Friday, February 26, 2010
The current alcohol use rate for blacks aged 18 and older is significantly lower than the national adult average (44.3 percent versus 55.2 percent) according to a new study based on a national survey.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Public service advertising campaigns that use guilt or shame to warn against alcohol abuse can actually have the reverse effect, spurring increased drinking among target audiences, according to new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business…
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Public service advertising campaigns that use guilt or shame to warn against alcohol abuse can actually have the reverse effect, spurring increased drinking among target audiences, according to new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business…
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Commenting on new figures published last thuesday which show a sharp increase in chronic liver disease (CLD) mortality rates in Scotland, Dr Brian Keighley, Chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said: “These figures highlight the true human cost of alcohol misuse in Scotland.
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Tagged brian-keighley, chairman, chronic-liver, death, figures-show, human-cost, mortality-rates, new-figures, published-last, scotland-today, sharp-increase, the-death, the-true, thuesday-which, true
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Commenting on new figures published last thuesday which show a sharp increase in chronic liver disease (CLD) mortality rates in Scotland, Dr Brian Keighley, Chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said: “These figures highlight the true human cost of alcohol misuse in Scotland. Today’s figures show a shocking rise in the death toll caused by a drinking culture that is out of control…
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing the availability of more than $1.1 million for new Drug Free Communities Support Mentoring program (DFC Mentoring) grants…
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Tagged communities, control, control-policy, health, human, human-services, mentoring, national, national-drug, office, support-mentoring
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing the availability of more than $1.1 million for new Drug Free Communities Support Mentoring program (DFC Mentoring) grants…
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Abstract: Background: Opioid substitution therapy (OST) continues to face strong resistance in the former Soviet Central Asian republics. OST was discontinued by the Uzbek government in 2009
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Tagged aids, analysis, driven-epidemic, from-the-global, global, health, interests, introduction, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, ost, soviet-central, tajikistan, uzbek
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc.
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Tagged catalyst-pharmaceutical, cpp, cprx, institute-on-drug, intent, letter, national, national-institute, nida, pharmaceutical, treatment
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
“We should think very carefully before we start routinely taking drugs such as Modafinil to boost cognitive functionHere’s a thoroughly modern ethical dilemma to chew over. You go for a job interview but are pipped to the post by another person who seems wholly underwhelming and is less well qualified. The feedback is that she [...]