Abstract Aims Investigators of the COMBINE (Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions for Alcoholism) Study examined whether combining medications with a behavioral intervention would improve outcomes over monotherapies. Unexpectedly, the combination did not offer any advantage over either treatment alone.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged behavioral, combination, combined, combining, effects-on-pda, explained-48-53, monotherapy, percent-days, potential, reduce-cravings, treatment, treatments-were
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Abstract Background and aims Cross-study comparisons of effect sizes suggest that varenicline is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in aiding smoking cessation, but evidence from direct comparisons is limited. This study compared biochemically verified 52-week sustained abstinence rates in smokers attending the same clinical service according to whether they used varenicline or NRT in their quit attempt.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 519-varenicline, aiding-smoking, carbon-monoxide, choice, large-smoking, medication, mental-health, nrt, primary-outcome, quit, study-compared, their-choice, therapy-options
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Abstract Aims Animal models show that a single dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamhetamine (MDMA; ecstasy’) can result in long-term disruption of sleep.
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, tobacco
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Also tagged association, brief-patient, data-on-ecstasy, electoral, follow-up-every, health, people-at-wave, personality, psychosocial, relationship, substances, through-life, total-health, using-the-brief
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Background: Needle-syringe exchange programs (NSPs) have been substantially rolled-out in China since 2002. Limited studies reported effectiveness of NSPs in a Chinese setting. This study aimed to assess the association between accessibility to NSPs and drug-use risk behaviors of IDUs by investigating primary (self-reported) data of IDUs recruited from NSP sites, community settings and mandatory detoxification centers (MDCs) in Hunan province, China.
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Also tagged ability, before-disposal, china, from-the-high, group-reported, major-barrier, needle-syringe, past, proportion, repetitive-use, risk-behaviors, syringe-sharing
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The industry funded alcohol education charity Drinkaware has released an independent review of its activities , with mixed findings over its effectiveness to date. Download the report here [pdf] or appendices . The review was carried out by consultancy firm 23Red which in the executive summary identifies its main findings as: 2.1 This is a mixed report
Abstract Aims The tobacco and alcohol industries share common policy goals when facing regulation, opposing policies such as tax increases and advertising restrictions. The collaboration between these two industries in the tobacco policy arena is unknown
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged built-alliances, coalitions, coalitions-had, companies-were, industries, misperception, perception, started-efforts, study-explored, such-as-tax, tax-increases, tobacco, two-industries
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Abstract Aims This study aimed to test the efficacy of integrated cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for coexisting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorders (AUD). Setting Clinics across Sydney, Australia. Design Randomized controlled trial of 12 once-weekly individual sessions of either integrated CBT for PTSD and AUD (integrated therapy, IT; n = 33) or CBT for AUD plus supportive counselling (alcohol-support, AS; n = 29).
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged aud, effects-on-ptsd, integrated, plus-supportive, problems-within, PTSD, services, services-during, stress-disorder, sydney, therapy, these-therapies, twofold-greater, use-disorders
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The Alcohol Research UK annual conference recently took place at the Wellcome Conference Centre in London on 12th March, exploring Alcohol and British Society. Some of the key talks and presentations are available and highlighted below. Professor Mark Bellis: Health and Inequalities Professor Bellis from Liverpool John Moores University, examined some of the possible reasons behind the “alcohol harm paradox” – how the poorest 20% of people in Britain suffered twice the levels of alcohol related harm as the most affluent 20% – despite reporting similar levels of alcohol consumption.
A study published in the March issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, estimates that the prevalence of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is nearly one percent among newly incarcerated inmates with a history of recent drug use…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged acute-hepatitis, hcv, hepatology, liver, liver-diseases, nearly-one, newly-incarcerated, prevalence, recent-drug, study-published, the-prevalence
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Abstract Aim Research suggests an association between population drinking and a large number of outcomes. However, driving while under the influence of alcohol (DWI) is conspicuously absent from this list of outcomes. The aim of this study was to estimate the relation between DWI and total consumption of alcohol on annual time–series data for Norway and Sweden.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged data-on-total, driver, driving-while, estimated, incidence, influence, legislation, norway, norway-as-well, proportion, relation, sweden, the-association, the-legislation
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