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The prevalence of prescription opioids elevated from zero.9 % throughout 1995-1999 to five.2 % throughout 2010-2015 in male drivers, and from 1.four % to 7.three % in feminine drivers. (Inventory picture) Credit score: © naypong / Fotolia The share of fatally injured drivers who examined constructive for prescription opioids rose sevenfold from 1 % in 1995 to over 7 % in 2015, in keeping with a brand new examine at Columbia College's Mailman Faculty of Public Well being. The findings seem on-line within the  American Journal of Public Well being . "Prescription opioids as potent ache medicines could cause drowsiness and impair cognitive features. The 700 % rise within the prevalence of prescription opioids detected in fatally injured drivers is trigger for excellent concern," stated Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, professor of Epidemiology on the Mailman Faculty of Public Well being and principal investigator. Annual prescriptions of opioid...

Psychologists examined responses in a survey of more than 3,000* men on a variety of life factors, and found that just over a quarter who had probable pathological gambling problems had witnessed violence in the home as a child. Ten per cent also reported being physically abused in childhood, and a further seven per cent said they had suffered a life-threatening injury. Problem gamblers -- those who have not yet escalated to a pathological problem, but are deemed to have a more serious addiction than non-problem gamblers -- also reported higher rates of childhood trauma, with just under 23 per cent saying they had witnessed violence at home, and nine per cent experiencing physical abuse. In comparison, just eight per cent of non-problem gamblers witnessed domestic violence when they were a child, and less than four per cent had suffered abuse. The study, led by the University of Lincoln, UK, also found that 35 per cent of pathological gamblers had suffered serious money problems...