Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Institute for Alcohol Studies' (IAS) latest Alcohol Alert is available, with the cover feature exploring the Prime Minister's recent indications of support for minimum pricing. See our recent report here after the Cameron spoke out on Britain's “alcohol scandal”.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Background: Snus is considerably less hazardous to health than cigarettes. Recent data from Scandinavia have indicated that many smokers use snus as a method for quitting smoking.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims To assess the effects on brand appeal of plain packaging and size of pictorial health warnings (PHWs). Design Three (30%, 70% and 100% size front-of-pack PHWs) by two (branded versus plain) between-subjects online experiment
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABSTRACT Aim To establish the current level of knowledge of the effect of drinking cessation on the risk of developing oesophageal cancer. Method A meta-analysis was conducted based on relevant studies identified through a systematic literature review. A generalized least squares model for trend estimation of summarized dose–response data were utilized in order to estimate the effect of years since drinking cessation on risk of oesophageal cancer.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims To determine whether collaborative behavioral management (CBM) reduces substance use, crime and re-arrest among drug-involved parolees.
Filed in Evidence Base, crime
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Tagged among-parolees, collaborative, crime, majority, management, parole-offices, primary, role-induction, united-states, versus-standard
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims The aim of the study was to examine the temporal associations between substance use and subclinical psychosis symptoms. Design Data from a prospective community study sampled within a single cohort over 30 years (1978–2008) were analysed with discrete-time hazard models
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, tobacco
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Tagged 30-year-period, analyses-showed, brain-receptors, community-study, drugs, hypothesis, occurrence, sampled-within, study, temporal, the-hypothesis, the-occurrence, tobacco
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Abstract Aims: To assess external validity characteristics of studies from two Cochrane systematic reviews of the effectiveness of universal family-based prevention of alcohol misuse in young people. Methods: Two reviewers used an a priori developed external validity rating form and independently assessed three external validity dimensions of generalizability, applicability, and predictability (GAP) in randomized controlled trials.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged alcohol-misuse, assess-external, economic, included, journal-editors, other-economic, peer-reviewers, populations, reporting, the-reporting, the-validity, validity, validity-rating
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Abstract Aims: To assess the effect of a tailored multi-facetted improvement programme on GPs’ behaviour towards prevention of hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Abstract Aims: To assess longer term outcomes of a drop-in rolling group model of behavioural support for smoking cessation and the factors that influence cessation outcomes. Design: Prospective observational cohort study
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged abstinence-rate, clinical-trials, data-on-socio, deprived-decile, drop-in-rolling, english, live-in-partner, medication, monitoring-data, predictors, smoking, smoking-service, socioeconomic
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims: To identify independent risk factors of the recurrence of alcohol dependence (AD) in persons with a remitted disorder at baseline and persistence of AD in persons with a current disorder at baseline. Design: Prospective cohort study with assessments at baseline and two-year follow-up. Setting: Recruitment from the general population, primary care and outpatient mental health care services
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged during-two-year, dynamic-course, follow-up-were, increased-risk, mental-health, moderate-levels, negative-course, persistence, potential-risk, risk-factors, the-persistence, the-recurrence
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