The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
Public Health
Frequency of Use Among Middle and High School Student Tobacco Product Users
Summary What is already known about this topic? Most tobacco product use begins during adolescence or young adulthood, increasing the risk for lifelong nicotine addiction and adverse health effects. What is added by this report? During 2015...
HepHIV2019 Conference
The HepHIV2019 conference, which is organised jointly with the 3-year EU funded joint action INTEGRATE, will take place 28-30 January 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.
The theme of the conference is the Challenges of Timely and Integrated Testing and Care.
The main objectives of the HepHIV 2019 conference are to:
Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers
Summary What is already known about this topic? Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can cause sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma attacks in infants and children, and coronary heart disease...
Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Alternans in a Mouse Model
Abstract Background: Epidemiological evidence suggests that a majority of deaths attributed to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure are cardiovascular related. However, to our knowledge, the impact of SHS on cardiac electrophysiology, Ca2+Ca2+...
m-Health Applications for Responding to Drug Use and Associated Harms
Digital healthcare, also known as e-health, refers to tools and services that use information and communication technology to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management of health. Mobile health, or m-health, is...
Keynote Presentations: 9th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting
The Ninth EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting took place October 24th – 26th 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. The focus of the event was Prevention Technologies – Improving the Use of Evidence in Prevention Practice. Academics, researchers, policy...
Rights, Respect and Recovery: Scotland's Alcohol and Drug Treatment Strategy
The Scottish Government has released the new Alcohol and Drugs Strategy, which aims to improve health by preventing and reducing alcohol and drug use, harm and related deaths. There were a record 934 drugs-related deaths in Scotland in 2017...
Speaker Videos and Powerpoint Presentations - 2018 E-Cigarette Summit
The 2018 E-Cigarette Summit took place on the 15th of November in London. The aim of the event is to bring together scientists, policy makers, medical and public health professionals from around the world to examine the latest evidence and...
Medical Use of Cannabis and Cannabinoids
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction have released their first report on the medical use of cannabis. The report is part of a new series called Cannabis, Controversies and Challenges, and is designed to explore the...
