Thursday, October 13, 2011
Abstract: Background: March 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This legal instrument, the bedrock of the current United Nations based global drug control regime, is often viewed as merely a consolidating treaty bringing together the multilateral drug control agreements that preceded it; an erroneous position that does little to provide historical context for contemporary discussions surrounding revision of the international treaty system.Method: This article applies both historical and international relations perspectives to revisit the development of the Convention. Framing discussion within the context of regime theory, a critique of the foundational pre-1961 treaties is followed by detailed content analysis of the official records of the United Nations conference for the adoption of a Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and, mindful of later treaties, an examination of the treaty’s status as a ‘single’ convention.Results: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs represents a significant break with the regulative focus of the preceding multilateral treaties; a shift towards a more prohibitive outlook that within international relations terms can be regarded as a change of regime rather than the straightforward codification of earlier instruments
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Abstract: Background: Since the 1930s, amphetamine has been used for a variety of socially and medically condoned purposes including personal and performance enhancement. In the contemporary U.S., although amphetamine and its derivatives share a history, similar chemical composition, and physiological and psychiatric effects, they are typically treated and researched as two distinct groups: illegally produced methamphetamine and prescription amphetamine. This study is an examination of the social meanings of these categories and their users as represented in popular media.Methods: To complement existing research on drug discourses in popular news media, this study analysed entertainment media: ten novels, three seasons of Breaking Bad, six television episodes, and eight movies
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Background: Social isolation and living alone are increasingly common in industrialised countries. However, few studies have investigated the potential public health implications of this trend. We estimated the relative risk of death from alcoholrelated causes among individuals living alone and determined whether this risk changed after a large reduction in alcohol prices…
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Alcohol Awareness Week (AWW) will run from 14 th November to 20 th November 2011 , during which Alcohol Concern will launch an 'Alcohol Charter' for a world free from alcohol harm. The ‘alcohol charter’ campaign has the following goals:
More than 15 years have passed since David Kessler first worked to regulate the tobacco industry as a Food and Drug Administration commissioner . . .
ABSTRACT Aim: To determine the performance of subjectively defined intoxications, hangovers, and alcohol-induced pass-outs in identifying drinkers at risk for adverse health outcomes. Design: Prospective population-based cohort study.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged adverse-health, average-intake, data, endpoint-during, health, performance, potential, receiver, social-support, standard-drinks, subjective, subjectively, working-aged
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Wine makers “systematically” understate the strengths of wines , according to a Guardian report . A study found that that 57% of the wines analysed were stronger than on the label; average ABV content was found at 13.6% but the average labelled strength was 13.1%. The analysis also revealed that strength of wine across the world has risen by almost once per cent in recent years
Filed in Editorial, Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol industry, binge drinking, department, Guidance, health, independent, party, policy, portman, portman-group, public-health, research
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Abstract: Background: There are many models that study aspects of smoking habits: the influence of price, tax, relapse time, and the effects of prohibition. There are also studies examining the effects of the Spanish smoke-free law. We wanted to build a model able to separate the effect of the law from the pre-law evolution of smoking habits.Methods: Using data from the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy, we developed a dynamic model of tobacco use
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged after-the-law, before-the-law, effect-on-new, evolution, health, influence, its-restriction, number, predictions, social-policy, tobacco
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Aims: To investigate the influence of gender on emerging tobacco use by testing for gender-based measurement invariance of the Adolescents’ Need for Smoking Scale (ANSS) and examining gender differences on each dimension across increasing levels of amount smoked.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged adolescents, anss, boys-on-levels, british, each-dimension, higher-scores, influence, scored-higher, smoking, smoking-scale, survey, the-influence, tobacco, tobacco-smoking
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Abstract: Background: Much research on the use of amphetamine, cocaine and heroin employs individual level data and analyses variations in drug use by factors like personal characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and the social environment.