The spectroscopic detection of drugs of abuse in fingerprints after development with powders and recovery with adhesive lifters [PDF]
, 2009 The application of powders to fingerprints has long been established as an effective and reliable method for developing latent fingerprints. Fingerprints developed in situ at a crime scene routinely undergo lifting with specialist tapes and are then ...
Went, Michael J., West, M.J.
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Primary Care Validation of a Single-Question Alcohol Screening Test [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND Unhealthy alcohol use is prevalent but under-diagnosed in primary care settings. OBJECTIVE To validate, in primary care, a single-item screening test for unhealthy alcohol use recommended by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and ...
Allensworth-Davies, Donald +3 more
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Suicide Screening in Primary Care: Use of an Electronic Screener to Assess Suicidality and Improve Provider Follow-Up for Adolescents [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using an existing computer decision support system to screen adolescent patients for suicidality and provide follow-up guidance to clinicians in a primary care setting.
Aalsma, Matthew C. +8 more
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Proposal for a new detection method of substance abuse risk in Croatian adolescents. [PDF]
Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita, 2011 One of the most important factors of successful substance abuse treatment is the early start of the same treatment. Recent selection method for identification of Croatian adolescents in the substance abuse risk that has been using drug tests from urine samples, has been simple and exact on the one hand, but on the other, has been very rare and usually ...
Knez, Rajna +4 more
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Spatial Concentration of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Indianapolis: An Application of the Law of Crime Concentration at Place to a Public Health Epidemic [PDF]
, 2019 The law of crime concentration at place has become a criminological axiom and the foundation for one of the strongest evidence-based policing strategies to date.
Carter, Jeremy G. +2 more
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, 2017 Laboratory testing for drugs of abuse has become standard practice in many settings both forensic and clinical. Sending the specimen to any laboratory is waste of time and sometimes the rapid urine testing is a target.
Al-Mousa Fa, Attia Am, Ragab Ar
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Detecting Substance Abuse in the Emergency Department: A 10-Year Comparative Study [PDF]
ISRN Emergency Medicine, 2013 Aims. We have retrospectively analyzed the variations in the clinical profile of patients with a positive consumption of alcohol and/or drugs of abuse that have been confirmed and treated in the Emergency Department of a Virgen de La Arrixaca University Hospital in Murcia (Spain) after a period of 10 years.
Fernando Espi Martinez +3 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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Early Detection of Substance Abuse and Prevention of Mental Deviations Among Minor Students
Psikhiatriya, 2021 Background: the reduction in the premature mortality as a result of non-contagious diseases by way of the improvement measures to be adopted with the purpose of prevention and treatment of the substance abuse and general health care activities were outlined by the United Nations Organization as the primary objectives as far back as 2015 in order to ...
A. Yu. Abramov +3 more
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WORKPLACE SUBSTANCE USE, THE RISK OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURY, AND TESTING [PDF]
, 2005 Over the past 20 years, the "workplace substance abuse prevention industry" has grown enormously in size and has become more sophisticated in its marketing approach. Drug testing alone has become a $6 billion industry.
Zimbardi, Guy
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