... got to take alcoholand cigarettes” explained one male student during a focus group On the other hand, alcoholuseamong unmarried southern Sudanese men and women is not accepted, and thought to ... Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable toalcoholuseand alcohol- use disorders Lancet 2009, 373:2223-2233 Room R, Babor T, Rehm J: Alcoholand public health Lancet ... different woman The drug user sees the world as if it has no end and they feel so happy” (Man from Equatoria, Sudan, current alcoholand khat user, former petrol and cannabis user) Local community...
... by various factors including hypoxia [15], DNA damage [14] and cytokines, such as transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) [16] and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) [17] G-CSF is used ... chemoattractant for human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells and provides a new mechanism to explain the mobilization of CD34+ progenitors to peripheral blood J Exp Med 1997, 185 :111-120 Ma Q, Jones D, ... 5'-GCTGCTGCTGT-GGCAAAGT-3' and reverse 5'AGCCTGACAGTGACCAGG-3' ; and actin, forward 5'ACCCAGATCATGTTTGAGAC-3' and reverse 5'-GTCAGGATCTTCATGA-GGTAGT-3' A relative standard curve method was used to calculate...
... described) to develop questions which were then posed to a larger group and factor analysed [18] These studies have found that reasons for druguse were: to relax and improve social performance [15 ,18] ; ... emotions and positive symptoms [18] ; to feel powerful/creative [16 ,18] ; to cope with trauma or loss [15,16]; to achieve a sense of identity and social status, escaping a dull life [15,16]; because drugs ... appeared to be between those who intended to abstain in the future and those who preferred to continue street druguse We identified five key reasons for street druguse in schizophrenia Drugs were used:...
... between behavioral and affective factors and lifetime SUD diagnosis is largely independent of factors related to parents, early initiation of tobacco andalcohol use, and education and learning, are ... substance use disorders among young adults in Finland (n = 605)a Males Females Total % Any substance* abuse/dependence Alcohol abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence Cannabis abuse/dependence Abuse Dependence ... screens were used to assess substance use: score of at least three in the CAGE questionnaire [40] for alcohol use, and selfreported use of any illicitdrug at least six times In addition to screen-positive...
... and more likely to be undesirable and/ or prolonged Initiation anduse of tobacco andalcohol One of the more significant patterns revealed by comparing average initiation ages for cannabis, alcohol ... use of tobacco by those trying to quit, cannabis is the only drug used past the age of twenty-five by most Indeed, their total druguse histories suggest that by competing successfully with other, ... recognized that users of illegal drugs may be difficult to identify, let alone recruit into a study [2] That chronic users of cannabis would seek medical evaluations and be so willing to share sensitive...
... abuse drugs tend to be younger, and the drugs tend to be more potent and riskier than they were when Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union Drug abuse appears to start with the use of alcoholand ... there is indeed an association between alcoholuseandillicitdruguse Another important factor that was indicated as a possible facilitator of drug use, and one that should also be explored through ... DrugUse Assessment focuses on the nature and extent of druguse – who is injecting drugs and where this occurs, as well as trends in injection druguse over time Finally, the Intervention and...
... HIV and HCV seropositivity amongdrug users in Pakistan Also, generalizability of these results to other drug users in Pakistan is unclear, especially given the different patterns of druguse ... several hundreds of drug users congregate and sleep daily The Quetta dropin center was opened in early 2001 and, due to its close proximity to Afghanistan and Iran, is frequented by individuals of ... potential correlates of HIV and HCV seropositivity included: 1) druguse behaviors, such as the frequency and duration of injection druguseand sharing syringes; 2) medical and other percutaneous...
... ventilator, and intravenous vasoactive and inotropic agents) among ICU patients [21,27] and different impacts on outcomes anduse of hospital resources associated with these treatments [16 18, 28,29] ... of the variation in resource useand modality use across centers in the present study may not be due to patient-related factors, but rather to organizational factors and physician beliefs We did ... associated with use of PACs No associations were found between total LOS and the modalities studied Relation between resource useand modalities Discussion Comparisons of resource useamong patients...
... that in 16 persons had used drugs, mainly marijuana, in the 12 months prior to the survey.58 A study on druguseamong workers in the United States, carried out by the Substance Abuse and Mental ... showed that losses to victims and losses from theft caused bydrug abusers fell by more than one half, from an average $9,790 per drug user in the year prior to treatment to $4,320 in the year ... Laboratories (Pennsylvania), “SmithKline Beecham Drug Testing Index(C)”, February 1997 58 Barbara Butler, Alcoholand Drugs and the Workplace (Toronto, Butterworths, 1993) 59 DrugUseAmong U.S...
... Shiomi, Tomonari Koike and Tatsuro Ishida Section Role of Lipoproteins in Neurodegenerative Diseases 561 Chapter 23 Plasma Lipoproteins in Brain Inflammatory and Neurodegenerative Diseases 563 Armando ... cholesterol, to various organs and tissues Whereas dietary TG and PL may be absorbed up to almost 100%, the absorption rate of cholesterol ranges from 30 – 60% only and is influenced by genes and other ... trigger for these diseases is LDL whose mass consist to approx 50% of cholesterol Oxidized and modified LDL are taken up by scavenger receptors of macrophages and transform them into foam cells Foam...
... project were: to compare selfreported alcoholanddruguse with results from analysis of oral fluid, to obtain information about the use of alcoholand drugs in the Norwegian workplace, andto examine ... the use of illegal drugs refused to participate when not being followed up individually by a project assistant However, differences in Table 4: Drugandalcoholuseand consequences of alcoholuse ... than those proposed by SAMHSA [32] in the USA because we wanted to detect all recent use of medicinal and illegal drugs to compare with self-reported druguse The following drugs were defined...
... Heppekausen K, Kraus L: Tobacco use, dependency and readiness to change Results of the 2003 Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse Sucht 2005, 51:S40-S48 Augustin R, Kraus L: Alcohol use, alcohol ... stressors (work overload and job insecurity) to employee alcoholuse The results fail to support a relation between work stressors and the overall measures of alcohol use, but the results support ... Phillips M: Disease and injury among veterinarians Aust Vet J 2000, 78: 625- 629 Landercasper J, Cogbill TH, Strutt PJ, Landercasper BO: Trauma and the veterinarian J Trauma 1988, 28: 1255 - 1259 Gardner...
... associated with transition from illicit non-injection to injection druguseamong adolescent and young adult drug users: a case-control study DrugAlcohol Depend 2002, 66 :189 29 Bravo MJ, Barrio G, ... Seized Drugs DrugAlcohol Depend 1996, 40 :185 -194 37 Hakansson A, Medvedeo A, Andersson M, Berglund M: Buprenorphine Misuse among Heroin and Amphetamine Users in Malmo, Sweden: Purpose of Misuse and ... heightened risk for HIV and hepatitis C infection [15 -18] , drug dependence [19-21], and overdose [22] Individual-level risk factors related to transitioning to injection druguse (IDU) from other...
... injecting drug users (IDUs), other drug users, and non-users We use the data to explore whether, following “Big Events” that took place: The number of IDUs increased Druguse increased among those ... US$3) Questionnaire and Measures of DrugUse Questionnaires asked participants about their drug use, sexual practices, networks, norms and time use Data on time useanddruguse at specific times, ... risk reduction in sexual anddruguse behaviors Self-reported medical history (e.g prior HIV tests, history of STDs and STD symptoms, druguse treatments) Sexual anddrug injection networks Participants...
... believed that illicit drugs make drug users 'unpredictable' and 'dangerous' to others This makes drug users liabilities to public safety Participants linked druguseto violence and crimes ranging ... theft to murder Many expressed genuine fears towards drug users if he [a drug user] used a lot of drugs, he might have delusions and hurt me ('Juaa') Some drug users cause general people to die ... least willing to associate with a drug user However, we give them the same treatment We have to know the cause of infection But I feel negatively to those who used to take drugs and visit sex...
... Norway (the Young-HUNT study) Subst Use Misuse 2010, 45 :253 -265 38 Osler M, Nordentoft M, Andersen AM: Childhood social environment and risk of drugandalcohol abuse in a cohort of Danish men born ... and early alcohol intoxications This study aims to, in a prospective design, to study the effect of behavioural and health problems on late adolescence regular drinking anddruguseTo explore ... 1.7, CI 1.0-2.9) Frequent alcoholuse at follow up Druguse at follow up At follow-up 24% among the boys and 15% among the girls, totally 459 students (19%), drank alcohol once a week or more...
... TEM to examine the morphology of the PAMAM - PEG and PAMAM - Pluronic Use the SRB staining method , dyed fluorescent dye MTT and FDA / EB to assess cytotoxicity in vitro Using UV-Vis and HPLC to ... ] and Hood [ 46 ] So 1H-NMR can be effective ways to monitor and assess molecular weight and the metabolism of dendrimer and especially the dendrimer [ 25 , 29 , 49 , 58 , 73 , 112-113 ] and ... solubility and stability of the drug store , which enhances the activity against the block u and reduce the side effects of the drug PAMAM dendrimers as carriers nanopolymer one can work as a useful tool...
... Comparative analysis of CAs induced by human teratogenic drugs and maternal hyperthermia due to influenza and acute infectious diseases of respiratory system Human teratogenic drugs Cases Controls 1.9% ... with it Teratogenic drugs cannot cause CAs if the exposure is in the first month of gestation and in general after the third month of pregnancy However, the fetotoxic effect of some drugs should ... is possible to change the treatment protocol anduse heparin instead of coumarin derivatives in the early pregnancy because the latter drugs are teratogenic in the third and fourth months of gestation...
... 1: Customer focus “Organizations depend on their customers and therefore should understand current and future customer needs, should meet customer requirements and strive to exceed customer expectations.” ... principle of customer focus typically could lead to: Researching and understanding customer needs and expectations Ensuring that the objectives of the organization are linked to customer needs and expectations ... often takes three to five months to train specialist skills for newcomers and at least one year touse them proficiently Besides, the company did not use suitable interview methods to explore abilities...