Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Molecular neurobiological studies have yielded enormous amounts of valuable information about neuronal response mechanisms and their adaptive changes. However, in relation to addiction this information is of limited value because almost every cell function appears to be involved.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Background: Five cases of severe neutropenia (neutrophil counts < 0.5 per 109 cells/L) associated with exposure to cocaine and levamisole, an antihelimithic agent no longer available in Canada, were identified in Alberta in 2008. Alberta and British Columbia (BC) public health officials issued an advisory and urged health care professionals to report cases to public health
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Tagged alberta, british, cases-confirmed, cocaine-powder, confirmed, differential, findings, identified-type, natc, paper, public-health, retrospective, sample-obtained, tainted-cocaine
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was formed in 1946 as the United Nations’ central policy-making body in matters relating to drugs: it “analyses the world drug situation and develops proposals to strengthen the international drug control system to combat the world drug problem.” (CND website, http://www.unodc.org/unodc/commissions/CND/01-its-mandate-and-functions.html accessed 09.10.09). It is the form that this analysis takes, and the information upon which it is based, which provide the objects of discussion for this editorial
Friday, November 13, 2009
Abstract: Objective: The aim of the presented study is to identify target groups for early interventions to reduce negative effects of nightlife alcohol consumption and negative nightlife experiences (e.g. involvement in fights) as well as to examine the consumption patterns and identify the need for further interventions.Method: A cross-sectional survey of 308 persons in a German city centre during night time
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Conclusions: We found several factors which increase the risk of experiencing negative effects of alcohol consumption. In particular, drinking before going out seems to be associated with aversive consequences.
Abstract: In the wake of the deteriorating situation of drug addiction and related infectious diseases among injecting drug users (IDUs) in China in recent years, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China adopted the new Drug Control Law which came into force in June 1, 2008. This law is part of a broad reform movement in China where drug addiction is no longer understood as simply a legal or moral issue but rather, as a complicated medical condition requiring comprehensive therapeutic strategies
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged adopted-the-new, among-injecting, congress, control, country, deteriorating, distinct-line, drug-addiction, implementation, national, national-people
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Abstract: The 10-year drug strategy for England and Wales was published in February 2008. It dropped drugs-related deaths (DRDs) as a key performance indicator.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Nicotine is so desirable to many people that when they are given only the options of consuming nicotine by smoking, with its high health costs, and not consuming nicotine at all, many opt for the former. Few smokers realize that there is a third choice: non-combustion nicotine sources, such as smokeless tobacco, electronic cigarettes, or pharmaceutical nicotine, which eliminate almost all the risk while still allowing consumption of nicotine.
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Tagged average-smoker, before-quitting, causes-greater, eventually-quit, from-switching, harm-reduction, lifesaving, never-quitting, prevent-smokers, smokers-realize, telling-smokers, trivial-maximum, truth
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