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ADHD meds could reduce the risk of a car crash

DHD Medication Associated with Reduced Risk for Motor Vehicle Crashes

JAMA Psychiatry

In a study of more than 2.3 million patients in the United States with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), rates of motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) were lower when they had received their medication, according to a new article published by JAMA Psychiatry.

About 1.25 million people worldwide die annually because of MVCs. ADHD is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms that include poor sustained attention, impaired impulse control and hyperactivity. ADHD affects 5 percent to 7 percent of children and adolescent and for many people it persists into adulthood. Prior studies have suggested people with ADHD are more likely to experience MVCs. Pharmacotherapy is a first-line treatment for the condition and rates of ADHD medication prescribing have increased over the last decade in the United States and in other countries.

Zheng Chang, Ph.D., M.Sc., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors identified more than 2.3 million U.S. patients with ADHD between 2005 and 2014 from commercial health insurance claims and identified emergency department visits for MVCs. Analyses compared the risk of MVCs during months when patients received their medication with the risk of MVCs during months when they did not.

Among the more than 2.3 million patients with ADHD (average age 32.5), 83.9 percent (more than 1.9 million) received at least one prescription for ADHD medication during the follow-up. There were 11,224 patients (0.5 percent) who had at least one emergency department visit for an MVC.

Patients with ADHD had a higher risk of an MVC than a control group of people who didn’t have ADHD or ADHD medication use. The use of medication in patients with ADHD was associated with reduced risk for MVC in both male and female patients, according to the results.

“These findings call attention to a prevalent and preventable cause of mortality and morbidity among patients with ADHD. If replicated, our results should be considered along with other potential benefits and harms associated with ADHD medication use,” the article concludes.

Limitations of the study include that it cannot prove causality because it is an observational study. Medication use also was measured by monthly filled prescriptions. Also, the study used emergency department visits due to MVCs as its main outcome so some MVCs that did not require medical services (for example less severe crashes or some fatal ones) were not included in the study.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/adhd-meds-could-reduce-your-risk-of-a-car-crash

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The real worlds calling.
Time to come home......

 

[BEaston]

disagree with the alcohol + ecstasy talk. yeah, we've all done it and know others who have done plenty of it too, but it's really not a good idea. the drugs might not specifically interact but the whole diuretic effect of alcohol doesn't go too well with keeping hydrated. i don't have any evidence to provide but i was of the understanding that most mdma deaths involved alcohol.

but the worst thing is not being able to sleep through your hangover. always regretted it lol.

Didn't drink enough

 

[Snake_Baker]

ICC launches crimes against humanity inquiry into Duterte's war on drugs

Preliminary inquiry into Philippine president is ICC’s first in a south-east Asian nation

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent

Fri 9 Feb 2018 00.34 AEDT First published on Thu 8 Feb 2018 16.43 AEDT



The international criminal court has launched an initial inquiry into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, in his brutal anti-drugs crusade.

A report submitted to the ICC last year laid out evidence that Duterte had been directly responsible for “extrajudicial executions and mass murder” over three decades since he began his war on drugs as mayor of Davao in 1988.

According to official statistics, 4,000 people have been killed by the police in anti-drug operations since Duterte became president. However, the 77-page report submitted by a Philippine lawyer, Jude Sabio, alleged the death toll was over 8,000.

The ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement that her office would “analyse crimes allegedly committed … since at least 1 July 2016 in the context of the ‘war on drugs’ campaign”. The inquiry will be the ICC’s first preliminary examination in a south-east Asian nation.

Gary Alejano, an opposition politician who tried to get Duterte impeached last year and submitted evidence to the ICC as part of the complaint, said the move was an affirmation that the claims against Duterte had legitimacy, and it offered “a ray of hope for the victims of his war on drugs, which is still ongoing right now”.

He said: “In this country, people are at a loss where to go if members of your family feel victim to the war on drugs. They cannot go to police because they are involved, they cannot go to the department of justice because the secretary will say there’s no such thing as extrajudicial killing. And when we request an investigation from the House of Representatives, we can not get an impartial hearing because they are covering up for the president. There is a clear and blatant violation of the rule of law in the Philippines right now, and so the ICC are the only ones who can step in.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...humanity-duterte-philippines?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[Snake_Baker]

UK police commissioner says addiction is a public health issue and 'our approach to drugs is failing'

The official in charge of the UK’s second largest police force signalled a radical new approach to the war on drugs on Monday, including plans to keep some drug offenders out of criminal courts and provide users heroin on prescription. David Jamieson, West Midlands Police and Crime commissioner, said drugs were costing £1.4bn of public money a year in his region alone, and “fresh ideas” were needed to tackle the problem.

Mr Jamieson, who sets the region’s policing priorities and budget, said the time has come to treat addiction as a public health issue – a move that has been welcomed by charities and medical experts. This will include schemes that provide heroin as part of treatment, to reduce petty crime and stop money being funnelled to criminal gangs – a move with some government support. It will also include a review of heroin consumption rooms, which already run in EU countries including France, Spain and Portugal but are opposed by the Home Office.

These are medically supervised spaces providing clean needles and equipment for users. They have been shown to significantly lower overdose rates and increase use of rehab programmes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...st-midlands-david-jamieson-home-a8205651.html

 

[Sterge]

UK police commissioner says addiction is a public health issue and 'our approach to drugs is failing'

The official in charge of the UK’s second largest police force signalled a radical new approach to the war on drugs on Monday, including plans to keep some drug offenders out of criminal courts and provide users heroin on prescription. David Jamieson, West Midlands Police and Crime commissioner, said drugs were costing £1.4bn of public money a year in his region alone, and “fresh ideas” were needed to tackle the problem.

Mr Jamieson, who sets the region’s policing priorities and budget, said the time has come to treat addiction as a public health issue – a move that has been welcomed by charities and medical experts. This will include schemes that provide heroin as part of treatment, to reduce petty crime and stop money being funnelled to criminal gangs – a move with some government support. It will also include a review of heroin consumption rooms, which already run in EU countries including France, Spain and Portugal but are opposed by the Home Office.

These are medically supervised spaces providing clean needles and equipment for users. They have been shown to significantly lower overdose rates and increase use of rehab programmes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...st-midlands-david-jamieson-home-a8205651.html

In other news the UK Police Commissioner has been sacked today