Tuesday, January 17, 2012
As I discussed last month, Star Scientific put in solid gains in 2011 as the company got out in front of a shift toward cigarette alternatives. But increasingly, tobacco giants Altria (NYSE: MO ) and Reynolds American (NYSE: RAI ) have made pushes into the smokeless tobacco realm, threatening to take away any moat that Star Scientific may have started to build.
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: While not providing resounding support for mentoring, this study suggests that examining the mentor/mentee relationship may be a fruitful line of future research given that significant variability among the mentor/mentee pairs was noted for some outcomes of interest.
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: These results suggest that providers of workforce development services for drug users in treatment or exiting treatment should attend to these specific barriers to employment, which may also be more pronounced among older clients. PMID: 22242680 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Filed in Evidence Base, Workforce Development
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-abuse, among-older, drug-users, exiting-treatment, more-pronounced, pmid, results-suggest, these-specific, treatment-or-exiting, Workforce Development
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Conclusions and Scientific Significance: It is expected that the suggested adaptations for IPT will enable IPT treatment to be more effective.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) – A study released in the January 9th issue of the Journal of Neurology suggests that nicotine patches may help individuals with early memory loss
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
MPs on the Science and Technology Committee have called for greater efforts to help the public understand alcohol guidelines . It also calls for a further scientific review to build public confidence, although based on the evidence presented the guidelines should not be relaxed. See here for the report chapters or the full report here
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged business, committee, coronary-heart, government, guidelines, health, policy, public, public-health, responsibility, science, technology, the-evidence
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: Preliminary results elucidate neurobiological mechanisms of OD and support the utility of controlled studies on a novel VLNTX + low-dose clonidine combination for the management of opioid withdrawal. Portions of this article were presented at the American Society of Addiction Medicine, 42nd Annual Medical Scientific Conference, April 14-17, 2011, in Washington, DC. PMID: 22233189 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
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.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: The results of this study suggest that mirtazapine is superior to placebo in improving sleep in patients with comorbid depression and cocaine dependence, but is not more effective than placebo in reducing cocaine use.
Conclusions and Scientific Significance: A cross-discipline consideration of how addicts manage their funds has the potential to inform and improve substance abuse treatment. PMID: 22211461 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)