Skip to content

Tag Archives: social

How does rate of smoking cessation vary by age, gender and social grade? Findings from a population survey in England

Abstract Aims To assess the incidence of long-term smoking cessation as a function of age, gender, social grade and their interactions.

Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs: a review mapping the role of social factors

Background: Evidence documents successful hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment outcomes for people who inject drugs (PWID) and interest in HCV treatment among this population. Maximising HCV treatment for PWID can be an effective HCV preventative measure.

Post-humanism, addiction and the loss of self-control: Reflections on the missing core in addiction science

Abstract: The core criterion of addiction is the loss of self control. Ironically enough, however, neither the social nor the biomedical sciences of addiction have so far made any measurable headway in linking drug use to a loss of self control

Drink driving in Hong Kong: The competing effects of random breath testing and alcohol tax reductions

Abstract Aims To investigate the competing effects of increased anti-drink driving legislation and the recent elimination of excise taxes on wine and beer. Design Serial cross-sectional telephone surveys were conducted in 2006 (n=9860) and 2011 (n=4800)

Cannabis Use and Vulnerability for Psychosis in Early Adolescence – a TRAILS Study

Abstract (205 words) Aims To examine the direction of the longitudinal association between vulnerability for psychosis and cannabis use throughout adolescence. Design Cross-lagged path analysis was used to identify the temporal order of vulnerability for psychosis and cannabis use, while controlling for gender, family psychopathology, alcohol use and tobacco use

Swedish alcohol consumption on the threshold of modernity: legislation, attitudes and national economy c. 1775–1855

Abstract Aims We aimed to map the context of the large increase in vodka consumption in Sweden during the transition from early modern to modern times (c. 1775–1855)

Deficits in social perception in opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users

Abstract Aims This study aimed to compare emotion perception and social inference in opioid maintenance patients with abstinent ex-users and non-heroin using controls, and determine whether any deficits in could be accounted for by cognitive deficits and/or risk factors for brain damage. Design Case control. Participants 125 maintenance patients (MAIN), 50 abstinent opiate users (ABST) and 50 matched controls (CON)

Home Office updates: New licensing powers come into effect 31st October; latest premises licences statistics

New Licensing powers will come into effect this week – see Home Office release . From the 31st October, local authorities will have the discretion to introduce Early Morning Restriction Orders (EMROs) and a ‘late night levy’ as part of plans to “re-balance” the licensing act through greater powers to councils and residents. EMROs will allow local authorities to restrict the sale of alcohol between midnight and 6am – see EMRO factsheet

Egocentric Social Network Analysis of Pathological Gambling

Abstract Aims.

Drug policy coordination: Identifying and assessing dimensions of coordination

Abstract: Background: Coordination has been recognised as a critical ingredient for successful drug policy governance. Yet what coordination means and how we assess the processes, outputs and outcomes of drug policy coordination is seldom defined. In this article we explore the utility of internationally recognised principles of good governance for examining aspects of drug policy coordination