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Illicit Drug Use, Illicit Drug Use Disorders, and Drug Overdose Deaths in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas — United States
Abstract
Problem/Condition: Drug overdoses are a leading cause of injury death in the United States, resulting in approximately 52,000 deaths in 2015. Understanding differences in illicit drug use, illicit drug use disorders, and overall...
Needle Acquisition Patterns, Network Risk and Social Capital among Rural PWID in Puerto Rico
Abstract
Background
People who inject drugs (PWID) take on significant risks of contracting blood-borne infection, including injecting with a large number of partners and acquiring needles from unsafe sources. When combined, risk of...
Like Sugar for Adults: The Effect of Non-Dependent Parental Drinking on Children & Families
This study set out to explore the effect of non-dependent parental drinking on children, making a direct link between parental drinking habits and the attitudes, behaviours and impacts reported by their children.
It explores the effect...
PLGF, a Placental Marker of Fetal Brain Defects after in Utero Alcohol Exposure
Abstract
Most children with in utero alcohol exposure do not exhibit all features of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and a challenge for clinicians is to make an early diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) to avoid lost...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix: Going with the Grain; Organisation, Ethos and Harm Reduction
On-line course moves up to the level of the organisation and its influence on drug-related harm. Learn how in methadone clinics and needle exchanges, misguided ‘good intentions’ placed service users at risk. A possible rule of thumb emerges...
Elementos regulatorios sobre la marihuana, a consideración para la efectiva protección a la salud de la población
Abstract
When discussing the public health approach to the use of marijuana, the complexity of rigorous regulatory interventions for population protection is omitted. Using the experience of governments where these practices already...
“Gestaltomics”: Systems Biology Schemes for the Study of Neuropsychiatric Diseases
The integration of different sources of biological information about what defines a behavioral phenotype is difficult to unify in an entity that reflects the arithmetic sum of its individual parts. In this sense, the challenge of Systems...
School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works?
School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works? is a new briefing paper published by Mentor-Adepis. It outlines several approaches that have been shown to work effectively, and issues cautions about those that have not...
د نشه یی توکو د پالیسۍ ارزونه
د نشه یی توکو د پالیسۍ ارزونه: د ارزونو د سمبالولو او سمبالولو د ملاتړ لپاره یو اووه ګامه لارښود د اروپایی ټولنې د څارنې د مرکز له خوا د نشه یی توکو او نشه یی توکو د روږدو د مخنیوی مرکز ( EMCDDA) یوه نوې سرچینه ده. سند د نشه یی توکو د...
Blood Alcohol Concentration-Related Lower Performance in Immediate Visual Memory and Working Memory in Adolescent Binge Drinkers
The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol consumption is prevalent during adolescence, a period characterized by critical changes to the structural and functional development of brain areas related with memory and cognition. There is...
Alcohol Binge Drinking and Executive Functioning during Adolescent Brain Development
Alcohol consumption in adolescents causes negative effects on familiar, social, academic life, as well as neurocognitive alterations. The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol is characterized by the alternation of episodes of heavy...
د مستقیم بازار موندنې ترویج او د متحده ایالاتو لویانو ترمنځ د بریښنایی سګرټ کارول
چکیده
معرفی شرکت
له ۲۰۰۷ کال راهیسې په امریکا کې د برېښنایی سګرټو کارول زیات شوی دی. د دې مطالعې هدف د متحده ایالاتو لویانو ترمنځ د ای سګریټونو مستقیم بازارموندنې ترویج او د ای سګریټ کارولو سره د هغې ملګرتیا څیړنه وه.
میتودونه
م...
The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies from 1990 to 2015
Abstract
Importance: Liver cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths globally. The most common causes for liver cancer include hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and alcohol use.
Objective: To...
'زما GP وایی چې زه ډېر څښم' : سکرینکول او لنډه مداخله
د شتون په وړاندې د لا زیات خنډونو په نه شتون کې ، پراخه سکرینکول د پیژندلو او بیا په لنډه توګه د خطر لرونکی څښاک څښونکو ته مشوره ورکوی د الکولو په اړه د عامې روغتیا د ښه کیدو لپاره لویه هیله وه. دا لوی ګرم موضوع تاسو ته د مطالعاتو له لارې...
Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations
ABSTRACT
Background: Cannabis use is common in North America, especially among young people, and is associated with a risk of various acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. Cannabis control regimes are evolving, for example, toward a...
Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Pulmonary Function
Abstract
Introduction: The workplace remains a significant source of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. This pollutant is known to be associated with respiratory and cardiovascular problems, but its effects on specific pulmonary function...
په یوټیوب کې الکول: ماشومان څه لید کوی؟
د الکولو او نشه یی توکو په اړه د مطالعاتو د ژورنال په وروستی حجم کې نوې څیړنې د یوټیوب هغه ویډیوګانې څېړی چې د الکولو د برنډو حواله ورکوی، او د کم عمره نندارچیانو په منځ کې مشهور دی. یو ځای، هغه ویډیوګانې چې تحلیل شوې وې یوازې د 97 میلیونو...
8 Steps Towards Minimising the US Opioid Crisis
Current levels of opioid addiction in the US are so alarming that in July 2017 the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis urgently suggested that President Trump declare a national emergency to free up...
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Statistics
Executive Summary
Data collected in drug treatment agencies play a prominent role in informing policy makers. Such data often represent the only information collected regularly and consistently over a certain period of time. What is even...
کلتوری اړخ : په کلتورونو کې د الکولو استعمال د بې نظمیو په اړه د اپیدمیولوجیکی ډیټا اندازه او تفسیر څنګه
خلاصه
اهداف :
د مثال په توګه د اروپایی هیوادونو په کارولو سره د الکولو کارولو د بې نظمیو په تشخیص کې کلتوری اغیزه وسنجوی.
ډیزاین :
د راوی کتنه .
پایلې :
هلته قوی کلتوری نورمونه د څښاک د درنو موقعو او د کنترول د لاسه...
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