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British people love an alcoholic beverage or two (or three, or four), so the stereotype goes.
New statistics from the Office for National Statistics, however, suggest a decrease in levels of alcohol consumption across the country. The...
Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide. A recently published Cochraine Review has found that standardised, or plain, tobacco packaging could make tobacco products less appealing and, in turn, lead to a reduction in...
Crack emerged in the late 1980s in Brazil. This emergence was a critical moment for public health; the growing AIDS epidemic led intravenous cocaine users to migrate toward crack use to avoid the use of injection drugs. At the same time...
New research published in The British Medical Journal supports the need to increase taxes on tobacco products in South Asia, suggesting that doing so could reduce consumption by at least 1/3 and, in turn, avoid around 35 - 45 million...
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
Νέα ευρήματα που δημοσιεύθηκαν στο περιοδικό Tobacco Regulatory Science δείχνουν ότι τα αρωματισμένα ηλεκτρονικά τσιγάρα απευθύνονται ιδιαίτερα στους νέους και τους νέους ενήλικες.
Από τον πληθυσμό του δείγματος της μελέτης, το 99%...
Το Εθνικό Ινστιτούτο για την Κατάχρηση Ναρκωτικών (NIDA) έχει απελευθερώσει μια σειρά από νέους πόρους.
Αυτές απευθύνονται σε όσους εργάζονται στο πλαίσιο του συστήματος ποινικής δικαιοσύνης και σε άλλα περιβάλλοντα όπου τα άτομα που...
Marijuana use may increase the risk of stroke and heart failure.
This was concluded to be the case even after accounting for demographic and lifestyle risk factors, as well as other health conditions.
The new findings on the potential...
Background and aims: There is increasing research evidence about the causal role of alcohol in cancer, accompanied by unclear and conflicting messages in the media. This paper aimed to clarify the strength of the evidence for alcohol as a...
What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths.
What is added by this report?
Approximately two...
Alcohol use during pregnancy is the direct cause of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). We aimed to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and FAS in the general population and, by linking these two indicators...
Canadians will soon know whether marijuana will be made legal. If legalised, should the drug carry an age restriction?
This question is central to new research published in the journal Health which suggests that young users...
Studies have shown that alcohol may play a role in more that 13% of deaths resulting from infectious diseases, including HIV.
Evidence suggests that alcohol consumption negatively affects the fight against HIV primarily by:
An American pilot study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has found that underage youngsters between 13 and 20 years old are more likely than adults to report seeing alcohol marketing online. The...
Objective: To analyze successful national smoke-free policy implementation in Colombia, a middle income country.
Materials and methods: Key informants at the national and local levels were interviewed and news sources and government...
This document provides evidence for arguments supporting alcohol marketing regulation, and suggests key elements that can be considered by countries in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating effective regulation. It also...
Το 2012 εγκρίθηκε ελάχιστη τιμή 50p ανά μονάδα οινοπνεύματος από βουλευτές του Σκωτσέζικου Κοινοβουλίου (MSPs). Η απόφαση αντιμετώπισε πολλές νομικές προκλήσεις από τη βιομηχανία ποτών πριν τα δικαστήρια της Σκωτίας αποφασίσουν υπέρ της τον...
Η ανάμειξη ενεργειακών ποτών με αλκοόλ γίνεται όλο και πιο δημοφιλής. Και όμως, πρόσφατες έρευνες δείχνουν ότι ο συνδυασμός των δύο θα μπορούσε να είναι επικίνδυνος, περισσότερο από το να πίνει αλκοόλ από μόνος του ή με πιο παραδοσιακά...
Αυτό το εγχειρίδιο έχει σχεδιαστεί για να διδάξει έννοιες, αξίες και στρατηγικές πολιτιστικής ικανότητας για εμπλοκή και θεραπεία με ισπανόφωνους και Λατίνους με διαταραχές χρήσης ουσιών (SUD). Το εγχειρίδιο εισάγει μια βασική κατανόηση της...
Μια πρόσφατη εργασία που δημοσιεύθηκε στο International Journal of Drug Policy εξετάζει τις τρέχουσες αντιδράσεις στον τομέα της υγείας σε νέες ψυχοδραστικές ουσίες (NPS), επισημαίνοντας βασικά ζητήματα για την ενημέρωση του σχεδιασμού και...
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