The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
Public Health
Solution to Detect, Classify, and Report Illicit Online Marketing and Sales of Controlled Substances via Twitter
ABSTRACT Background: On December 6 and 7, 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted its first Code-a-Thon event aimed at leveraging technology and data-driven solutions to help combat the opioid epidemic. The authors...
Candyflipping and Other Combinations: Identifying Drug–Drug Combinations from an Online Forum
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) refer to synthetic compounds or derivatives of more widely known substances of abuse that have emerged over the last two decades. Case reports suggest that users combine substances to achieve desired...
Taking a New Line on Drugs
This report, ‘Taking a New Line on Drugs’, comes at a timely moment for drugs strategy both in the UK and across the world. The special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world drug problem, which took place in New York...
Measuring the Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in Ontario, Canada
Opioid overdose is a leading public health problem across Canada that continues to evolve, particularly as clandestinely-produced opioids enter the market (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2017). In 2014, we published a study that found that...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Medical Care in Drug Treatment Systems
Key studies relating to the roles of medical interventions and treatment in medical settings in local, regional and national drug treatment systems. Highlights a simple innovation which transformed detoxification recyclers into typical...
Videoconference "pregnancy, alcohol and drugs: consequences in the product"
Reporter: Dr. Sara Infante Murillo
Date: on Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Time: from 10:00 to 11:30 hours (time of the city of Mexico)
Via Webcast: https://zoom.us/j/36352014
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics: A Manifesto For Change
Executive Summary One in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much – that’s over 2.5 million children. They are Britain’s innocent victims of drink. Hard-drinking parents hurt their children for life. Compared to other...
World No Tobacco Day 2018: Tobacco and Heart Disease
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco and Heart Disease
Date: 31 May 2018
Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), highlighting the health and other risks associated with tobacco use, and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.
World day without tobacco 2018: Tobacco and heart disease
World day without tobacco 2018: Tobacco and heart disease
May 31, 2018
On 31 May of each year, the who and its partners celebrated the world no tobacco day in order to highlight the risks associated with smoking, both for health and other areas, and advocate for effective policies to reduce their consumption.
Smoke-Free Rules in Homes and Cars among Smokers and Nonsmokers in Minnesota
Abstract We examined prevalence and predictors of comprehensive smoke-free household rules (ie, smoke-free homes and cars) among smokers and nonsmokers in Minnesota. Data came from the 2014 Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey; weighted analyses...