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This intervention combines different elements of effective approaches including cognitive and behavioral treatment using accurate information on the effects of stimulants, relapse prevention skills training, 12-step program participation, and family education. Its manualized treatment protocol ensures fidelity when the model is implemented in different settings.Using SMS text messages with people who use methamphetamine has been […]

The association between greater PA and lower stress was consistent with hypotheses and with the extensive literature on the positive effects of PA on stress reduction in non-COVID contexts . Engaging in PA may have significantly reduced stress incurred by COVID-19. Alternatively, participants with fewer stressors may have found it easier to be physically active. […]

Favazza provided cases of extreme and highly unusual forms of self-mutilation in excruciating detail, with an attempt to classify types based on severity. With the provisional emergence of non-suicidal self-injury disorder criteria in the fifth version of the Statistical and Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-V ,the distinction between self-harm as within a normative or pathological […]

In contrast to the 36-year-old waiver policy that preceded it, GBR guarantees a hospital’s annual revenue by calculating global budget based on market share. Adjustments in global budgets are tied to changes in market share and the state’s gross domestic product. In some ways, GBR is an extension of TPR. However, GBR is not a […]

Although we suspect that reducing the number of required questions would free nurses to spend more time on direct patient care and improve efficiency of ED throughput, additional research will be required to study this hypothesis. Studies evaluating ED screening questions often praise their ability to detect at-risk groups without looking at patient oriented outcomes or […]

This is partly due to the fact that poorer neighborhoods lack the social capital needed to resist open-air drug markets. But it also reflects the deleterious effects of our mandatory minimum sentencing policies, discussed below. Finally, drug problems are distributed over time. Musto argues that drug epidemics are dampened by a generational learning process in which […]

This large survey of COVID-19 testing experience among cohorts that follow people living with HIV and people who use drugs across North America provides a snapshot of how the COVID-19 pandemic in its first year may have impacted those who live on the margins of society. This sample included those among the most socially vulnerable […]

The only fentanyl analog detected in 2015 was acetyl fentanyl, which is more potent than heroin, but less potent than fentanyl. Eight new analogs appeared in 2016,12 six more appeared in 2017,13 and seven new analogs appeared in 2018.14 Other non-fentanyl synthetic opioids emerged as well: U-47700 in 2016 and U-48800, U-49900, and U-51754 in […]

The brain of an adolescent, much like teenage behavior, undergoes significant developmental changes. This neurodevelopment continues after adolescence, typically until around age 25.The maturational processes in the brain occur in stages, with more basic functions maturing first and areas such as the lateral temporal and frontal lobes, which are responsible for higher cognitive function , developing […]

A Canadian trans woman working at a grocery store described the need to advocate for herself in response to negative encounters in the washroom: “There have been a few times when we’ve had new people come into the store, new employees, and they’ve had a problem with me using the woman’s washroom. That is just […]