Change in sedative burden after dementia onset using difference-in-difference estimations.
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundSedative agents are avoided in older adults because of potential risks including cognitive impairment, fall, frailty, and mortality. However, no studies addressing both prediagnostic and postdiagnostic period of dementia have evaluated sedative
Young-Mi Ah +4 more
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Trauma, violence and recovery in the life stories of people who have injected drugs
Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare, 2020 This paper reports qualitative data about violence and trauma amongst drug injectors in Scotland, collected using a life story method with 55 drug injectors currently in recovery. It focusses on different types of violence and trauma that occurred whilst
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Junior High School Student’s Parents Knowledge about Narcotics, Alcohol and Addictives in Depok 2002
Makara Journal of Health Research, 2010 At present drug abuse is a major issue among teenagers/students. It does not only involve teenagers/students it selves, but also their families, the neighborhood, the school environment, law enforcement as main factors as well as anticipators.
Yusran Nasution, Eko Setyo Pambudi
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Frontiers in PharmacologyObjectiveThis study aims to analyze the use of sedative-hypnotic drugs among children and adolescents in a hospital setting, providing a reference for optimizing drug use.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on the prescription data of sedative ...
Zhang Qingyu +14 more
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Neuropathological sequelae of developmental exposure to antiepileptic and anesthetic drugs
Frontiers in Neurology, 2012 Glutamate (Glu) and aminobutyric acid (GABA) are major neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain which regulate brain development at molecular, cellular and systems level.
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Pharmacists' interventions to reduce sedative/hypnotic use for insomnia in hospitalized patients
Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2018 Background: Hospitalization can contribute to insomnia in many patients and is usually treated symptomatically. However, sedative/hypnotic misuse is associated with complications in this population, especially in the elderly.
Aisha F. Badr +4 more
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Separation of Sedative – Hypnotic Drugs with Mixed Micellar Liquid Chromatography [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2005 Separation of ten sedative- hypnotic drugs was performed by RP-HPLC using mixed micellar mobile phase. Effect of temperature, type and amount of organic modifier in mobile phase on efficiency (N) and asymmetry factor (B/A) showed that, the appropriate ...
Mohammad Reza Hadjmohammadi +1 more
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Cognitive toxicity: from pesticides to pharmaceuticals
Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, 2017 Impairment of cognitive functions following neurotoxic exposure is collectively termed cognitive toxicity. This oration is based on a series of studies carried out over last 12 years on cognitive toxicity of two groups of substances, viz. organophosphate
Tharaka Lagath Dassanayake
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Deprescribing Anticholinergic and Sedative Drugs to Reduce Polypharmacy in Frail Older Adults Living in the Community: A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2023 Jamieson H +11 more
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Expert-approved best practice recommendations on the use of sedative drugs and intentional sedation in specialist palliative care (SedPall). [PDF]
BMC Palliat Care, 2023 Ostgathe C +14 more
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