-22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company focused on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction products, announced today that the company licensed Hercules Pharmaceuticals LLC, its wholly-owned pharmaceutical subsidiary, exclusive worldwide rights to X-22
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Tagged century, century-group, chief-executive, clinical-trial, formerly-known, harm-reduction, health, hercules, investigational, less-nicotine, tobacco
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The industry funded body Drinkaware has released a 'life-skills based interactive teaching resource' called In:tuition , which includes a series of lesson plans and supporting resources. A press release said the “cross-curricular programme builds the esteem, confidence and decision-making skills of students aged 9 to 14 so they can make more informed decisions about a range of issues – including alcohol, sex and relationships, personal finance, health and civic responsibility.” The resource itself says : “The programme aims to build young people's confidence, personal and social skills and help them explore how they make decisions and what might influence them”.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
In the smoker-heavy state of Kentucky, a cancer center is suggesting something that most health experts won’t and the tobacco industry can’t: If you really want to quit, switch to smoke-free tobacco. The James Graham Brown Cancer Center and the University of Louisville are aiming their “Switch and Quit” campaign at the city of Owensboro
Uh-oh. Here comes temptation – for a dieter, it’s a sweet treat; an alcoholic, a beer; a married man, an attractive, available woman
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Cannabis use is associated with disturbances in concentration and memory. New research by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol, published in the Journal of Neuroscience [Oct. 25], has found that brain activity becomes uncoordinated and inaccurate during these altered states of mind, leading to neurophysiological and behavioural impairments reminiscent of those seen in schizophrenia…
Thursday, October 27, 2011
In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Tagged access-journal, european, experiment-on-rats, harm, improving-the-treatment, may-contribute, open, reduces-the-harm, stomach, study, the-open, the-stomach, the-study, treatment
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
A survey of 2,300 young people published by Alcohol Concern said most respondents wanted more protection from alcohol advertising. Alcohol Concern said there is recognition of a need to protect under-18s from exposure to alcohol promotion, although children and young people as young as 11 are regularly exposed to alcohol advertising.
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged alcohol-concern, before-the-9pm, below-the-line, children, government, influence, make-it-harder, martin-plant, recently-called, risks, young people
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims: This study aimed to determine the relative effectiveness of 12-months of Interim Methadone (IM; supervised methadone with emergency counseling only for the first 4 months of treatment), Standard Methadone treatment (SM; with routine counseling) and Restored Methadone treatment (RM: routine counseling with smaller caseloads).
Filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Tagged addiction, arrest-during, cocaine, drug-counseling, during-the-year, from-baseline, relative, services-should, study, study-included, three-groups, through-waiting, two-methadone
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Much has been written about needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST) and antiretroviral (ARV) therapies as essential components of evidence-based harm reduction initiatives for people who inject drugs (PWIDs) (see for example ). In contrast, significantly less attention has been given to the provision of primary health care (PHC) for people who inject drugs (PWIDs), even though these services may contribute to better outcomes for other harm reduction services such as OST
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Tagged better-outcomes, even-though, Evidence Base, harm-reduction, less-attention, literature, primary-health, provision, represents-one, the-literature, these-services
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Abstract Aims: Decisions on whether and how to schedule’ drugs (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) are often heavile criticised. We sought to assess more comprehensively the results of such decisions for newly emerging drugs