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Binge Drinking: Too Prevalent And Hazardous – Editorial

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Binge drinking, an activity that many young people engage in, has associated adverse health risks and we need to do a better job of controlling overall alcohol usage, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Given the many stakeholders involved in the sale and consumption of alcohol, we need a national strategy for controlling overall alcohol use,” write Drs…

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DDN reports on Alcohol Concern 2010 conference ‘Is drinking damaging childhood?’

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The latest Drink and Drugs news includes a feature report on the recent Alcohol Concern conference 'Is drinking damaging childhood?' The DDN editorial reads: This issue’s cover story makes a very good case, not just for intervention, but early enough intervention.

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Alcohol/Drug/Substance “Abuse”: The History and (Hopeful) Demise of a Pernicious Labe

Monday, February 22, 2010

As a group of trainers we care passionately about language – words that appear neutral or scientific can be used to rationalise prejudice and further stigmatise the client group. In the training room we see this with phrases that include words like ‘rock bottom’, ‘motivated’ and chaotic.
This paper  Alcohol/Drug/Substance “Abuse”: The History and (Hopeful) Demise [...]

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EDITORIAL: Tobacco Substitutes: Harm Reduction or Smokescreen?: ThePLoS Medicine editors discuss whether publishing papers on smokeless tobacco…

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The editorial this month was triggered by a discussion among the editors at PLoS Medicine about whether or not we should, as a medical journal, be publishing papers on the use of smokeless tobacco (snus), the topic of the debate by Gartner, Chapman, and colleagues [1]). At one end of the spectrum of views expressed, one editor argued that we should not give the topic room in the journal at all, because even discussion of the use of snus simply plays into the hands of the tobacco industry, which has a notorious history of doing anything it can to addict people to tobacco

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