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On-line course moves up to the level of the organisation and its influence on drug-related harm. Learn how in methadone clinics and needle exchanges, misguided ‘good intentions’ placed service users at risk. A possible rule of thumb emerges...
When discussing the public health approach to the use of marijuana, the complexity of rigorous regulatory interventions for population protection is omitted. Using the experience of governments where these practices already...
The integration of different sources of biological information about what defines a behavioral phenotype is difficult to unify in an entity that reflects the arithmetic sum of its individual parts. In this sense, the challenge of Systems...
School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works? is a new briefing paper published by Mentor-Adepis. It outlines several approaches that have been shown to work effectively, and issues cautions about those that have not...
Drug Policy Evaluation: A Seven-Step Guide to Support the Commissioning and Managing of Evaluations is a new resource from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The document addresses the key issues...
The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol consumption is prevalent during adolescence, a period characterized by critical changes to the structural and functional development of brain areas related with memory and cognition. There is...
Alcohol consumption in adolescents causes negative effects on familiar, social, academic life, as well as neurocognitive alterations. The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol is characterized by the alternation of episodes of heavy...
Introduction
The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among US adults has increased since 2007. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of direct marketing promotion of e-cigarettes and its...
Importance: Liver cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths globally. The most common causes for liver cancer include hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and alcohol use.
Objective: To...
Vzhledem k tomu, že neexistují větší překážky dostupnosti, je velkou nadějí na zlepšení veřejného zdraví souvisejícího s alkoholem rozsáhlý screening s cílem identifikovat a poté stručně poradit rizikové pijáky. Tato hlavní aktualizace...
Úvod: Užívání konopí je v Severní Americe běžné, zejména mezi mladými lidmi, a je spojeno s rizikem různých akutních a chronických nepříznivých zdravotních následků. Režimy kontroly konopí se vyvíjejí například směrem k...
Introduction: The workplace remains a significant source of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. This pollutant is known to be associated with respiratory and cardiovascular problems, but its effects on specific pulmonary function...
New research appearing in the latest volume of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs examines YouTube videos that reference alcohol brands, and which are popular among underage audiences. Together, the videos analysed received just...
Současná úroveň závislosti na opioidech v USA je tak alarmující, že v červenci 2017 prezidentská komise pro boj s drogovou závislostí a opiátovou krizí naléhavě navrhla, aby prezident Trump vyhlásil národní stav nouze, aby uvolnil zdroje a...
Executive Summary
Data collected in drug treatment agencies play a prominent role in informing policy makers. Such data often represent the only information collected regularly and consistently over a certain period of time. What is even...
To examine the cultural impact on the diagnosis of alcohol-use disorders using European countries as examples.
Narrative review.
There are strong cultural norms guiding heavy drinking...
In 2000, Colorado voters decriminalized marijuana for medical use; however, because marijuana use remained illegal under federal law, the number of users was low. In 2009, President Obama instructed federal officials not to enforce...
September 21, 2017
Halting the opioid epidemic requires aggressive action across multiple dimensions, including informed, active, and determined front-line leadership from health clinicians working in every setting throughout the nation...
Východiska: V minulosti studie porovnávaly uživatele bezdýmného tabáku a netabákových uživatelů z hlediska rizika různých chronických onemocnění. Rozdíly v riziku chronických onemocnění mezi uživatelem bezdýmného tabáku a kuřáky nebyly...
INTRODUCTION
In 2009, Brownson et al. (1) noted the growing consensus that evidence-based public health (EBPH) decision-making is influenced by three factors—namely, (1) best available evidence, (2) resources, and (3) population needs...
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