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Στόχοι: Προηγούμενες μελέτες έχουν βρει μια αρνητική συσχέτιση σε επίπεδο πληθυσμού μεταξύ της διαθεσιμότητας ιατρικής μαριχουάνας σε πολιτείες των ΗΠΑ και των τάσεων στην ιατρική και μη ιατρική χρήση συνταγογραφούμενων φαρμάκων...
Background: On December 6 and 7, 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted its first Code-a-Thon event aimed at leveraging technology and data-driven solutions to help combat the opioid epidemic. The...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) refer to synthetic compounds or derivatives of more widely known substances of abuse that have emerged over the last two decades. Case reports suggest that users combine substances to achieve desired...
We examined prevalence and predictors of comprehensive smoke-free household rules (ie, smoke-free homes and cars) among smokers and nonsmokers in Minnesota. Data came from the 2014 Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey; weighted analyses...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery Grant is now open for applications. Offering up to 5 million USD the grant can be used for a range of projects...
Cycles of alcohol and stress are hypothesized to contribute to alcohol use disorders. How this occurs is poorly understood, although both alcohol and stress activate the neuroimmune system—the immune molecules and...
Η παρούσα έκθεση παρουσιάζει πληροφορίες σχετικά με τέσσερις τύπους αποτελεσμάτων από τις τέσσερις διαφορετικές πηγές δεδομένων:
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Οκτώ πολιτείες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Κολοράντο, έχουν νομιμοποιήσει την ψυχαγωγική χρήση μαριχουάνας μεταξύ ατόμων ηλικίας ≥21 ετών. Η σχέση μεταξύ της χρήσης μαριχουάνας και των...
As a result of America’s current addiction epidemic, babies and pre-school age children are being accidentally exposed at unacceptably high rates to toxic, addictive substances including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, prescription...
Alcohol consumption is responsible for 3.3 million deaths globally or nearly 6% of all deaths. Alcohol use contributes to both communicable and noncommunicable diseases, as well as violence and injuries. The purpose of this review...
Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy remains one of the most common and preventable causes of fetal growth restriction (FGR), a condition in which a fetus is unable to achieve its genetically determined potential size. Even...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) explores the action of psychostimulant drugs on glutamate, one of the most abundant neurotransmitters in the human body.
Drugs with a stimulant effect are commonly prescribed...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found an association with young people being exposed to adverts for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and taking up smoking later in life.
The study followed 10 989...
What is already known about this topic?
Medicaid enrollees smoke cigarettes at a higher rate than do privately insured U.S. residents (25.3% versus 11.8%). Comprehensive state Medicaid cessation coverage has the potential to...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Health and Human Services US Government Department (HSS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have collaborated to create a manual on...
Η SAMHSA εγκαινίασε το νέο Κέντρο Πόρων βάσει αποδεικτικών στοιχείων, το οποίο θα επιτρέπει στους επαγγελματίες να βρίσκουν εργαλεία, εγχειρίδια, κατευθυντήριες γραμμές κλινικής πρακτικής και επιστημονικούς πόρους.
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A recent study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health examined the use of mobile health technology in the United States’ health care system.
Published in the Journal of...
Η υπερβολική κατανάλωση αλκοόλ (τέσσερα ή περισσότερα ποτά για γυναίκες, πέντε ή περισσότερα ποτά για τους άνδρες σε μια περίπτωση) αντιπροσωπεύει περισσότερους από τους μισούς από τους 88.000 θανάτους στις ΗΠΑ που προκύπτουν από...
In February of 2018 the US National Institute of Health (NIH) released the first dataset from an "unprecedented study of adolescent brain development", the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
The study has, to date...
