Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions: In the U.S., where the general population is prone to over-nutrition, the average percent BF for heavy injectors does not fall into a range low enough to suggest harmful effects. However, in populations with substantial levels of under-nutrition, small differences in percent BF among drug users will have a greater impact on health status
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusion: Biologically confirmed prevalence of tobacco use among male students was 55.6%, revealing high degree of prevalence in this age group. Predominant form of tobacco use was cigarettes (78%) followed by khaini (20%) and gutkha (2%), showing that most young adults use cigarettes possibly due to the ‘cool image’ associated with it. Seventy-seven percent of all tobacco users want to quit, thereby giving a strong opportunity to carry out cessation services in this group
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Tagged adults-use, all-tobacco, cool-image, fagerstrom, group, most-young, nicotine, revealing-high, severity, tobacco, tobacco-use
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusion: There may be some cross-cultural consistency in the associations between treatment characteristics and SUD-PD patients’ outcomes. Scientific Significance: Treatment evaluation findings from representative programs in one country may apply elsewhere and contribute to our overall knowledge about how to improve SUD-PD patients’ outcomes. PMID: 20141400 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-abuse, associations, between-treatment, evaluation-findings, from-representative, one-country, pmid, some-cross-cultural, sud, the-associations, treatment
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions: Cognitive impairment measured among this sample of injection drug use was related to pre-existing conditions and hepatitis C independent of years of drug use.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions: The results of this survey show an increase in basic knowledge of hepatitis, high levels of patient satisfaction, and strong acceptance of vaccinations for hepatitis A and B. Overall, the survey indicates that the Healthy Liver Group is providing an important service and is generally well accepted by patients
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusion and Scientific Significance: Avoidant and schizoid traits are personality dimensions of cocaine-dependent patients that are associated with cocaine abstinence prior to inpatient admission.
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-abuse, avoidant, between-social, cocaine, generalizability, more-research, personality, scientific, these-findings, use-model
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions: Trend for greater decrease in smoking for the bupropion vs. citalopram/escitalopram group [-6.4 vs
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: These data suggest the need for targeted intervention and prevention efforts at nightclubs. PMID: 20141395 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusion: These findings suggest that a public health approach that simultaneously addresses psychiatric illnesses, substance abuse, and HIV infection is needed in both the correctional and the community settings in order to provide adequate care for triply-diagnosed patients and prevent them from returning to prison. PMID: 20141394 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: Drug-using pregnant women and their fetuses are vulnerable to the consequences of both sexual-risk behaviors and drug-use. The ASI may help screen such patients for HIV sexual-risk and drug-use behaviors as a first step in tailoring treatment to address these issues.
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-abuse, asi, consequences, fetuses, first-step, hiv, may-help, pmid, pregnant-women, scientific
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