciences and Biologic S...

BACKGROUND We examined the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use and their relation to the age of onset of type 2 diabetes among inner-city minority diabetic patients who sought routine care at medical clinics in south central Los Angeles. METHODS A cross-sectional study design was used to sample 392 diabetic patients. Consecutive patients from seven different primary care clinics were...

The risks of prescribing pregabalin to patients already addicted illicit drugs or alcohol almost always outweigh the benefits, therefore deprescribing is usually appropriate. This article outlines safe and realistic protocols reduce stop in with major addiction problems.

BACKGROUND The United States is faced with an unprecedented epidemic of drug abuse. Every year thousands of Americans visit the emergency departments all over the country with illicit drug related complaints. These drugs have been known to be associated with a range of renal pathologies, from reversible acute kidney injuries to debilitating irreversible conditions like renal infarction. So far,...

BACKGROUND The long-term outcome of patients diagnosed with drug-induced psychotic disorders in China is unknown. AIM Assess the course of illness and severity of psychiatric symptoms in patients previously admitted to a psychiatric hospital for treatment of psychotic symptoms that were induced by the use of illicit drugs. METHODS Patients with psychotic symptoms at the time of their first ...

AIMS To monitor young people's experience and knowledge of illicit drugs between 1969 and 1999 at intervals of 5 years. DESIGN The same confidential anonymously completed questionnaire was used throughout. SETTING Three secondary schools in Wolverhampton, an English Midlands town. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred and seventy-four pupils aged 14-15 completed the questionnaire in 1999. Previous sam...

Prescription drugs are purchased via the Internet, but the consistent finding across many different populations is that the Internet appears to be a relatively minor source for illicit purchases of prescription medications by individual end users, the obvious exception being phosphodiesterase inhibitors for erectile dysfunction. In contrast, the world of escalating availability of illicit drugs...

Data from a statewide survey, conducted by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center, of 20,629 Indiana students in grades 5-12 were analyzed to determine the extent to which cigarette smoking predicted use of alcohol and other drugs and acted as a so-called "gateway drug." A three-stage purposive/quota cluster sampling strategy yielded a representative sample of Indiana students, stratified by gr...

The use of illicit drugs among American youth is approaching epidemic proportions. The 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) prepared by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that 8.9% of adolescents and adults age 12 years or older use illicit drugs. The most disturbing trend, however, is the number of children in foster care who abuse alcohol or d...