Attorneys gave their final summaries and appeals to jurors Monday in a trial that seeks to determine the responsibility of the major tobacco companies in hundreds of cigarette-linked illnesses and deaths in West Virginia.
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Also tagged alternate/reduced risk, blankenship, final, final-summaries, harm-reduction, history, lawsuits, major, monday, responsibility, the-major, tobacco, tobacco-companies, west virginia
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People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness, according to researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) who studied U.S. data.
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Also tagged centre, estimated-203, from-the-centre, mental-health, mental-illness, million-people, seven-times, the-most, weekly-compared, widely-used
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Abuse of common anesthetic has ‘rapid downhill course,’ reports Journal of Addiction Medicine Abuse of the anesthesia drug propofol is a “rapidly progressive form of substance dependence” that is being more commonly seen among health care professionals, reports a study in the April Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine…
A new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that alcohol is now the third leading cause of the global burden of disease and injury, despite the fact most adults worldwide abstain from drinking. This research, part of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, was published in this month’s issue of the journal Addiction…
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada (BBBSC) are releasing the first results of one of the largest mentoring studies ever conducted…
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Also tagged bbbsc, brothers, camh, centre, largest, mental, mental-health, mentoring-studies, releasing-the-first, sisters, the-first, the-largest
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Most adults are drinking responsibly, and fewer are smoking or using illicit substances – but several areas of concern were found in the 2011 CAMH Monitor survey of Ontario substance use trends, released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
People who live close to an on-site alcohol outlet, such as a bar, are more likely to engage in risky alcohol behavior, while people who live further away have a lower chance of dangerous drinking.
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Also tagged alcohol-outlet, finnish, how-far, impact-on-risky, journal, lower-chance, on-site-alcohol, person-lives, risky-alcohol, risky-drinking, study-which, the-journal
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Mental illnesses and addictions take more of a toll on the health of Ontarians than cancer or infectious diseases, according to a new report by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario – yet this burden could be reduced with treatment, say scientists from Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)…
Thursday, October 11, 2012
A series of video clips featuring Professor Keith Humphreys have been released by the Film Exchange on Drugs & Alcohol (FEAD). The clips were filmed at the New Directions in the Study of Alcohol Group (NDSAG) 2012 conference.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged achievements, alcohol-group, keith-humphreys, mayor, policy, posted-on-fead, professor-betsy, professor-keith, professor-robin, research, steven-rollnick, study, treatment
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The financial effects of alcoholism on the family members of addicts can be massive, but little is known about whether treatment for alcoholism reduces that financial burden. A study of 48 German families published online in the journal Addiction reveals that after twelve months of treatment, family costs directly related to a family member’s alcoholism decreased from an average of 676…