Predicting falls among psychiatric inpatients: a case-control study at a state psychiatric facility.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to add to the research on risk of falling in an understudied population of psychiatric inpatients in an acute setting.

Methods: Five years of fall data in an inpatient psychiatric facility, where falls were frequent but benign, were examined for patient and treatment characteristics that might be associated with falls. This was a retrospective analysis, which matched 1:1 the medical records of fallers and nonfallers on primary psychiatric diagnoses.

The constitutionality of random drug and alcohol testing of students in secondary schools.

Adolescent drug and alcohol use is a major public health problem. Multiple studies indicate that substance use is a risk factor for physical and mental disorders in adolescents. Secondary schools and the communities they serve have been facing a long-standing problem of substance abuse.