Individual and Environmental Factors Associated with Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Abuse and Illegal Drug Consumption in University Students: A Mediating Analysis [PDF]
, 2020 [Abstract] Substance abuse is a major and prevalent public health concern among university students. Tobacco smoking, risky alcohol behavior, and illegal drug consumption may lead to health problems and behavioral and academic issues. Several individual
Cruz Valiño, José Manuel +6 more
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Current Concepts on Drug Abuse and Dependence [PDF]
, 2015 Drug addiction is a complex disease characterized by compulsive and uncontrollable desire to seek and consume the drug. In time, drug-related terminology has undergone many changes, arising from the deepening of the mechanisms of action, but also about ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza +5 more
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ANALISIS YURIDIS SOSIOLOGIS PEMBINAAN NARAPIDANA PENYALAHGUNAAN NARKOTIKA UNTUK DIRI SENDIRI DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN UMUM (Studi di Lembaga Permasyarakatan Kelas II A Kerobokan Badung Bali) [PDF]
, 2023 The issue of drug abuse in Indonesia is currently very concerning. Drug abuse is a very serious problem. Despite increased law enforcement efforts against drugs, drug trafficking continues to rise due to several factors, including inadequate ...
Riduan, Rizaldi
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Trends and correlates of substance use disorders among probationers and parolees in the United States 2002–2014 [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Substance use and crime/recidivism are irrevocably linked. We explore the nuances of this association by highlighting the prevalence, trends, and correlates of substance use dsorders in a large group of probationers/parolees.
DeLisi, Matt +5 more
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Race/ethnicity and gender differences in drug use and abuse among college students [PDF]
, 2007 This study examines race/ethnicity and gender differences in drug use and abuse for substances other than alcohol among undergraduate college students.
Boyd, Carol J. +5 more
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Public spending for illegal drug and alcohol treatment in hospitals: an EU cross-country comparison [PDF]
, 2014 Background: In view of the current economic crisis and the resulting austerity measures being implemented by governments across Europe, public expenditure for substance abuse treatment has increasingly become a subject of discussion.
Christiaens, Johan +2 more
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Behavioural Brain Research, 2017 The reticular activating system (RAS) is not an amorphous region but distinct nuclei with specific membrane properties that dictate their firing during waking and sleep. The locus coeruleus and raphe nucleus fire during waking and slow wave sleep, with the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) firing during both waking and REM sleep, the states manifesting ...
Urbano Suarez, Francisco Jose +2 more
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Addiction Neuroscience, 2023 We recently reported an economic choice task in which squirrel monkeys chose between differing amounts of remifentanil, a fast-acting opioid, or a food reward to develop a preclinical screen for evaluating potential pharmacotherapies for opioid ...
Alishan S. Amirali +9 more
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National Institute on Drug Abuse Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities [PDF]
, 2002 Unlike other diseases, drug addiction poses many peculiar challenges to health researchers, providers, and public health officials in the search for effective prevention and treatment strategies and policies.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1904 All drugs which are potent for good contain the possibilities of evil. This statement applies with equal truth to most, if not all, of those natural agencies which we employ—not as generally as we should, perhaps—in our struggle with disease. A superabundance of food, indigestible or illy prepared viands, create digestive disorders which are liable to ...
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