Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Abstract Aims Previous research showed that consistently not responding to alcohol-related stimuli in a Go/No-Go training reduces drinking behavior. This study aimed to further examine the mechanisms underlying this Go/No-Go training effect. Design, setting, and participants Fifty-seven heavy drinkers were randomly assigned to two training conditions: In the beer/no-go condition, alcohol-related stimuli were always paired with a stopping response, while in the beer/go condition, participants always responded to alcohol-related stimuli.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-intake, always-paired, beer, both-implicit, measured-before, mechanisms, not-responding, stimuli-rather, the-beer, the-mechanisms, toward-beer, training
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Forthcoming events The 72nd Alcohol Problems Research Symposium is calling for abstracts or other presentation suggestions for the Spring 2012 meeting to take place Stonecross Manor Hotel in Cumbria on the 14th and 15th March. The meeting is part of a long-running series of friendly events in which Alcohol Research UK is helping to organise with Professor Moira Plant, Emerita Professor of Alcohol Studies at the University of the West of England.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-group, alcohol-studies, charity, frequent-fliers, hotel, kechnie-prize, professor, professor-moira, research, spring, sunday, treatment, university
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
A study of a controversial housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments found that during their first two years in the building residents cut their heavy drinking by 35 percent. For every three months during the study, participants drank an average of 8 percent fewer drinks on their heaviest drinking days…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged apartments, building, every-three, first-two, heaviest, heavy, homeless-people, housing-project, months-during, percent-fewer, residents-cut, the-building, their-heaviest, their-heavy
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Background: Within the UK, injecting in the femoral vein (FV), often called ‘groin injecting’, is a serious cause of risk and harm. This study aimed to use ultrasound scanning as a means to engage groin injectors (GIs), examine their femoral injecting sites and assess their venous health, with the intention of developing improved responses. Methods: Between September 2006 and March 2009, GIs attending a network of community drug treatment centres in South East England were invited to attend an ultrasound ‘health-check’ clinic.
Filed in Harm Reduction
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Also tagged categorisations, development, femoral, findings-should, groin-injecting, harm-reduction, injecting, intention, modern, the-development, venous-health
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Abstract Aims: Dual-process models imply that alcohol use is related to implicit as well as explicit cognitive processes. Few studies have tested whether both types of processes are related to ad libitum drinking
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 45-min-session, alcoholic, assess-alcohol, both-implicit, dual-process, implicit, participants, same-sex-peers, tested-whether, three-studies, use-patterns
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Background: Methamphetamine (MA) use during pregnancy is associated with many pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, and abruption. Hawaii has lead the nation in MA use for many years, yet prior to 2007, did not have a comprehensive plan to care for pregnant substance-using women. In 2006, the Hawaii State Legislature funded a pilot perinatal addiction clinic
Filed in Harm Reduction, cocaine
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Also tagged cocaine, edinburgh, family-planning, from-the-women, harm-reduction, hawaii, implementation, lead-the-nation, pregnancy, university, women
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims Use of the stimulant drug mephedrone increased dramatically in 2009, and it is still available in the United Kingdom after being controlled in April 2010. This study aimed to assess mephedrone’s acute cognitive and subjective effects. Design A mixed within- and between-subjects design compared 20 mephedrone users, first while intoxicated (T1) and secondly drug free (T2); and 20 controls twice when drug free (T1 and T2)
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: Considering the limited HCV knowledge and low level of HCV treatment received, effective HCV education and intervention strategies should be developed to target patients in China’s MMT clinics. Moreover, alcohol screening should also be part of the routine assessments within MMT programs. Scientific Significance: This study reveals the importance of HCV testing and education among drug users in MMT clinics
Abstract Aims: This study seeks to establish the prevalence alcohol-related harms to children (ARHC) that occur because of others’ drinking in the general population and examine how this varies by who was reported to have harmed the child and socio-demographic factors. Design and setting: A randomly selected cross-sectional national population telephone survey undertaken in 2008 in Australia. Participants: 1,142 adult respondents who indicated they lived with or had a parental/carer role for children
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged child, children, family-violence, households-were, hurt-or-exposed, lived-or-were, past, physically-hurt, prevalence, problem-extends, social, verbally-abused
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