Alcohol misuse is becoming an increasing problem among older people. This article explains why this is the case and outlines how nurses can recognise such misuse.

BACKGROUND Athletes with injury-related pain, especially National Football League (NFL) players, are at increased risk for opioid use and misuse which may result in medical, psychiatric and social problems. This is the first study to evaluate the intersection of sports pain and opioid use and misuse among former NFL players. METHODS A telephone survey of 644 retired NFL players from the 2009 ...

KEVIN J. FLYNN1*, DIANE K. STOECKER2, ADITEE MITRA1, JOHN A. RAVEN3, PATRICIA M. GLIBERT2, PER JUEL HANSEN5, EDNA GRANÉLI4 AND JOANN M. BURKHOLDER6 1 CENTRE OF SUSTAINABLE AQUATIC RESEARCH (CSAR), SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, SWANSEA SA2 8PP, UK, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, HORN POINT LABORATORY, PO BOX 775, CAMBRIDGE, MD 21613, USA, DIVISION OF PLANT SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF...

Let a cyclic group G act either on a number field L or on a 3-manifold M. Let sL be the number of ramified primes in the extension L ⊂ L and sM be the number of components of the branching set of the branched covering M → M/G. In this paper, we prove several formulas relating sL and sM to the induced G-action on Cl(L) and H1(M), respectively. We observe that the formulas for 3-manifolds and num...

Misuse case model and its development process are useful and practical for security requirements analysis, but they require expertise especially about security assets and goals. To enable inexperienced requirements analysts to elicit and to analyse security requirements, we present an extension of misuse case model and its development process by incorporating new model elements, assets and secu...

Background Despite frequent primary care visits, older veterans may have unmet behavioral health needs regarding alcohol misuse. Identification of alcohol misuse and referral of older veterans seen in primary care to behavioral health care can decrease at-risk drinking and assist in determining effective interventions for older veterans with problem drinking. This study examined the effect of i...

abstract background: acute opium intoxication is one of the most common causes of poisoning in children in iran. although most cases are accidental, traditional misuse of opium for symptomatic therapy of various childhood diseases also contributes to high rate of opium intoxication in iran. cases: here, we report two cases of opium intoxication in infants resulted from transdermal application o...

BACKGROUND Benzodiazepines (BZD) misuse is a serious public health problem, especially among opiate-dependent patients with anxiety enrolled in methadone program because it puts patients at higher risk of life-threatening multiple drug overdoses. Both elevated anxiety and BZD misuse increase the risk for ex-addicts to relapse. However, there is no recent study to assess how serious the problem ...

Carrying a sharp weapon is criminal act which can cause harm to other people, both on property and even killing people. In addition the consequences, carrying also himself. The misuse actually not new thing. It form of crime as stipulated in Article 2 Paragraph 1 Emergency Decree Number 12 year 1951. objectives this study were find out how was basis for judges' considerations imposing sanctions...

Evidence of the misuse of dihydrocodeine preparations remains largely anecdotal,' 2consisting of case reports of dependence mainly among users of the proprietary form of dihydrocodeine tartrate DF 118. Recent estimates of the extent of dihydrocodeine misuse in the general population and among drug users are lacking. This paper reports the results of an investigation into the level of DF 118 mis...