Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Background: Cannabis intoxication is related to a number of physical and mental health risks with ensuing social costs. However, little attention has been given to the investigation of possible pharmacological interactions in this condition. Objective: To review the available scientific literature concerning pharmacological interventions for the treatment of the acute effects of cannabis
Filed in Harm Reduction, cannabis
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Also tagged clinical-trials, condition, evidence, investigation, management, mental-health, physiological, pubmed, reference, review, search, their-reference, treatment
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The U.S. Joint Commission recently approved new hospital accreditation measures related to alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for all hospitalized patients.
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged alcohol-screening, brief-intervention, brief-interventions, commission, healthcare-professionals, inpatient-acceptability, joint-commission, measures-related, new-hospital, recently-approved, sbirt, the-effectiveness
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Abstract Aims: To identify and assess the effectiveness of experimental studies of interventions that report on multiple risk behaviour outcomes in young people.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Abstract Aims. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief intervention (BI) for illicit drugs (cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine-type stimulants and opioids) linked to the WHO Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST). The ASSIST screens for problem or risky use of 10 psychoactive substances,producing a score for each substance that falls into either a low’, moderate’ or high’ risk category.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Aim To examine the effectiveness of a stage-matched smoking cessation counselling intervention for smokers who had cardiac diseases Methods 1860 Chinese cardiac patients who smoked at least 1 cigarette in the past 7 days and aged 18 or above recruited from cardiac outpatient clinics of Hong Kong hospitals were randomly allocated to an intervention or control group. The intervention group (n = 938) received counselling matched with their stage of readiness to quit by trained-counsellors at baseline, 1-week, and 1-month. The control group (n = 922) received a brief counselling on healthy diet at baseline
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged 12-month-follow, above-recruited, baseline, china, chinese, control-group, hospitals-were, intervention, promote-smoking, smoked-at-least, stages, the-12-month, tobacco
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
A new study is the first to examine the effectiveness of a widely used counseling approach to treating substance abuse among African-Americans. The study found that African-American women were more likely than men to continue a counseling approach to treating substance abuse, but their substance-abuse issues continued…
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims To assess the effectiveness of methamphetamine precursor regulations in reducing illicit methamphetamine supply and use. Methods A systematic review of 12 databases was used to identify studies that had evaluated the impact of methamphetamine precursor regulations on methamphetamine supply and/or use.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged availability, determine-which, effective, evaluation, existence, impact, inclusion, methamphetamine, north, north-america, regulations, research, seen-following, synthetic
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Recent research from the drug and alcohol Effectiveness Bank : Parenting intervention has remarkable impact on teen drunkenness In this initial developer-led trial in one county in Sweden, routine parent-school meetings encouraging commitment to take a strong stand against underage drinking had a remarkable impact on adolescent drunkenness. Benefits fade after fine-tuning prevention to high risk personality traits Addressing the substance use promoting tendencies of the personality traits of London schoolchildren at particular risk of substance misuse led to persistently lower drink-related problems, but after a year drinking itself was not significantly affected. Parent-child intervention prevents heavy drinking in Dutch teens In this Dutch study, promoting parental rule setting and classroom alcohol education together nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who later went to drink heavily.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol, average-student, binge drinking, convincing, london, personality, proportion, substance, sweden, telling-college, the-personality, used-the-same
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The World Health Organization (WHO) have released Government guidance on alcohol regulation: Addressing the harmful use of alcohol – a guide to developing effective alcohol regulation The guide is to assist government agencies and ministries in developing country-level legislation to implement, monitor and enforce effective alcohol policies. It provides practical advice based on international experience about the implications of legislative options, steps to be taken to implement legislation and best practice on how to enforce legislation and support compliance.
Abstract Aims: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the rebro prevention program ( PP), an alcohol misuse prevention programme that aims to reduce youth drinking by changing parental behaviour. Design: Cluster-randomized trial, with schools randomly assigned to the PP or no intervention. Setting: Forty municipal schools in 13 counties in Sweden