Abstract: Background: Alcohol related violence is a troubling backdrop to the social lives and relationships of many young people in post-industrial societies. The development of the night-time economy where young people are encouraged to drink heavily in entertainment precincts has increased the risk of violence.Methods: This paper reports on 60 individual structured in-depth interviews about the drinking biographies of young people (aged 20–24) living in Victoria, Australia
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged adventure, alcohol-related, development, mainstream, night, participants, policy-measures, settings-whilst, social, study, the-development
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“Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Federal Plan” is the startling title of a speech scheduled Wednesday, March 14, by Dr. Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims This paper queries the notion that young people overestimate peer substance use, asking whether there is robust evidence that such misperceptions are widespread and whether the phenomenon may have been exaggerated in the research literature. Method An examination of the research literature was conducted, focusing mainly on studies published since 2000. Some analyses of relevant data on cannabis use from a Norwegian youth survey were also undertaken.
Forthcoming events The 72nd Alcohol Problems Research Symposium is calling for abstracts or other presentation suggestions for the Spring 2012 meeting to take place Stonecross Manor Hotel in Cumbria on the 14th and 15th March. The meeting is part of a long-running series of friendly events in which Alcohol Research UK is helping to organise with Professor Moira Plant, Emerita Professor of Alcohol Studies at the University of the West of England.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-group, alcohol-studies, charity, frequent-fliers, hotel, kechnie-prize, professor, professor-moira, spring, study, sunday, treatment, university
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The role of online peer-support? A new Insight from Alcohol Research UK has explored the value of alcohol-related online support groups to their users
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol-research, cited-as-ready, experiences, given-the-rise, health, potential, small-reduction, the-experiences, the-feasibility, treatment, work
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Background: Substitution with opioid-agonists (e.g., methadone) has shown to be an effective treatment for chronic long-term opioid dependency.
Filed in Harm Reduction, cocaine
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Also tagged among-injection, among-long-term, cocaine, injection-drugs, montreal, planning, sex-work, showing-poorer, vancouver, women-receiving, women-reported
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Further insight into the effect of alcohol on the brain's reward system has been reported in the journal of Science Translational Medicine. It found alcohol effects the orbitofrontal cortex and results in a release of endorphins, previously only proven in animal studies.
Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged alcohol-leads, brain, california, clinic, ernest, ernest-gallo, release, research-center, the-brain, the-release, university
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Background: Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is a key element in treatment for opiate addiction; however concerns about the diversion of methadone remain. More current empirical data on methadone diversion are required.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
BBC Four's Timeshift , a documentary series into Britain's social and cultural history, featured episode 11 on 'The Rules of Drinking' this week and is available for a further 5 days on BBC iplayer . The Rules of Drinking synopsis: In the pubs and working men's clubs of the forties and fifties there were strict customs governing who stood where. To be invited to sup at the bar was a rite of passage for many young men, and it took years for women to be accepted into these bastions of masculinity.