Abstract Background and aim It is important to find economical methods in early Phase 2 studies to screen drugs potentially useful to aid smoking cessation. A method has been developed that detects efficacy of varenicline and nicotine patch
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Also tagged aiding-smoking, been-developed, bupropion-did, days-abstinent, days-throughout, drug-on-week, each-treatment, find-economical, number, over-the-prior, study, versus-placebo
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Abstract Aims This paper aims to identify possible system-level factors contributing to the marked differences in the levels of non-medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and prescription opioid (PO)-related harms in North America (i.e.
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Also tagged comparative, dissemination, generally, global, health-systems, north, north-america, observed, organization, other-potential, potential, systems-consume, the-observed
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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-states
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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.
Congress delegates heard this week about a study that showed the deadly effect that high alcohol intake and excess body weight can have on women’s chances of developing and dying from chronic liver disease.
In their article “Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States”, Teri S Krebs and Pal-Orjan Johansen from the Department of Neuroscience at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, use data from a randomly-selected sample of over 57,000 individuals surveyed for the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), to estimate lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use…
Abstract Aims To test whether psychological factors predict male smokeless tobacco (SLT) initiation and cessation longitudinally. Design Sixteen-year longitudinal design with 95% retention at year 6 and 82% at year 16. Setting Forty Washington State school districts.
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Also tagged factors-at-age, factors-predict, least-doubled, male-smokeless, peer-influence, psychological, sample, slt, taken-at-ages, test-whether, the-following, tobacco
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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-states
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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 Aims To quantify the extent to which smokers with indicators of poor mental health receive smoking cessation support in primary care consultations compared with those without. Design Cross-sectional study within a database of electronic primary care medical records. Setting A total of 495 general practices in the United Kingdom contributing data to The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database