Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Abstract Aims: Delay reward discounting (DRD) measures the degree to which a person prefers smaller rewards soon or larger rewards later. People who smoke have been shown to have higher DRD
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged delayed-amounts, function-based, key-differences, magnitude, might-influence, person-prefers, smaller-rewards, smokers-showed, smoking, soon-or-larger, steepest, the-association
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Abstract Aims. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief intervention (BI) for illicit drugs (cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine-type stimulants and opioids) linked to the WHO Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST). The ASSIST screens for problem or risky use of 10 psychoactive substances,producing a score for each substance that falls into either a low’, moderate’ or high’ risk category.
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, cocaine
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Tagged analyses-showed, australia, effectiveness, india, opioid-scores, screening-test, study, study-evaluated, united-states
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims There is a growing interest in very low rate ( < 1cpd) and light (1-9cpd) smokers and their numbers appear to be increasing in some parts of the world. This paper examined changes in prevalence over the past 5 years, cessation patterns, and smoking and demographic characteristics of very low rate, light and moderate-to-heavy (10+cpd) smokers in England. Design Cross-sectional and longitudinal data from aggregated monthly waves of a household survey: the Smoking Toolkit Study.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged cessation-less, cross-sectional, demographic, enjoyed-smoking, heavier-smokers, light-smokers, numbers, over-the-past, prevalence-over, quit-as-heavier, quit-attempts, smoking, smoking-toolkit, socioeconomic, very-low
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims To characterize smokeless tobacco initiation and persistence in relation to deployment, combat, occupation, smoking, and mental health symptoms. Design Prospective cohort, utilizing self-reported survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Tagged combat-exposure, increased-risk, initiation-were, mental-health, millennium, odds, over-the-study, reduction, self-reported, similar-pattern, stress-disorder, study, tobacco
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A new study published in the international journal Addiction demonstrates that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents. The findings suggest that a one-hour extension of bar closing hours led to an increase of an average of 20 violent cases at night on weekends per 100,000 people per year…
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Tagged addiction, affect-the-number, bar-closing, extension, hours-led, hours-seem, international, new-study, one-hour-extension, small-changes, the-international, violent-cases, weekends-per
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, shows latest trends in drug use Fewer Ontario teens are smoking cigarettes than ever before — good news that is tempered by continuing concerns around binge drinking, and driving while under the influence of cannabis, according to the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)…
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lung cancer can be treated, but rarely cured. For African-Americans with lung cancer, the five-year survival rate is only 13 percent.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
New Directions in the Study of Alcohol Group (NDSAG) has announced its 2012 conference which will explore 21 years of experience and the future for motivational interviewing. The conference will include a keynote from Professor Stephen Rollnick, author of ‘Behaviour Change: a guide for health care professionals’ and co-author with Bill Miller of the seminal ‘Motivational Interviewing’. Download the flyer New Directions and Motivational Interviewing 21 years of experience and the future for motivational interviewing or the Welsh verison here
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A new study has shown harmful prescription patterns of powerful painkillers among a substantial number of Ontario patients who received methadone therapy to treat their opioid addiction. Methadone, which is a type of long-acting opioid, has proven to be an effective therapy for opioid dependence…
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Beta blockers prevent the negative effects of stress Stressed people fall into habits and their behaviour is not goal-directed. That the neurotransmitter norepinephrine plays a decisive role here is now reported in the Journal of Neuroscience by scientists from Bochum led by Dr