Saturday, December 31, 2011
A program for women at risk of substance abuse during pregnancy could save nearly $2 billion annually in health care costs if implemented nationwide, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology…
Friday, December 30, 2011
PrimeVapor wants smokers to know that there is now a choice between quitting and smoking. Dr. Micheal Siegel is a professor at Boston University
Friday, December 30, 2011
Conclusions: The twin epidemics of HIV and illicit drug use have commanded high-level political attention in Vietnam.
Friday, December 30, 2011
This paper reviews the development of early Soviet drug treatment approaches by focusing on the struggle for disciplinary power between leading social and mental hygienists and clinical psychiatrists as a defining moment for Soviet drug treatment speciality that became known as “narcology.” From this vantage point, I engage in the examination of the rise and fall of various treatment methods and conceptualizations of addiction in Russian metropolitan centres and look at how they were imported (or not) to other Soviet republics.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
With the countdown to 2012 just around the corner, Vanderbilt’s Emergency Department is bracing for what is likely to be one of the busiest weekends of the year. Alcohol-related injuries and deaths typically spike on New Year’s Eve, causing physicians and staff to prepare for an influx of patients requiring help after overconsumption…
Thursday, December 29, 2011
There is a different way to get that hit of nicotine without hurting yourself and those around you according to prominent harm reduction specialists like Bill Godshall of Smoke Free Pennsylvania. It’s called an e-cigarette and it is the future of smoking in America
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Tagged 2010-concluded, boston, cigarettes-were, different-way, flavor, future, harm-reduction, report, research, school, smoke-free, the-harmful
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly instructing officials to look at minimum pricing options, the much debated population level policy approach to reducing alcohol-related harm. Although Whitehall officials say no decision has yet been made, a Daily Telegraph report suggests measures could be outlined in the forthcoming national alcohol strategy expected in February 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Each day numerous young adults in the U.S. visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) for alcohol-related problems. This study examined the use of text messaging (TM), both to collect drinking data from young adults after ED discharge as well as provide immediate feedback and ongoing support to them, finding that TM is effective on both levels…
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Tagged collect-drinking, discharge-as-well, emergency-departments, examined-the-use, ongoing-support, provide-immediate, study, text-messaging, the-use, visit-hospital, young-adults
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims.
Monday, December 26, 2011
22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company focused on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction products, today announced X-22, a prescription smoking cessation aid in development consisting of very low nicotine (VLN) cigarettes, showed a reduction of smoking from baseline over the 6-week treatment period in the company’s Phase II-B clinical trial