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Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Coercion Tests Therapeutic Skills
Key studies on the contribution of the practitioner to reducing crime and safeguarding the community. Commentary risks formulating a general rule: The trickier the situation, the more the worker matters. Implication is that therapeutic...
Eficacia de las etiquetas de advertencia en las cajetillas de cigarrillo
Resumen
Objetivo: Establecer la capacidad que tienen las etiquetas de advertencia con el tamaño mínimo exigido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud para capturar la atención en fumadores y no fumadores. Métodos: En el estudio se...
Tobacco Industry Strategies Undermine Government Tax Policy: Evidence from Commercial Data
Abstract
Objective: Taxation equitably reduces smoking, the leading cause of health inequalities. The tobacco industry (TI) can, however, undermine the public health gains realised from tobacco taxation through its pricing strategies...
Magnitude and Extent of Gambling Disorder in the Mexican Population
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Gambling disorder is characterized by an uncontrollable need to gamble, lack of control over gambling, prioritizing gambling over other activities, and continuing to gamble despite the negative consequences this...
Perceived Importance of Substance Use Prevention in Juvenile Justice: A Multi-Level Analysis
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Background
Youth under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision are at high-risk of adverse outcomes from substance use, making prevention important. Few studies have examined prevention-related attitudes of JJ employees, yet such...
Trinidad y Tobago reticente a legalizar y promover la marihuana
Trinidad y Tobago reticente a legalizar y promover la marihuana
Puerto España, 14 jul (PL) El primer ministro de Trinidad y Tobago, Keith Rowley, afirmó que la despenalización de la marihuana hoy está lejos de ser prioridad gubernamental...
Tobacco Advertising, Promotion and Tobacco Product Display at Points-of-Sale in Kenya
In 2007, Kenya enacted the Tobacco Control Act, which is the principal tobacco control law in the country. The 2007 law includes prohibition of smoking in public places, ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and packaging...
UNODC World Drug Report 2018
The 2018 World Drug Report was launched on 26th June. The report covers a range of topics with the booklets split into drug demand and supply, drug markets, drugs and age, and women and drugs.
The booklets are all available free to...
Media Influence on Public Policy in Kenya: The Case of Illicit Brew Consumption
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The media plays a major role in public life, influencing citizens’ focus of attention and providing many of the facts and opinions that shape perspectives on topics of the day. Studies that analyze media influences on policy...
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...
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...
European Drug Report 2018
The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released their latest European Drugs report.
Covering 30 European countries the report explores drug trends, developments in prevention and treatment, public health...
Sugar, Tobacco, and Alcohol Taxes to Achieve the SDGs
More than a decade after the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is compelling evidence that raising tobacco prices substantially through taxation is the single most effective way to reduce tobacco use and...
May Student Membership Update
In our second Student Membership Update we have sourced some funding and research opportunities, and events that we are sure will be of interest.
Tobacco Cessation Interventions and Smoke-Free Policies in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
Many persons with mental or substance use disorders who smoke want to and can quit smoking.
Public versus Internal Conceptions of Addiction: An Analysis of Internal Philip Morris Documents
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Background
Tobacco addiction is a complex, multicomponent phenomenon stemming from nicotine’s pharmacology and the user’s biology, psychology, sociology, and environment. After decades of public denial, the tobacco industry...
Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives and Harmful Drinking: A Systematic Review
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Background: There is growing awareness of the detrimental effects of alcohol industry commercial activities, and concern about possible adverse impacts of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, on public health...
Guidance on the Implementation of Minimum Pricing for Alcohol
With legislation brought in on 1 May 2018 the Scottish Government has produced a resource offering Guidance on the Implementation of Minimum Pricing for Alcohol for sellers of alcohol and alcohol enforcement authorities in Scotland.
The...
Scotland Becomes the First Country to Enforce Minimum Pricing on Alcohol
Scotland has become the first country in the world to enforce a minimum price per unit of alcohol. As of 1 May 2018 all alcohol must cost no less than 0.5GPD or 50 pence.
The move is the result of a long process of research and...
Improving Quality of Life: Substance Use and Ageing
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has released a resource focusing on substance use in ageing populations.
The document covers the consequences of substance use in older adults, health conditions which might...
