Oil and Drugs: A Toxic Mix
This article covers drug use and the oil industry in Texas. Thousands of oil field workers are using drugs because of the mix of money and boredom due to the energy boom. Read more...
This article covers drug use and the oil industry in Texas. Thousands of oil field workers are using drugs because of the mix of money and boredom due to the energy boom. Read more...
San Joaquin county in California has pointed the way forward to a system which conserves treatment resources yet achieves greater reductions in drink/drug-driving incidents. The first evaluation of systematically escalating offenders to...
Time to consolidate the lessons of the course’s last five instalments about treatment intended to safeguard the community, the final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. A common theme is the contradiction between treatment centred on the...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the result of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE), affects 2–11% of children worldwide, with no effective treatments. Hippocampus-based learning and memory deficits are key symptoms of FASD. Our previous...
Acute and chronic alcohol exposure significantly affect behavior but the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here, we used functional connectivity density (FCD) mapping to study alcohol-related...
A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) suggests there to be a correlation between childhood psychiatric disorders and an increased risk of developing addiction in adulthood.
...The publication Guidelines on Drug Prevention and Treatment for Girls and Women by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) discusses alcohol and drug use prevalence and trends among girls and women globally.
The document...
The TREATNET Quality Standards are based on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Principles of Drug Dependence Treatment and Care.
They represent a set of evidence-based standards for drug-dependence treatment.
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Risky alcohol use, defined as any level of alcohol consumption which increases the risk of harm to oneself or others, is both a substance use disorder and medical issue. Recognized as one of the leading preventable causes of death, risky...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) presents its Principles of Adolescent Drug Addiction Treatment.
The document focuses exclusively on the realities of substance use among youth (12 to 17 years).
Illegal substances...
This guide presents information on raising children to be drug free.
It includes:
Senior health professionals are calling for Westminster to introduce minimum unit pricing of alcohol and clampdown on drinks advertising in England.
They claim that within the next five years up to 63,000 people across the country will...
Aim and data specification
This analysis was based on monthly data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from December 2005 to November 2016. NDTMS is taken to be a comprehensive description of drug treatment...
Objective: To estimate annual infant morbidity and mortality attributable to prenatal smoking in Chile during 2008−2012.
Methods: Population-attributable fractions (PAFs) for several infant outcomes were calculated based on...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent of short-term memory impairment and schizophrenia-like symptoms in heavy and systematic cannabis users and the association between the severity of...
Objective: To describe the adult population perception of cigarette advertising at point of sale, according to their tobacco use status and socio-demographic characteristics such as sex, age, race/color, region, household...
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...
Multidimensional family therapy addresses:
A new Consensus Document from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) appears in the new edition of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
The document provides practical, evidence-based recommendations regarding the use of drug...
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