To improve patient safety, hospitals should randomly test physicians for drug and alcohol use in much the same way other major industries in the United States do to protect their customers. The recommendation comes from two Johns Hopkins physicians and patient safety experts in a commentary published online recently in The Journal of the American Medical Association…
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Also tagged alcohol-use, customers, improve-patient, johns-hopkins, journal, major, much-the-same, other-major, patient-safety, randomly-test, same-way, united
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Abstract Aims To prospectively investigate the relation between cannabis use expectancies and cannabis use prior to and during a self-initiated cannabis cessation attempt. Design Cohort design that followed participants for four weeks following a self-initiated cessation attempt. Setting United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center.
a company that has developed groundbreaking technology for tobacco harm reduction products today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) has issued Patent No. 8410341 for the N-methylputrescine oxidase (MPO) gene technology.
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Also tagged agriculture, genes, harm-reduction, health/science, mpo, patent, pto, reduction-products, tobacco-harm, today-announced, trademark, trademark-office, united
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Methadone treatment for opioid dependence remains widely unavailable behind bars in the United States, and many inmates are forced to discontinue this evidence-based therapy, which lessens painful withdrawal symptoms…
Abstract: Background: Police agencies across the globe enforce laws that prohibit drug transportation, distribution, and use with varying degrees of effectiveness. Within the United States, law enforcement strategies that rely on partnerships between criminal justice officials, neighbourhood residents, and social service providers (i.e., collaborative implementation) have shown considerable promise for reducing crime and disorder associated with open-air drug markets.
Distributing naloxone to heroin users to use to reverse overdose may be a cost-effective strategy to reduce overdose-related mortality. Opioid overdose is a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and accounts for half of the mortality among heroin users. Naloxone is a short-acting opioid antagonist that can reverse opioid overdose…
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Also tagged accidental-death, among-heroin, heroin-users, leading-cause, mortality, opioid-antagonist, reduce-overdose-related, reverse-opioid, reverse-overdose, the-mortality, united
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Over a quarter of the population in the United States who are under the legal drinking age are drinking anyway, according to new research by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)…
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Also tagged legal, legal-drinking, mental, mental-health, new-research, population, services, substance, substance-abuse, the-population, under-the-legal, united
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Abstract Aims World-wide, more than 30 million people move through prisons annually. Record linkage studies have identified an increased risk of death in ex-prisoners. In order to inform preventive interventions it is necessary to understand who is most at risk, when and why.
ABSTRACT Aims The aim of this paper is to offer an account of the history and current status of gambling research in the United States. Methods A review of the literature. Results Gambling has been a part of society in the United States since its early history.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
1. Evidence Review: Behavioral Counseling Interventions Can Reduce Problem Drinking Alcohol misuse is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States after tobacco use and being overweight. About 30 percent of the U.S.
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Also tagged alcohol-misuse, behavioral, considered-risky, drinking-alcohol, evidence-review, interventions, leading-cause, population-admits, review, tobacco
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