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Public Health
The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
The Societal Cost of Heroin Use Disorder in the United States
ABSTRACT
Objective
Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.
Methods
An analytic...
Moderate Alcohol Consumption as Risk Factor for Adverse Brain Outcomes and Cognitive Decline
Abstract
Objectives: To investigate whether moderate alcohol consumption has a favourable or adverse association or no association with brain structure and function.
Design: Observational cohort study with weekly alcohol intake and...
Personality-Targeted Substance Use Interventions: Do They Work?
Do high-risk pupils benefit more so from psychological interventions than standard drug education initiatives?
Much research suggests there are, in fact, a number of significantly positive effects associated with the former.
What is more...
Masalah yang Berkembang: Peningkatan Jumlah Yang Memasuki Perawatan Obat untuk Penggunaan Ganja di Seluruh Eropa
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal European Addiction Research melukiskan gambaran layanan perawatan obat untuk masalah terkait ganja antara 2003 – 2014 di 22 negara Eropa.
Khususnya, ini menunjukkan bahwa, secara keseluruhan...
Mencegah Kekerasan Melalui Langkah-Langkah Pengurangan Konsumsi Alkohol
Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) telah merilis serangkaian pengarahan tentang pencegahan kekerasan. Yang menarik adalah Bab 3: Mencegah Kekerasan dengan Mengurangi Ketersediaan dan Penggunaan Alkohol yang Berbahaya.
"Penggunaan alkohol...
Pencegahan dan Pengobatan Penggunaan Narkoba di Lingkungan Pedesaan
Kantor Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa untuk Narkoba dan Kejahatan (UNODC) baru-baru ini menerbitkan apa yang digambarkan organisasi sebagai 'alat peningkatan kesadaran' yang ditujukan untuk pembuat kebijakan, pejabat kesehatan masyarakat...
High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances
‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community
The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...
