Abstract Aims: The aim of the study was to examine the temporal associations between substance use and sub-clinical psychosis symptoms. Design: Data from a prospective community study sampled within a single cohort over 30 years (1978-2008) were analyzed with discrete-time hazard models
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, tobacco
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Also tagged 30-year-period, brain-receptors, occurrence, sampled-within, study, temporal, the-hypothesis, the-occurrence, tobacco
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The current edition of Drink and Drugs News (DDN), the free substance misuse publication, includes a feature which explores how recession can affect alcohol and drug use.
Filed in Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy, tobacco
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol pricing, current-edition, economy, essentials, gerry-stimson, income, industry, less-affected, lighter-or-more, regulators, tobacco
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Monday, November 21, 2011
In the oldest work of literature, it takes seven pitchers of beer to make a savage man ‘fully human’ (Gligamesh, tr , p.
Monday, November 21, 2011
consider the possibility that drug law enforcement may be ineffective, expensive and accompanied by serious unwanted adverse consequences.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
In the first worldwide study of its kind, scientists from Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found evidence that heavy methamphetamine users might have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. This finding was based on a large study comparing the risk among methamphetamine users not only to a group that did not use drugs, but also to heavy users of other drugs…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged addiction, finding, heavy-users, higher-risk, large-study, mental-health, risk, schizophrenia, toronto, users-might, worldwide-study
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The sociological ‘imagination’ has long sustained theoretical and empirical interest in the consumption of alcohol and other drugs (AOD). Extending across the social sciences and into the arts and humanities, this impulse has inspired diverse accounts of the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of AOD use in a range of disparate settings ()
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Aims: There are no studies directly comparing self-administration of methamphetamine and d -amphetamine by humans. This study compared intranasal methamphetamine- and d -amphetamine self-administration and characterized the mood, performance, and physiological effects produced by the drugs.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged assessed-before, chose-between, drug-or-money, drugs-increased, effects-on-some, equivalence, majority, methamphetamine, sampled, some-measures, study, study-compared
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popular music.
Friday, September 16, 2011
People who drink heavily may increase their risk of dying in house fires that should otherwise have been escapable, a new study suggests.
Conclusions: Further investigation is needed to determine if simple, naïve procedures such as the ELCON algorithms are optimal for comparing clinical study treatment arms. But researchers who currently require an automated algorithm in scenarios similar to those simulated for combining TLFB and UDS to test group differences in stimulant use should consider one of the ELCON algorithms. Scientific Significance: This analysis continues a line of inquiry which could determine how best to measure outpatient stimulant use in clinical trials (NIDA.