Using various measurement methods, previous studies estimated a wide range of prevalence for depression in substance users, suggesting rates from 16% to as high as 56% (Regier et al., 1990; Miller et al., 1996, 1997; Coelho et al., 2000; Roeloffs et al., 2002, as cited in Joosen, Garrity, Staton-Tindall, Hiller, Leukefeld, & Webster, 2005). ...
A report submitted to the Dutch Government in 1996 by van Amsterdam et al. said: In all studies complete matching of users and non-users was only partly accomplished and the time between cannabis use and testing (duration of abstinence) was too short to ascertain absence of drug residues in the body. Based on results of three best studies performed (Schwartz, Pope and Block et al.) residual cognitive effects are seldom observed and if present they are mild in nature. ...
Margaret Edson's play, "Wit," portrays a terminal ovarian cancer patient, Vivian Bearing, who goes through an experimental chemotherapy program that her doctor suggested. Through this process of receiving the experimental treatment, Vivian Bearing faces objectification from her doctor and his studen...
Doctor Harold Koenig, associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke University, did such a research and compiled a comprehensive document, citing the studies done on the affect of prayer upon health (The Handbook of Health and Religion, Koenig, et al, 1997). ...
