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How States Are Tackling the Opioid Crisis
Kunjungan Unit Gawat Darurat yang Dapat Dihindari: Titik Awal
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Untuk lebih mengkarakterisasi dan memahami sifat definisi yang sangat konservatif dari kunjungan departemen darurat (ED) yang 'dapat dihindari' di Amerika Serikat untuk memberikan wawasan kepada pembuat kebijakan tentang...
Environmental Stressors, Socioeconomic Factors, and Alcohol-Related Problems among Argentinian College Students
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Introduction: The relationship between alcohol consumption, individual characteristics, and alcohol-related problems may vary according to environmental characteristics in certain populations.
Objective: To explore the existence...
The Use of Solvent Inhalants among “Street Children” in Mexico
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Introduction: The use of solvent inhalants has been documented in Mexico since the 1970s. Nevertheless, very little is known about the distribution and use dynamics among “street children”. Few have ventured to study this issue...
Overdose Deaths Related to Fentanyl and Its Analogs
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What is already known about this topic?
Illicitly manufactured fentanyl has become a significant contributor to unintentional overdose deaths in the United States.
What is added by this report?
Approximately 90% of unintentional...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
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What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
What is...
Smartphone Ownership among US Adult Cigarette Smokers
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Background: Despite increasing interest in smartphone apps as a platform for delivery of tobacco cessation interventions, no previous studies have evaluated the prevalence and characteristics of smokers who can access smartphone...
Economic Hardships and Patterns of Drug Consumption in Europe
A new study recently published in the Journal of Health Economics considers the changes in patterns of drug consumption and attitudes towards substances among youth (15-24) across 28 European countries.
Of particular interest for the...
Review Article: Recent Insights into Clinical Decision-Making in Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis
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Alcoholic hepatitis is a severe acute manifestation of alcoholic liver disease with a high mortality. Management of patients with this condition has been a matter of controversy for many years; however, recent clinical...
More Reasons to Move: Exercise in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
Physical exercise is widely regarded as “medicine” for the prevention and treatment of myriad somatic health conditions. Studies also demonstrate that exercise is effective in the treatment of common mental disorders and has a role in the...
Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
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Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
Guru dan Pelatih di Jaringan Sosial Remaja Dikaitkan dengan Konsep Diri yang Lebih Sehat dan Penurunan Penggunaan Zat
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Konsep diri akademis yang buruk (misalnya "Saya siswa yang buruk") dan perilaku (misalnya "Saya pembuat onar") sangat terkait dengan penggunaan zat remaja. Jaringan sosial kemungkinan mempengaruhi konsep diri. Namun...
Penggunaan Narkoba di antara Siswa Transgender di Sekolah Menengah dan Menengah Umum California
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Remaja transgender menghadapi tekanan sosial yang luar biasa dalam keluarga dan sekolah, yang sering menyebabkan kesenjangan kesehatan perilaku. Studi ini menilai apakah tingkat penggunaan narkoba lebih tinggi di kalangan...
Synthetic Cannabinoids: What Health Risks Do They Pose?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...
Socioeconomic Position and Adolescent Drinking: What's the Link?
To what extent does socioeconomic position affect adolescent drinking behaviours?
A new article recently published in the academic journal BMC Public Health addresses this question in the context of six different European countries among...
Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
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There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...
Efek Penggunaan Ganja pada Kematian Kardiovaskular dan Serebrovaskular
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Laporan mengaitkan penggunaan ganja dengan keadaan darurat kardiovaskular. Studi yang menghubungkan penggunaan ganja dengan kematian kardiovaskular langka. Kemajuan terbaru menuju legalisasi penggunaan ganja menekankan...
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
The Licensing Act (2003): Its Uses and Abuses 10 Years on
Seen as excluding health concerns and requiring an individualistic and ‘premises by premises’ approach, interviews with stakeholders and a revisiting of the 2003 Licensing Act for England and Wales suggest it could nevertheless be used to...
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