Conclusion: A higher number of motives, as well as specific motives reported for sedative use, were found to be significantly associated with past 12-month SSAU. Scientific significance: Findings underscore the need for considering motives in tailoring preventive interventions for reducing SSAU. It may be equally important to direct efforts toward decreasing the number of motives, as well as addressing the specific motives reported for sedative use.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to separate studies led by University of California, Riverside researchers…
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Also tagged alcoholic-beverages, california, crime, level-limit, limit-the-number, liquor-stores, number, riverside, sale, separate-studies, the-local, the-sale, university
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Abstract: Background: Measuring syringe availability and coverage is essential in the assessment of HIV/AIDS risk reduction policies. Estimates of syringe availability and coverage were produced for the years 1996 and 2006, based on all relevant available national-level aggregated data from published sources.Methods: We defined availability as the total monthly number of syringes provided by harm reduction system divided by the estimated number of injecting drug users (IDU), and defined coverage as the proportion of injections performed with a new syringe, at national level (total supply over total demand). Estimates of supply of syringes were derived from the national monitoring system, including needle and syringe programmes (NSP), pharmacies, and medically prescribed heroin programmes.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged 2006-estimates, aids, assessment, estimated, harm-reduction, idu, number, proportion, the-assessment, the-proportion
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Prescription drug abuse in America has become an epidemic – the number of people in the USA abusing pain relievers aged 12 years plus rose by 20% between 2002 and 2009, according to SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). The Obama administration would like pharmaceutical companies to develop education programs for prescribers about the safe use of opioids…
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Also tagged between-2002, drug-abuse, mental, mental-health, number, pain / anesthetics, relievers-aged, safe, safe-use, services, substance-abuse, years-plus
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
New research being carried out at Swansea University is set to improve the way that services and support are delivered to vulnerable people across Wales and beyond.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to people under 18 years of age, the number of 16-17 year-olds who smoke in the UK has dropped, according to a study published in the medical journal Addiction. Up to 1st October 2007, it was illegal to sell cigarettes and tobacco products to people under 16…
Filed in Uncategorized, tobacco
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Also tagged 16-17-year-olds, became-illegal, medical, number, people-under, sell-cigarettes, since-it-became, smoking / quit smoking, study-published, the-medical
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Associated Press: “Violence against nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing around the country as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients showing up at emergency rooms climbs. Nurses have responded, in part, by seeking tougher criminal penalties for assaults against health care workers. …
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Also tagged against-health, against-nurses, around-the-country, country, criminal, criminal-penalties, drug-addicts, emergency-rooms, medical, number, patients-showing, the-country
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NHS Lothian is offering advice about the danger of ’so called’ legal highs following a significant rise in the number of patients attending Lothian hospitals with drug related symptoms in the last week…
The Associated Press: “A new government study finds a 400 percent increase in the number of people admitted to treatment for abusing prescription pain medication. The increase in substance abuse among people ages 12 and older was recorded during the 10-year-period from 1998 to 2008.
An increase in the number of injection drug users (IDUs) in eastern and southern Africa stands to harm efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, warned experts gathered at the World Forum Against Drug conference in Sweden on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports…
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Also tagged africa, agence, aids, harm-efforts, hiv / aids, injection-drug, monday, region, spread, sweden, warned-experts, world, world-forum
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