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Do maternal parenting practices predict problematic patterns of adolescent alcohol consumption?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Objective This study examines whether a mother’s style of parenting at child age 5 years predicts problematic patterns of drinking in adolescence, after controlling for relevant individual, maternal and social risk factors. Methods Data were used from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy, an Australian longitudinal study of mothers and their children from pregnancy to when the children were 14 years of age. Logistic regression analyses examined whether maternal parenting practices at child age 5 predicted problematic drinking patterns in adolescence, after controlling for a range of confounding covariates.Results Physical punishment at child age 5 did not predict adolescent alcohol problems at follow-up.

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Human sex differences in d-amphetamine self-administration

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Women and men may respond differently to the effects of stimulants such as amphetamine and cocaine.Aim In order to assess potential sex differences in the reinforcing effects of d-amphetamine, a retrospective-analysis was conducted on data collected from three studies that employed similar d-amphetamine self-administration procedures and used identical subject-rated drug-effect measures.Methods Data from 10 women and 15 men were included in the analysis. In all studies, participants sampled placebo, low (8[ndash]10 mg) or high (16[ndash]20 mg) dose oral d-amphetamine. Following sampling sessions, participants worked for capsules containing one eighth of the previously sampled dose on a modified progressive-ratio schedule of reinforcement.

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Characteristics and comorbidity of drug and alcohol-related emergency department presentations detected by nursing triage text

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Introduction This study used nursing triage text to detect drug- and alcohol-related emergency department (ED) presentations and describe their patient and service delivery characteristics.Methods Data were reviewed for all ED presentations from 2004 to 2006 (n = 263 937) from two hospitals in Sydney, Australia. Each record included two nursing triage free-text fields, which were searched for more than 100 drug-related and more than 60 alcohol-related terms. Adjusted odds ratios were used to compare the characteristics of drug and alcohol-related ED presentations with all other ED presentation types.Results Just over 5% of ED presentations were identified as alcohol-related and 2% as drug-related

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