Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Associated Press: “Violence against nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing around the country as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients showing up at emergency rooms climbs. Nurses have responded, in part, by seeking tougher criminal penalties for assaults against health care workers. …
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Aims To help counter problems related to methamphetamine, Mexico has implemented interventions targeting pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, the precursor chemicals commonly used in the drug’s synthesis. This study examines whether the interventions impacted methamphetamine treatment admissions[mdash]an indicator of methamphetamine consequences.Design Quasi-experiment: autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)-based intervention time[ndash]series analysis
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The Home Office have opened consultation on government plans to overhaul the current licensing regime, following the Home Secretary's announcement earlier this week: 'Rebalancing the Licensing Act – a consultation on empowering individuals, families and local communities to shape and determine local licensing' [pdf] The consultation page highlights the main commitments identified in reforming the Licensing Act, but stresses '… we're interested in what you think the implications of implementing the proposals will be, rather than your views on the commitments themselves: overhauling the
The Associated Press: “A new government study finds a 400 percent increase in the number of people admitted to treatment for abusing prescription pain medication. The increase in substance abuse among people ages 12 and older was recorded during the 10-year-period from 1998 to 2008.
More Than Half Of Russian Prisoners Ill, Many With HIV, TB “Almost half of inmates in Russia’s notorious prison system are ill, many infected with HIV or with tuberculosis, the country’s Federal Prison Service said late Tuesday,” Reuters reports. Out of 846,000 prisoners, 55,000 are infected with HIV and 40,000 inmates have tuberculosis, the article states…
The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee agreed that the country’s alcohol problem must be addressed as it reviews the latest stage of the Alcohol Bill , but is divided on whether minimum pricing should be adopted as key measure – BBC report here .
Toxicologists across the country are sounding the alarm about a contaminant increasingly found in cocaine that is impairing cocaine users’ immune systems, subjecting them to various infections and, in some cases, causing death. The U.S.
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The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) welcomed the release of the Law Commission’s paper ‘Alcohol in Our Lives: Curbing the Harm,’ which should help our country tackle the many problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption…
Abstract: Background: Research evidence indicates that prisoners in Iran are at risk of drug-related harm, including acquisition of blood-borne infections. In response, several prevention interventions including methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) have been introduced into prisons in Iran.Methods: This report reviews and presents some important information extracted from published articles, and available documents on HIV sentinel surveillance and provision of MMT inside correctional settings in Iran.Results: Biological surveillance data in 2005 showed that on average about 3% of prisoners in the country tested positive for HIV infection. MTT that constitutes a main component of the Prison Organisation’s HIV prevention package is becoming increasingly accessible to opioid-dependent prisoners
Motorcycle riders across the country are growing older, and the impact of this trend is evident in emergency rooms daily. Doctors are finding that these aging road warriors are more likely to be injured or die as a result of a motorcycle mishap compared to their younger counterparts…