Nearly one out of seven college students surveyed at a Texas university has participated in the Choking Game, a dangerous behavior where blood flow is deliberately cut off to the brain in order to achieve a high, according to a study by The Crime Victims’ Institute at Sam Houston State University…
Filed in Uncategorized, crime
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Also tagged brain, choking, crime-victims, dangerous-behavior, houston, houston-state, institute, institute-at-sam, seven-college, students-surveyed, texas, the-brain
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Abstract Aims: To determine whether collaborative behavioral management (CBM) reduces substance use, crime and re-arrest among drug-involved parolees.
Filed in Evidence Base, crime
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Also tagged among-parolees, collaborative, drug-violation, majority, management, parole-offices, positive-tools, primary, role-induction, versus-standard
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
To coincide with Alcohol Awareness Week (AAW), Drink Wise North West have launched an appeal for 'Alcohol Champions' to support and lead alcohol harm reduction approaches. To support potential champions, two new Drink Wise packs have been published: The Know More pack sets out the health, financial, social and crime costs in the NW, and supports professionals in building up a business case for change. With 1 in 7 people in the NW drinking at levels which put their health at risk, it's a timely reminder of the sobering consequences of alcohol misuse
Filed in Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged alcohol industry, champion, champions, damaging, drink, drink-wise, health, health-at-risk, make-the-case, north, north-west, sobering, tackle-alcohol, timely-reminder
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
In June 2011 the Global Commission on Drug Policy, of which I am proud to be the chair, released its report calling for fundamental reforms to drug policies. Together with my colleagues – former and serving heads of state including Ruth Dreifuss, George Papandreou, Ernesto Zedillo and Cesar Gaviria, prominent business people and intellectuals, and former high level UN officials including Kofi Annan – we called for urgent action to stem the tide of drug-related harm, organised crime and drug-related violence ().
Filed in Evidence Base, crime
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Also tagged 2011-the-global, cesar-gaviria, chair, colleagues, dreifuss, ernesto-zedillo, global, high-level, serving-heads, state-including, stem-the-tide, urgent-action
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
After men become fathers for the first time, they show significant decreases in crime, tobacco and alcohol use, according to a new, 19-year study. Researchers assessed more than 200 at-risk boys annually from the age of 12 to 31, and examined how men’s crime, tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use changed over time…
Filed in Uncategorized, crime, tobacco
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Also tagged alcohol-use, assessed-more, at-risk-boys, from-the-age, how-men, men's health, men-become, the-age, the-first, tobacco, use-changed
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims To review evidence on effectiveness of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) in prison and post-release.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Recent research from the drug and alcohol Effectiveness Bank : Probation and NHS alcohol team working well in West Yorkshire In northern England the probation and NHS alcohol team were working well together to deliver alcohol treatment requirements, and most of the problem-drinking offenders on the orders engaged with treatment and stopped drinking or cut back. Better lives for problem-drinking offenders in Lancashire Problem-drinking offenders in the north of England who agreed to be ordered in to alcohol treatment by the courts substantially cut their drinking and offending and experienced improved health and wellbeing. Crime cut and drinking less but still too much in the Midlands In the English Midlands, problem-drinking offenders who agreed to be ordered in to alcohol treatment by the courts started with a worse prognosis than comparable previous offenders but still slightly fewer reoffended; also their drinking was reduced, though for many it remained excessive
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged alcohol-findings, drinking, Guidance, health, midlands, probation, research, slightly-fewer, treatment
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Abstract Aims: To estimate the effect on violence of small changes in closing hours for on-premise alcohol sales, and to assess whether a possible effect is symmetrical.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to separate studies led by University of California, Riverside researchers…
Filed in Uncategorized, crime
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Also tagged alcoholic-beverages, california, level-limit, limit-the-number, liquor-stores, number, riverside, sale, separate-studies, the-local, the-number, the-sale, university
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