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A free online training course from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now available.

The course addresses the CDC recommendations with respect to the prescription of opioids for chronic pain as well as their treatment...

Among US neighbourhoods, poverty and disorganisation, that is high levels of crime, drug trafficking and graffiti etc., may increase the risk of problem drinking, more so than the presence of bars or stores that sell alcohol.

In other...

Summary

What is already known about this topic?

Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United States...

Astratto

Obiettivi

Determinare se l'uso di oppioidi da prescrizione è associato a un rischio di demenza più elevato o a un maggiore declino cognitivo.

Disegno

Studio prospettico di coorte.

Impostazione

Group Health, un sistema...

A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...

A new study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine suggests that a tele-psychiatric approach which uses video-link technology in combination with medicinal treatment in the form of buprenorphine could be as effective as the usual...

British people love an alcoholic beverage or two (or three, or four), so the stereotype goes.

New statistics from the Office for National Statistics, however, suggest a decrease in levels of alcohol consumption across the country. The...

Il tabacco è la prima causa di morte prevenibile in tutto il mondo. Una Cochraine Review pubblicata di recente ha rilevato che confezioni di tabacco standardizzate o semplici potrebbero rendere i prodotti del tabacco meno attraenti e, a...

Crack emerged in the late 1980s in Brazil. This emergence was a critical moment for public health; the growing AIDS epidemic led intravenous cocaine users to migrate toward crack use to avoid the use of injection drugs. At the same time...

New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...

New findings published in the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science suggest that flavoured e-cigarettes appeal particularly to youth and young adults.

From the study's sample population, 99% of 12-17-year-olds and 95% of young adults said...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a number of new resources.

These are aimed at those working within the criminal justice system and other environments where people in recovery from drug addiction are ready to return...

Marijuana use may increase the risk of stroke and heart failure.

This was concluded to be the case even after accounting for demographic and lifestyle risk factors, as well as other health conditions.

The new findings on the potential...

Contesto e obiettivi: Ci sono sempre più prove di ricerca sul ruolo causale dell'alcol nel cancro, accompagnate da messaggi poco chiari e contrastanti nei media. Questo documento mirava a chiarire la forza delle prove per l'alcol come causa...

Background

Alcohol use during pregnancy is the direct cause of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). We aimed to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and FAS in the general population and, by linking these two indicators...