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The role of social and emotional competence on risk behaviors in adolescence [PDF]
, 2012 The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between social and emotional competence and substance use in adolescence, including tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.
Alves Diniz, Jose +5 more
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BMEMat, EarlyView.This review provides an overview of the properties, composites and application of two‐dimensional (2D) nanomaterials for wearable electrochemical biosensors. Also, the challenges and future prospects of utilizing 2D nanomaterials in wearable electrochemical biosensor applications are discussed.
Kou Zhang +8 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 +2 more
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Supervised Injection Facilities: Legal and Policy Reforms [PDF]
, 2019 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 70 000 deaths from drug overdoses occurred in 2017, including prescription and illicit opioids, representing a 6-fold increase since 1999.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +2 more
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The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the rise of digital technology, adolescent cyberviolence has become a growing global concern in public health and criminal justice. This study used nationally representative data from South Korea (2017–2024) to examine the prevalence of eight types of cyberviolence (i.e., verbal abuse, defamation, stalking, sexual abuse, personal ...
Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan +2 more
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Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five Central European and Eastern European countries: A multidimensional analysis [PDF]
, 2004 Cognitive processing models of risky sexual behaviour have proliferated in the two decades since the first reporting of HIV/AIDS, but far less attention has been paid to individual and group representations of the epidemic and the relationship between ...
Alexandra Kozlova +29 more
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.Few studies have quantified the effects of non‐pharmacological interventions (e.g., rescue breathing) in the setting of community opioid overdose. We extended a previously validated model for opioid antagonists by incorporating the mechanism of rescue breathing, and quantified combinatorial effects between rescue breathing and various formulations of ...
Bradlee Thrasher +12 more
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Non-contact identification and differentiation of illicit drugs using fluorescent films
Nature Communications, 2018 Sensitive and rapid identification of illicit drugs in a non-contact mode remains a challenge. Here, the authors report three film-based fluorescent sensors showing remarkable sensitivity, selectivity and response speed to six widely abused illicit drugs
Ke Liu +7 more
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