Current data suggest that the use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has become quite common among athletes, bodybuilders, as well as adolescents and young adults who want to increase their muscle mass for aesthetic or athletic reasons. Commonly used anabolic steroids are the oral 17a alkyl derivatives of testosterone (methyl testosterone, oxymetholone, oxandrolone, stanozolol) and the intra...

Sex abuse, particularly of children, is a crime which any rational person would wish to prevent. However, when an individual’s loyalties and responsibilities institution put them at odds with preventing sex it far too often the takes precedence. This grim phenomenon institutional complicity. It plague which, sadly, permeates institutions all types, be school, hospital, sports team, church, mili...

BACKGROUND Little is known regarding the demographic and behavioral characteristics of nonmedical prescription drug users (NMPDUs) entering substance abuse treatment settings, and information on the HIV-related risk profiles of NMPDUs is especially lacking. Participation in substance abuse treatment provides a critical opportunity for HIV prevention and intervention, but successful initiatives ...

Sequence of drug use was examined in a secondary analysis of two samples of serious drug users: one of 152 men and one of 133 women. The proportions of drug users following specified patterns of drug use onset were compared to proportions obtained in previous research in samples of high school youth, and serious drug users. The serious drug users were substantially different from high school sa...

Substance abuse is an escalating health problem. Apart from the serious consequences experienced by drug users, such abuse negatively affects the operational activities of law enforcement officers, teachers and health care workers. Adverse pharmacological and physiological effects predispose to permanent changes in neurological processes, to increasingly violent and high-risk sexual behaviour, ...

Non-medical drug use in rural communities in the United States is a significant and growing public health threat. Understanding what motivates drug users in rural areas to seek substance abuse treatment may help in addressing the problem. Perceived need for treatment, a construct indicative of problem recognition and belief in problem solution, has been identified as an important predictor of h...

Behavioral couples therapy (BCT), a treatment approach for married or cohabiting drug abusers and their partners, attempts to reduce substance abuse directly and through restructuring the dysfunctional couple interactions that frequently help sustain it. In multiple studies with diverse populations, patients who engage in BCT have consistently reported greater reductions in substance use than h...

Motive's researching as a condition for improving the quality of domestic violence prevention
 The article is devoted to analysis motivation and motives crimes related violence. author presents his assumptions about factors in order improve qualityofprevention. There was an attempt approach causes from standpoint influence unconscious because this behavior has stable systemic cyclical char...