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The consequences of a fall can be devastating, particularly among people who are at higher risk of a fracture such as people with HIV. Alcohol consumption and drug use are important risk factors for falls or fractures, but there are no standard medical guidelines on the level of consumption or...
Teenagers and young adults may be especially at risk of drug interactions with ADHD medications if they drink alcohol. According to the CDC, alcohol is the most common drug used by people younger than 21 years of age in the U.S. Plus, young people who drink alcohol are more likely to de...
Older people do not break down medicines as quickly asyounger people, and are often onmore than one medication. Older people also are more sensitive to the effects of medications acting on the brain and will experience more side-effects, such as dizziness and falls. Women and people with smal...
Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) consumption is ostensibly known to increase the risk of morbidity and mortality during hot weather and heatwaves. However, how alcohol independently alters physiological, perceptual, and behavioral responses to heat stress remains
Therefore, using new national data, we addressedthese questions: (1) What is the prevalence of DSM-IV alcoholdependence with and without DSM-IV alcohol abusein the general population, and what proportion of DSM-IV alcohol dependence cases are not accompanied by abuse? (2) Does theco-...
5 Understanding the epidemiology of MDD is important in arguing for resources and identifying shortfalls in services. Also, epidemiologic information underlies hypotheses about etiology, so such information must be accurate as investigators seek to identify biological6,7 and environmental8,9 factors that...
Louisville School of Medicine, transplant hepatologist at the University of Louisville Health and Jewish Hospital, and director of clinical trials in liver diseases at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, as well as a health research scientist at VA Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota...
Under an Elsevier user license open archiveAbstract Objective To quantify the extent that alcohol related injuries are adequately identified in hospitalisation data using ICD‐10‐AM codes indicative of alcohol involvement. Method A random sample of 4,373 injury‐related hospital separations from 1 July...
Drug Rehab Great Falls Great Falls, MT has a number of options for individuals looking for rehab choices for drugs and alcohol. Most individuals will first look for a detox to assist with getting through withdrawal symptoms in a safe and monitored environment. Once detox is complete, you or ...