Substance abuse is a public health problem, and it is estimated that around 12 per cent of
the total number of drug users have some substance use disorder (SUD). According to the …

Marketing decisions, rather than scientific innovations, have guided the development and
positioning of contraceptive products in recent years. I review the stalled progress in …

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) has grown rapidly during the past
several decades and is now the most prominent type of health communication that the public …

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety
disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic …

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is
merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White …

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing,
activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being …

As communications media have evolved, manufacturers have tended to wait for the FDA to
establish explicit codes of acceptable marketing practices before devoting substantial …

Since the global withdrawal of rofecoxib (Vioxx) in 2004, concerns about public health
effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have grown. A systematic review of the …

Background: Bullying and peer victimization among adolescents are growing public health
concerns that affect victims' emotional well-being, and their social and academic functioning …

Drug information center (DIC) or Medicine information services provides impartial, well-
referenced, critically evaluated, updated information on various aspects of medications to …