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Journal of Frailty & Aging, 2016
Older adults often have co-occurring multiple chronic and acute diseases, which progressively and steadily increase in prevalence with age (1, 2). The treatment of these diseases usually requires multiple drugs (polypharmacy); it has been estimated that more than 50% of persons aged 65 years or older receive five or
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Older adults often have co-occurring multiple chronic and acute diseases, which progressively and steadily increase in prevalence with age (1, 2). The treatment of these diseases usually requires multiple drugs (polypharmacy); it has been estimated that more than 50% of persons aged 65 years or older receive five or
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Developments in the Epidemiology of Drug Use and Drug Use Disorders
American Journal of Psychiatry, 2005The past 30 years of research on the epidemiology of drug use, drug use disorders, and related conditions, such as HIV, has provided major insight into these conditions. Drug use peaked in the late 1970s, decreased across the 1980s, increased in the 1990s, and has remained stable during the past few years.
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The Drug Education-Drug Use Dilemma
Journal of Drug Education, 1987Does drug education turn young people onto drugs? Does the use of drugs influence how a young person attends to drug education material? Some thoughts on these questions are followed with some recommendations about what we might do.
M A, Sheppard +2 more
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Adolescents' drug use and drug knowledge
European Journal of Pediatrics, 2000Self-medication is a common event. To use drugs correctly, a basic knowledge about drugs is required. Poor data are available about adults' drug knowledge. Furthermore, adolescents' basic drug knowledge has not been investigated. This study was designed in order to explore adolescents' drug use and knowledge and the factors that influence them. A total
S, Stoelben +3 more
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Youthful Drug Use and Drug Subcultures
International Journal of the Addictions, 1986Drug involvement is such an intensely social behavior that it lends itself to the notion of a subcultural existence. The social aspects of drug involvement generate a value system that is different from the dominant order. Using a longitudinal sample of college students, the findings indicate two distinctively different types of drug use, marijuana ...
C M, Smeja, D G, Rojek
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Archives of Dermatology, 1972
To the Editor.— This letter is written in the hope of stimulating an exchange of ideas on a controversial subject pertinent to our present practice. The American dermatologist is presented with a moral and ethical dilemma in deciding whether or not to use methotrexate in extensive or complicated psoriasis.
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To the Editor.— This letter is written in the hope of stimulating an exchange of ideas on a controversial subject pertinent to our present practice. The American dermatologist is presented with a moral and ethical dilemma in deciding whether or not to use methotrexate in extensive or complicated psoriasis.
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Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2018
To review the literature on decriminalization of drug use from 2016 to 2017 and suggest the way forward.The systematic review of the literature on decriminalization resulted in seven articles that discuss decriminalization as compared with 57 published articles on legalization. Decriminalization of drug use did not have an effect on the age of onset of
Balasingam, Vicknasingam +3 more
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To review the literature on decriminalization of drug use from 2016 to 2017 and suggest the way forward.The systematic review of the literature on decriminalization resulted in seven articles that discuss decriminalization as compared with 57 published articles on legalization. Decriminalization of drug use did not have an effect on the age of onset of
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Journal of Drug Education, 1992
This study is a secondary analysis of data gathered under the sponsorship of the Utah State Division of Alcoholism and Drugs in 1989. The researchers concluded that there is a difference in frequency of alcohol use, source of alcohol, and age of first alcohol use among LDS, Other Religions and No Religion subgroups.
R D, Hawks, S H, Bahr
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This study is a secondary analysis of data gathered under the sponsorship of the Utah State Division of Alcoholism and Drugs in 1989. The researchers concluded that there is a difference in frequency of alcohol use, source of alcohol, and age of first alcohol use among LDS, Other Religions and No Religion subgroups.
R D, Hawks, S H, Bahr
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Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1984
Expected drug effects may be enhanced or lessened in a pregnant woman, and the known side effects may become more likely. Possibly devastating effects on the fetus must be considered. In the care of a pregnant patient and her unborn, medications should be used only when absolutely necessary (Figure 2). Sound advice is the old medical adage, "Primum non
R R, Whipkey, P M, Paris, R D, Stewart
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Expected drug effects may be enhanced or lessened in a pregnant woman, and the known side effects may become more likely. Possibly devastating effects on the fetus must be considered. In the care of a pregnant patient and her unborn, medications should be used only when absolutely necessary (Figure 2). Sound advice is the old medical adage, "Primum non
R R, Whipkey, P M, Paris, R D, Stewart
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British Journal of Community Nursing, 2010
Medications play a large part in today’s health-care delivery. Indeed, it is this centrality to health care that has fuelled various debates about the cost and benefits of different drugs, especially expensive medicines associated with cancer treatments and multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Medications play a large part in today’s health-care delivery. Indeed, it is this centrality to health care that has fuelled various debates about the cost and benefits of different drugs, especially expensive medicines associated with cancer treatments and multiple sclerosis (MS).
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