The 2024 presidential election arrives at a moment of profound pessimism about the US addiction and overdose crisis. Overdose deaths, which were already surging before the COVID-19 pandemic, have reached new and alarming heights, claiming more than 100 000 lives in the 12 months before ...
Hydroxyurea (Hydrea) is a medication used to decrease the number of sickle cell crises. 我們有專家為這個問題所編寫的解答! Which instruction will the nurse plan to include in discharge teaching for a patientadmitted with a sickle cell crisis?a. Take a daily multivitamin with iron.b. Limit ...
The Mental Health Commission of Canada developed a scale that could be used to measure stigma in this population, as no such scale currently exists. This paper provides the results of psychometric testing of this new scale, known as the Opening Minds Provider Attitudes Towards Opioid-Use Scale ...
LATIN AMERICA: PRESIDENTIALISM IN CRISIS Arturo Valenzuela Arturo Valenzuela is professor of government and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. He is the coauthor and coeditor (with Juan J. Linz) o... Valenzuela,Arturo - 《Journal of Democracy》 被引量: ...
(Open in a new window)Google Scholar Dasgupta, A. (2020). Fighting the opioid epidemic: The role of providers and the clinical laboratory in understanding who is vulnerable. In Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Providers and the Clinical Laboratory in Understanding Who is Vulnerable. El...
In the UK, tobacco harm reduction is a policy stance, whereas, in the USA, adoption of harm reduction has been slow broadly and specifically as it pertains to needle exchange to prevent the spread of HIV in drug abusers, and in the ongoing opioid crisis (18). Should pharma adopt a harm...
Just look at how Portugal handled its opioid crisis of the 1990s. The country famous for its soccer stars is equally well known among drugs policy watchers for a radical decision it took in 2001—to decriminalize drugs. Before this move, the government response was the default position of mos...
In addition, public health workers who faced job-related threats or "felt bullied, threatened or harassed" due to their job had the highest rates of PTSD, at 53.3% and 47.7% respectively. Survey participants who spent at least three-quarters of their time working on COVID-19 response activit...
The prison estate has been chronically overcrowded since 1994 and almost 1 in 5 people are held in overcrowded accommodation (Ministry of Justice, 2022b). The physical conditions of the estate have deteriorated and the workforce has suffered periodic cuts. After the financial crisis of 2008/9, ...
“can’t sit still or restless,”“avoids looking others in the eyes” and “doesn’t want to sleep alone.” Scores for each behavior were then compiled to determine whether children scored highly in the domains of emotionally reactive, anxious or depressed, withdrawn, sleep problems, and ...