Nearly 17% of the female residential students of Dhaka University are substance abusers. Commonly used substances are cannabis (44%) and phensidyl (44%) while sedative ranks second (32%). Majority (87%) of the respondents procure them through friends and associates. Nearly 40% respondents perceive easy availability to be the main reason of abuse followed by peer pressure (26%) and depression re...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate costs attributable to substance use and misuse in Canada in 2002. METHOD Based on information about prevalence of exposure and risk relations for more than 80 disease categories, deaths, years of life lost, and hospitalizations attributable to substance use and misuse were estimated. In addition, substance-attributable fractions for criminal jus...

INTRODUCTION Organic regulations in the US strictly regulate medications may be used on organic farms (USDA, 2011). While both Canadian and EU organic standards discourage the use of antibiotics or prohibited synthetic compounds, both standards contain provisions that allow limited usage of antibiotics (without loss of organic status of the animal) under strictly defined conditions and with ext...

Increasingly, products containing humic substances are appearing in the turf industry market claiming to reduce water and fertilizer use by increasing soil moisture and nutrient availability. Humic acid is the most common humic substance that has been studied, but results have been highly variable (Cooper et al.; 1998).The response of humic acid is difficult to interpret due to confounding effe...

BACKGROUND Previous theory and research suggest links between substance use and externalizing behavior problems, but links between substance use and internalizing problems are less clear. The present study sought to understand concurrent links among diagnoses of substance use disorders, internalizing disorders, and behavior disorders at age 18 as well as developmental trajectories of illicit su...