Abstract Aims To assess the incidence of long-term smoking cessation as a function of age, gender, social grade and their interactions.
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.
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
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged adoption, biomedical, easily-overcome, essay-concludes, limitations, loss, relevant-topics, scientific, the-bio-medical, the-biomedical, the-limitations, valuable-method
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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)
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
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, tobacco
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Also tagged adult, adult-self, between-the-two, direction, during-the-past, lives-survey, longitudinal, scores-on-three, survey, temporal-order, tobacco, tracking, use-throughout, youth
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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)
Friday, November 16, 2012
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)
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 125-maintenance, both-emotion, compare-emotion, major-predictor, make-inferences, measure-emotion, study, time, treatment-may, using-controls, working-memory
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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
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
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged application, article, assessment, assessment-tool, australian, drug-policy, good-governance, governance-lens, pacific, perceived, possibilities, their-perceived, united, utility
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