minorities issues in alcohol and other drug use

... onset alcohol use in the relationship of early onset smoking with drug use and DSMIV drug and depressive disorders: Findings from the national longitudinal epidemiologic survey Alcohol Clin Exp ... reached N = Refused N = 431 MEAF interview completed N = 546 Sampling and data collection in the Health 2000 and Mental Health in Early Adulthood in Finland (MEAF) studies Figure Sampling and data ... previously in an epidemiologic study of psychotic disorders in Finland [50] Information on the lifetime prevalence of alcohol and other substance use disorders among young adults in Finland has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Preparation and Service Related Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Personal Care and Service Sales and Related Office and Administrative Support Farming, Fishing and Forestry Construction and ... cannabinoid CB1 receptors in mood and anxiety disorders Behav Pharmacol 2005, 16:315 Kandel DB: Stages and pathways of drug involvement In Stages and pathways of drug involvement, Examining the ... Architecture and Engineering Life, Physical, and Social Science Community and Social Service Legal Education, Training and Library Arts, Design, Entertainment Sports and Media Healthcare Practitioner and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... populations in Colombia [26], inhalation and injection of heroin and opioids among Afghan refugees in Pakistan [27-30], and oral benzodiazepines among war-displaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina [31] Increased ... camps in Thailand and some refugee villages in Pakistan, none of the settings had mechanisms in place to prevent or manage substance use problems In some instances refugees living in urban areas used ... 2006:907-932 Inter Agency Standing Committee: Action sheet 6.5: Minimise harm related to alcohol and other substance use Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings Geneva...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 12:03

... counselling about HIV and STIs; testing and treatment of curable STIs; and intensive risk-reduction counselling that included education, demonstration and promotion of male condom use during every ... assessments in their native language using Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI); HIV testing with pre- and post-test counselling; risk-reduction counselling that included use of male ... along with ongoing support, may better ensure uptake and continued use Previous reports from other developing countries indicate that adequate information and support, as well as good user skills,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... (Median) Total Partners Alcohol/ Non-Injection Drug Use1 NI Drug Use ≥ 1x/week NI Crack Use Injection Drug Use1 Drug Injection ≥ 1x/day Drugs Injected Receptive Syringe Sharing Mean (Median) RSS ... reported binge alcohol use and 66% reported noninjection drug use, with many of those using crack (36%) In terms of risky injection behaviors, 28% reported receptive syringe sharing and 41% shared other ... Substance Use1 NI Crack Use Binge Alcohol Use Injection Drug Use1 Injection ≥1x/day Timeframe is in the past 12 months treatment programs They explained that mayors of several municipalities in Puerto...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... development of interventions The Drug Use Assessment focuses on the nature and extent of drug use – who is injecting drugs and where this occurs, as well as trends in injection drug use over time Finally, ... International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research and Training Award IDU – Injection Drug Use IDUs – Injection Drug Users IDU-RAR – Rapid Assessment and Response in Injection Drug Use NEP/SEP ... is a shift in the nature of drug use and the demographics of individuals who abuse drugs in this part of the country Currently, individuals who abuse drugs tend to be younger, and the drugs tend...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... buprenorphine, anti-histamine and tranquilizers In Quetta, 58.3% preferred injecting heroin alone, while 41.7% injected heroin in combination with a liquid antihistamine and/ or a tranquilizer In both sites, ... Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, United Nations Office on AIDS: Baseline study of the relationship between injecting drug use, HIV and hepatitis C among male injecting drug users in Lahore ... correlates of HIV and HCV seropositivity included: 1) drug use behaviors, such as the frequency and duration of injection drug use and sharing syringes; 2) medical and other percutaneous exposures, such...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... zidovudine treatment New England Journal of Medicine 331: 1173–80 Corbitt, G (1999) HIV testing and screening Current practicalities and future possibilities In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ... Manuel, C (1999) HIV screening: beneWts and harms to the individual and the community In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ConWdentiality, ed R Bennett and C.A Erin, pp 61–74 Oxford: Oxford ... Childbearing in a Multiracial Society A Handbook for Health Professionals Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Sherr, L (1999) Counselling and HIV testing: ethical dilemmas In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... observed in both weightlosing and non-weight-losing subgroups of patients.121 studies demonstrating their efficiency in treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.90 Several studies of THC in ... radiotherapy have been disappointing.81,82 No significant survival benefit and no significant decrease in chemotherapy-induced toxicity have been demonstrated Indeed, an increase in infections and ... treatments can also be a major cause of malnutrition.53,71 Chemotherapy can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping and bloating, mucositis, and paralytic ileus Several antineoplastic agents such as...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing since 1950 Note that the ... environmental causes of cancer actually threatens public health and the common good because the focus does not address the main causes of cancer Ames and Gold also maintain that investing public funds in ... health of poor and minorities is getting worse and may point to crucial inequities in society A later case study will examine allegations of greater numbers of environmentally-induced health...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... the respect and the use of environmental demands and norms have a cost, this could be optimised by the enterprise and used as new marketing strategy for obtaining new markets and being in coherence ... acquisition module for integrating other expert knowledge, a case base for capitalizing cases and reusing them during a new modeling, and a reference models base containing models according to different ... building • Use of sustainable and alternative solutions for powering these buildings (solar, geothermal energy…) • Reduction in volume of traffic (tramway, bicycles, toll, buses, increase in parking...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 20:20

... combining sponsorship, brand merchandising, brand stretching, packaging, point-of-sale promotions, and product placement, across a broad range of channels ranging from event marketing to the Internet.22,23 ... discounting, and brand marketing, in the context of the current regulatory and social environment Consumer marketing Consumer-product marketing efforts, including pricing, distribution, packaging, and ... of past and present channels used in advertising and promoting tobacco products; emerging promotional channels such as packaging, viral marketing, and the Internet; and recent trends in tobacco...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... England I Title II James, Rhoda 344.2’02 ISBN 85941 342 Printed and bound in Great Britain PREFACE In writing this book we have kept in mind our aim of providing a concise account of the main issues ... administrative justice The book is intended as a text for undergraduates taking a modular course in administrative law and indeed its origins lie in our own experience of teaching and adapting ... an ineffective use of resources because, inter alia, the referral budget was finite and the needs of other present and future patients had to be borne in mind Here, the judge made the interesting...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... 1986., because Cd in wheat grain is higher in bran and lower in albumen so that Cd in flour after milling is much lower Že.g approx 40% than that in the whole grain ŽZhang et al., 1997 The inter-area ... Seiko Instruments ŽTokyo, Japan The system was operated under the conditions summarized in Table Selection of isotopes for Cd and Pb determination and indium In and thallium ŽTl as internal standards, ... Matsuda-Inoguchi N, Higashikawa K, Ikeda M Further reduction in lead exposure in women in general populations in Japan in the 1990s, and comparison with levels in east and south-east Asia Int Arch...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:22

... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... statutory licensing and regulating bodies, including the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission and the Broadcasting Standards Council ... The Independent, the Financial Times— have nobly maintained a public interest role, but in a changing and increasingly complex democratic society there is a need for diversity of values and perspectives...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... [9, 7] snggests two things for parsing natural language: principle, has sparked our interest in the design of calrs of processes which can pass forward and backward unet~Ll In/ ormatlon/advlce/questlons ... 3878, Bolt Beranek and Rewman Inc., 1978 Bobrow, R J & Webber, B L P S I - E L O N E - Parsing and Semantic Interpretation in the BBN Natural Language Understanding System CSCSI/C~EI0 Annual ... groups the stimulus into recognizable units from that part which fills in gaps in in/ormatlon (inferentially) on the baals of such groups Results in CF grammar theory says that grouping is not best...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... early in infection indicating an increase in oxidative damage due to superoxide Oxidative damage is capable of harming DNA, and histone like proteins (LSR2) can protect against damage by compacting ... iron Proinflammatory cytokines stimulate hepcidin production, decrease iron uptake from the gut, and inhibits the iron efflux protein ferroportin (Johnson and Wessingling-Resnick, 2012) Inflammation ... such as lipocalin-2 that can bind to and inactivate my‐ cobactin from M tuberculosis thus interfering with mycobacterial iron acquisition (Johnson and Wessingling-Resnick, 2012) In fact mice deleted...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... an important role in determining its anaphoricity Conclusions We have examined two largely unexplored issues in computing and using anaphoricity information for improving learning-based coreference ... using this approach In comparison to the baseline, we see statistically significant gains in F-measure in nine of the 12 experiments in this group Improvements stem primarily from large gains in ... features are important in order to gain linguistic insights into the problem Specifically, we measure the informativeness of a feature by computing its information gain (see p.22 of Quinlan (1993) for...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... understanding In particular, these ideas indicate how Stoic conceptions of virtue and happiness are bound up with a certain understanding of universal reality, including human nature and fundamental ... important independent moves within the debate and in that way enlarges our understanding of ancient arguments for ethical objectivity PART I Issues in Ancient and Modern Theory The Nature and Grounding ... But they have in common with each other and with other influential modern documents (including the US Declaration of Independence)1 the aim of formulating principles which are intended, or are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:43