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È passato un decennio da quando la crisi finanziaria ha fatto salire il tasso di disoccupazione negli Stati Uniti e ha costretto le persone nel pieno della loro carriera a rinunciare a cercare lavoro.

Ancora oggi, mentre i datori di lavoro...

La rapida adozione delle sigarette elettroniche è stata guidata, almeno in parte, da un enorme salto nella potenza degli e-liquid.

Il fumo di sigaretta tra gli adolescenti è in declino. Mentre i dati mostrano che il fumo tra gli...

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Precedenti studi sull'uso di oppioidi ad alto rischio si sono concentrati solo su pazienti con diagnosi di disturbo da oppioidi. Questo studio valuta l'impatto di vari gruppi di consumo di oppioidi da prescrizione ad alto...

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Objectives: To examine (1) the association between household socioeconomic status (SES) and whether a household spends money on cigarettes and (2) socioeconomic variations in proportion of total household expenditure spent on...

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What is already known about this topic?

Among young persons with asthma, use of combustible tobacco products, particularly cigarettes, worsens symptoms and increases need for medical management.

What is added by this report?

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Una risorsa infografica del National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) che esplora le statistiche sulla morte correlate alla droga relative al fentanil e ad altri oppioidi sintetici riportate negli Stati Uniti.

Con quasi il 50% dei decessi...

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 webinar on opioid use disorder by Dr. Dennis McCarty is now available through the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) website. 

The hour long webinar took place in April 2018 and discusses treatment and prevention. The webinar...

A study exploring the completion of outpatient substance use disorder treatment has highlighted racial and ethnic health disparities. 

The research team utilised a sample of 416,224 outpatient discharges in the study which found people of...

National Prevention week led by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) will take place from 13-19th May 2018.

Each day focus will fall on a different topic - starting off with the theme of "Promotion of Mental Health...

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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...

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Aerosol composition measurements made in an indoor classroom indicate the uptake of thirdhand smoke (THS) species to indoor particles, a novel exposure route for THS to humans indoors. Chemical speciation of the organic aerosol...

La legalizzazione della cannabis per uso ricreativo (chiamata anche "uso per adulti") è una realtà in un numero crescente di stati degli Stati Uniti, nonostante il continuo divieto federale e la limitata ricerca scientifica sugli effetti...

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Tobacco addiction is a complex, multicomponent phenomenon stemming from nicotine’s pharmacology and the user’s biology, psychology, sociology, and environment. After decades of public denial, the tobacco industry now...

Conclusions of this study indicate that enacting a regulation to lower the nicotine content of cigarettes to minimally addictive levels in the United States would lead to a substantial reduction in tobacco-related mortality, despite...

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Le sigarette sono state fortemente associate al successivo uso di marijuana tra gli adolescenti, ma le sigarette elettroniche (sigarette elettroniche) stanno ora rapidamente sostituendo le sigarette tradizionali tra i giovani...