Using ultrasonography in evaluating the intramuscular injection techniques used for administering drug treatments to schizophrenic patients in Japan.

This study was conducted with six patients with schizophrenia, four of whom received the atypical antipsychotic risperidone long-acting injectable (RLAI), and two patients receiving the typical depot injection (TDI). The purpose of this study was to determine the location (gluteus medius or maximus; deltoid muscles) and diffusion of typical and atypical antipsychotic medications administered intramuscularly using ultrasonography. When using the standardized depth of needle insertion, in some cases, the drug was injected into the gluteus maximus instead of the gluteus medius.

[Relation between television commercial of alcoholic beverage and alcoholism].

Background And Purpose: Alcoholism is a disease that greatly ruins body mental health, family's health, and a social property. Moreover, it is a disease that a few drinking are connected with the danger of the relapse because there is a control trouble of the drinking desire. The purpose of this survey is to clarify the relation between television commercial of alcoholic beverage (CM) and alcoholism.