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Elder abuse takes many forms and occurs in a variety of settings; it is both under-recognised and under-reported. Despite a lack of statutory guidelines or legislation, effective management is possible. More could be done to recognise abuse, and healthcare workers need to be vigilant, paying attention to both the circumstances in which abuse occurs and its warning signs.

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AbstractThis article reports on a study designed to investigate the effects of preseparation hassles, preseparation abuse, and evaluations of the mediation process on postmediation abuse and hassles among a stratified, random, sequential sample of participants in marital conflict mediation. Hassles prior to mediation were found to be associated with postmediation hassles. Engaging in violence‐prevention activities prior to separation and being frightened of one's partner were associated with postseparation abuse. Evaluations of the mediation process were associated with postseparation abuse and only among those who participated in mandatory legal aid mediation. The authors discuss the implication of these findings for the construction of a screening instrument for mediation participants.

Ketamine was developed in the 1960s and promoted as a dissociative anesthetic because of its ability to induce a lack of responsive awareness not only to pain but to the general environment. The subjective experiences of ketamine intoxication range from pleasant dreams to intensely visual or polysensual hallucinations. Occasionally a brief full-blown delirium occurs. Despite warnings about its abuse potential, ketamine eventually appeared on the streets in the early 1970s in the same way that phencyclidine (PCP) did in the 1960s. By the early 1980s various preparations of ketamine were available on the street with such names as Special K, 1980 acid, and Super C. In the 1990s the social-recreational use of ketamine reemerged in the context of a subcultural music phenomenon known as "acid house" music. Large-scale parties, usually called "raves," combine acid house music and ketamine use. Ketamine abuse appears to be on the increase. Clinically significant consequences range from occasional flashbacks to delirious reactions, and every type of dissociative symptomology.