Friday, November 11, 2011
Sociology has contributed much to the study of drug use and dependence, as numerous reviews can attest (e.g. )
Abstract Aims: Ketamine remains an important medicine in both specialist anaesthesia and aspects of pain management. At the same time, its use as a recreational drug has spread in many parts of the world over the past few years. There are now increasing concerns about the harmful physical and psychological consequences of repeated misuse of this drug.
Abstract: Background: A recent decline in MDMA-like substances in ecstasy tablets has been reported by a number of countries in the European Union.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction, cocaine
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Also tagged further-insight, harm-reduction, instability, number, recent-decline, reduced-ecstasy, samples-at-drug, study, study-describes, users-handing
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Marijuana is the most prevalent illicit drug used by teenagers and adults around the world. Nearly a third of high school students in the United States report smoking it, and most high schoolers say they have access to the drug
People seeking help for their alcohol or other drug problems enter treatment with very different levels of motivation to change.
Regular cannabis users who start using the drug before the age of 15 perform worse on brain tests than those who start later, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers from the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo say their study suggests that early cannabis use may have more harmful effects on people’s cognitive functioning…
Filed in Uncategorized, cannabis
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Also tagged before-the-age, brain-tests, british, british-journal, drug-before, more-harmful, new-research, perform-worse, study, study-suggests, universidade, using-the-drug, worse-on-brain
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ABSTRACT Aims Smoking cessation trials generally record information on daily smoking behavior, but base analyses on measures of smoking status at the end of treatment (EOT). We present an alternative approach that analyzes the entire sequence of daily smoking status observations
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged abstinence-data, approach-should, biased-results, daily-smoking, entire-sequence, estimated, longitudinal, models-indicate, observed-some, smoking, smoking-history, yields-similar
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ABSTRACT Aims. To assess the patterns of use, subjective effect profile and dependence liability of mephedrone, supported by corroborative urine toxicology. Design. Cross sectional structured telephone interview. Setting: UK based drug users associated with the dance music scene
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 100-mephedrone, after-effects, dance, dance-music, involvement, jaw-clenching, mephedrone, patterns, risk-liability, the-predominant, used-the-drug
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The United States has a problem, a big problem. Prescription drug abuse is taking over.
ObjectiveTo assess factors associated with drug-related harms related to policing among injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana, Mexico.
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Also tagged assess-factors, bought-or-used, drug-injection, drugs-or-were, frequencies, mexico-methods, needle-exchange, policing-within, risky-behaviors, rush-injections, such-as-needle
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