Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A meta-analysis done by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) into the relationship between alcohol consumption and heart disease provides new insight into the long-held belief that drinking a glass of red wine a day can help protect against heart disease. “It’s complicated,” says Dr
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Also tagged addiction, against-heart, between-alcohol, camh, centre, help-protect, juergen-rehm, mental, new-insight, red-wine, relationship, research-at-camh
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Abstract Aims: The study aimed at examining the associations between cannabis use and work commitment. Design: We used a 25 year panel survey initiated in 1985 with follow-ups in 1987, 1989, 1993, 2003 and 2010. Registered data from a range of public registers were matched with individual responses for the entire period.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have identified a potential target for the development of anti-craving medications for people with addictions to stimulants such as methamphetamine. The discovery centres on a brain receptor related to the chemical dopamine, which has a complex role in addictive behaviours…
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, effectiveness, evidence, investigation, management, physiological, pubmed, reference, review, search, their-reference, treatment
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In the past year, 45.9 million Americans above the age of 18 years, or 20% of 18 year-olds, experienced mental illness, according to a new national report. Mental illness amongst those aged between 18 and 25 years (29.9%) was more than double as high, compared with people aged 50 years or older (14.3%)…
Some 45.9 million, or around 1 in 5 American adults (age 18 and over) experienced a mental illness in the past year, according to the US government’s latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released this month…
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A group of international health experts has called for a special session of the United Nations (referred to as UNGASS – United Nations General Assembly Special Session) to focus global attention on mental, neurological, and substance use disorders as a core development issue requiring commitments to improve access to care, promote human rights, and strengthen the evidence on ef…
Saturday, December 24, 2011
A new working definition of recovery from mental disorders and substance use disorders is being announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)…
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims To characterize smokeless tobacco initiation and persistence in relation to deployment, combat, occupation, smoking, and mental health symptoms. Design Prospective cohort, utilizing self-reported survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged combat-exposure, increased-risk, initiation-were, millennium, odds, over-the-study, reduction, self-reported, similar-pattern, stress-disorder, study, tobacco
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, shows latest trends in drug use Fewer Ontario teens are smoking cigarettes than ever before — good news that is tempered by continuing concerns around binge drinking, and driving while under the influence of cannabis, according to the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)…