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Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that university students who regularly consume energy drinks are more likely to develop alcohol use disorders later in life. The same students are also at greater...
Objective
To better characterize and understand the nature of a very conservative definition of ‘avoidable’ emergency department (ED) visits in the United States to provide policy-makers insight into what interventions can...
Introduced in 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act is designed to deal with the influx of new drugs often labelled ‘legal highs’.
The Act bans any substance that "by stimulating or depressing the person’s central nervous system… affects...
Инспекциялық қорытындылар Англия мен Уэльстің түрмелерінде есірткі тұтынудың жалпы көрінісін және оған жауап беруді қалыптастыру үшін 2014 жылы сегіз түрмедегі дала жұмыстарымен толықтырылды. Есiрткiнi пайдаланудың тез өзгеретiн және...
Seen as excluding health concerns and requiring an individualistic and ‘premises by premises’ approach, interviews with stakeholders and a revisiting of the 2003 Licensing Act for England and Wales suggest it could nevertheless be used to...
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.
This is compared with around one third of the average population.
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...
Published by the Society for Prevention Research in 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention is an important document for those working within substance use prevention.
With the aim of professionalising the field, it...
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...
Денсаулық сақтау саласының аға мамандары Вестминстерге алкогольдің ең төменгі бірлік бағасын енгізуге және Англияда сусындар жарнамасын қыспаққа алуға шақырады.
Олар алдағы бес жылда алкогольді көп тұтынумен байланысты бауыр проблемалары...
Мақсаты: Ересек халықтың темекі жарнамасын сату нүктесінде қабылдауын олардың темекі тұтыну мәртебесіне және жынысы, жасы, нәсілдік/түсі, өңірі, үй шаруашылығының орналасуы және мектептегі білімі сияқты әлеуметтік-демографиялық...
Previous reports have shown that physicians who smoke underestimate the effects of smoking on health and this influences their practice. This study was designed to investigate the views of Estonian physicians on...
Over the last few decades, the United States has entered a new phase in its cannabis control policies.
As of November 2016, 28 US states and Washington, D.C. had legalised cannabis use for medicinal purposes.
Eight of these and...
2013 жылғы 17 желтоқсандағы Еуропарламент пен Кеңестің No 1382/2013 Регламентімен (ЕО) белгіленген 2014 – 2020 жылдарға арналған әділеттілік бағдарламасы, атап айтқанда Өнер. 4 және 6(1) нақты мақсат ретінде есірткі саясаты саласындағы...
Objectives: Since the Health Promotion Act was introduced in Korea in 1995, anti-smoking policies and regulations have undergone numerous revisions, and non-smoking areas have gradually been expanded. The purpose of this study...
The UK government has today released its new drug strategy. It is the first such document in seven years. The strategy focuses on four strands including reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery and global action.
It builds...
Tobacco control policy is essential for addressing the growing tobacco consumption seen in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the single greatest preventable contributor to the non-communicable disease epidemic...
Few low- and middle-income countries have done so much to protect their citizens from alcohol-related harms, but Thailand still faces challenges. Apiradee Treerutkuarkul reports.
Today Thailand is one of the few developing countries with...
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