A study implementing the use of virtual reality to explore addition and recovery has been published by a team of researchers connected to Clinical Tools, Inc. Clinical Tools is based in the USA with work combining medicine, science, and...
A study published in the Journal of Community Health, Examining Differences in Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC) Levels and Hazardous Drinking by Smoking Status Among a Sample of College Student Bar Patrons, explores the relationship...
A study published in the LGBT Health Journal explores family rejection as a predictor for substance misuse in transgender and gender nonconforming adults.
Taking data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey the study involved...
Policy interventions such as public health mass media campaigns disseminate messages in order to improve health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors at the population level. Only more recently have campaigns that...
Abbiamo esaminato la prevalenza e i predittori di regole domestiche complete senza fumo (cioè case e auto senza fumo) tra fumatori e non fumatori in Minnesota. I dati provengono dal Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey del 2014; le...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found an association with young people being exposed to adverts for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and taking up smoking later in life.
The study followed 10 989...
La ricerca condotta in Nord America ha evidenziato differenze nelle abitudini di fumo giovanile per gli individui che si identificano come eterosessuali e quelli che si identificano come lesbiche, gay o bisessuali (LGB).
Lo studio si basa...
Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Centre for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health have been exploring the link between drug dependence, ongoing drug use, relapse and exposure to stress or experience of stressful events...
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston has published a new study suggesting changes to the way opioids are prescribed after surgery could be a way to reduce misuse.
Featured in the British Medical Journal, the study Po...
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...
Poor academic (eg. “I am a bad student”) and behavioral (eg. “I am a troublemaker”) self-concepts are strongly linked to adolescent substance use. Social networks likely influence self-concept. However, little is...
Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...
Secondo nuove scoperte pubblicate sulla rivista Tobacco Control, oltre 53 milioni di persone in 88 paesi hanno smesso di fumare tra il 2008 e il 2014 a causa delle misure di controllo del tabacco.
Statisticamente, ciò significa che durante...
A new study suggests that the way in which the human brain responds to nicotine depends on what a smoker believes about the drug’s content in a cigarette. The investigation found that smoking a cigarette that contains nicotine, but thinking...
Younger people consider flavoured variations of tobacco products, for example, cigarettes and e-cigarettes less harmful and more appealing, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger...
