Now, having recently exited the tobacco business to focus instead on its relatively new venture into dietary supplements, Star Scientific has again become a magnet for controversy and is headed back to court, this time facing investors who argue the comp
Those working in the fields of harm reduction, healthcare, and human services must cope with a range of stresses, including post traumatic stress and vicarious trauma. Pain and loss are just a part of the job
Abstract Aims To report progress among Parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in developing tobacco dependence treatment systems in accordance with FCTC Article 14 and the Article 14 guidelines recommendations.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged availability, countries, existing-health, organization, parties, recommendations, survey, tobacco, world, yet-implemented
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Abstract Aims To report progress among Parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in developing national tobacco treatment guidelines in accordance with FCTC Article 14 guideline recommendations. Design Cross-sectional study Setting Electronic survey from December 2011 to August 2012; participants were asked to complete either an online or attached Word questionnaire
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged all-guidelines, article, characteristics, fctc, organization, parties, seven-percent, stated-funding, three-countries, tobacco, tobacco-control, world, world-health
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Abstract Aims To estimate HCV incidence and HCV risk among Scottish prisoners Design National sero-behavioural survey; dried blood spots were collected in order to identify recent HCV infections (i.e. HCV antibody negative and HCV PCR positive) Setting All 14 closed prisons in Scotland Participants 5187 prisoners responded to the survey (79% of available prisoners on survey days) comprising 5076 individuals (after removing incomplete returns and participants surveyed in more than one prison); 95% men, 32% (1625) reported an injecting history (PWID) and median sentence of 9.5 months
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged after-removing, closed-prisons, comprising-5076, current, identify-recent, likely-acquired, needle-exchange, potential, prisoners, risk-behaviours, sufficient-sera, survey
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Abstract Aims This study aimed to compare emotion perception and social inference in opioid maintenance patients with abstinent ex-users and non-heroin using controls, and determine whether any deficits in could be accounted for by cognitive deficits and/or risk factors for brain damage. Design Case control. Participants 125 maintenance patients (MAIN), 50 abstinent opiate users (ABST) and 50 matched controls (CON)
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 125-maintenance, both-emotion, compare-emotion, major-predictor, make-inferences, measure-emotion, social, study, treatment-may, using-controls, working-memory
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At first glance the introduction of low dead-space syringes seems like one of those all too rare, small, technological inventions that could have – and this seems to be no exaggeration – world-changing implications for the good.
Monday, September 10, 2012
A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs furthers their time sober, consideration for others, step-work, and long-term meeting attendance…
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Abstract Aims Time preference describes how consideration of future events may affect present-day behavioural decisions. The aim was to establish whether time preference predicts smoking cessation in a longitudinal analysis. Design Secondary analysis of data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia survey
Aims To identify factors associated with time to initiation of (1) sex work prior to injecting drugs, (2) injection drug use, and (3) concurrent sex work and injection drug use (i.e., initiated at the same age) among female sex workers who currently inject drugs (FSW-IDU).
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged both-behaviors, ciudad-juarez, concurrent-sex, encourage-entry, first-injecting, first-injection, initiating-sex, injecting-drugs, injection-drug, mexico, physical-abuse, sex-work, third-initiate
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