Clampdown on painkillers helps: industry
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An industry body says the vast majority of those taking potent painkillers do so safely and in accordance with directions on the packet.
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An industry body says the vast majority of those taking potent painkillers do so safely and in accordance with directions on the packet.
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This time last year, life wasn’t so sweet for Robert Barlow of West Point. Barlow was an average single dad with a 10-year-old son, except for a $250-a-month methamphetamine habit and an impending prison sentence.
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( Elsevier ) In an effort to combat these startling findings, researchers at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry describe a successful personality-based intervention for substance abuse delivered by teachers in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Back in 1973, singer Jim Croce warned people not to pull on Superman’s cape. Apparently, Capt. Jack Sparrow, who proved to be Supes’ box office version of Kryptonite this year, didn’t get the memo.
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Although a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviors are needed. These are the findings of a paper by Gordon Mansergh …