Health and safety risks associated with public injecting among people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand.

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Gender differences have been reported in adult substance users, but little research has examined gender differences in adolescents presenting to treatment services. This study aimed to explore gender differences in adolescents presenting to a withdrawal service. DESIGN AND METHODS:All presentatio...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Dean AJ,McBride M,Macdonald EM,Connolly Y,McDermott BM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to determine patterns of use of medical services and prescriptions for pharmaceuticals among 438 heroin users interviewed for the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS) at baseline, 12 and 24 months. Drug use declined markedly, and there were significant improvements in health. There were declines i...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Darke S,Havard A,Ross J,Williamson A,Mills KL,Teesson M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The non-medical use of prescription drugs, such as anxiolytics and hypnotics, has become a growing public health problem in Thailand. The objective of this study was to examine the patterns of non-medical use of these drugs, using data from a nationally representative sample of Thais interviewed i...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Assanangkornchai S,Sam-Angsri N,Rerngpongpan S,Edwards JG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:In the past 40 years, per capita consumption has increased dramatically in Finland. We study the core changes in drinking culture over this period by age and sex. DESIGN AND METHODS:We used data from the Finnish Drinking Habit Surveys carried out every 8 years in 1968-2008 (n = 16385, response ra...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Mäkelä P,Tigerstedt C,Mustonen H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper presents a comprehensive review of studies concerned with the effects of alcohol on human performance. It attempts to review the studies within the framework of the information processing model. The effects of alcohol on information processing and transmission rates, sensory and perceptual processes,...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Glencross DJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Police Services in a number of Australian states have indicated random roadside drug testing will be implemented to target drug driving. This paper outlines research conducted to provide an estimate of the prevalence of drug driving in a sample of Queensland drivers. Oral fluid samples were collected from 781 drivers ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Davey J,Leal N,Freeman J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUES:There is controversy regarding the extent to which alcohol plays a causal role in sexual assault perpetration. APPROACH:This paper critically reviews the relevant alcohol administration and survey research literature. KEY FINDINGS:Alcohol administration researchers have randomly assigned male participants to d...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Abbey A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Problematic drinking and executive functioning deficits are two known risk factors for intimate partner aggression (IPA). However, executive functioning is a multifaceted construct, and it is not clear whether deficits in specific components of executive functioning are differentially associated w...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Parrott DJ,Swartout KM,Eckhardt CI,Subramani OS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid-related overdose deaths among African Americans have only recently received national attention despite evidence of increase in death rates among this population spanning the past decade. Numerous authors have highlighted how the 'opioid epidemic' has largely been portrayed as a problem mostly affecting White Am...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Stevens-Watkins D

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aboriginal males and females aged 15 years and over were recruited from patients attending community-controlled health services in Perth and Carnarvon, Western Australia. Questions were asked about present and past use of alcohol. Rates of abstinence and drinking cessation were greater than in the general population. ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Blignault I,Ryder C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New amendments to child welfare policy in New South Wales turn a spotlight on parents who use drugs and raise concerns about adequate provision of services for families facing issues with alcohol and other drug use. Sections of the new legislation are explicitly focused on parents who use illicit drugs, expanding the ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Olsen A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The rate and correlates of infant death in those born to opioid-dependent women are unclear. This study aims to determine the infant mortality rate of infants born to women on a methadone program during pregnancy and to identify any modifiable risk factors. DESIGN AND METHODS:A retrospective stud...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Burns L,Conroy E,Mattick RP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs entails considerable burden of disease: in 2000, about 4% of the global burden as measured in disability adjusted life years was attributable to each alcohol and tobacco, and 0.8% to illicit drugs. The burden of alcohol in the above statistic was calculated as net burden, ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Rehm J,Taylor B,Room R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUES:Health-care systems globally are moving away from process measures of performance to payments for outcomes achieved. It follows that there is a need for a selection of proven quality tools that are suitable for undertaking comprehensive assessments and outcomes assessments. This review aimed to identify and eval...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Sweetman J,Raistrick D,Mdege ND,Crosby H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the rising concerns about the rate of heroin-related fatalities, overdose prevention campaigns, run by both users' organizations and government agencies, have been implemented in a number of states across Australia. In Western Australia (WA) in mid-1997, various overdose prevention initiatives were impl...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hargreaves K,Lenton S,Phillips M,Swensen G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 2-week period in January 1990 consecutive adult emergency attenders were breathalysed and screened for problem drinking using the WHO screening instrument. Results were compared with a similar study conducted 8 years previously. Of the patients tested, 12.5% had a positive alcohol in 1990 compared with 16% in 1...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Robinson GM,Leslie H,Robinson BJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIM:This study, which builds on previous research demonstrating that drinking motives are associated with adverse consequences, investigates the associations between drinking motives and non-alcohol-attributed adverse consequences and disentangles alcohol-related and direct effects. DESIGN AND METHOD:...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Wicki M,Kuntsche E,Eichenberger Y,Aasvee K,Bendtsen P,Dankulincová Veselská Z,Demetrovics Z,Dzielska A,Farkas J,de Matos MG,Roberts C,Tynjälä J,Välimaa R,Vieno A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Clerks and servers at alcohol establishments often fail to verify age. Using mystery shoppers to provide performance feedback is one approach to improving age verification. Few controlled studies have evaluated mystery shop interventions. This paper reports on a cluster randomised cross-over trial...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Grube JW,DeJong W,DeJong M,Lipperman-Kreda S,Krevor BS

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews evidence on two hypotheses about the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis. The first hypothesis is that heavy cannabis use may cause a "cannabis psychosis"-a psychosis that would not occur in the absence of cannabis use, the symptoms of which are preceded by heavy cannabis use and remit a...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hall W

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:To examine heavy episodic drinking across demographic subgroups to identify where heavy episodic drinking is socially located in an Australian state. DESIGN AND METHODS:Cross-sectional survey, 2483 adult Victorians using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing. Two measures of heavy drinking wer...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Matthews S,Dietze P,Room R,Chikritzhs T,Jolley D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-centred tobacco management approaches tobacco smoking as a chronic disease and can be offered to all smokers irrespective of their attitude to quitting. Maintaining a long-term relationship with smokers enables the adoption of flexible solutions and shared goals. It is argued that patient-centred tobacco manag...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Gould GS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The aim of the study was to investigate the acceptability of methadone-naloxone through interviews with potential consumers and treatment providers about their attitudes and beliefs about combining methadone with naloxone. DESIGN AND METHODS:Qualitative study with structured surveys and individua...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Shearer J,Mammen K,Bell J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of Internet-based interventions (IBI) for alcohol problems and other addictive behaviours. However, it is risky to assume interventions that have been found to work in face-to-face modalities can be translated into IBI that are equally effe...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Cunningham JA,Van Mierlo T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a 'resounding success' or a 'disastrous failure'. Acknowledging from their own experience the inherent difficulties in studying drug law reform, Caitlin Hughes...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hughes CE,Stevens A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Alcohol use has consistently been associated with smoking among nondaily smokers. However, this may not be an inevitable relationship that extends across all drinking sessions and/or all nondaily smokers. Recently, distinct subgroups of nondaily smokers have been identified, with one subgroup main...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Campbell ML,Bozec LJ,McGrath D,Barrett SP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Needle and syringe program (NSP) workers have highlighted that people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs (IPED) in Australia are a younger and more culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) group compared with other groups who inject drugs. Previous research has found riskier inje...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Rowe R,Berger I,Yaseen B,Copeland J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite evidence for their effectiveness, harm reduction services such as needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) are highly vulnerable to perceptions of community disapproval. This paper reviews Australian research on community attitudes to harm reduction services and its impact on research, policy and practice. The lit...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Treloar C,Fraser S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers agree that while hepatitis B maybe in control, hepatitis C is present in epidemic proportions among injecting drug users and that current HIV prevention strategies have not been sufficient to halt the spread of this hepatitis virus, although there is some evidence to suggest that incidence rates are stabil...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Carruthers SJ,Loxley WM,Phillips M,Bevan JS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It appears that the literature on agonist maintenance therapies for opioid dependence pays more attention to outcomes during, rather than after, treatment. This review aims to (a) estimate to what extent opioid abstinence can be expected from former maintenance patients, (b) examine possible relationships between pati...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Kornør H,Waal H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine patterns and yearly trends in alcohol-related hospitalization rates during the period 1987/88-1995/96 for men and women living in metropolitan and rural/remote Victoria. Alcohol-related hospitalizations were extracted from the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset (VMD) for the...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hanlin K,Jonas H,Laslett AM,Dietze P,Rumbold G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00