Facebook Will Redirect Searches about Opiates to SAMHSA Support Services
Many news outlets are reporting on a newly introduced feature of Facebook to help support people who use opiate drugs.
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Family Management Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Substance Use in South Africa
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Background
An increasingly recognised prevention approach for substance use entails a reduction in risk factors, and the enhancement of promotive, or protective factors in individuals and the environment surrounding them during...
How the Opioid Crisis Is Depressing America's Labor Force
It's been a decade since the financial crisis drove up the unemployment rate in the U.S. and forced people in the prime of their careers to give up looking for work.
Even today, as employers add jobs at a furious pace, the workforce...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Performance Feedback Critical to Workforce Development
Seminal and key studies on management and supervision in psychosocial therapies for problem drug use. Findings challenge managers to invest in the post-training ‘coaching’ needed to make a difference for patients, and to set up systems...
Is Prevalence of E-Cigarette and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Use among Smokers Associated with Average Cigarette Consumption in England?
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Objectives: Many smokers use e-cigarettes and licensed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), often in an attempt to reduce their cigarette consumption. We estimated how far changes in prevalence of e-cigarette and NRT use while...
How Teenage Vaping Puts Structure in Place for Heroin and Cocaine Addiction
The rapid adoption of e-cigarettes has been driven, at least in part, by a huge jump in the potency of e-liquids.
CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG teenagers is on the wane. While data show smoking among teenagers has dropped over the past few years...
Impact of the Tips From Former Smokers Campaign on Population-Level Smoking Cessation, 2012–2015
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This study provides estimates of the long-term cumulative impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national tobacco education campaign, Tips From Former Smokers (Tips), on population-level smoking cessation. We...
Tackling Alcohol-Related Anti-Social Behaviour through Civil Injunctions and Criminal Behaviour Orders: A Missed Opportunity?
A new report released by Alcohol Concern/Alcohol Research UK explores the current use and issues over legal powers available to address alcohol-related Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB).
The Government estimates that alcohol misuse costs the...
Healthcare Costs and Utilization Associated with High-Risk Prescription Opioid Use
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Previous studies on high-risk opioid use have only focused on patients diagnosed with an opioid disorder. This study evaluates the impact of various high-risk prescription opioid use groups on healthcare costs and...
NIDA Easy to Read Drug Facts
If you are searching for a simple format way to communicate the key issues around drugs then the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website may offer a multi-media solution.
The Easy to Read Drug Facts section of the NIDA website...
Socioeconomic Status and Cigarette Expenditure among US Households: Results from 2010 to 2015 Consumer Expenditure Survey
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Objectives: To examine (1) the association between household socioeconomic status (SES) and whether a household spends money on cigarettes and (2) socioeconomic variations in proportion of total household expenditure spent on...
Multilevel Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study Examining School Substance-Misuse Policy and the Use of Cannabis, Mephedrone and Novel Psychoactive Substances
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Objectives: To examine whether young peoples’ risk of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use is associated with school substance-misuse policy.
Design: A cross-sectional survey of secondary school...
Incautaciones de droga en Centros de Atención Institucional del Sistema Penitenciario Costarricense. Anuario Estadístico 2017
El objetivo primordial de este estudio, consiste en brindar información a las autoridades competentes sobre la disponibilidad y el volumen de los tipos de drogas que se trafican a lo interno de cada centro penal a fin de que se elaboren...
Auditor General Slams 'Unacceptable' Lack of Treatment for Mentally Ill Inmates
New Brunswick jails aren't offering any addiction treatment or therapy for mentally ill inmates, according to the province's auditor general.
Kim MacPherson's investigation into treatment in jails revealed a patchwork system where no one...
SAMHSA Announces $930 Million Funding Opportunity to Combat the Opioid Crisis
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is now accepting applications for $930 million in State Opioid Response Grants. SAMHSA will...
Global Statistics on Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drug Use: 2017 Status Report
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This review provides an up‐to‐date curated source of information on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use and their associated mortality and burden of disease. Limitations in the data are also discussed, including how these...
Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Assess Factors that May Influence Implementation of Tobacco Use Treatment Guidelines in the Viet Nam Public Health Care Delivery System
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Services to treat tobacco dependence are not readily available to smokers in low-middle income countries (LMICs) where smoking prevalence remains high. We are conducting a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing...
Exploring the Factors Affecting the Implementation of Tobacco and Substance Use Interventions within a Secondary School Setting
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The aim of this mixed-methods, systematic literature review was to develop an understanding of the factors affecting the implementation of tobacco and substance use intervention programmes in the secondary school...
Ibogaine Treatment Outcomes for Opioid Dependence from a Twelve-Month Follow-Up Observational Study
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Background: The psychoactive indole alkaloid ibogaine has been associated with encouraging treatment outcomes for opioid dependence. The legal status of ibogaine in New Zealand provides a unique opportunity to evaluate durability...
Toxicokinetics of Ibogaine and Noribogaine in a Patient with Prolonged Multiple Cardiac Arrhythmias after Ingestion of Internet Purchased Ibogaine
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Background: Ibogaine is an agent that has been evaluated as an unapproved anti-addictive agent for the management of drug dependence. Sudden cardiac death has been described to occur secondary to its use. We describe the clinical...