Thursday, August 18, 2011
In their article put to rigorous scrutiny the highly relevant question of whether the harm reduction concept could be usefully applied to supply-oriented policies. The question itself is not new.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged article, came-perhaps, concept, consumption, development, harm-reduction, ideological, question-itself, still-raging, the-consumption, the-cultivation
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Analysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls…
British American Tobacco confirmed today that it has established a start-up company, Nicoventures Limited, that will focus exclusively on the development and commercialisation of innovative regulatory approved nicotine products. Nicoventures, a stand-alone company which will be managed separately from the Group’s tobacco businesses, aims to provide adult smokers with a range of alternative products – currently unavailable on the market – that will offer them much of the experience they expect to get from a cigarette but without the real and serious health risks of smoking. The creation of Nicoventures is a natural extension of British American Tobacco’s approach to tobacco harm reduction that has been developed over a number of years.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
A Cardiff University-led study has discovered that a protein provides protection against the effects of alcohol in the pancreas. The findings of the study, funded by the Medical Research Council, could lead to the development of new treatments to reduce the chances of people developing pancreatic cancer…
Shares of Star Scientific surged over 25% on 9.6x its average daily volume to its intra day high of $2.96 on 03/11/11 after the patent news was released. End of Story? Not quite.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Abstract: Background: Drug scenes within several countries have changed in recent years to incorporate a range of licit psychoactive products, collectively known as “legal highs.” Hundreds of different legal high products have been described in the literature. Many of these products contain synthetic stimulants that allegedly “mirror” the effects of some illicit drugs.
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have found that a particular type of genetic material plays a key role in determining vulnerability to cocaine addiction and may offer an entirely new direction for the development of anti-addiction therapies…
Filed in Uncategorized, cocaine
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Also tagged cocaine, cocaine-addiction, development, entirely-new, genetic-material, institute, key-role, particular-type, scripps, scripps-research
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Recent work has criticized the evidence base for the effectiveness of addiction treatment under social controls and coercion, suggesting that the development of sound policies and treatment practices has been hampered by numerous limitations of the research conducted to date. Implicit assumptions of the effectiveness of coerced treatment are evident in the organization and evolution of treatment, legal, and social service systems, as well as in related legislative practices. This review builds upon previous work by focusing in greater detail on the potential value of incorporating client perspectives on coercion and the implications for interpreting and applying existing research findings.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged connections, development, effectiveness, Evidence Base, implications, organization, potential, research, review, service-systems, synthesis, theory, treatment-entry, treatment-under
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Genetic influences appear important in the development of gambling disorders in both women and men, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Pathological gambling is known to run in families, according to background information in the article…
Conclusions: IDUs diagnosed with HCV infection have an increased risk of subsequent hospital admission for an alcohol-related cause. Because of the synergistic effect of HCV infection and excessive alcohol intake on the development of cirrhosis, it is imperative that alcohol intake is addressed in the management of chronic HCV infection in this population
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-intake, development, excessive-alcohol, hcv, increased-risk, international, management, policy, population, subsequent-hospital, synergistic, the-management, the-synergistic
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