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Prevention and early detection of substance abuse is key
British Journal of School Nursing, 2015Drug and alcohol abuse can have a serious and lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of young people. Stephanie Thornton explains what to do if you or a member of school staff suspect drug or alcohol abuse in a student.
D. Thornton
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i-SAD: An Edge-Intelligent IoT-Based Wearable for Substance Abuse Detection
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES) (Formerly iNiS), 2019Overindulgence of harmful substances such as drugs or alcohol, called substance abuse, can directly affect a person's health and their day-to-day activities. The younger population become more vulnerable to such use of psychoactive substances due to lack of awareness of the long-term hazardous effects these substances can have on their health ...
Prabha Sundaravadivel +2 more
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Substance abuse and dependence in the hospital workplace: Detection and handling
Perspectives in Healthcare Risk Management, 1991A hospital can take many avenues in dealing with an employee or professional who is impaired by substance abuse or dependence. The most difficult aspect of dealing with the problem is detection. Fortunately, increasing public awareness and concern regarding workplace substance abuse is forcing legislators to address the issue and expose the problem ...
J. Ossi
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Substance Abuse in Pregnant Women: Making Improved Detection a Good Clinical Outcome
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2008In this issue, Gideon Koren and colleagues review the maternal and child health implications of drug-residue testing in maternal and neonatal hair and testing for drugs in meconium. Since the 1990s, these methods have been used to varying degrees in clinical practice, but recent technological advances have increased their accuracy and usability in the ...
R, Araojo, S, McCune, K, Feibus
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Beyond CAGE. A brief clinical approach after detection of substance abuse.
Archives of internal medicine, 1996Generalist physicians should incorporate alcohol and drug abuse detection and brief intervention in the care of their patients. A suggestion of alcohol or drug abuse or a positive response to the CAGE questions deserves further assessment such as clarification about adverse consequences, inquiry about loss of control, determination of the patient's ...
J H, Samet, S, Rollnick, H, Barnes
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Challenges in Laboratory Detection of Unusual Substance Abuse
Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 2017Amitava Dasgupta
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A Review of Agent-Based Modeling Applications in Substance Abuse Policy Research
Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, 2023This study provides a systematic review of existing studies that used agent-based modeling (ABM) to inform substance abuse policies and identifies future research directions.
Xiang Zhong, Xuanjing Li, S. Mangoni
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Pattern of substance abuse in Northwestern Nigeria: A laboratory survey in an urban community
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences, 2022Context: Available information indicates that substance abuse poses a major political, social, and health challenge worldwide. Availability of drugs, negative peer pressure, poverty, and frustration are among the factors that increase the burden of ...
Sanni Musa +3 more
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Detection of adolescent substance abuse in a pediatric outpatient department: A double-blind study
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1987M I, Singer, M K, Petchers, T M, Anglin
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Detecting Bipolar Disorder Among Treatment-Seeking Substance Abusers
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2000Bipolar disorder is increasingly recognized to have frequent comorbidity with substance use disorders, but may be difficult to diagnose among patients with active substance use. The purpose of this paper is to describe a brief, self-report form for the efficient detection of bipolar disorder.
K L, Sloan, D, Kivlahan, A J, Saxon
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