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…
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Teenagers are more susceptible to developing disorders like addiction and depression, according to a paper published by Pitt researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Cigarette and alcohol consumption among 8th, 10th and 12th graders (14, 16 and 18 year olds) are lower than they have ever been since certain records began in 1975, but marijuana and non-medical prescription medication usage has increased, says a new report – “Monitoring the Future” (MTF) – issued by The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)…
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, harm-reduction, health, intervention, primary-health, psychiatry, research, screening, study
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) has published a 2012 Membership Directory.
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Also tagged health-systems, membership, naphs, nation, national-association, providing-information, psychiatric, psychology / psychiatry, referral-resource, systems, the-nation
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 report the highest rates of substance use and dependence, according to the National Survey on Drug Use & Health. A new study from the University of Missouri found that rural adolescents who engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering and helping others, are less likely to use substances as young adults…
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Also tagged adults-between, ages, highest, highest-rates, missouri, national-survey, new-study, substance-use, survey-on-drug, the-ages, use-substances
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
People addicted to prescription painkillers reduce their opioid abuse when given sustained treatment with the medication buprenorphine plus naloxone (Suboxone), according to research published in Archives of General Psychiatry and conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health…
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Also tagged abuse, archives, general-psychiatry, institute-on-drug, medication, medication-buprenorphine, national-institute, national-institutes, nida, opioid, opioid-abuse, plus-naloxone, sustained-treatment
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According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institute of Health, scientists have identified a biological mechanism in a landmark study in mice, which could provide insight into how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, and therefore increase the risk of abusing cocaine and perhaps also other drugs…
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Also tagged abuse, abusing-cocaine, biological-mechanism, gateway-drugs, increase-the-risk, landmark-study, national-institute, nida, provide-insight, risk
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A paper from the National Institutes of Health in the United States has evaluated the separate and combined effects of the frequency of alcohol consumption and the average quantity of alcohol drunk per occasion and how that relates to mortality risk from individual cancers as well as all cancers…
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Also tagged alcohol-drunk, average, frequency, from-individual, health, mortality-risk, national-institutes, per-occasion, separate, the-frequency, the-separate, united, united-states
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Background: : These data were collected as part of the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) study.
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Also tagged aids, analysis, data-collection, from-the-nhbs, idu, ingrained-while, injecting-drugs, nhbs, nyc, puerto-rico, recent-migrants, syringe-sharing
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