Background: Benzodiazepines (BZs) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are
effective in the pharmacologic treatment of panic disorder (PD). However, treatment …

Background: Mental illness is a significant contributor to global disease burden and this is
expected to increase over the coming decades. Traditionally mental illness has not been …

The moral hazard theory asserts that having health insurance may increase individual risk-
taking behaviors. We examined the association between state health insurance coverage …

Attitudes of health professionals towards patients with addiction continues to be negative,
which is increasingly recognized as a major barrier to the receipt of optimal clinical care by …

Background/Purpose This study assessed risk factors associated with missing first
appointments after discharge in a cohort of patients with schizophrenia and compared the …

Opioid overdoses have quadrupled over the last decade in the US 1 The Drug Enforcement
Agency has reported that more people died from drug overdoses in the US in 2013 mostly …

Objectives To investigate attitude of community pharmacists toward patients with a
substance-related disorder (heroin, alcohol and tobacco). Material and methods The …

1. Platts-Mills TF, Sloane PD. Emergency department visits and infections [letter]. CMAJ
2012; 184: 678. 2. Quach C, McArthur M, McGeer A, et al. Risk of infection following a visit to …

Stigma continues to be the largest barrier for accessing treatment among people
experiencing drug addiction. The dominant portrayals that exist about people who use drugs …

Opioid addiction has become a national public health crisis in the United States. From 1999
to 2018, more than 232,000 people have died from prescription opioids and more than …