Thursday, January 26, 2012
Abstract Aims: Smokers who lapse during a cessation attempt are at particularly high risk of relapse, so interventions to help smokers recover from lapses are urgently needed. Two recent studies have suggested continuing to use nicotine patches following a lapse may be a beneficial relapse prevention strategy.
Conclusions: Participants had a clear preference for a particular medication. Offering a choice of medications to OT individuals might enhance their likelihood of entering treatment
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: Individual differences in reinforcement sensitivity may influence the acquisition of positive and negative outcome expectancies, thereby potentially influencing the likelihood of alcohol use in early adolescence.
Friday, November 18, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims This study aims to: (i) explore the relations between smoking initiation and different profiles of academic achievement trajectories in early to mid-adolescence; (ii) to investigate whether background characteristics (gender, ethnicity, grade repetition, parental education) and proximal processes (parental practices, extracurricular involvement) predicted class membership and smoking initiation.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged adolescents, background, control-reduced, depression, low-achievers, montreal, predicted-class, prevent-future, questionnaires, relations, results-showed, study, the-likelihood
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A study of over 15,000 children by Demos says parenting style is one of the most important and statistically reliable influences on whether a child will drink responsibly in adolescence and adulthood – see Demos press release and blog . The findings appear to support the recent JRF report that emphasised the importance of parents in influencing teenager's drinking, and research reviews assessing parenting interventions. The Demos press release stated: Demos found that ‘tough love’ parenting, combining consistent warmth and discipline, was the most effective parenting style to prevent unhealthy relationships with alcohol right into the mid-thirties age range
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged best-parenting, child, from-the-report, government, health, importance, influence, makes-the-child, parenting-style, policy, press-release, research, support-parents, young people
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Abstract Aims: To test age differences in the prevalence of DSM-IV alcohol dependence (AD) diagnostic criteria in the adult general population while controlling for drinking behavior. Design and setting: Cross-sectional data from the 2006 German Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (ESA) were used, applying a two-stage probability sampling design. The survey used self-administered questionnaires and telephone interviews (mixed-mode design; 45% response rate)
ABSTRACT Aim . To describe the rate and timing of smoking onset, prolonged abstinence ( 1 year), and relapses across ages 18 to 32 years in initially smoking and nonsmoking men.
Abstract: Background: Human rights abuses, denial of care, police surveillance, and violence directed at IDUs have been found to impact HIV prevention efforts due to decreased attendance in harm reduction programs. The association of mental health status with rights abuses has not been examined extensively among drug users. In India, drug control laws are often in conflict with harm reduction policies, thus increasing the likelihood of rights abuses against IDUs
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged association, being-arrested, denied-needles, driven-sampling, harm-reduction, high-prevalence, human-rights, india, items-on-human, mental-health, police-arrests, rights-abuses, thus-increasing
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Young people who start smoking at an early age have a much higher risk of starting to use cannabis by the time they turn 17. Risk factors that increase the likelihood of starting to smoke include externalising problem behaviours such as impulsiveness.
Abstract Aims. Sublingual buprenorphine and buprenorphine/naloxone are efficacious opioid dependence pharmacotherapies, but there are reports of their diversion and misuse by the intranasal route. The study objectives were to characterize and compare their intranasal pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged abuse-potential, all-intranasal, diversion, from-intranasal, intranasal, reported-higher, subjective, the-intranasal, the-likelihood, their-diversion, university
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