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This study investigated medically unnecessary emergency medical services (EMS) transportation by comparing non-intoxicated versus intoxicated patients who did not receive emergency department (ED) treatment but...

Background: Substance use disorder (SUD) is a common comorbidity in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, there have been few studies on cognitive profiles of these patients. Impulsivity is also commonly...

Background: Topiramate (TPM) is suggested to be a promising medication for treatment of methamphetamine (METH) dependence, but the molecular basis remains to be elucidated.

Methods: Among 140 METH-dependent participants randomly assigned...

Introduction: Both heroin use and depression are significant health problems. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) can be of great benefit to heroin users. However, changes in the level of depression in heroin users during MMT are not...

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Methamphetamine (MA) is a highly addictive psychostimulant used by approximately 52 million people worldwide. Chronic MA abuse leads to detrimental physiological and neurological changes, as well as increases in...

Cocaine addiction is characterized by dysfunction in reward-related brain circuits, leading to maladaptive motivation to seek and take the drug. There are currently no clinically available pharmacotherapies to treat cocaine addiction...

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Background: Smoking contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, but the extent to which this contribution has changed over time and driven widening or narrowing inequalities in total mortality remains unknown. We...

Zpracování čísel je kognitivní doména obzvláště citlivá na prenatální expozici alkoholu, která se spoléhá na neporušené parietální fungování. Změny v aktivaci mozku související s alkoholem byly nalezeny v parietálním laloku během zpracování...

Disproportionate volume reductions in the basal ganglia, corpus callosum (CC) and hippocampus have been reported in children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). However, few studies have investigated these reductions in high prevalence...

The questions whether and how empathy for pain can be modulated by acute alcohol intoxication in the non-dependent population remain unanswered. To address these questions, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject study design was...

Amanda Kerry, Claire V Crooks

Introduction: Over one-third of Canadian youth have engaged in some form of delinquent behavior by the age of 14 (Savoie, 2006). In the United States, approximately 31 million youth are under juvenile court...

Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan

Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative...

Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings

KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain or...

Anthony Shakeshaft

Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is known...

Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller

Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...

Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott

Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...

Mieke Snijder

Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...