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
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
As required by the 2009 law granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products, the Institute of Medicine today issued a report regarding the type of scientific evidence and research the FDA should require of tobacco companies seeking to make “modified risk” claims about tobacco products. Modified risk products are defined in the law as “any tobacco product that is sold or distributed for use to reduce harm or the risk of tobacco-related disease associated with commercially marketed tobacco products.” Given the industry’s long and deadly history of deception, the IOM calls for rigorous, comprehensive and independent scientific evidence before any tobacco company will be allowed to claim that any of its products are less dangerous than other products.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
A report from 2020health , a health and technology policy body, has emphasised the importance of addressing 'risky drinking' as a key part of public health policy. The report highlights the importance of brief interventions [or IBA ] for risky drinkers, the need to promote alcohol-free days, and Government action including minimum pricing
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Abstract Aims: To compare characteristics and illicit drug abuse patterns among drug abusers in rural and urban areas of Hunan Province, China. Measurements and design: Data collected by public security bureau on newly registered drug abusers between 2005 and 2008 in 5 urban and 5 rural areas (N = 1639) were extracted anonymously and analyzed. Setting and participants: All newly registered drug users in urban (n = 812) and rural (n = 827) areas of Hunan Province were included
Conclusions: In Amsterdam, still-injecting DU who are exposed to systematic and integrated care, although not practising complete harm reduction, can be just as adherent to HAART as DU who make use of complete harm reduction and non-injecting DU with no dependence on harm reduction. These findings suggest the importance of a systematic and comprehensive support system including supervised housing and social and medical support to increase HAART adherence rates amongst all HIV-infected DU. When such programmes are introduced in settings where injecting drug use is highly prevalent, access to HAART for drug users in these settings can and should be increased
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged adherence-rates, amsterdam, complete-harm, harm-reduction, importance, injecting-drug, international, medical-support, such-programmes, support-system, these-settings
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Friday, September 24, 2010
University of Florida experts are available to answer questions from media members about the importance of talking with children during family meals…
Conclusions: High rates of service use and barriers were observed for all levels of heroin involvement. These findings underscore the importance of improving access to services for this group, even when full criteria for a drug disorder is not met
Aims The current study was designed to re-examine the motivation matching hypothesis from Project MATCH using growth mixture modeling, an analytical technique that models variation in individual drinking patterns.Design, setting and participants Secondary data analyses of data from Project MATCH (n = 1726), a large multi-site alcoholism treatment-matching study.Measurements Percentage of drinking days was the primary outcome measure, assessed from 1 month to 12 months following treatment.
Cannabis is the world’s most commonly used illicit drug (), and a debate over competing policy approaches to govern its use has been at the forefront of the greater discourse concerning the effectiveness of current drug policies.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Objective This study examines whether a mother’s style of parenting at child age 5 years predicts problematic patterns of drinking in adolescence, after controlling for relevant individual, maternal and social risk factors. Methods Data were used from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy, an Australian longitudinal study of mothers and their children from pregnancy to when the children were 14 years of age. Logistic regression analyses examined whether maternal parenting practices at child age 5 predicted problematic drinking patterns in adolescence, after controlling for a range of confounding covariates.Results Physical punishment at child age 5 did not predict adolescent alcohol problems at follow-up.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged child-age, development, methods-data, partner-change, patterns-at-age, pregnancy, strongest, study, study-examines, the-development, their-children, years-predicts
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