Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Jason Nickerson and Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa, Canada examine in this week’s PLoS Medicine the vast inequities in medical pain relief around the world, arguing that the imbalance has arisen from restrictive drug laws designed to prevent access to illegal substances, and proposing that the global control of licit narcotics be shifted from the International Narcoti…
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged imbalance, international, jason-nickerson, licit-narcotics, medical-pain, medicine, nickerson, pain / anesthetics, prevent-access, the-imbalance, university, vast, world
|
Thursday, November 17, 2011
In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Shekhar Saxena of the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues summarize the recent WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) intervention guide that provides evidence-based management recommendations for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders…
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged action, action-programme, geneva, medicine, mental, mental-health, mns, provides-evidence-based, shekhar, shekhar-saxena, summarize-the-recent
|
Thursday, September 22, 2011
An excellent study among experimental mice has reported very dramatic differences between the effects of alcohol administered in moderation on a daily basis and the same total weekly amount of alcohol administered on only two days of the week: (replicating binge drinking)…
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Background: Epidemiological studies suggest that smokeless tobacco in the form of Swedish snus has been used by many smokers in Scandinavia to quit smoking, but the efficacy of snus has so far not been evaluated in controlled clinical trials.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
|
Also tagged biologically-verified, cessation-rates, clinical-trial, completely-stop, efficacy, epidemiological, promote-smoking, protocol, serbia-most, smoking, snus, studies-suggest, the-proportion, tobacco
|
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Scientists have reported development of much needed new tests to help cope with a wave of deaths, emergency room visits and other problems from a new genre of designer drugs sold legally in stores and online that mimic the effects of cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.
Weight has the strongest effect on the sex hormones that increase breast cancer risk in post menopausal women, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer this week…
Since 2006, Australia has had graphic image warnings on cigarette packages. Now announced this week, the liquor industry is volunteering to label its products with health warnings also.
In a letter published in this week’s British Medical Journal (BMJ), it has stated that a drug used in the treatment of neurological diseases like epilepsy and anxiety is being misused by youth in the UK.
Almost a quarter of all youth that begin smoking, drinking or using drugs of any kind before the age of 18 go on to become severely addicted to some sort of drug in adulthood according to a new study released this week by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). As a matter of fact, 90% of drug addictions begin in high school…
The influence of “Big Alcohol” in the health arena deserves as much scrutiny as Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, especially in light of evidence of bias in funded research, unsupported claims of benefit, and inappropriate promotion and marketing by the alcohol industry, says a new editorial in this week’s PLoS Medicine…