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Addiction to nicotine trumps even lung cancer

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Unfortunately, harm reduction approaches have yet to be widely accepted for those addicted to cigarettes. A new study by the American Cancer Society illustrates the depth of this addiction and the difficulty some smokers face even when a diagnosis of cancer makes it imperative that they quit. One woman, a smoker whose cancerous lung was removed, explained in an MSNBC interview the draw of cigarettes despite the litany of cessation methods she tried.

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Drink Wine To Beat Dementia Risk, But Find The Balance Study Reports

Friday, August 19, 2011

For over thirty years research has been done and much debate has carried on about the benefits or risks associated with drinking alcohol and wine in particular.

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Greater advertising of smokeless tobacco worth the investment

Monday, August 1, 2011

Though excited to learn that consumption of cigarettes declined by 8 percent from 2006 to 2008, ACSH’s Dr.

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Does sponsorship improve outcomes above Alcoholics Anonymous attendance? A latent class growth curve analyses

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

ABSTRACT Aims  To construct AA attendance, sponsorship, and abstinence latent class trajectories to test the added benefit of having a sponsor above the benefits of attendance in predicting abstinence over time. Design  Prospective with 1-, 3-, 5-, and 7-year follow-ups. Setting and participants  Alcoholic-dependent individuals from two probability samples, one from representative public and private treatment programs and another from the general population (n = 495).

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Best evidence yet for web-based alcohol self-help

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The UK drug and alcohol research bank Findings has released the bulletin 'Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world' . According to the Findings bulletin: 'The researchers concluded that the featured study had shown that the benefits established by the randomised controlled trial would be sustained when the intervention was made routinely and generally available to the public

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CASAA | The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association

Friday, April 9, 2010

CASAA is a non-profit organization that works to ensure the availability of reduced harm alternatives to smoking and to provide smokers and non-smokers alike with truthful information about such alternatives. Our mission is to ensure the availability of effective, affordable and reduced harm alternatives to smoking by increasing public awareness and education; to encourage the testing and development of products to achieve acceptable safety standards and reasonable regulation; and to promote the benefits of reduced harm alternatives. Within this site you will find published news stories, scientific studies, links and campaign materials to help in the fight to keep electronic cigarettes and other harm reduction methods publicly available

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Dual-focus mutual aid for co-occurring disorders: a quasi-experimental outcome evaluation study.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

This study helps demonstrate the benefits of introducing 12-step, dual-focus mutual aid into psychiatric treatment programs that serve patients with co-occurring disorders.

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