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Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: A Starting Point
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Objective
To better characterize and understand the nature of a very conservative definition of ‘avoidable’ emergency department (ED) visits in the United States to provide policy-makers insight into what interventions can...
Environmental Stressors, Socioeconomic Factors, and Alcohol-Related Problems among Argentinian College Students
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Introduction: The relationship between alcohol consumption, individual characteristics, and alcohol-related problems may vary according to environmental characteristics in certain populations.
Objective: To explore the...
Мексикадағы «Көше балалары» арасында еріткіш ингаляторларды қолдану
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Кіріспе: Еріткіш ингаляторларды қолдану 1970-жылдарынан бастап Мексикада құжатталған. Дегенмен, «көшедегі балалар» арасында таралу және пайдалану динамикасы туралы өте аз белгілі. Маргиналды, салыстырмалы түрде қол жетімсіз...
КОПОЛАД II бағдарламасы бойынша жобаның аға технигі
FIIAPP еңбек шарты арқылы жұмысқа қабылдауды және COPOLAD II бағдарламасының Жобалық техниктері лауазымына қызмет көрсетуді талап етеді. Жобаның ұзақтығымен байланысты ұзақтығы 28 айға бағаланады.
Overdose Deaths Related to Fentanyl and Its Analogs
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Illicitly manufactured fentanyl has become a significant contributor to unintentional overdose deaths in the United States.
What is added by this report?
Approximately 90% of...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
W...
Smartphone Ownership among US Adult Cigarette Smokers
ABSTRACT
Background: Despite increasing interest in smartphone apps as a platform for delivery of tobacco cessation interventions, no previous studies have evaluated the prevalence and characteristics of smokers who can access smartphone...
A Serious Matter: Laughing Gas Prompts Review of UK’s Psychoactive Substances Act
Introduced in 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act is designed to deal with the influx of new drugs often labelled ‘legal highs’.
The Act bans any substance that "by stimulating or depressing the person’s central nervous system… affects...
50 жастан асқандардың арасында субстанцияларды пайдаланудың алаңдаушылық үрдістері
2011 жылы Корольдік психиатрлар колледжі 50 жастан асқандар жасына байланысты физиологиялық және зат алмасу өзгерістеріне байланысты ересек халықтың қалған бөлігі үшін 14 бірлікпен салыстырғанда аптасына 11 бірліктен аспауға кеңес берді.
...Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators is a publication by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
It is the second edition of the 1998 EMCDDA...
Economic Hardships and Patterns of Drug Consumption in Europe
A new study recently published in the Journal of Health Economics considers the changes in patterns of drug consumption and attitudes towards substances among youth (15-24) across 28 European countries.
Of particular interest for the...
Шолу мақаласы: Ауыр алкогольді гепатит кезінде клиникалық шешімдер қабылдау туралы соңғы мәліметтер
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Алкогольдік гепатит - өлім-жітімі жоғары бауырдың алкогольдік ауруының ауыр жіті көрінісі. Осы жағдаймен ауыратын науқастарды басқару көп жылдар бойы талас-тартысқа түскен; алайда соңғы клиникалық зерттеулер осы...
More Reasons to Move: Exercise in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
Physical exercise is widely regarded as “medicine” for the prevention and treatment of myriad somatic health conditions. Studies also demonstrate that exercise is effective in the treatment of common mental disorders and has a role in the...
Drug trafficking at an All-Time High
This article from Sri Lanka highlights increasing drug trade throughout Asia. In particular, Sri Lanka is seeing a dramatic increase in heroin trafficking which is causing serious health and security challenges.
Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
ABSTRACT
Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
Teachers and Coaches in Adolescent Social Networks Are Associated with Healthier Self-Concept and Decreased Substance Use
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BACKGROUND
Poor academic (eg. “I am a bad student”) and behavioral (eg. “I am a troublemaker”) self-concepts are strongly linked to adolescent substance use. Social networks likely influence self-concept. However, little is...
Substance Use among Transgender Students in California Public Middle and High Schools
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BACKGROUND
Transgender adolescents face tremendous social stress in families and schools, which often leads to behavioral health disparities. This study assessed whether rates of substance use were higher among transgender...
Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...