Opium is one of the most useful and complex drugs in medical history. Made from the juice of the unripe seed capsule of the opium poppy, it contains several valuable alkaloids. Three of these, morphine, codeine, and thebaine—the last when processed into semisynthetic opioids like oxycodone—have potent analgesic effects.
Archive for May 2013
Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream
Organizational Goal Ambiguity and Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector
Synthetic Marijuana Lands Thousands of Young People in the ER, Especially Young Males
Learning together: Teaching, relationships, and teachers’ work
Can friends protect genetically vulnerable children from depression?
Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s views on the etiology of major psychiatric illness
Estimating remission from untreated major depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Who Do You Think You Are?
Volume 22 Issue 03
Prohaska T. R., Anderson L. A., and Binstock R. H., editors. Public Health for an Aging Society . Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2012
Health Care Services Use in Assisted Living: A Time Series Analysis
Care robots for the supermarket shelf: a product gap in assistive technologies
Older people’s experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects
A qualitative study exploring the perceived impact of supervision training on cognitive therapy supervisor practice
Cost of informal care for community-dwelling mild–moderate dementia patients in a developed Southeast Asian country
Framing abuse: explaining the incidence, perpetuation, and intervention in elder abuse
PICU possibilities
Living Through Distress: A Skills Training Group for Reducing Deliberate Self-Harm
Time-Course of Attentional Bias for Positive Social Words in Individuals with High and Low Social Anxiety
Consumers’ estimation of calorie content at fast food restaurants: cross sectional observational study
Framework for Advancing the Well-being and Self-Sufficiency of At-Risk Youth
Relationship between autonomic cardiovascular control, case definition, clinical symptoms, and functional disability in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome: An exploratory study
Adolescence, Asperger’s and acting: can dramatherapy improve social and communication skills for young people with Asperger’s syndrome?
Juvenile/Youth Justice Management in Nigeria: Making a Case for Diversion Programmes
NSCAW II Wave 2 Report: Child Safety
AAI coherence predicts caregiving and care seeking behavior: Secure base script knowledge helps explain why
Children and Families Bill 2013
What professional activities do general practitioners find most meaningful? Cross sectional survey of Norwegian general practitioners
Recovery from injury: the UK Burden of Injury Multicentre Longitudinal Study
The relationship between obesity and neurocognitive function in Chinese patients with schizophrenia
Integrated care for frail elderly compared to usual care: a study protocol of a quasi-experiment on the effects on the frail elderly, their caregivers, health professionals and health care costs
Ethics and practices of re-presentation: Witnessing self and other
Empowerment as Ceremony
Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in addition to being poor, are jailed, tortured, and killed for being members of the wrong ethnic group or expressing political opinions. Those who argue for empowerment claim it is a magic bullet. It can liberate the oppressed, largely through self-organization, self-motivation, self-invention, and even self-clarity. William M. Epstein sees contemporary empowerment practice in the United States as a civic church of national values, one better in performing its ceremonial role than god-based houses of worship. By itself, empowerment is not worth the effort of commentary, since it achieves none of its goals and has not even generated a respectable critical literature. But Epstein argues that empowerment practice and American social welfare both embody prescriptive cultural preferences. Like art and music, empowerment opens windows into deeper social meaning. The social sciences have carved out roles for themselves by looking for simple remedies, ones that are inexpensive and compatible with contemporary social arrangements. Epstein shows that those in social work practices have not only deluded themselves into thinking that these services have real instrumental value, but really operate at cross-purposes. This accessible work will attract critical attention among these professional groups. It bases its carefully-documented insights upon informed sociological and anthropological theory.
Doing committed social research: what are the dangers?
A preliminary study of aged care facility staff indicates limitations in awareness of the link between depression and physical morbidity
Worst Case Housing Needs 2011: Report to Congress – Summary
Digging over that old ground: an Australian perspective of women’s experience of psychosocial assessment and depression screening in pregnancy and following birth
Common Threads: Improving the Mental Health of Bhutanese Refugee Women Through Shared Learning
Social Cognition Intervention (ASCI)
French Neuropsychiatry in the Great War: Between Moral Support and Electricity
Validity and Reliability Reporting Practices in the Field of Health Education and Behavior: A Review of Seven Journals
‘Resistance: Which Way the Future?’ A dual-screen installation related to the theme of disability and eugenics
Benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit Extend to the Next Generation
Minimal clinically important differences for the EQ-5D and QWB-SA in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): results from a Doubly Randomized Preference Trial (DRPT)
Cancer in Other Words? The Role of Metaphor in Emotion Disclosure in Cancer Patients
Think outside: Advancing risk and protective factor research beyond the intimate-partner-violence box.
Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who—in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey—were small, weak, and slow-footed.