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Drugs of abuse present numerous challenges to plastic surgeons, and detection remains difficult. With rates of drug abuse and misuse on the rise, clinicians must remain especially attentive to drug abusers' verbal and nonverbal cues, and be familiar with treating perioperative complications if they...
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PMID: 20871481
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The Governor's Focus on Servicemembers, Veterans, and Their Families is a coalition of federal, state, and local agencies and professional and consumer organizations. Its goal is to develop and maximize public and private services and supports for service members in active and reserv...
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PMID: 21678690
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Mental disorders reduce social functioning of ill persons in general and often cause permanent work disability. Psychiatric services try to solve individual professional or financial status in economic crisis conditions. The possible causes of disability in psychiatric patients, besides illness, are...
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PMID: 21548268
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This study investigated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and risk behaviors in a longitudinal sample of young men who have sex with men (YMSM).
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PMID: 21361809
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Miles McFall,
Andrew J Saxon,
Carol A Malte,
Bruce Chow,
Sara Bailey,
Dewleen G Baker,
Jean C Beckham,
Kathy D Boardman,
Timothy P Carmody,
Anne M Joseph,
Mark W Smith,
Mei-Chiung Shih,
Ying Lu,
Mark Holodniy,
Philip W Lavori and
CSP 519 Study Team
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Most smokers with mental illness do not receive tobacco cessation treatment.
To determine whether integrating smoking cessation treatment into mental health care for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improves long-term smoking abstinence rates.
A randomized controlled trial of 943 s...
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PMID: 21139110
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The linkage between drug use, particularly injection drug use, and HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB) has been recognized since the beginning of the HIV pandemic. These comorbid conditions affect drug users worldwide and act synergistically, with resultant adverse biologic, epidemiol...
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PMID: 21045598
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) represents the single most significant advance in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The vast majority of patients treated with HAART will experience long-term remission of HIV disease. HAART does not cure HIV of course, but it changes the disease into a chronic...
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PMID: 21045601
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Comprehensive HIV prevention interventions are increasingly recognized as critical in the global effort to reduce HIV transmission among people who use injection drugs. Scientific evidence clearly shows that a variety of biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions can prevent and reduce inj...
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PMID: 21045595
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Results from toxicological analyses in death investigations are used to determine whether foreign substances were a cause of death, whether they contributed to death, or whether they caused impairment. Drug concentrations are likely to change during pre-terminal stages due to altered pharmacokinetic...
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PMID: 20204545
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This article examines the epidemiology of HIV among selected subgroups of drug users around the world who are "most at risk"--men who have sex with men, female sex workers, prisoners, and mobile populations. The underlying determinants of HIV infection among these populations include stigma, physica...
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PMID: 21045594
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The proteome and peptidome are defined as the set of proteins and peptides present in a tissue or other biological sample. In most proteomic studies, only abundant proteins are detected and, although these are important molecules, they are often well-studied structural proteins. A nu...
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PMID: 20848247
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This article provides suggestions for skill development for substance abuse (SA) treatment agencies and providers for implementing Treatment Improvement Protocol number 25: Substance Abuse Treatment and Domestic Violence. Methods for detecting, screening, intervening, and referring victims and perpe...
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PMID: 20971338
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The stressful conditions under which nurses work, due in part to the nursing shortage, are among the risk factors that contribute to nurses' abuse of illicit drugs. Nurses differ from the general population in that they work in an environment where they not only have access to controlled substances,...
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PMID: 21188795
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Roy Sriwattanakomen,
Jesse McPherron,
Jamie Chatman,
Jennifer Q Morse,
Lynn M Martire,
Jordan F Karp,
Patricia R Houck,
Salem Bensasi,
Jill Houle,
Jacqueline A Stack,
Mattie Woods,
Bruce Block,
Stephen B Thomas,
Sandra Quinn and
Charles F Reynolds
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We describe risks for depression as a function of race among consecutively admitted participants in a randomized clinical trial of indicated depression prevention in later life.
Seventy-two black and 143 white participants were screened for risk factors for depression.
Black participants were more l...
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PMID: 20843391
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Persons who inject drugs should use a new, sterile needle and syringe for each injection. Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) provide free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users (IDUs) to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (...
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PMID: 21085091
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To identify users and use of opioids in Denmark three databases were combined. The latest fifteen years an increase in users has been noted, and the costs of opioids have increased from 175 million DKK (1994) to 540 million DKK (2008). Oxycodone and transdermal fentanyl constitute 60% of the total a...
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PMID: 21073831
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Psychotic syndromes can be understood as disorders of adaptation to social context. Although heritability is often emphasized, onset is associated with environmental factors such as early life adversity, growing up in an urban environment, minority group position and cannabis use, suggesting that ex...
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PMID: 21068828
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We have assessed the prevalence and predictor factors for driving after alcohol and drug use by adolescents.
A cross-sectional survey involving 11,239 students aged 14-18 years from 252 private and public schools in the Valencia region of Spain was conducted. The prevalence and predictors of driving...
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PMID: 20728658
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The current study set to examine whether there are inter-generational and gender-based differences between family members self-assessing their ability to drive under normal conditions and while under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. Participants were 135 young-adults and both their parents,...
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PMID: 20728671
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We selected 10,002 drivers involved in a traffic accident or violation between 2007 and 2008 in Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi. We checked for the presence of psychoactive drugs from blood samples using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS). Of the 10,002 drivers, 10.5% tested positiv...
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PMID: 20728679
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We included data on adolescents' educational status, legal problems, and substance use in the analysis.
Using quantitative data from three surveys, we analysed the development in children and adolescents and their families, all of whom were engaged in youth welfare services (N = 59).
At the onset of...
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PMID: 21128219
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The pre-post treatment change of 112 patients in two therapeutics Spanish communities is described. The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) was used at intake and at the end of the treatment program. Results of the treatment program were evaluated by applying composite scores (CS) of the ASI, and the evo...
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PMID: 20977038
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Adolescents' drug use has huge social and personal implications, so it is essential to identify risk and protective factors. In this research, the CTCYS was used with 2440 adolescents to detect risk and protective factors for drug use in the community, family, school and peers/individual; difference...
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PMID: 21044480
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Despite the considerable investment made in recent years in Spain in substance abuse care, treatment adherence remains one of the aspects that determine the effectiveness of programs. Several authors have noted the importance of perceived service quality in this context. This paper is presented with...
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PMID: 21044481
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We study the type of violence perpetrated and some indicators of psychopathology, such as personality disorders, previous psychiatric or psychological care, substance abuse and jealous behavior, among others. In addition, we examine the relationship between these variables and the fact that the men...
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PMID: 21044484
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The relation between perceived racial discrimination and substance use was examined in 2 studies that were based on the prototype-willingness model (Gibbons, Gerrard, & Lane, 2003). Study 1, using structural equation modeling, revealed prospective relations between discrimination and use 5 years lat...
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PMID: 20677890
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We performed brief NP testing examining learning, recall, processing speed, executive functioning, and verbal fluency in 50 ever- and 22 never-homeless persons entering outpatient psychiatric treatment. Groups were matched a priori on key demographic, substance use, psychiatric, and premorbid intell...
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PMID: 21048468
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Substance use is ubiquitous among medically ill patients. The 2008 National Survey on Drug Abuse and Health survey estimated that 20.1 million Americans aged 12 years or older (8% of the US population) had used an illicit drug during the preceding month. Some licit substances also create havoc. The...
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PMID: 20951277
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This study uses data from a nationally representative epidemiologic survey, the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, to investigate the association of mental health and substance use disorders, along with other factors, with past homelessness. Approximately 5% of the 5,251 adults reported having...
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PMID: 21099075
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This study examines the perceptions of health, health seeking behavior, access to information and resources, work related hazards, substance abuse, and social support of emancipated migrant youth (EMY) who come to the United States without their families to work.
Semi-structured interviews were perf...
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PMID: 21099073
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The purpose of this study was to assess predictors of sexual and physical assault among homeless women. A multivariate, correlation design was utilized to identify independent correlates of adult physical and sexual assault. The sample consisted of 202 homeless women residing in shelters or living o...
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PMID: 21099076
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The ADVANCED QUALITY One Step Multi-Drug Screen test is a new urine on-site immunoassay test that is designed to detect multiple drugs of abuse in one time (barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methamphetamine, and opiates group). Thus, the present research w...
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PMID: 21114210
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Pharmacotherapy is the primary treatment for bipolar disorder, and several medications have proven efficacy for treating patients with the disorder. However, an efficacy/effectiveness gap exists in preventing recurrence of mood episodes and in returning patients to full functional recovery. A lack o...
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PMID: 21114945
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Adelmo de Souza Machado Neto,
Tarcisio Matos Andrade,
Gilênio Borges Fernandes,
Helder Paulo Zacharias,
Fernando Martins Carvalho,
Ana Paula Souza Machado,
Ana Carmen Costa Dias,
Ana Carolina Rocha Garcia,
Lauro Reis Santana,
Carlos Eduardo Rolin,
Cyntia Sampaio,
Gisele Ghiraldi and
Francisco Inácio Bastos
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To analyze reliability of a self-applied questionnaire on substance use and misuse among adolescent students.
Two cross-sectional studies were carried out for the instrument test-retest. The sample comprised male and female students aged 1119 years from public and private schools (elementary, middle...
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PMID: 20877921
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To test the differential susceptibility to parenting hypothesis, a 4-wave, randomized prevention design was used to examine the impact of the Strong African American Families program on past-month substance use across 29 months as a function of DRD4 genotype. Youths (N = 337; M age = 11.65 years) we...
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PMID: 20954761
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Interoceptive effects of afobazole (20 mg/kg, i.p.) and diazepam (0.5 and 5.0 mg/kg, i.p.) have been investigated using operant drug discrimination (DD) and passive avoidance "step through" state dependent dissociative learning (DL) paradigms in male autobred rats. It is established that afobazole i...
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PMID: 21254504
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Subjects in the study included all participants (N = 573) in drug treatment court in amid-sized U.S. city from 1996 through 2004. Administrative data from the drug court included measures of demographics and socioeconomics, substance use, and criminal justice history. Stepwise multivariate logistic...
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PMID: 20380560
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Suicide is a global health priority. It is important to analyse the effects of investment in mental health services on suicide rates. This paper presents and discusses recent changes in suicide rates and diagnostic mix among clients of the mental health service in Auckland during a time of service g...
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PMID: 20863183
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This study contrasted the health of young prisoners (18 to 24 years) with that of adult (25 to 40 years) and older adult (older than 40 years) prisoners. Young prisoners reported good physical health but poor educational and employment histories, involvement in the juvenile justice system, and a hig...
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PMID: 20881146
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This study examined the association between medically attended traumatic brain injury (TBI) and in-prison behavioral infractions in a statewide population by comparing rate ratios of infractions in inmates with and without TBI over an 11.5-year period (16,299 males and 1,270 females). The in-prison...
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PMID: 20881142
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A follow-up study was conducted on a sample of 120 ethnically diverse HIV-positive men and women first interviewed in 2000. Participant survival and death rates were ascertained from death records and analyses were performed to identify demographic and psychosocial predictors of survival from the or...
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PMID: 20938875
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