How to Implement Effective School-Based Drug Education
The United Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) outlines a number of methods that can be adopted by schools.
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Untuk siapa perawatan narkoba berbasis penjara bekerja? Hasil dari Eksperimen Acak
Untuk pertama kalinya dalam pengaturan penjara, persidangan acak telah secara ketat membandingkan perawatan komunitas terapeutik perumahan intensif dengan konseling rawat jalan. Mengacaukan harapan, penjara AS untuk pengguna narkoba...
Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
Bisakah Depresi Menyebabkan Penggunaan Rokok Elektrik?
Masih banyak pertanyaan yang belum terjawab mengenai efek kesehatan dari rokok elektrik. Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Nicotine & Tobacco menunjukkan bahwa mungkin ada hubungan antara penggunaan rokok elektrik di kalangan...
Technical Consultation on Updating the Prevention Standards
Gilberto Gerra, Chief of the Drug Prevention and Health Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opens the meeting on the "Technical consultation on updating the prevention standards" at UNODC headquarters in Vienna.
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Kemakmuran dan Tekanan Akademik: Dua Faktor yang Menyebabkan Penyalahgunaan Narkoba?
Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Development and Psychopathology mengklaim telah menemukan hubungan positif antara kemakmuran, kinerja akademik yang tinggi dan penggunaan narkoba dan alkohol.
Temuan semacam itu penting...
ISSUP at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting
Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...
Kemungkinan Pengobatan Baru untuk Gangguan Alkohol?
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Biological Psychiartry menunjukkan cara baru untuk pengobatan alkoholisme. Ini akan terlihat untuk mengurangi motivasi untuk minum alih-alih mengubah efek alkohol itu sendiri. Memang...
Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol-Related Harm: What's the Link?
New research published in The Lancet Public Health has examined the link between alcohol-related health effects and socioeconomic status.
The study suggests that the less affluent a person is, the less likely they are to suffer from...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
'Pra-Minuman': Kemungkinan Bahaya Fenomena Budaya yang Berkembang
Preloading dengan alkohol, atau 'pra-minum', sebelum malam menjadi semakin umum. Penelitian baru yang dilakukan di distrik kehidupan malam di Queensland, Australia, telah melihat untuk mengukur sejauh mana 'pra-minum'. Studi ini melaporkan...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?
A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...
Receptivity to Tobacco Ads Linked to Smoking Susceptibility Among Youth
There is a strong link between receptivity to tobacco product advertisements and susceptibility to smoking cigarettes later in life, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics. Put simply, the study suggests that the more...
Penghentian Teknologi dan Merokok: Apakah Email yang Dipersonalisasi Efektif untuk Calon Orang yang Berhenti?
Sebuah studi american cancer society baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Tobacco Control menunjukkan bahwa secara teratur menerima email yang dipersonalisasi dengan tips untuk berhenti di antara informasi lain bisa sama efektifnya dalam...
Parental Absence in Early Childhood and Onset of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption before Adolescence
Abstract
Background: Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in...
Current Tobacco Smoking and Desire to Quit Smoking among Students — Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2012–2015
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Smoked tobacco products, such as cigarettes and cigars, are the most common form of tobacco consumed worldwide and most tobacco smokers begin smoking during adolescence.
What is added by...
More Treatments on Deck for Alcohol Use Disorder
Thirteen years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last approved a new medication to help the nation’s millions of people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) stop or moderate their drinking.
Only 3 such formulations...
Do α2-Adrenergic Agonists Decrease the Symptoms Associated With Opioid Withdrawal?
Study Selection
This systematic review included randomized controlled clinical trials that compared the administration of an α2-adernergic agonist with other interventions such as placebo or methadone to reduce symptoms of opioid...
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Penggunaan Ritalin Non-obat: Studi ditingkatkan, Tapi mengambil kesempatan
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam Journal of Neural Transmission menyoroti sejumlah potensi efek samping yang merugikan dari penggunaan obat stimulan Ritalin tanpa resep. Ritalin (Methylphenidate) secara medis digunakan untuk mengobati...