Recent research from the drug and alcohol Bank : Alcohol Interventions in the British Criminal Justice System Unmet need for alcohol services in English prisons Prison inspections and surveys of prisoners and staff in England reveal what HM Inspectorate of Prisons called a depressing picture of very limited services for problem drinking inmates, leaving them with poor prospects on release. Scottish prisons leave many problem drinkers without help
Abstract From the pre-teen to the mid-teen years, rates of alcohol use and misuse increase rapidly. Cross-sectional research shows that positive family emotional climate (low conflict, high closeness) is protective, and there is emerging evidence that these protective mechanisms are different for girls versus boys.
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Also tagged alcohol-use, australia, dependent, development, explore-gender, family-conflict, family-variables, high-closeness, high-risk-peer, longitudinal, research-shows, the-dependent
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Abstract Background: The cognitive impairment and recovery associated with chronic alcohol abuse and subsequent abstinence is well understood.
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Also tagged between-chronic, chronic-alcohol, episodic-users, exception, heavy-episodic, impaired-visual, motor-deficits, motor-problems, normal-levels, population, recovery, visual-motor
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Alcohol dependence is a strong predictor of later marriage and earlier separation, said researchers who studied over 5,000 Australian twins of various ages…
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Abstract Aims: To evaluate the proposed revisions to the DSM-IV alcohol use disorder criteria using epidemiological data. Design, setting and participants: Data came from the 1997 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being
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Also tagged alcohol-use, all-respondents, craving, diagnosed-under, from-the-1997, inclusion, legal, mental-health, national-survey, prevalence, proposed, revised-version, survey, the-prevalence
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims This study investigated the association between alcohol consumption and health status using cross-sectional national survey data. Measurements and design This study relied upon self-report data collected by the 2004 and 2007 Australian National Drug Strategy Household (NDSH) surveys. Households were selected using a multi-stage, stratified-area, random sample design.
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Also tagged between-alcohol, data-collected, general-health, having-reduced, national-drug, national-survey, observed, past, presence, stopped-alcohol, the-association, years-or-older
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The Australian Psychological Society (APS) will offer psychological assistance to sportspeople and sporting organisations to deal with drugs in sport as part of a new government initiative. As part of the Australian Government’s $20…
The Australian Drug Foundation is astonished to see not one mention of alcohol and other drugs in all thirteen recommendations from the House of Representatives inquiry into the impact of violence on young Australians. The report, Avoid the Harm – Stay Calm, is due to be released today…
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Also tagged all-thirteen, avoid, avoid-the-harm, drugs, from-the-house, harm, house, impact, other-drugs, representatives, see-not, the-impact
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The Australian Drug Foundation’s Youth Strategy Officer, Clancy Wright, has been chosen as a Churchill fellow to investigate ways to change Australia’s drinking culture. “After the trauma of watching the vicious assault of my friend, I am determined to find some real solutions to changing the way we as a nation drink alcohol,” said Mr Wright…
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Also tagged australia, clancy, clancy-wright, find-some, friend, nation-drink, officer, real-solutions, the-trauma, trauma, vicious, youth, youth-strategy
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From studying Australian twins, new research says that genetic factors appear to influence the development of gambling disorders in both men and women. These were the findings of Dr Wendy S…