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Clinical Radiology, 2010
Illicit drug abuse is a continuing menace of epidemic proportions associated with serious medical and social problems. Drug abuse can have a wide variety of presentations some of which can be life-threatening. The clinical diagnosis can be challenging as the history is usually limited or absent.
N, Venkatanarasimha +4 more
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Illicit drug abuse is a continuing menace of epidemic proportions associated with serious medical and social problems. Drug abuse can have a wide variety of presentations some of which can be life-threatening. The clinical diagnosis can be challenging as the history is usually limited or absent.
N, Venkatanarasimha +4 more
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2014
Although illicit drug use has been documented across the world, the quality of these estimates is best in the developed countries of Europe, North America, and Australasia. Regular use, “problem drug use,” and drug dependence are less frequently measured but are important to quantify in order to identify disease burden.
Louisa Degenhardt +2 more
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Although illicit drug use has been documented across the world, the quality of these estimates is best in the developed countries of Europe, North America, and Australasia. Regular use, “problem drug use,” and drug dependence are less frequently measured but are important to quantify in order to identify disease burden.
Louisa Degenhardt +2 more
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The Public and the War on Illicit Drugs
JAMA, 1998This article presents what Americans think about the policies subsumed under the label of the "War on Drugs." It is based on an analysis of 47 national surveys conducted between 1978 and 1997. The major results are that most Americans rely on the mass media for information about the scope of the drug abuse problem; Americans do not think that the Wars ...
R J, Blendon, J T, Young
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2023
This chapter reviews evidence on the relationship between illicit drug use and violence, specifically cannabis, stimulant drugs, and opioids. It summarizes findings of systematic reviews of evidence on cannabis, stimulant drugs, and opioids. It also examines evidence from epidemiological studies of drug use among violent offenders and of violence among
Daniel, StepjanoviĆ +2 more
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This chapter reviews evidence on the relationship between illicit drug use and violence, specifically cannabis, stimulant drugs, and opioids. It summarizes findings of systematic reviews of evidence on cannabis, stimulant drugs, and opioids. It also examines evidence from epidemiological studies of drug use among violent offenders and of violence among
Daniel, StepjanoviĆ +2 more
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The American Journal of Medicine, 2011
h m 2 PRESENTATION In the young adult or middle-aged patient with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea, a history of cocaine abuse is an important consideration in the differential diagnosis, as illustrated in this case. A 44-year-old male construction worker presented to our general medicine clinic reporting 1 year of recurrent, sharp, left-sided ...
Khaldoon, Shaheen +3 more
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h m 2 PRESENTATION In the young adult or middle-aged patient with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea, a history of cocaine abuse is an important consideration in the differential diagnosis, as illustrated in this case. A 44-year-old male construction worker presented to our general medicine clinic reporting 1 year of recurrent, sharp, left-sided ...
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TEENAGERS, ILLICIT DRUGS AND PREGNANCY
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1973The use of certain hallucinatory drugs by a section of the population has posed the problem of the possible effects of these drugs on the course and outcome of pregnancy. The users of these drugs are almost without exception adolescents and young adults. Multiple drugs are used without a clear idea of either dosage or purity of the compound.
B J, Poland, L, Wogan, J, Calvin
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Allergy to illicit drugs and narcotics
Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2014SummaryDespite their frequent use, allergy to illicit drugs and narcotics is rarely reported in literature. We present a review of the different classes of drugs of abuse that might be involved in allergies: central nervous system (CNS) depressants (such as cannabis, opioids and kava), CNS stimulants (cocaine, amphetamines, khat and ephedra) and ...
Swerts, S. +8 more
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Illicit drugs and the environment — A review
Science of The Total Environment, 2013Illicit drugs and their metabolites are the latest group of emerging pollutants. Determination of their concentration in environment (such as water bodies, soil, sediment, air) is an indirect tool to estimate the community level consumption of illicit drug and to evaluate potential ecotoxicological impacts from chronic low level exposure.
Raktim, Pal +3 more
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