PHYSorg.com: PHYSorg news tagged with: drug users http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. UK incidence of children living with substance-misusing parents considerably underestimated Current figures underestimate the number of children who may be at risk of harm from parental substance use. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health have generated new estimates using five national surveys which include measures of binge, hazardous and dependent drinking, illicit drug use and mental health. http://www.physorg.com/news174197122.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:06:47 EST news174197122 Ecstasy use up as methamphetamine levels off An increase in the use of ecstasy may be due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news163944059.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:01:25 EST news163944059 China's paradoxical policies on HIV and drug use threaten health Injection drug users sentenced to compulsory detention under China's paradoxical policies on HIV/AIDS and narcotics suffer human rights abuses that may imperil their health, says a new study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news148057492.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:04:52 EST news148057492 Deportation linked to higher risk of HIV infection in male injection drug users Male injection drug users deported from the United States to Tijuana have four-fold higher odds of HIV infection compared to those living in Tijuana who were not deported there, according to a study to be presented at the International AIDS Conference on August 5, 2008 in Mexico City. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be published in the July 30 issue of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. http://www.physorg.com/news136613936.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:18:56 EST news136613936 Drug abuse accounts for a third of the deaths behind Scotland's higher mortality rate Drug abuse accounts for a third of the deaths behind Scotland's higher mortality rate, according to a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news136022630.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:03:50 EST news136022630