Abstinence from sexual intercourse represents a healthy hoice for teenagers, as teenagers face considerable risk to heir reproductive health from unintended pregnancy and exually transmitted infections (STIs) including infection ith the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Remaining bstinent, at least through high school, is strongly supported y parents and even by adolescents themselves. Howeve...

A of long-acting oxycodone is becoming commonplace in northwestern Ontario. Among the many social and medical problems that arise from this is an increased incidence of use during pregnancy, leading to passive exposure and withdrawal in neonates. There are few Canadian data on the incidence of maternal narcotic abuse or neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Standardization of diagnosis and treatm...

many factors affect tobacco quit rate. in this study we investigated the abstinence rate after 5 years based on the age of smoking initiation. this pre-post field trial study was conducted on 398 smokers who participated voluntarily in a smoking cessation clinic in 2005. they were followed for 5 years and their success or failure in continuous abstinence was evaluated and recorded in 2010. thre...

BACKGROUND Sexual abstinence is the best available option for preventing both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. Identifying the factors associated with sexual abstinence among youths would have meaningful implications in a generalized HIV epidemic country such as the Côte d'Ivoire. Thus, we explored sexual abstinence behavior among never-married individuals aged...

This study is an investigation of trauma and dissociation in 93 Israeli patients recovering from drug use disorder. The respondents showed more emotional, physical and sexual traumatization than consecutive admissions to an Israeli outpatient stress clinic, and their levels of dissociation were similar to those previously measured in Israeli patients diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...

Several clinical trials of both behavioural and pharmacological treatments across Europe and the US have reported lower smoking cessation rates in women than in men, while population data and data from smokers attending routine stop-smoking services show little or no gender differences in outcome. Data from countries with a large gender difference in smoking prevalence can clarify whether self-...