Friday, September 21, 2012
Abstract Aims To test the population impact of offering automated smoking cessation interventions via the Internet and/or by mobile phone.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged abstinence-rate, advice-program, analysing-cases, automated-text, combined, groups-combined, internet, interventions, month-sustained, population, quitcoach, recent-quitters
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Aims Opioid maintenance therapy (OMT) is generally recommended for pregnant opioid-dependent women. Previous studies investigating the long-term effects of OMT on children’s cognitive development found that children of women in OMT have an increased risk of developing deficits in motor and visual perceptual skills, which are important aspects of the mirror neuron system (MNS), a complex neural circuit involved in learning and social interactions. The aim of the current study was to investigate aspects of the MNS in children of women in OMT.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged complex-neural, current, eye-movements, fewer-proactive, increased-risk, map-children, mixed-factorial, omt, research, research-unit, the-long-term, university
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Conclusions: The CM conditions examined in the current study did not emerge as superior to the control condition. The lack of significant differences among study conditions may be attributed, in part, to study sample size. Additionally, methodological issues related to the CM intervention may also have compromised outcomes, including delay in reinforcement following the target behavior and limited contact with the reinforcer
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Also tagged conditions-may, current, importance, including-delay, issues-related, reinforcer, study, study-sample, target, target-behavior, the-control, the-importance
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
India is facing with an urgent need to scale up opioid substitution treatment (OST) for people who inject drugs. Conventional models for scale up, via expansion of specialist OST facilities may not cover a sizeable target population. Delivering OST in a public health setting, in collaboration with non-government organizations (NGO) delivering targeted interventions has been conceptualized by the Indian National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) as a way to scale-up existing OST services in the country, which currently includes 52 OST centres having 4800 clients.
Abstract: Background: A systematic review was conducted to determine whether behavioural interventions are effective in preventing transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) amongst people who inject drugs.Methods: Medline, EMBASE, the Cochrane Clinical Trial Database, PSYCHINFO and hand-searching of bibliographies were used to identify controlled trials of behavioural interventions for reducing HCV transmission amongst people who inject drugs. Behavioural interventions were defined as non-pharmacological interventions that aimed to change individual behaviours without explicitly attempting to change population norms.Results: Six trials evaluating peer-education training and counselling interventions were included in the review.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged amongst-people, behavioural, cochrane, defined-as-non, effect-on-hcv, group-compared, impact, injecting-risk, intervention, review, trial-database
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Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today announced $12.3 million in new Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) grants to 87 communities and 20 new DFC Mentoring grants across the country…
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Also tagged 12-3-million, across-the-country, communities, control-policy, country, kerlikowske, mentoring, national-drug, program, support-program, today-announced
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
So called alcoholic energy drinks with caffeine added have been banned by the Alcoholics Beverages Control Commission of Massachusetts, the fifth US state to make such a move recently. The Commission filed an emergency regulation banning the distribution of these types of drinks and ordering that they be taken off shelves…
Friday, November 12, 2010
Approval for alcohol energy drinks has been withdrawn by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. The Commission has informed that manufacturers have thirty days to remove these products from the State…
Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests. In a study available online in Cancer Causes and Control, researchers found that the more alcohol a man consumed, the higher his risk of pancreatic cancer compared with those who drank little or no alcohol…
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing the availability of more than $1.1 million for new Drug Free Communities Support Mentoring program (DFC Mentoring) grants…