Guest post courtesy of Claire James, Policy Officer at Mentor , a charity that works to protect children and young people from the harms of drugs and alcohol, which has recently produced ‘Reviewing your drug and alcohol policy: a toolkit for schools’ .
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged advice, claire-james, from-the-harms, Guidance, learning, mentor, policy, policy-officer, rules, school
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Conclusions: Results suggest the need for further education regarding the dangers of psychiatric medication-seeking, particularly related to seeking medication from peers. Scientific Significance: This study is the first to assess psychosocial characteristics of college students who seek prescription psychiatric medications for misuse
ABSTRACT Aims Family history of alcohol use problems is a reliable determinant of alcohol use and problems in the population at large, but findings are inconsistent when this issue is examined in college and university students.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-use, differences, family, family-history, five-countries, from-the-united, grouping, literature, majority, population, study, substance-use, the-population, united
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Abstract Aims: Family history of alcohol use problems is a reliable determinant of alcohol use and problems in the population at large, but findings are inconsistent when this issue is examined in college and university students. No quantitative summary of this literature has been reported to date
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Abstract: Background: In Brazil the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) allowed for driving was changed to zero in 2008. If the BAC found is above 0.6g/L, drivers may be arrested
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged bac, brazil, brazilian, collected-data, data-on-drivers, family, highway-patrol, influence, legal, roadside-survey, subjects
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit in the Section of General Internal Medicine at BMC was recently awarded a $1,886,087 renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand its education of physicians-in-training to become sophisticated implementers of substance use screening, assessment and treatment research…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 087-renewal, bmc, clinical, clinical-addiction, expand-its, from-the-national, general-internal, health, medicine, medicine-at-bmc, national, research, section, substance-use
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Abstract Aims . This study examined the contribution of transmissible risk, in conjunction with family and peer contextual factors during childhood and adolescence, on development of cannabis use disorder in adulthood. Design .
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis
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Also tagged abuse-research, association, contribution, developmental, deviant-peers, family, illegal-drugs, late-childhood, recruited-under, studied-at-ages, study, study-examined
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Abstract: Background: Russia faces a worsening IDU/HIV epidemic. This paper examines the social and economic characteristics of injecting drug users in two cities in Russia and compares this with the general population to explore their social and economic needs and the wider implications of the epidemic for the economy and society.Methods: A cross sectional survey of 711 IDUs in two Russian cities (Volgograd and Barnaul) recruited by a modified chain referral sampling method.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged cross-sectional, economic-needs, financial-help, from-relatives, illegal-or-semi, income, life-style-make, modified-chain, monthly-income, russia, russian, skilled-manual, towns
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The Home Office has opened consultation on the new drugs strategy to be published later this year. Though focused on illegal drugs, the consultation asks for views in respect of alcohol, especially where a 'joint approach is appropriate, particularly around prevention, treatment and recovery'.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy, recovery
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Also tagged alcohol-policy, break-the-cycle, consultation, drugs, health, office, preventing-drug, recovery, strategy, substance misuse
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Conclusions: These results confirm a similar high prevalence of TST positivity in opioid-dependent patients enrolling in MMT and BMT programs. Racial and ethnic health disparities remain associated with TST positivity, yet a relationship between higher education and tuberculosis requires further investigation. Scientific significance: These data suggest the importance of incorporating TST screening in emerging BMT programs as a mechanism to provide increased detection and treatment of tuberculosis infection in opioid-dependent patient populations