All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

Positive and Negative Parenting Associated with Severe Problems of Child Behavior

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Scientific article
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Public Health

Abstract

Introduction: Certain child rearing practices are associated with severe behavioral problems in children.

Objective: To assess the relationship between child rearing practices and severe behavioral problems in children.

Results...

Tobacco and Its Environmental Impact: An Overview

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Book
Themes
Policy
Public Health

Overview

This overview assembles existing evidence on the ways in which tobacco affects human well-being from an environmental perspective – i.e. the indirect social and economic damage caused by the cultivation, production, distribution...

Delivery of Screening and Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Urban Academic Federally Qualified Health Center

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Women

Abstract

Background

Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for unhealthy drinking has not been widely implemented in primary care partly due to reliance on physicians to perform it.

Methods

We implemented a model of nursing staff...

No Clear Role for Medications in Less Dependent Drinkers

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Format
Scientific article
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Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Public Health

In 2013 nalmefene was authorised for moderating drinking among patients not in need of detoxification, extending pharmacotherapy to less dependent drinkers. Though uniquely authorised for this purpose, this review found other (and probably...

Gambling Activates the Same Brain Pathways as Substance Addiction, New Study Finds

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Behavioural Therapy Interventions
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family

Problem gambling in the UK is reported to affect around 590,000 people.

The condition can be treated via a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication.

Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, a...

Risk and Protective Factors for Substance Use in High-Risk Populations

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Mental Health
Prevention
Public Health

There tends to be an increase in prevalence of substance use issues within populations living in urban areas and where poverty levels are high.

Certain risk factors, more common in deprived areas, are particularly associated with substance...

Women and Substance Use

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women

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Objectives: To explore contextual factors that increase vulnerabilities to negative sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes and possible differences in SRH-related behaviours and the needs of women who use drugs (WUD)...

Alcohol Marketing Regulation: From Research to Public Policy

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Format
Scientific article
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Psychoactive Substances
Policy
Regulatory Control of Substances

Introduction

Alcohol marketing, promotion and sponsorship are widespread in most of the world today. Alcohol marketing is evolving constantly and utilizes multiple channels, including youth-oriented radio, television, sports events and...

Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Smokable Cocaine Substances

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Book
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Public Health

This Compendium of the Chemical Composition of Smokable Cocaines is part of the Project on Smokable Cocaines in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, coordinated by the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs of the Inter-American...

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