A major new study shows that a pregnant mother’s diet not only sensitizes the fetus to those smells and flavors, but physically changes the brain directly impacting what the infant eats and drinks in the future…
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Also tagged brain, diet-not, fetus, infant, major-new, only-sensitizes, pregnancy / obstetrics, pregnant-mother, study-shows, the-fetus, the-infant
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The latest Alcohol Alert [pdf] from the Institure of Alcohol Studies ( IAS ) is now out. See here for the list of reports , including takes on the future of alcohol policy under the Coalition and other alcohol policy news and coverage.
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Also tagged alcohol pricing, alcohol-alert, alcohol-policy, alcohol-studies, alert, from-the-institure, ias, including-takes, institure, licensing, policy, research, the-future, under-the-coalition
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Monday, September 27, 2010
This month's Drink & Drugs News (DDN) features an article exploring the future for alcohol policy given the significant changes facing the field. The comment explores the possible threats and opportunities for alcohol as it seeks to find its voice within wider substance misuse and public health agendas
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Is there a future for the traditional British pub? Martin Wainwright investigates in: Guardian Focus podcast: The future of the British pub
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Also tagged alcohol industry, britain, british, business-every, changing-social, future-might, guardian-focus, licensing, past, people-want, pubs, the-traditional, traditional, wainwright
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Italian youths whose parents allowed them to have alcohol with meals while they were growing up are less likely to develop harmful drinking patterns in the future, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher…
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Conclusion: The phenomenology of excessive nonpara- philic sexual disorder favors its conceptualization as an addictive behavior, rather than an obsessive-compulsive, or an impulse con- trol disorder. Moreover, the criteria that are quite close to those of addictive disorders were recently proposed for the future DSM-V in order to improve the characterization of this condition. Finally, controlled studies are warranted in order to establish clear guidelines for treatment of sexual addiction.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Aims The addiction sciences are intrinsically multi-disciplinary, and economics is among the disciplines that offer useful perspectives on the complex behaviors surrounding substance abuse. This paper summarizes contributions economics has made in the past and could make in the future towards understanding how illegal markets operate, how prices affect use, how use generates various consequences, and how policy shapes all three.Methods Review of literature, concentrating on illegal drugs as insights concerning markets are particularly salient, although we also mention relevant studies from the alcohol and tobacco fields.Findings and Conclusions Economics offers tools and topical expertise that usefully complement other disciplines associated traditionally with the addiction sciences. Its value goes far beyond the ability to monetize non-monetary outcomes or to calculate a cost-benefit ratio.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged ability, addiction, alcohol, complex, conclusions, disciplines, illegal-drugs, markets-operate, methods-review, offers-tools, paper, policy-shapes, review, tobacco
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Prevention research concerning alcohol, tobacco and other drugs faces a number of challenges as the scientific foundation is strengthened for the future. Seven issues which the prevention research field should address are discussed: lack of transparency in analyses of prevention program outcomes, lack of disclosure of copyright and potential for profit/income during publication, post-hoc outcome variable selection and reporting only outcomes which show positive and statistical significance at any follow-up point, tendency to evaluate statistical significance only rather than practical significance as well, problem of selection bias in terms of selecting subjects and limited generalizability, the need for confirmation of outcomes in which only self-report data are used and selection of appropriate statistical distributions in conducting significance testing. In order to establish a solid scientific base for alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention, this paper calls for discussions, disclosures and debates about the above issues (and others) as essential
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Also tagged above-issues, drug-prevention, drugs, income-during, only-outcomes, prevention, research-field, scientific, selection-bias, should-address, the-scientific, tobacco
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