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
ABSTRACT Aims To inform policy makers on available options for improving the effectiveness of treatments for substance use disorders and to stimulate debate about treatment improvement strategies among public officials, clinical providers, care managers, service users, families and researchers.
Filed in Evidence Base, recovery
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Also tagged countries, endeavor, recovery, reward-outcomes, scientific, strategies-face, their-countries, time-relocating, united, united-states
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ABSTRACT It has been argued that the preponderance of studies into individual smoking cessation therapies seems grossly out of proportion to the number of people who use these therapies to quit smoking, and that this imbalance is due to factors such as the role of the pharmaceutical industry in funding research and a general bias towards individual- rather than population-based approaches to medical and health problems. We believe that there are other significant factors that affect the balance of research in smoking cessation, such as the higher standards of evidence required to justify the implementation of individual medical therapies compared with population-based interventions. We argue that research practitioners in the area of population tobacco control are well placed to address this imbalance by setting more rigorous standards of evidence for population health interventions.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged area, balance, beyond-the-cost, existence, imbalance, implementation, pharmaceutical, preponderance, smoking-rates, such-as-better, the-additional, tobacco
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ABSTRACT: Aims: In Brazil, a new law introduced in 2008 has lowered the blood alcohol concentration limit for drivers from 0.06 to 0.02, but the effectiveness in reducing traffic accidents remains uncertain. This study evaluated the effects of this enactment on road traffic fatalities and injuries
ABSTRACT Aims: To determine the incidence of long-term injection cessation and its association with residential relocation and neighborhood deprivation. Design: ALIVE (AIDS Linked to the Intravenous Experience) is a prospective cohort with semi-annual follow-up since 1988. Multi-level discrete time-to-event models were constructed to investigate individual and neighborhood-level predictors of long-term injection cessation
Filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Also tagged aids, cocaine, destination, follow-up-since, highly-deprived, incidence, intravenous, its-association, less-deprived, long-term, the-deprivation, the-destination, usa
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This qualitative study of travel-related risk behaviours of Slovene injection drug users was based on interviews with individuals enrolled in drug addiction treatment programmes run by three regional centres for prevention and treatment of drug addiction. The primary objective of the study was to analyse behaviour patterns and practices of injection drug users during travel
ABSTRACT Aims: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to assess the methodological quality and effectiveness of behavioural smoking cessation interventions targeted at six disadvantaged groups; the homeless, prisoners, indigenous populations, at risk youth, individuals with low socio-economic status, and individuals with a mental illness. Methods: Medline, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library and PsycInfo databases were searched using MeSH and keywords for studies conducted in developed countries prior to October 2010
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged cessation-rates, groups-appears, homeless, illness-at-long, methodological, most-effective, narrative, rates-at-short, research, targeted-at-low, targeted-at-six
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