Abstract Aims and design The historical and economic involvement of Brazil with tobacco, as a major producer and exporter, was considered an insurmountable obstacle to controlling the consumption of this product. Nevertheless, the country was able to achieve significant progress in implementing public policies and to take an international leadership position, meeting its constitutional commitment to protect public health. In this paper we provide a brief historical overview of tobacco control (TC) in Brazil, and analyse the factors that contributed to the major decline in tobacco consumption in the country over the last 20 years, as well as identify the challenges that had to be overcome and those still at play.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged brazil, challenges, consumption, country, legislative, respective, still-at-play, the-consumption, the-country, tobacco, tobacco-control
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Abstract: In a special issue of the journal Addictions (1995) academics, researchers and health care professionals debated the status of the empirical in socially orientated drugs research. A number of researchers noted that our knowledge and understanding of drugs and drug users has changed significantly since the 1990s. Post AIDS this shift is identified as a consequence of the development of qualitative research methods.
Abstract Aim To examine the relationship between a childhood diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with or without oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)/conduct disorder (CD) and the development of later alcohol/drug use disorder (psychoactive substance use disorder (PSUD)) and nicotine dependence in a large European sample of ADHD probands, their siblings and healthy control subjects. Participants, DesignSetting Subjects (n=1017) were participants in the Belgian, Dutch and German part of the International Multicenter ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) study.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged abuse-screening, adhd, children, comorbidity, design, disorder, genetics, german, image, international, relationship, risk, substance-use
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Drugscope , the national organisation representing the drug treatment sector, has published a briefing exploring the public health reforms and their expected impacts on drug and alcohol services. Download The Public Health Reforms: What they mean for drug and alcohol services [pdf] The briefing explains the key changes including: In April 2013, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse will be abolished and its key functions transferred into Public Health England. Most of the current budget for drug and alcohol services will be transferred to Directors of Public Health employed by Local Authorities, who will also be statutory members of the new Health and Wellbeing Boards
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Background: Despite its increasing prevalence and acceptance among the general public, cannabis use continues to be viewed as an aberrant activity in many contexts. However, little is known about how stigma associated with cannabis use affects individuals who use cannabis for therapeutic purposes (CTP) and what strategies these individuals employ to manage associated stigma. The aim of this Canadian study was to describe users’ perceptions of and responses to the stigma attached to using CTP.
Abstract Aims The main intention of this retrospective study was to investigate whether chronic illicit drug abuse, especially the intravenous use of opioids (heroin) could potentially trigger the development of myocardial fibrosis in drug addicts.
Filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Also tagged austria, between-females, cerebellum, cocaine, heroin-addicts, hewlett-packard, intravenous, mean-proportion, morphometric, myocardium, retrospective, the-myocardium, whether-chronic
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Abstract Aims Local alcohol policies can be effective in reducing alcohol-related harm. The aim of this study was to examine local government responses to alcohol-related problems and identify factors influencing their development and adoption of alcohol policy
Abstract Aims To examine the barriers and facilitators to effective operation of a regional tobacco control coordinator working within and across criminal justice and public health, whose goal was to raise tobacco control awareness and support the development of smoking cessation treatment for offenders.
Filed in Evidence Base, Guidance, tobacco
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Also tagged coordinator, criminal, english, improve-smoking, police-custody, prison, project, service-appears, the-development, tobacco-control, working-within
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Abstract Aims The NHS Stop Smoking Service (NHS-SSS) helps approximately half its clients to quit for 4 weeks. However, most initially successful quitters relapse within 6 months. Short message service (SMS) texting has been shown to facilitate stopping smoking.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Abstract Aims Many observational studies suggest that increased drinking frequency is associated with reduced mortality among those with low-dose alcohol consumption. The purpose of this paper was to examine whether frequent drinkers consume lower-risk amounts during drinking days or have favorable risk factor profiles compared with those who drink less frequently, and discuss implications for the larger debate about the limitations of non-randomized studies about moderate’ drinking and the development of low-risk drinking guidelines. Methods Data from the 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey were used to characterize alcohol consumption characteristics and their relationship with risk factors among adult drinking men who consumed an average of fewer than two drinks per day and adult drinking adult women who consumed an average of less than one drink per day.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged amounts-during, average-alcohol, drinking-adult, drinking-days, drinking-limits, during-drinking, examine-whether, from-the-2008, limitations, may-contribute, prevalence, relationship, studies-suggest, the-development
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