Thursday, November 17, 2011
A recent study has found that PROMETAT, a popular but controversial treatment for methamphetamine addiction, is no more effective than placebo in reducing methamphetamine use, keeping users in treatment, or reducing cravings for methamphetamine. The study was funded by Hythiam, the company that owns the PROMETAT protocol, and is published online in the scientific journal Addiction…
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Employment is widely recognised as a robust determinant of health. For this and other political, social and economic reasons, governments throughout the world invest heavily in efforts to promote employment and reduce unemployment amongst the general population. Unfortunately, when it comes to people who use illicit drugs, employment is typically relegated to the status of a second order problem, and the role of employment, particularly for non-treatment enrolled individuals, has been largely ignored in the scientific literature
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Young people who are genetically vulnerable to depression should be extra careful about using cannabis: smoking cannabis leads to an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms. This has emerged from research carried out by Roy Otten at the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University Nijmegen that is published in the online version of the scientific journal Addiction Biology…
Researchers speaking on the final day of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) focused on the growing interest in the scientific path to an HIV Cure…
The reports of US Surgeon General on smoking are considered the authoritative statement on the scientific state of the art in this field. The previous report on nicotine addiction published in 1988 is one of the most cited references in scientific articles on smoking and often the only citation provided for specific statements of facts regarding nicotine addiction. In this commentary we review the chapter on nicotine addiction presented in the recent report of the Surgeon General.
In 2005, the journal Addiction, one of the highest-ranking addiction journals, published a review of qualitative methods in addictions research (). This review noted that Addiction had published only three qualitative research papers in the previous year; around 2% of the research papers it had published in 2004
Thursday, September 2, 2010
A study published in the scientific journal Addiction argues that privatising Sweden’s government monopoly on the sale of alcohol will significantly increase alcohol-related violence and other harms…
A study published in the scientific journal Addiction shows that the Mexican government’s recent efforts to control the manufacture of methamphetamine have caused a drop in methamphetamine treatment admissions in Mexico and in neighbouring Texas…
Researchers from France and the UK who reviewed the scientific literature found that drinking alcohol during pregnancy was linked to a significantly higher risk of children developing a rare form of leukemia called acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…
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This article summarizes the contents of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2nd edn).
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