News articles tagged with 'abuse'
Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
— 10 Mar 2011 18:32 | HealthIllicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections say physicians writing in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.…
Doctors lax in monitoring potentially addicting drugs
— 4 Mar 2011 13:32 | HealthFew primary care physicians pay adequate attention to patients taking prescription opioid drugs - despite the potential for abuse, addiction and overdose, according to a new study by…
Strong link found between victimisation, substance abuse
— 26 Feb 2011 16:54 | HealthA strong link between victimisation experiences and substance abuse has been discovered by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago…
Society may be willing to pay a high price to prevent child abuse and neglect, study suggests
— 22 Feb 2011 23:11 | HealthThe amount the public will pay to prevent the death of a child may be twice that of an adult, according to a new University of Georgia study that asked 199 individuals how much they…
Childhood physical abuse linked to peptic ulcers
— 10 Feb 2011 19:01 | HealthVictims of childhood physical abuse are more than twice as likely to develop ulcers than people who were not abused as children, according to a new study from researchers at the University…
Researchers lead search for better drug-addiction treatments
— 3 Feb 2011 17:48 | HealthUT Southwestern Medical Centre psychiatry researchers are leading the Texas arm of a national network that conducts clinical trials aimed at finding effective treatments for drug addiction…
Protracted abstinence revisited
— 1 Feb 2011 21:15 | HealthOpiate abuse is a chronic disorder and maintaining abstinence represents a major challenge for addicts…
Training the brain to think ahead in addiction
— 27 Jan 2011 17:47 | HealthThe growing numbers of new cases of substance abuse disorders are perplexing. After all, the course of drug addiction so often ends badly. The negative consequences of drug abuse appear…
Child and youth victimisation less hidden from authorities
— 4 Jan 2011 22:26 | HealthAlmost half of U.S. youth who experience violence, abuse or crime have had at least one of their victimisations known to school, police or medical authorities, according to a report…
Non-medical prescription drug use more common among rural teens than city dwellers
— 2 Nov 2010 15:28 | HealthRural teens appear more likely than their urban peers to use prescription drugs for non-medical purposes, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the March 2011…