Sentences with phrase «risk of alcohol or drug»

The risk of alcohol or drug abuse was 35 percent lower among men and 31 percent lower among women who took ADHD medications, such as Adderall, Ritalin and Strattera, than among those who did not take the medications.

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If a preemie had medical complications after delivery, or if his mother abused alcohol or drugs during pregnancy, that can also increase his risk of learning or behavior challenges.

Alcohol, drugs, and some medication make you sleep heavier and therefore put yourself at risk of harming you baby or not waking up fast enough.

Some research has shown children growing up with permissive parents are less likely to respect rules and authority, and like the second of our four parenting styles, authoritarian, teenagers maybe prone to experimenting with alcohol, drugs or risk taking behavior.

According to a 2013 study in the British Medical Journal Open, bed sharing for sleep, even when the parents are not under the influence of any alcohol or drugs, does increase the risk of SIDS.

This could be juvenile delinquent behaviors, risk taking behaviors like drinking alcohol or taking drugs or being part of a social group were being aggressive is part of the norm - being part of the football team would be an example of that.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

They conclude that risk reduction messages to prevent sudden infant deaths should be targeted more appropriately to unsafe infant care practices such as sleeping on sofas, bed - sharing after the use of alcohol or drugs, or bed - sharing by parents who smoke, and that advice on whether bed - sharing should be discouraged needs to take into account the important relationship with breastfeeding.

According to Kids Health, the risk of SIDS is increased if a parent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol when bed - sharing.

For men, symptoms can also include anger, loss of libido, engaging in risk taking behaviour, increased hours at work as part of withdrawal from family and increased use of drugs or alcohol instead of seeing treatment for depression.

The risk of SIDS while bed sharing went down as the infant grew older, but other factors including if the parents were smokers or if the mother drank two or more units of alcohol within 24 hours or used illegal drugs, increased the risk.

Babies are at increased risk of a fatal sleeping accident if they co-sleep with someone who is has consumed alcohol or illegal or sleep - inducing drugs or who is experiencing extreme fatigue.27, 28 A parent should not co-sleep with their baby if they have consumed alcohol or illegal or sleep - inducing drugs, or when extremely fatigued.

A: Women who smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or take other recreational drugs are at a higher risk of having preterm babies.

But co-sleeping may lead to an increased risk of SIDS when the parents smoke cigarettes or abuse alcohol or drugs.

Something to Sleep On Research on infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feeding.

Smoking and the use of substances, such as drugs or alcohol, that may impair parents» ability to awaken, greatly increase the risk of SIDS and suffocation with bed sharing.

If you have a personal or family history of any form of depression (not limited to postpartum depression), anxiety, obsessive qualities, alcohol and drug abuse or you have increased fear of giving birth, then you are at risk of postpartum depression.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

It is clear that bedsharing can, indeed, be particularly dangerous and should be avoided when drugs and alcohol are used, when mothers are smokers (before and after pregnancy), when other children are in the bed, if breastfeeding is not involved (as it changes the position of the infant in relationship to the mother's body and the sensitivity of each to the other), or if soft mattresses or heavy blankets are used.4,34,47 - 51 It is also clear that co-sleeping on a sofa, a couch or a recliner is highly dangerous and should always be avoided.48, 49,52 For families that can not arrange a safe bedsharing, however, separate surface co-sleeping (a bassinet next to the bed, or the crib or an attached cradle, a form of roomsharing) provides similar benefits without any risk.

Parental alcohol and / or illicit drug use in combination with bed - sharing places the infant at particularly high risk of SIDS.7, 37

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

70 % is extreme — in USA only one state (Alaska) has the majority of bedsharing deaths happening with drugs or alcohol as additional risk factor present (large minority population where that is prevalent too).

All parents should be provided with information regarding a) factors known to increase the risk of SIDS in the bed - sharing environment, including parental smoking (particularly maternal smoking in pregnancy), young maternal age, infant prematurity; and b) aspects of adult beds that should be modified with infant safety in mind: e.g. gaps between bed and wall or other furniture, proximity of baby to pillows, type of bedding used, parental behaviour prior to bed - sharing such as consumption of alcohol, drugs or medication affecting arousal.

First, the risks of co-sleeping are known to be increased with soft bedding, and parents who are impaired by alcohol or drugs.

Mission: To prevent or delay the onset of alcohol and other drug use, and to eliminate or reduce the high - risk use of drugs and alcohol through the application and principles of risk reduction and building - resiliency.

The research by three criminologists in UT Dallas» School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) discovered that students who were bullied in third grade did not have a greater risk of using drugs or alcohol by ninth grade.

To measure risky online self - presentation the research team, which also included PhD student Clara Cutello, Dr Michaela Gummerum and Professor Yaniv Hanoch from the School of Psychology, designed a risk exposure scale relating to potentially inappropriate images or texts, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual content, personal information, and offensive material.

A report on the research, published in the September issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, analyzed all alcohol ads that appeared in U.S. magazines from 2008 to 2010 to determine whether messages about responsibility define responsible drinking or provide clear warnings about the risks associated with alcohol consuAlcohol Dependence, analyzed all alcohol ads that appeared in U.S. magazines from 2008 to 2010 to determine whether messages about responsibility define responsible drinking or provide clear warnings about the risks associated with alcohol consualcohol ads that appeared in U.S. magazines from 2008 to 2010 to determine whether messages about responsibility define responsible drinking or provide clear warnings about the risks associated with alcohol consualcohol consumption.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

Children and young people who suffered injuries through drink or drugs or violence also faced an increased risk of suicide or premature death through alcohol and drug behaviours.»

One of the key findings of the study was that the risk of suicide was similar between young people who had self - harmed and those who had misused drugs or alcohol — an observation not been reported in medical journals until now.

Children and young people admitted to hospital in England with injuries related to self - harming, drugs or alcohol faced an increased risk of killing themselves over the following 10 years, according to new research.

Substance use was defined as use of illegal drugs (heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc.), use of prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or high risk alcohol use.

Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.

Drug and alcohol use may increase the risk of being a victim, but equally victims of violence may turn to drugs or alcohol as a way of coping.

MONDAY, July 24, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Teens and adults with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder may have a lower risk of developing an alcohol or drug problem if they take medications to treat their ADHD, a new study suggests.

And yet, tough training topics can also be some of the most important ones for your staff since many of them carry big liability and risk implications (such as bullying and harassment training) or have huge effects on business success (such as drug and alcohol policy training).

As the principal of Black Rock Continuation High School on the edge of California's Mojave Desert, Ms. V — as she's known to her 121 at - risk students — has heard countless stories of personal or familial alcohol or drug addiction, chronic truancy, and physical and sexual abuse.

Teachers can also take note of these risk factors for teen suicide, as listed by the CDC: a history of previous suicide attempts, depression, or other mental illness; a family history of suicide; alcohol or drug abuse; a stressful life event or loss; easy access to lethal methods; exposure to the suicidal behavior of others; and incarceration.

Children and young people should: keep themselves fit through regular physical activity; have a positive self - image; talk about the benefits to their health through participation in physical outdoor activities; adopt a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating appropriate to the demands of their activities; understand the risks to fitness and health posed by smoking, alcohol and drugs, and set an example in their own lifestyle; walk or cycle where this is a realistic and safe option, or take other regular exercise; want to continue their interest in outdoor activities beyond school and into adult life; independently participate in follow up courses where these are available; understand how much exercise is required to remain healthy; and are aware of the links between physical and emotional well - being.

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Exclusions often apply to «at risk» activities like parachuting, abseiling, riding a moped or motorbike, as well as any injury sustained while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or as a result of a pre-existing medical condition.

Situations involving drugs and / or alcohol: we all know the risks of drinking and / or doing drugs.

Motorists who operate a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs pose a risk to other drivers as well as pedestrians.

Any person under the influence of alcohol, drugs, head injuries, or other medical conditions are at increased risk.

Of course, a victim still could allege that he or she was under duress or incapacitated (drugs, alcohol, star - struck, whatever) so you really take on an amount of risk no matter the precautionOf course, a victim still could allege that he or she was under duress or incapacitated (drugs, alcohol, star - struck, whatever) so you really take on an amount of risk no matter the precautionof risk no matter the precautions.

The reasons for this ban are easy to understand: texting while driving has often been demonstrated to be similarly dangerous to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and it places the lives of everyone on the road — not just the driver who is texting — at risk.

It is far more difficult to measure and evaluate the long term risks of missed appointments, poor home conditions, pervasive alcohol or drug issues than it is when a child is injured.

When a bus driver operates a bus while intoxicated or while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the risk of an accident increases significantly.

For example, if you've been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol or have multiple speeding tickets, you may be considered a high risk driver, requiring special high risk auto insurance.