Therefore, the reported prevalence of current abuse may be underestimated.
The objective of this theoretical article is to describe a conceptual framework for research on effects of past and current abuse and posttraumatic stress on childbearing women.
Meet criteria for current opiate abuse or dependence (confirmed by positive urine drug screen for opiates or, if suspected by study doctor via patient history and or suspicion of occult opiate use, a naloxone challenge will be performed).
Exclusion criteria were (a) the current abuse of a substance (other than nicotine for the smoking group), and (b) the current presence of a physical or psychiatric illness.
We calculated current abuse (physical and/or sexual abuse by a partner within the past year), abuse during pregnancy, childhood abuse, and lifetime abuse.
Thirteen percent of the total study participants reported current abuse and/or abuse within the past year, with only 2% of those reporting that the abuse occurred during pregnancy.
— it could easily stand in for the Cincinnati office where the current abuses occurred — "The Pale King" explores the bewildering minutiae of the tax code and those who enforce it while also capturing the hostility toward the agency that runs through much of American thinking.
Four percent of the subjects met criteria for current (past year) alcohol abuse and 77% were alcohol dependent.
Exclusion criteria include meeting criteria for current psychosis, substance abuse, head injury or neurological disorder, and active suicidal ideation.
In addition, 35% of the poly-substance abusers fulfilled the criteria for current alcohol dependence or abuse.
