Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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)
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Tagged acth, adrenal, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, crh, decrease-the-response, hpa, increase-the-adrenal, may-cause, opioid-dependence, pituitary, pmid, response, the-adrenal, the-pituitary
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Conclusions: Racial/ethnic disparities exist in the capacity for HIV prevention programming offered as part of substance abuse treatment to reduce HIV-risk behavior.
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-abuse, capacity, culturally-competent, development, enhance-the-impact, hiv, impact, offered-as-part, pmid, racial, substance-abuse, the-capacity, these-services
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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.
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Tagged dangers, focus-on-reducing, high-risk-sexual, hiv, injection, international, may-serve, policy, reducing-sexual, regarding-the-dangers, sharing-needles, the-dangers
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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.
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