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Valutazione della politica sulle droghe
Drug Policy Evaluation: A Seven-Step Guide to Support the Commissioning and Managing of Evaluation (Valutazione delle politiche in materia di droga: una guida in sette fasi a sostegno della messa in servizio e della gestione delle...
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...
New National Alcohol Policy launched by Minster of Health
The new National Alcohol Policy for Malawi has been in the making since 2008, a process originally initiated by a group of NGOs. On the 18th of August almost ten years later the Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi, could launch the final...
Policy in Action: uno strumento per misurare l'attuazione della politica sull'alcol
ASTRATTO
L'Europa ha il più alto consumo di alcol e il più alto carico di malattie attribuibili all'alcol nel mondo. Nel 2011, tutti i 53 Stati membri della regione europea dell'OMS hanno approvato il piano d'azione europeo per ridurre l...
Awareness of Standardised Tobacco Packaging among Adults and Young People during the Final Phase of Policy Implementation in Great Britain
Abstract
Background: In May 2016, along with the latest European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), standardised packaging legislation was implemented in the UK. During the following 12-month transition period, both new and old types of...
Pubs Quizzed: What Publicans Think about Policy, Public Health and the Changing Trade
Key Points
- There is significant common ground between public health bodies and publicans, and scope to develop policies approved of by both groups
- Many publicans are deeply concerned about harmful alcohol consumption
- Both see...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
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Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
Bevande energetiche, uso di droghe e cervello in via di sviluppo
Una nuova ricerca finanziata dal National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ha rilevato che gli studenti universitari che consumano regolarmente bevande energetiche hanno maggiori probabilità di sviluppare disturbi da uso di alcol più avanti...
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: A Starting Point
Abstract
Objective
To better characterize and understand the nature of a very conservative definition of ‘avoidable’ emergency department (ED) visits in the United States to provide policy-makers insight into what interventions can target...
A Serious Matter: Laughing Gas Prompts Review of UK’s Psychoactive Substances Act
Introduced in 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act is designed to deal with the influx of new drugs often labelled ‘legal highs’.
The Act bans any substance that "by stimulating or depressing the person’s central nervous system… affects...
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...
Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.
This is compared with around one third of the average population.
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...
Standard di conoscenza per la scienza della prevenzione
Pubblicato dalla Society for Prevention Research nel 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention è un documento importante per coloro che lavorano nell'ambito della prevenzione dell'uso di sostanze.
Con l'obiettivo di...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...
Gli operatori sanitari del Regno Unito chiedono un prezzo unitario minimo per l'alcol in Inghilterra
Gli operatori sanitari di alto livello chiedono a Westminster di introdurre un prezzo unitario minimo per l'alcol e di reprimere la pubblicità delle bevande in Inghilterra.
Sostengono che entro i prossimi cinque anni fino a 63.000 persone...
ISSUP at the 22nd Annual National Institute on Drug Abuse International Forum
The 22nd Annual National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Forum was held in Montreal, Canada from June 16th – 19th, 2017.
Pubblicità dei prodotti del tabacco nei punti vendita: chi è più esposto in Brasile?
Astratto
Obiettivo: Descrivere la percezione della popolazione adulta della pubblicità delle sigarette nei punti vendita, in base al loro stato di utilizzo del tabacco e alle caratteristiche socio-demografiche come sesso, età, razza /...
Physicians’ Views on the Role of Smoking in Smoking-Related Diseases
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Background
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 the...