Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The AERC Alcohol Academy is looking for non-executive directors to sit on its board of governors. Directors will be expected to bring specific skills and experience to contribute to the strategic direction and management of the organisation. The Academy's aim is to promote excellence in local alcohol harm reduction through working with and supporting local alcohol coordinators and strategic leads.
Filed in Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged academy, bring-specific, harm-reduction, income, local-alcohol, misc links, now-generating, only-smallv1, organisation, policy, revenue-through, strategic, through-working
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The nation’s emergency physicians are issuing a strong warning to parents about the dangers of prescription drug abuse, which are now the second most abused drugs, after marijuana. Nearly three-quarters of a million people (741,425) needed emergency care in 2006 because of prescription drug abuse…
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Pink Sheets: TTNP) announced the initiation of a randomized, placebo and active controlled, multi-center Phase 3 clinical study of Probuphine in the treatment of opioid addiction…
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Abstract: Background: The dominant Australian approaches to understanding illicit drug marketplaces are surveillance and criminological research. These approaches rely on the elementary neoclassical economic model of the market which focuses primarily on supply and demand
A joint paper produced by key health organisations has called for further action on improving care and treatment of those with alcohol-related problems. 'Alcohol Related Disease: Meeting the Challenge of Improved Quality of care and Better Use of Resources' has been jointly produced by the: The report makes 11 key recommendations for a typical British District General Hospital and says many of these 'can be implemented by intelligent re-organisation and coordination of existing alcohol services, while some require investment in people.' The principal recommendation of the report is for a 'multidisciplinary “Alcohol Care Team” in each District Hospital, led by a Consultant, with dedicated sessions, who will also collaborate with Public Health, Primary Care Trusts, patient groups and key stakeholders, to develop and implement a district alcohol strategy.' Download a pdf summary report or the full word document .
Some of the same brain mechanisms that fuel drug addiction in humans accompany the emergence of compulsive eating behaviors and the development of obesity in animals, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health…
Some of the same brain mechanisms that fuel drug addiction in humans accompany the emergence of compulsive eating behaviors and the development of obesity in animals, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health…
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Tagged abuse, brain-mechanisms, compulsive-eating, emergence, institute-on-drug, national-institute, national-institutes, nida, research-funded, the-development, the-emergence, the-same
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Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (“IND”) application for COL-172, a tamper-resistant, extended-release oral opioid formulation intended to treat moderate to severe pain in individuals who require around-the-clock opioid therapy for an extended period of time…
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Tagged col, collegium-pharmaceutical, extended-period, investigational, opioid-therapy, oral-opioid, pain / anesthetics, pharmaceutical, severe-pain, specialty-pharmaceutical, treat-moderate
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In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
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Tagged associate, compulsion, drive-people, first-time, institute, new-study, newly-published, pushing-people, same-molecular, scripps, scripps-research
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US researchers working with rats have shown for the first time that the compulsion to overeat that leads to obesity has the same biological mechanism as seen in addiction to drugs like cocaine and heroin abuse: it affects the brain’s pleasure circuitry in a similar way…