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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Predictors and comparisons of polydrug and non-polydrug cocaine use in club subcultures.

Conclusions: Prevention and intervention efforts should account for contextual and motivational factors in attempting to reduce polydrug use and its negative effects. PMID: 19016183 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Electrophoretic profile of serum proteins in opium and heroin dependents.

Conclusion: This finding may be attributed to the higher probability of infectious diseases in opioids addicts. PMID: 19016182 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in opioid dependent subjects: effects of acute and protracted abstinence.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that chronic opioid dependence may cause reduced function of the HPA axis, while opioid withdrawal may decrease the response of the pituitary to CRH and increase the adrenal response to ACTH. PMID: 19016181 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Predictors of college student support for alcohol control policies and stricter enforcement strategies.

Conclusions: Results provide valuable insights to inform the development of media campaigns and other environmental management initiatives. PMID: 19016180 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Readiness to change as a predictor of drug-related behaviors in a sample of rural felony probationers.

Conclusion: Readiness to change has important implications for treatment involving rural probationers. PMID: 19016179 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of HIV Prevention Programming in Substance Abuse Treatment.

Conclusions: Racial/ethnic disparities exist in the capacity for HIV prevention programming offered as part of substance abuse treatment to reduce HIV-risk behavior.

Social injecting and other correlates of high-risk sexual activity among injecting drug users in northern Vietnam

Conclusions: IDUs who inject socially and IDUs who share needles are likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviours and may serve as an important bridge group for epidemic HIV transmission in Vietnam.

A profile of adolescent cocaine use in Northern Ireland

Conclusions: These findings provide further evidence for the development of age appropriate school focused harm reduction initiatives and continued monitoring of contemporary trends of use of cocaine amongst school aged young people.

Social construction of disability and substance abuse within public disability benefit systems

Abstract: Federal legislation passed in 1996 in the United States changed the eligibility criteria for public disability benefit programmes. After 1996, persons with a primary diagnosis of substance abuse no longer qualified to receive disability benefits