Identifying "Hitting Bottom" Among Individuals with Alcohol Problems: Development and Evaluation of the Noteworthy Aspects of Drinking Important to Recovery (NADIR).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol protective behavioral strategies (PBS) are behaviors engaged in immediately prior to, during, after, or instead of drinking with the explicit goal of reducing alcohol use, intoxication, and/or alcohol-related harms. Despite the quantitative support for alcohol PBS as a protective factor among college...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Bravo AJ,Pearson MR,Stevens LE,Henson JM

更新日期：2018-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of Australians support a change in legislation to allow the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Despite strong public support, very little is known about the patterns of medicinal cannabis use among Australians. OBJECTIVES:This study aims to gain a better understanding of Australian medicinal...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Gates PJ,Albertella L

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although U.K. has seen significant advances in knowledge since the onset of its last major heroin epidemic in the early 1980s, it is still the case that most assessments of the extent of drug misuse are based on old data. Recognition of this problem is evidenced by the many attempts elsewhere to reduce the lag between...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Ditton J,Frischer M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of clinical tools and evidence-based screening recommendations, there has been little discussion regarding screening of prenatal alcohol exposure in community-based settings, including adoption and implementation. This study's aim is to evaluate and validate--through surveys and focus groups--...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Moise IK,Green D,Toth J,Mulhall PF

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted as an evaluation of a two-year pilot program started in 1998 in the Netherlands to provide free hepatitis B vaccination targeted at drug users (DUs). In order to identify which demographic and social-cognitive factors predict vaccination uptake, written questionnaires were distributed i...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Baars J,Boon B,De Wit JB,Schutten M,Van Steenbergen JE,Garretsen HF,Van De Mheen D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the reliability of self-reported HIV risk behaviors in 84 substance misusers. The 11-item HIV Risk Behavior Scale was, used to evaluate lifetime, past month, and past week risk behaviors. Cronbach's alpha ranged from .75 to .80 for the three versions. Test-retest reliability for the lifetime versi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Petry NM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of risk in injecting drug user (IDU) networks have been a key focus of network approaches to HIV transmission histories. New network modeling techniques allow for a reexamination of these patterns with greater statistical accuracy and the comparative weighting of model elements. This paper describes the resul...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Dombrowski K,Khan B,McLean K,Curtis R,Wendel T,Misshula E,Friedman S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This short report describes an ongoing project whose aim was to explore how respondents from local institutions in a Swedish municipality describe their efforts in preventing alcohol consumption and related problems. Data were collected in focus group interviews, conducted during 2003 with key informants, comprising m...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Blanck P,Hensing G,Spak F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the evolution of a two-and-a-half year pilot community action project aimed at developing strategies to reduce alcohol-use-related crashes in a rural police district in New Zealand. Formative evaluation aimed to assist an intersectoral coordinating group identify and implement strategies. Initiall...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Stewart L,Conway K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experts have recommended criteria (Gonzalez et al., 2002) for recruiting pure chronic cannabis users (i.e., those without polysubstance use or psychiatric illness) when evaluating cannabis' non-acute effects on cognition. OBJECTIVES:We sought to demonstrate the implications of using such criteria by examini...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Rosen AS,Sodos LM,Hirst RB,Vaughn D,Lorkiewicz SA

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:Addiction severity has been associated with numerous social- and health-related harms. This study sought to examine the prevalence and correlates of high-intensity drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting with a focus on high-risk drug use practices and health service access. ME...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Phillips M,Richardson L,Wood E,Nguyen P,Kerr T,DeBeck K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares peer helping and 12-step involvement among participants receiving chemical dependency treatment at day hospital (N = 503) and residential (N = 230) programs, and examines relationships between both variables and outcomes. Findings show that residential (vs. day hospital) participants reported signi...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Zemore SE,Kaskutas LA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescription drug, e-cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and synthetic marijuana use has risen dramatically in the United States over the past decade. OBJECTIVES:This paper investigates the use of risky substances among adolescents, and examines disparities between sexual minority (i.e., mostly heterosexual and l...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Goldbach JT,Mereish EH,Burgess C

更新日期：2017-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Alcohol use (and adverse consequences due to alcohol use) among college student-athletes is a common occurrence and consequently garners attention as a health concern within athletic departments and the NCAA. One of the strongest predictors of alcohol use in athletes is motivation to drink. However, not much ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Pitts M,Chow GM,Donohue B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Maternal depression has been linked to substance use in adolescents, but the mechanisms of the relationship between maternal depression and adolescent substance use are less clear. Specifically, previous literature has overlooked the role of fathers as a potential protective or exacerbating factor in buffe...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Sang J,Cederbaum JA,Ko AC,Hurlburt MS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive-deviance control-case life history study of injection drug users (IDUs) in New York City who had injected drugs for 8-15 years compared 21 IDUs who were antibody negative for both HIV and hepatitis C with 3 infected with both viruses and 11 infected with hepatitis C virus but not HIV. Eligible subjects were...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Friedman SR,Sandoval M,Mateu-Gelabert P,Meylakhs P,Des Jarlais DC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, methamphetamine developed a peculiar geographic distribution in the United States, with limited diffusion in the Northeast. While use within gay clubs received attention, methamphetamine in club subcultures more broadly remains less clear. Using quantitative and qualitative data, we provide a descri...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Kelly BC,LeClair A,Parsons JT

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to provide reliability testing and validity information of the Drug Attitude Scale (DAS). One hundred twenty-eight subjects were drawn from a residential substance abuse(1) treatment program within a community mental health center. Seventy-five percent of the subjects were males and 25% were fe...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Campbell SN,Chang A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted in the year 2008 among 174 children in observation homes in Hyderabad, India, to estimate the distribution of inhalant (whitener) use among this population. Data were collected using an instrument developed for this purpose. About 61% of the children were boys and their mean age w...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Praveen D,Maulik PK,Raghavendra B,Khan M,Guggilla RK,Bhatia P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1972, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI) has been fortunate to have on its staff outstanding researchers involved in studying the relationship between drugs and criminality. This paper describes federally-funded research conducted by them. The drug-crime nexus has been an ongoing focus along wit...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lipton DS,Johnson BD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the 20th century, scholars studying drug misuse have pinpointed various macrolevel (broad cultural and social structural) influences on the problem. The drug identity change model includes two such macrolevel factors. It maintains that social climates conducive to drug use (availability and popularity of dr...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Anderson TL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to compare the prevalence of smoking status (i.e., current, former and never) between the United States and Turkey in terms of age and gender, and examine how smoking rules and health warnings are associated with smoking status within and between the two countries. METHODS:The study used da...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Wintemberg J,Yu M,Caman OK

更新日期：2018-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Little is known about the nature and extent of substance use among pregnant women in Cape Town (South Africa) despite the very high levels of substance use and related consequences such as FASD in this part of the country. The aim of the study was to determine predictors of alcohol use among pregnant women...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Petersen-Williams P,Mathews C,Jordaan E,Parry CDH

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies examine whether early sexual experience is associated with subsequent illegal drug use among adolescents. A sample of 7,372 African American students who had not used illegal drugs before the age of 14 were identified in the dataset of the 2001 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Substance ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Wang Y,Storr C,Browne DC,Wagner FA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was based on over 30,000 U.S. respondents who completed General Social Surveys between 1978 and 2002. AIMS:We approached these respondents prospectively, comparing and contrasting the responses of those who subsequently died from drug-poisonings (N = 135) with all respondents who were still livin...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Feigelman W,Rosen Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mid-20th century, Selvararajan Yesudian (1916-1998), who was born in India to a Christian father, a physician, and spent most of his life in Switzerland, coauthored (with Elisabeth Haich) a book entitled Yoga and Health; since then, the coupling of these two words has largely defined the meaning of yoga in the ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Matus T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Federal and state funding agencies are encouraging or mandating the use of empirically supported treatments in addiction programs, yet many programs have not moved in this direction (Forman, Bovasso, and Woody, 2001 ; Roman and Johnson, 2002 ; Willenbring et al., 2004 ). To improve the skills of counselors in communit...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Amodeo M,Storti SA,Larson MJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Research has demonstrated consistent associations between anxiety and illicit drug use. However, few studies to date have examined the shared risk factors that may contribute to this common comorbidity. Therefore, the current investigation tested the indirect effect of trait anxiety on drug use disorder sy...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Collado A,Felton JW,Taylor H,Doran K,Yi R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transnational marriage-based immigrant women in Taiwan have moved to a country where alcohol use is prevalent and they face the challenge of adaptation into a new society, which could influence their drinking behavior. OBJECTIVES:To describe the prevalence of alcohol drinking and examine factors associated ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Liu YC,Chen HH,Lee JF,Chu KH,Chien LY

更新日期：2017-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common among people who inject drugs (PWID) and is associated with morbidity and premature death. Although HCV can be cured, treatment may be inaccessible. We studied HCV testing, status and treatment among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada, a se...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Boucher LM,Bayoumi AM,Mark AE,Cooper C,Martin A,Marshall Z,Boyd R,Oickle P,Diliso N,Pineau D,Renaud B,LeBlanc S,Tyndall M,Lee OM,Kendall CE

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00