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The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
The 2014-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS)
Especially due to its large sample size and incorporation into the CPS survey, the TUS provides a unique opportunity for tracking long-term trends in tobacco use, cessation attempts, and tobacco-related policies; evaluation of tobacco...
A Dermatologist's Ammunition in the War Against Smoking: A Photoaging App
ABSTRACT
This viewpoint reviews the perspectives for dermatology as a specialty to go beyond the substantial impact of smoking on skin disease and leverage the impact of skin changes on a person's self-concept and behavior in the design of...
د اویاویاوی بحران چټک حقایق
اپیوپید د اپینو د نسخې د درد درمل دی چې د تریاکو د تکرار لپاره فارمول کوی.
Type and Context of Alcohol-Related Injury among Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments in a Caribbean Country
Abstract
There is an association between alcohol consumption and injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean. This cross-sectional study explores the socio-contextual factors of alcohol-related injuries in Trinidad and Tobago. Data on...
Smoking Cessation and Survival in Lung, Upper Aero-Digestive Tract and Bladder Cancer
ABSTRACT
Background: The aim was to examine the association between smoking cessation and prognosis in smoking-related cancer as it is unclear that cessation reduces mortality.
Methods: In this retrospective cohort study from 1999 to 2013...
A Socioecological Approach to Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This...
مصنوعی کیتینون او کینابینوئډ ډیزاینر درمل د عامې روغتیا لپاره لوی خطر جوړوی
د ډیزاینر درملو د مخ په زیاتیدونکی نړیوال کارونې برخې په توګه ، د کیتینونو او مصنوعی کینابینوایډونو لرونکی مرکباتو وروستی کارول په ځانګړی توګه عام دی. دلته ، موږ د خپریدو ، اپیډیمولوژی ، بایو چلند اغیزو ، او د دې مرکبونو کشف په اړه اوسنی...
Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
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...
Environmental Stressors, Socioeconomic Factors, and Alcohol-Related Problems among Argentinian College Students
Abstract:
Introduction: The relationship between alcohol consumption, individual characteristics, and alcohol-related problems may vary according to environmental characteristics in certain populations.
Objective: To explore the existence...
د فنتانیل او د هغې د انالوګس سره تړاو لری
لنډیز
د دې موضوع په اړه مخکې څه معلوم دی؟
په ناقانونه توګه جوړ شوی فنټانیل په متحده ایالاتو کې د غیر قصدی زیات استعمال د مړینې لپاره د پام وړ مرسته کوونکی شو.
د دې راپور په واسطه څه اضافه کیږی؟
تقریباً ۹۰٪ د غیر قصدی اوورډس مړینې په ۲۴...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
What is...
یوه جدی موضوع : د خندا ګاز د انګلستان د روانی فعالو مادو د عمل بیا کتنه
په ۲۰۱۶ کال کې معرفی شو، د اروافعاله توکو قانون د نویو نشه یی توکو د انفلونزا سره د چلند لپاره جوړ شوی چې اکثراً د قانونی لوړې په توګه لیبل شوی دی.
دا عمل منع کوی هر هغه ماده چې "د شخص د مرکزی عصبی سیستم په پارولو یا پرېکولو سره... د شخص...
Worrying Substance Use Trends among over 50s
In 2011, the Royal College of Psychiatrists advised that over 50s should not exceed more than 11 units of alcohol a week, compared with 14 for the rest of the adult population, due to age-related physiological and metabolic changes.
Since...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators is a publication by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
It is the second edition of the 1998 EMCDDA...
Economic Hardships and Patterns of Drug Consumption in Europe
A new study recently published in the Journal of Health Economics considers the changes in patterns of drug consumption and attitudes towards substances among youth (15-24) across 28 European countries.
Of particular interest for the...
د کیلیفورنیا په عامه منځنیو او عالی ښوونځیو کې د تراسنزده کوونکو په منځ کې د مادې استعمال
خلاصه
شالید
په کورنیو او ښوونځیو کې د تراسنسن وراسته شوی ماشومان د ټولنیز فشار سره مخ دی، کوم چې اکثراً د سلوکی روغتیا د ناانډولۍ لامل ګرځی. دې څیړنې دا وڅیړله چې ایا د غیر تراسنسنو ځوانانو په منځ کې د مادې د استعمال کچه لوړه ده که نه.
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...Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
Synthetic Cannabinoids: What Health Risks Do They Pose?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...