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Mental health difficulties and service use of incarcerated women: The influence of violence perpetration and victimization [PDF]

, 2018
The study investigated the relationships between incarcerated women’s experiences with violence and their mental health with the goal of identifying avenues for more tailored, compassionate responses to their mental health difficulties during ...
Casey, Rachel C
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Use of Psychotropic Drugs among Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Denmark: A Nationwide Drug Utilization Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a considerable use of psychotropics. Leveraging nationwide registry data, we aimed to describe the use of psychotropics among children and adolescents with ASD in Denmark.
L. Rasmussen, N. Bilenberg, Martin Thomsen Ernst, Sidsel Abitz Boysen, A. Pottegård   +4 more
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Psychoactive prescription drug use and misuse in patients on opioid agonist treatment

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims To identify the patterns and trends in prescription drug use and misuse in patients on opioid agonist treatment. Methods We used data from the OPPIDUM programme, which collects data from patients attending substance abuse treatment facilities. Data collected include use of psychoactive prescription drugs in the past week.
Thomas Soeiro, Clémence Lacroix, Élisabeth Jouve, Élisabeth Frauger, Maryse Lapeyre‐Mestre, Joëlle Micallef   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of psychotropic drugs among Indigenous and Quilombola communities in Brazil

Salud Colectiva
The use of psychotropic drugs has become a public health issue due to their high consumption worldwide. In the context of traditional populations, the literature on the use of these medications is scarce.
Gabriela da Silva Gonçalves Loures, Telmo Mota Ronzani, Patrícia Aparecida Baumgratz de Paula, Magda Dimenstein, Saulo Luders Fernandes, Jáder Ferreira Leite, João Paulo Sales Macedo, Gabriel Martins Silva   +7 more
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Use of apomorphine in Parkinsonian patients with neuropsychiatric complications to oral treatment [PDF]

, 1997
Neuropsychiatric side effects often complicate anti-Parkinsonian therapy and pose a significant problem in the optimal management of idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Abbott, R.J., Chaudhuri, K.R., Ellis, C, Leigh, P.N., Lemmens, Gilbert, Parkes, J.D., Pye, I.F.   +6 more
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The persistence of chronic opioid use in patients with inflammatory bowel disease—A nationwide cohort study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Pain is common in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), and a substantial proportion develop chronic opioid use (COU). We examined the persistence of COU over time and identified factors predicting persistent use. Methods This nationwide Danish cohort study included patients with an initial period of COU (definition: ≥3 ...
Bente Mertz Nørgård, Caroline Theilgaard Thorarinsson, Jan Nielsen, Mette Louise Andersen, Jens Kjeldsen, Torben Knudsen, Rahul S. Dalal   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug poisonings following bariatric surgery: Case series report

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Bariatric surgery alters gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology, which likely impacts upon oral medication absorption. Drug‐ and alcohol‐related deaths in this population are being increasingly reported; however, toxicological detail is lacking. Using data reported to the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality, we identified 18 deaths in people
Eman Mshari, Fannie LaJeunesse‐Trempe, Stephen Morley, Caroline Copeland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Drug Utilization Study of Psychotropic Drugs Prescribed in the Psychiatry Outpatient Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2013
Background: Psychiatric disorders are one of the major causes of morbidity. Development of newer drugs like SSRIs and atypical antipsychotics has altered the treatment paradigms. Various factors like cost of drugs, local paradigms, etc. play a role in
Karan B. Thakkar, Mangal M. Jain, Gauri Billa, Abhijit Joshi, Akash A. Khobragade   +4 more
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Volatile substance misuse among high school students in South America [PDF]

, 2011
This article summarizes data from a 2004 study of over 300,000 high school students (aged 13–18 years) in nine South American countries. A probabilistic sample targeted urban secondary schools, utilizing a self-administered questionnaire on prevalence ...
Delva, Jorge, Hynes-Dowell, Marya, Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro, Taunhauser Barros, Helena Maria   +3 more
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Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability: UK population based cohort study

British medical journal, 2015
Objectives To describe the incidence of recorded mental illness and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability in UK primary care and to explore the prescription of psychotropic drugs in this group. Design Cohort study.
R. Sheehan, A. Hassiotis, K. Walters, D. Osborn, A. Strydom, L. Horsfall   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source