One explanation to rule them all? Identifying sub-groups of non-drinking Swedish ninth graders.

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Anecdotal reports suggest that high rates of cannabis use and dependence are significant issues in Indigenous communities in north Queensland; however, there is little scientific evidence to support or refute this. The Cape York Cannabis Project seeks to investigate cannabis use rates, cannabis de...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Bohanna I,Clough AR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Despite advances towards integration of care for women with co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), low abstinence rates following SUD/PTSD treatment remain the norm. The utility of investigating distinct substance use trajectories is a critical innovat...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： López-Castro T,Hu MC,Papini S,Ruglass LM,Hien DA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Alcohol use and homicide are a wide community concern with particular interest in understanding and preventing attacks (e.g. 'one punch' male on male attacks) in commercial nightlife settings with high levels of collective drinking. There is insufficient knowledge of the long-term patterns in this...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Tomsen S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Cognitive impairment is a common feature of individuals with substance-use disorders. However, research tends to exclude highly complex clinical cases, limiting the generalisability of findings for 'real-world' populations. The objective of this study was to examine the complexities associated wit...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Gooden JR,Cox CA,Petersen V,Curtis A,Manning V,Lubman DI

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Prior work suggests that recall bias may be a threat to the validity of relative risk estimation of injury due to alcohol consumption, when the case-crossover method is used based on drinking during the same six hours period the week prior to injury as the control period. This work explores the is...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Ye Y,Bond JC,Cherpitel CJ,Borges G,Monteiro M,Vallance K

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Increasingly, it seems, legal and political debates regarding the granting of new liquor licences are turning to the issue of whether the number and density of alcohol outlets makes a difference in rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm. But what is the state of the evidence on this question? In this Ha...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Livingston M,Chikritzhs T,Room R

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：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：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:This study was designed to examine the relationship between alcohol dependence and general practitioner (GP) service attendance in Australia. DESIGN AND METHODS:Data were analysed from the 1997 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. In this survey, a representative sample of t...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Proudfoot H,Teesson M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:To determine whether recreational methamphetamine use is associated with an increased risk of psychotic symptoms. DESIGN AND METHOD:A cross-sectional survey of 157 people attending dance events in Sydney, Australia. Participants were assessed for psychotic symptoms in the past year using items fr...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： McKetin R,Hickey K,Devlin K,Lawrence K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:This paper explores excessive appetites, addiction and rehabilitation as described in the autobiographies, memoirs and diaries of rock artists. DESIGN AND METHODS:The data collection focused on autobiographical rock books written in English by internationally recognised rock artists before 2011. ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Oksanen A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Following the introduction of smoke-free policies in prisons in several countries, there have been anecdotal reports of prisoners creating cigarettes by mixing nicotine patches or lozenges with tea leaves ('teabacco'). Among a sample of people recently released from smoke-free prisons in Queenslan...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Puljević C,Coomber R,Kinner SA,de Andrade D,Mitchell C,White A,Cresswell SL,Bowman J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advancing ideas pioneered in the United States of America, Australian medical reformers and their lay supporters persuaded colonial governments in the late nineteenth century to recognize that alcohol dependence was a treatable disease. In practice, that recognition was only partial. While inebriates legislation was e...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Lewis MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Stepped-care has been recommended in the alcohol and other drug field and adopted in a number of service settings, but few research projects have examined this approach. This article aims to describe a pilot trial of stepped-care methods in the treatment of methamphetamine use and depression comor...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Kay-Lambkin FJ,Baker AL,McKetin R,Lee N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUE:The prevalence of smoking among prisoners is exceptionally high and is often comorbid with alcohol and drug problems, mental illness and other health problems. This review paper summarises the literature and available research related to smoking prevalence and smoking cessation initiatives among prisoners and ide...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Richmond RL,Butler TG,Indig D,Wilhelm KA,Archer VA,Wodak AD

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Clinical practice guidelines recommend physical health be addressed when treating substance use disorders. Yet, the integration of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment and physical health care is seldom actualised. This is particularly the case in the non-government sector. Using the socio-ecolo...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Osborne B,Kelly PJ,Robinson LD,Ivers R,Deane FP,Larance B

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Acute harm from heavy drinking episodes is an increasing focus of public health policy, but capturing timely data on acute harms in the population is challenging. This study aimed to evaluate the precision of readily available administrative emergency department (ED) data in public health surveill...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Whitlam G,Dinh M,Rodgers C,Muscatello DJ,McGuire R,Ryan T,Thackway S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaches to the prevention of alcohol problems among Aboriginal people in Australia have tended to emphasize primary and tertiary prevention, while neglecting secondary prevention or early intervention. In contrast, members of the wider Australian community can now access a variety of early interventions through gen...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Brady M,Dawe S,Richmond R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:There is a growing interest in measuring alcohol's harms to people other than the drinker themselves. 'Children of alcoholics' and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder have received widespread attention. Less is known about how children are affected by post-natal exposure to parental drinking other th...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Rossow I,Felix L,Keating P,McCambridge J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Dentists and dental hygienists are in a unique position to motivate and assist their patients to quit smoking and using smokeless tobacco, and there is ample evidence that they can be effective. Tobacco plays a major role in the development and treatment of many oral diseases, and the repeated nat...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Gordon JS,Albert DA,Crews KM,Fried J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The rate of alcohol-related emergency department (ED) presentations in young people has increased dramatically in recent decades. Injuries are the most common type of youth alcohol-related ED presentation, yet little is known about these injuries in young people. This paper describes the character...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hides L,Limbong J,Vallmuur K,Barker R,Daglish M,Young RM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of policies in relation to unsupervised doses of methadone (take-away doses) should be based upon the best available evidence. There are both risks and benefits associated with take-away doses. This study aimed to explore the relationship between take-away policies and one measure of harm: methadone in...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Ritter A,Di Natale R

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Drug induced QT prolongation occurs in patients with substance use disorders from prescription medications that prolong the QT, such as methadone. Knowing the prevalence of QT prolongation in this population is important for prescribers. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of QT prolong...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Scott AJ,Dunlop AJ,Brown A,Sadler C,Isbister GK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Windows of opportunity for changing drug laws open infrequently and they often close without legislative change being affected. In this paper the author, who has been intimately involved in the process, describes how evidence-based recommendations to 'decriminalize' cannabis have recently been progressed through publi...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Lenton S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUES:The toxicology of homicide offenders and victims, and homicide as a cause of death among psychoactive substance users. APPROACH:Review of the toxicology of homicide, and homicide as a cause of death among psychoactive substance users. KEY FINDINGS:A half or more of offenders are intoxicated by a psychoactive s...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Darke S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic alcoholism results in thiamine deficiency as a result of poor nutrition and impaired gastrointestinal absorption of the vitamin. Pyrithiamine-induced thiamine deficiency in the rat reproduces a neurological syndrome and ultimately neuropathological damage of a nature and distribution that is similar to that en...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Butterworth RF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central theme of the National Drug Strategy is "building partnerships". In the education and training arena, intersectoral partnerships are important to increase the skill and knowledge base of generic professionals. However, partnerships are neither simple nor straightforward endeavours. While this paper argues t...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Wilkinson C,Browne M,Dwyer P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The study investigated the nature and content of alcohol brand websites in the UK. DESIGN AND METHODS:The research involved an audit of the websites of the 10 leading alcohol brands by sales in the UK across four categories: lager, spirits, Flavoured Alcoholic Beverages and cider/perry. Each site...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Gordon R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there has been increased recognition of the importance of drug information systems (DIS), highlighting the need for an internationally coordinated approach to data collection and advocating the regular assessment of a range of areas. Accurate information provides policy makers with the evidence to evaluate c...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Shand F,Topp L,Darke S,Makkai T,Griffiths P

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00