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Mental health and risk behaviors among secondary school students: A study on ethnic minorities

Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2021
Background: Mental health disorders are highly correlated with risk behaviors. The objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between risk behaviors and mental health among school-going students with a focus on ethnic minorities ...
Yong Kang Cheah, Chee Cheong Kee, Kuang Hock Lim, Mohd Azahadi Omar   +3 more
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Illicit drugs use in South African female correctional centres

Cogent Social Sciences
The number of male prisoners is several times that of female prisoners worldwide, yet paradoxically, women illicit drug users outnumber men. Even though the use of illicit drugs is prohibited within prisons, the substances continue to permeate prisons ...
Caroline Agboola, Simon Kang’ethe
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Adulterations within illicit drugs: Forensic Prospection [PDF]

Records of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences
Addiction is a complex and global problem. Its profound impacts don’t include the addicts only, but also family, and whole society such as homelessness, unemployment, relational conflicts, and psychiatric comorbidity.
Mohamed Elgawish, Hala Hegazy, Samia Mostafa, Khaled Darwish   +3 more
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Perinatal Outcomes in Pregnant Women Users of Illegal Drugs [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2016
Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perinatal outcomes in pregnant women who use illicit drugs. Methods A retrospective observational study of patients who, at the time of delivery, were sent to or who spontaneously sought a public
Tenilson Amaral Oliveira, Ana Aparecida Sanches Bersusa, Tatiana Fiorelli dos Santos, Márcia Maria Auxiliadora de Aquino, Corintio Mariani Neto   +4 more
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How patterns of injecting drug use evolve in a cohort of people who inject drugs [PDF]

, 2015
This research found an overall movement away from street based drug purchasing and drug use, towards more activity in private settings, which has important implications for the harms experienced by people who inject drugs.
Alison Ritter, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Nick Scott, Paul Dietze   +3 more
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Adverse childhood experiences and consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents of a Brazilian birth cohort

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents from a Brazilian cohort. The occurrence of five ACEs, the use of alcohol and
Helen Gonçalves, Ana Luiza Gonçalves Soares, Ana Paula Gomes dos Santos, Camila Garcez Ribeiro, Isabel Oliveira Bierhals, Luna Strieder Vieira, Natália Limões Hellwig, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Ana M. B. Menezes   +8 more
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Illicit substance use among university students from seven European countries: A comparison of personal and perceived peer use and attitudes towards illicit substance use [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: To compare European students' personal use and approval of illicit substance use with their perceptions of peer behaviours and attitudes, and investigate whether perceptions of peer norms are associated with personal use of illicit substances ...
McAlaney, J., Guillen-Grima, Farncisco, Stock, C., Bewick, B. M., Akvadar, Yldiz, Bewick, Bridgette M, Zeeb, H., Helmer, S.M., Akvardar, Y., Van Hal, G., Guillén Grima, Francisco, McAlaney, John, Mikolajczyk, R.T., Akvardar, Yildiz, Stock, Christiane, Guillen-Grima, F., Vriesacker, B., Vriesacker, Bart, Van Hal, Guido F., Bewick, Bridgette, Salonna, F., Dempsey, R. C., Helmer, Stefanie, Helmer, S. M., Helmer, Stefanie M., Van Hal, Guido, Salonna, Ferdinand, Dempsey, Robert, Mikolajczyk, R. T., Mikolajczyk, Rafael T., Mikolajczyk, Rafael, et al., Zeeb, Hajo   +32 more
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Socioeconomic Disparities and Self-reported Substance Abuse-related Problems [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2018
Background: It is not well understood whether the self-reported experience of substance abuse-related problems differs by socioeconomic status.Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on ...
Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Mian Hossain
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Pattern of substance use among schoolchildren in Palestine: a cross-sectional study

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2018
Background Tobacco smoking, alcohol use, and illicit drug use are significant health, psychological, and social problems among youth in Palestine. The aim of this study was to provide insight into the extent and the pattern of psychoactive substance use ...
Basma R. Damiri, Isra’ A. Salahat, Mai H. Aghbar   +2 more
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Illicit drug use derived from wastewater-based epidemiology in Iran, their removal during wastewater treatment, and occurrence in receiving waters

Heliyon
This study aimed to measure the licit and illicit drug concentrations in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), their removal efficiency, and their consumption rate by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach.
Anvar Asadi, Shabnam Zarei, Nebile Daglioglu, Evsen Yavuz Guzel, Neda Ravankhah   +4 more
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