The Emerging Trends and Response to Drug and Substance Abuse among the Youth in Zimbabwe
Social SciencesDrug and substance abuse is a contemporary problem among the youth and has reached crises levels in the nation of Zimbabwe. The problem has been compounded by acute socio-economic challenges that have characterised the nation for the past decade. Despite
Ishmael Mugari
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Prevalence of Abuse of Ophtalmic Anesthetic Drops among Welders in Kerman City (2007) [PDF]
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Crowdsourcing Black Market Prices For Prescription Opioids
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A Bibliometric Analysis of European versus USA Research in the Field of Addiction. Research on Alcohol, Narcotics, Prescription Drug Abuse, Tobacco and Steroids 2001-2011 [PDF]
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Development and preliminary validation of the Opioid Abuse Risk Screener
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US Food and Drug Administration's Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for Extended-Release and Long-Acting Opioids Pros and Cons, and a European Perspective [PDF]
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Impact of education on knowledge and attitude of medical students about the abuse of prescription drugs in Iran [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: The abuse of prescription drugs is considered as an important challenge for societies. Regarding many factors contributing to this challenge and its negative impact especially on young and educated people, there is an attempt in this paper ...
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Surgery Open Science, 2020 Background: To address the national opioid and death from overdose crisis in the United States, take-back programs were created to collect and properly dispose of unused abuse-prone drugs.
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