Association of Caribbean States [ ACS ]

Association of Caribbean States | ACS [Abbr.]

Convention establishing the Association of Caribbean States

Combination of conditions classifiable to O99.0-O99.7 Conditions in C00-D48, H00-H95, M00-M99, N00-N99, and Q00-Q99 not elsewhere classified

Combination of conditions listed in J45.0 and J45.1

EEC-Associated African States, Madagascar and Mauritius Association Committee

Cariforum [ Caribbean Forum | Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States | Cariforum countries | Cariforum States ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Caricom [ Caribbean Community | Caribbean Free Trade Association | Carifta ]

Cooperation among all countries bordering the Caribbean Sea also takes place through the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) to which the Commission became an observer in spring 2009.

Four issues were raised by many respondents (mainly banks and their associations, consumers and their associations, Member States and DGSs) and therefore merit particular attention:

The Commission has noted on the basis of information supplied by the United States of America that an official programme, the Kiln Drying Sawn Hardwood Lumber Certification Program, has been approved by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture and will be operated by the US National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA).

the wood shall be manufactured at sawmills or treated at appropriate premises approved and audited by the US National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) to participate in the Kiln Drying Sawn Hardwood Lumber Certification Program (‘the programme’);