Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Unfortunately, harm reduction approaches have yet to be widely accepted for those addicted to cigarettes. A new study by the American Cancer Society illustrates the depth of this addiction and the difficulty some smokers face even when a diagnosis of cancer makes it imperative that they quit. One woman, a smoker whose cancerous lung was removed, explained in an MSNBC interview the draw of cigarettes despite the litany of cessation methods she tried.
Background: Within the UK, injecting in the femoral vein (FV), often called ‘groin injecting’, is a serious cause of risk and harm. This study aimed to use ultrasound scanning as a means to engage groin injectors (GIs), examine their femoral injecting sites and assess their venous health, with the intention of developing improved responses. Methods: Between September 2006 and March 2009, GIs attending a network of community drug treatment centres in South East England were invited to attend an ultrasound ‘health-check’ clinic.
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Also tagged categorisations, development, femoral, findings-should, groin-injecting, injecting, intention, modern, study, the-development, venous-health
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Background: Methamphetamine (MA) use during pregnancy is associated with many pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, and abruption. Hawaii has lead the nation in MA use for many years, yet prior to 2007, did not have a comprehensive plan to care for pregnant substance-using women. In 2006, the Hawaii State Legislature funded a pilot perinatal addiction clinic
Filed in Harm Reduction, cocaine
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Also tagged cocaine, edinburgh, family-planning, from-the-women, hawaii, implementation, lead-the-nation, pregnancy, study, university, women
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Neuropathic pain affects between 5% and 10% of the US population and can be refractory to treatment.
Friday, December 30, 2011
PrimeVapor wants smokers to know that there is now a choice between quitting and smoking. Dr. Micheal Siegel is a professor at Boston University
Thursday, December 29, 2011
There is a different way to get that hit of nicotine without hurting yourself and those around you according to prominent harm reduction specialists like Bill Godshall of Smoke Free Pennsylvania. It’s called an e-cigarette and it is the future of smoking in America
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged 2010-concluded, boston, cigarettes-were, different-way, flavor, future, report, research, school, smoke-free, the-harmful
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Monday, December 26, 2011
22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company focused on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction products, today announced X-22, a prescription smoking cessation aid in development consisting of very low nicotine (VLN) cigarettes, showed a reduction of smoking from baseline over the 6-week treatment period in the company’s Phase II-B clinical trial
ABSTRACT Aims: To show the utility of analyzing time trends of need and coverage of needle-exchange programs (NEPs) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) to assess harm reduction policies targeting drug injectors or heroin users. Design: Multiple methods applied to secondary data. Setting: Spain
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged after-the-peak, analyzing-time, between-the-two, concomitant, difference, drug-injectors, enabling-better, injecting-drug, methods-applied, targeting-drug, the-timeliness, timeliness, utility
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Results from the UK's largest brief intervention study, the SIPS trial , will be officialy released at a conference on Monday 5th March 2012, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Download the flyer for Alcohol Screening and Brief Interventions: From Research into Practice [pdf]. The event is a one day conference including the launch of SIPS Junior, a new trial into brief interventions for adolescents.
Filed in Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol-harm, college, data-collection, emergency, far-conducted, health, intervention, national, primary-health, psychiatry, research, screening, study
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Abstract Aim: To explore the facilitators of long-term hepatitis C avoidance among people who inject drugs. Design: We employed a qualitative life history design
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged facilitators, homes, inject-drugs, life-history, north, potential, recruitment, south-east, such-as-venous, the-recruitment, threshold-drug, venous-access
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