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Effect of Cigarette Constituent Messages With Engagement Text on Intention to Quit Smoking Among Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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Importance: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is required to communicate the risks of tobacco constituents to the public. Few studies have addressed how FDA media campaigns can effectively communicate about cigarette...
UNODC Strategy 2021-2025
The mission of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is to contribute to global peace and security, human rights and development by making the world safer from drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism by working for and with...
Criminal Justice Therapy: Melding Care with Control. Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell D5
CRIMINAL JUSTICE THERAPY: MELDING CARE WITH CONTROL
In theory the great advantage of treatment ordered by the criminal justice system is that it can ‘hold’ patients in treatment and get them to comply with the programme sufficiently to...
A Scoping Review of Factors that Influence Opioid Overdose Prevention for Justice-Involved Populations
Abstract
Background
There is a high risk of death from opioid overdose following release from prison. Efforts to develop and implement overdose prevention programs for justice-involved populations have increased in recent years. An...
Webinar | Preventing and Treating Substance Use Disorders: A Focus on Females Across the Life Course
The Demand for Alcohol in South Africa during the National Lockdown
The Demand for Alcohol in South Africa
The sale, dispensing and distribution of liquor was prohibited in the nationwide lockdown on levels 5 and 4 (DMA, 2002; Amendment Regulations 2020:22). The alcohol ban that was imposed during these...
Solution-Centered Therapy. A treatment option for alcohol dependence
Summary
In Mexico, excessive alcohol consumption represents one of the main public health challenges at the national level. Although there are a number of intervention strategies that seek to affect this problem, there is also a large...
‘Dangerous data’ part 4: Sobells Decisively Crack the Abstinence Consensus. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic
‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 4: SOBELLS DECISIVELY CRACK THE ABSTINENCE CONSENSUS
Fourth weekly instalment of the series on controlled drinking as a treatment goal. Published in 1973, hard-to-explain-away results from the solidity of a...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Reading List
Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic circumstances or events that occur during childhood. Research that has examined ACEs has pointed to the link between these traumatic events in childhood and the increased risk of negative physical...
Representation of Adverse Childhood Experiences Linked with Lower Public Stigma Towards People Who Use Drugs
Public stigma towards people who use substances can impact people seeking support and treatment outcomes. It can also influence how public health policy is shaped and accepted.
Researchers have been interested in understanding how people...
Why don't they just stop using drugs then?
Why don't they just stop using drugs then? Making the case for trauma and ACE informed substance use services.
Andrew has developed trauma and ACE informed approaches in North Wales and other parts of the UK and Ireland during the last...
ANNUAL YOUTH SPORT GALA PICTORIAL REPORT - Talk Sports Not Alcohol; We Can Make A Difference
Young people and Sports
Sports, by its very nature, highlights ability and talent . Sports has always served as a conveyor belt for professional level sport.
Sport offers a major vehicle for addressing the high risk behaviours...
18 de Fevereiro – Dia Nacional de Combate ao Alcoolismo
Não deixe o álcool acabar com o seu prazer de viver
18 de Fevereiro – Dia Nacional de Combate ao Alcoolismo
Dados do último Levantamento Nacional de Álcool e outras Drogas (II Lenad), realizado pela UNIFESP, de São Paulo, revelam...
In Love with Addiction Neuroscience
In ISAM-NIG's new monthly talk series "In-Love with Addicted Brains”, addiction neuroscientists from across the world share their personal stories/experiences on the beauty of addiction neuroscience and how/why they have decided to invest...
An analysis of drugs in used syringes from sentinel European cities: results from the ESCAPE project, 2018 and 2019
This report presents new findings from the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) network, based on the chemical analysis of the contents of used syringes across sentinel sites in Europe.
Syringes were...
Quality in Drug Use Disorder Treatment
Organisations Set the Context for Crime-Reducing Treatment. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix, Cell D5
ORGANISATIONS SET THE CONTEXT FOR CRIME-REDUCING TREATMENT
Key studies teasing out organisational-level influences on treatment for drinking problems which aims to reduce crime and safeguard family and community. In the context of a...
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