Thursday, January 19, 2012
Abstract Aims: to identify predictors of short-term smokeless tobacco cessation in Bangladeshi women resident in the United Kingdom (UK). Design: prospective cohort study. Setting: a tobacco cessation service offering culturally tailored smokeless tobacco cessation support
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims Use of the stimulant drug mephedrone increased dramatically in 2009, and it is still available in the United Kingdom after being controlled in April 2010. This study aimed to assess mephedrone’s acute cognitive and subjective effects. Design A mixed within- and between-subjects design compared 20 mephedrone users, first while intoxicated (T1) and secondly drug free (T2); and 20 controls twice when drug free (T1 and T2)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Abstract Aims: In November 2005 the indications for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) were broadened in the United Kingdom, making all forms available to patients with stable cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to estimate the effects of this change on prescribing of NRT to CVD patients in England. Design: Segmented regression analysis of time series of monthly rates of prescribing of NRT
Friday, December 16, 2011
Abstract Aims: Topiramate has shown efficacy at facilitating abstinence from alcohol and cocaine abuse.
Filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Also tagged during-weeks, eight-medical, hundred-forty, intent, not-increase, participants, placebo-during, primary-outcome, reduce-relapse, use-reduction, versus-baseline, weekly-median
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX – News) has announced that the company is pleased to report that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today denied RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company’s (RJR) petition for a rehearing of Star’s appeal of its patent infringement lawsuit against RJR. On August 26 , the Federal Circuit Court issued a ruling on Star’s appeal of the June, 2009 jury verdict in that lawsuit
Filed in tobacco
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Also tagged based-on-its, claims-deserve, court, district-court, federal, federal-circuit, its-contention, judgment-ruling, patents, prosecution, ruling-on-star, tobacco, united-states
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Leading alcohol researchers from the United States and Canada will discuss their latest findings at an all-day meeting Nov. 18 at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Substance use is widespread among adolescents in the United States, particularly among those of Native American, white, Hispanic and multiple race/ethnicity, and these groups are also disproportionally affected by substance-related disorders, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…
A paper from the National Institutes of Health in the United States has evaluated the separate and combined effects of the frequency of alcohol consumption and the average quantity of alcohol drunk per occasion and how that relates to mortality risk from individual cancers as well as all cancers…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged alcohol-drunk, average, frequency, from-individual, health, mortality-risk, national, national-institutes, per-occasion, separate, the-frequency, the-separate, united-states
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Abstract Aims To accurately document the amount of quitting, length of quit attempts, and prevalence of plans and serious thought about quitting among smokers.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims : Evidence indicates AA participation reduces relapse risk but less is known about the mechanisms through which AA confers this benefit.
Filed in Evidence Base, recovery
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Also tagged clinical-sites, effect, mechanisms, negative-affect, network-changes, outcome-values, relationship, social-networks, the-mechanisms, their-relative
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