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Reported lifetime aberrant drug-taking behaviors are predictive of current substance use and mental health problems in primary care patients.
(Pain Med, 2008-11)
BACKGROUND: The aim of this report is to determine the frequency of aberrant drug
behaviors and their relationship to substance abuse disorders in a large primary sample
of patients receiving opioids for chronic pain. METHODS: ...
Mitochondrial mutations in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the salivary glands.
(PLoS One, 2009-12-30)
BACKGROUND: The MitoChip v2.0 resequencing array is an array-based technique allowing
for accurate and complete sequencing of the mitochondrial genome. No studies have
investigated mitochondrial mutation in salivary gland ...
Substance abuse, treatment needs and access among female sex workers and non-sex workers in Pretoria, South Africa.
(Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 2009-05-27)
BACKGROUND: This study examined cross-sectional data collected from substance-using
female sex workers (FSW) and non-sex workers (non-SW) in Pretoria, South Africa, who
entered a randomized controlled trial. METHODS: Women ...
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and foreign birth in North Carolina, 1993 - 2006.
(BMC Public Health, 2008-04-04)
BACKGROUND: The proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) reported in the United
States has been gradually increasing. HIV infection and foreign birth are increasingly
associated with tuberculosis and understanding ...
If smoking increases absences, does quitting reduce them?
(Tob Control, 2005-04)
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the impact of smoking, quitting, and time since quit
on absences from work. METHODS: Data from the nationally representative Tobacco Use
Supplements of the 1992/93, 1995/96, and 1998/99 Current ...
The normative and the personal life: individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates.
(Memory, 2009-01)
Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life
events in a prototypical life course. American and Danish undergraduates produced
life story events and life scripts by listing the seven ...
A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation.
(Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2004-05-06)
BACKGROUND: Anticoagulation can reduce quality of life, and different models of anticoagulation
management might have different impacts on satisfaction with this component of medical
care. Yet, to our knowledge, there are ...
Internal languages of retrieval: the bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past.
(Mem Cognit, 2000-06)
In contrast to most research on bilingual memory that focuses on how words in either
lexicon are mapped onto memory for objects and concepts, we focus on memory for events
in the personal past. Using a word-cue technique ...
The distribution of early childhood memories.
(Memory, 2000-07)
The quantitative distribution of autobiographical memories for the first decade of
life is described. The distribution, based on over 11,000 autobiographical memories
from age 10 and younger from published studies, is nearly ...
The effect of involuntary job loss on smoking intensity and relapse.
(Addiction, 2005-09)
AIMS: To assess the impact of involuntary job loss due to plant closure or layoff
on relapse to smoking and smoking intensity among older workers. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS,
SAMPLE: Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, ...