Assessing the validity of the Australian Treatment Outcomes Profile for telephone administration in drug health treatment populations.

abstract：:This review will concentrate on the contributions medical science, in particular pharmacology and electrophysiology, have made to the understanding of withdrawal states and so will look mostly at the first element in withdrawal. Behavioural and emotional issues will be dealt with in the section on management. ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Foy A

更新日期：1991-01-01 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: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：: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：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:The harm from alcohol and tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries includes substantial economic cost to the individual. Our aim was to describe the expenditure on concurrent alcohol and tobacco use in relation to family income in two districts in Sri Lanka. DESIGN AND METHODS:A community-...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： de Silva V,Samarasinghe D,Hanwella R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:To study rates of 3-month retention in a drug treatment therapeutic community and the characteristics of residents who remain in treatment. DESIGN AND METHODS:A total of 200 consecutive admissions to a therapeutic community in Christchurch, New Zealand received a structured interview and question...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Mulder RT,Frampton CM,Peka H,Hampton G,Marsters T

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to examine whether methadone maintenance treatment reduces injecting risk behaviour (and therefore transmission of blood-borne viral infections) among prisoners in New South Wales (NSW), using comparison of retrospective reports of drug use in prisons for people who received standard drug...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Dolan KA,Wodak AD,Hall WD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We outline and evaluate competing explanations of three relationships that have consistently been found between cannabis use and the use of other illicit drugs, namely, (1) that cannabis use typically precedes the use of other illicit drugs; and that (2) the earlier cannabis is used, and (3) the more regularly it is u...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Hall WD,Lynskey M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUES:The randomised control trial (RCT) is a widely used tool for measuring the effectiveness of health treatments and services. However, subject recruitment is an ongoing challenge for those conducting RCTs and may have a serious impact on the success of the study and the reliability of the outcomes. APPROACH:In th...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Thomson CL,Morley KC,Teesson M,Sannibale C,Haber PS

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the extent to which hotel patrons drink in excess of current health recommendations, and to identify risk factors for excessive drinking, hotel patrons were invited to participate in a survey of social drinking, which included a free breath test. Patrons were approached at 15 min. intervals, and 1000 subjec...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： McLean S,Wood LJ,Davidson J,Montgomery IM,Jones ME

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Syringe distribution policies continue to be debated in many jurisdictions throughout the USA. The Baltimore Needle and Syringe Exchange Program (NSP) operated under a 1-for-1 syringe exchange policy from its inception in 1994 through 1999, when it implemented a restrictive policy (2000-2004) that...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Sherman SG,Patel SA,Ramachandran DV,Galai N,Chaulk P,Serio-Chapman C,Gindi RM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：ISSUES:Serious educational games (SEG) have been shown to be effective in educating young people about a range of topics, including languages and maths. This paper identifies the use of computerised SEGs in education about alcohol and other drugs and reviews their impact on the prevention of alcohol and drug use. APPR...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Rodriguez DM,Teesson M,Newton NC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between alcohol consumption per adult (>/=15 years old) and expenditure on alcohol advertising per adult in Australia for the 18 years from 1969 to 1986. In addition, analyses were made of the extent to which annual changes in consumption were related to annua...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Smith DI

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Synthetic cannabinoid dependence and withdrawal are not well described in the literature. We aimed to report on the characteristics and treatment course of clients attending a detoxification service for support with synthetic cannabinoid withdrawal in Auckland, New Zealand. DESIGN AND METHODS:A r...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Macfarlane V,Christie G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Non-prescribed use of pharmaceutical opioid analgesics (POA) has been escalating internationally. In Australia, few studies have examined if POA users have similar characteristics and treatment needs to heroin users. The aim of this study was to compare those presenting for treatment where heroin ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Nielsen S,Bruno R,Lintzeris N,Fischer J,Carruthers S,Stoové M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the characteristics associated with smoking during pregnancy. A total of 7836 pregnant women were surveyed between 1992 and 1999 in England. Of these 27% were smoking during pregnancy. Pregnant women were more likely to smoke if they were less educated, living in rented accommodation, in unskil...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Penn G,Owen L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:To examine relationships between perceived neighbourhood cohesion and alcohol, tobacco and cannabis consumption in New Zealand. DESIGN AND METHODS:A two-level random intercept regression model was used to examine the extent to which perception of neighbourhood cohesion (at the individual and area...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Lin EY,Witten K,Casswell S,You RQ

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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:We aimed to evaluate and compare the effect of different intravenous doses of naloxone on reinforcing effect of intravenous buprenorphine (2 mg) in patients stabilised on sublingual buprenorphine. DESIGN AND METHODS:This is a double-blind, within-subject, randomised, crossover study. Opioid-depen...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Dhagudu NK,Ambekar A,Agrawal A,Rao R,Mishra AK,Jain R,Singh S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minority of injecting drug users engage in high risk injecting behaviours when in prison. In the United Kingdom between a quarter and a third of injectors who enter prison inject when in prison, and of these about three-quarters share needles and syringes. In the present study, 44 drug injectors who had been release...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Turnbull PJ,Power R,Stimson GV

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Young adults have the highest rates of drug use and contribute significantly to the growing population of medical cannabis patients (MCP). This study examined relationships between longitudinal patterns of illicit/prescription drug use/misuse and cannabis practices among young adult cannabis users...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Fedorova EV,Schrager SM,Robinson LF,Roth AM,Wong CF,Iverson E,Lankenau SE

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:New strategies are required to reach subpopulations with high smoking rates. This study reports on an evaluation of the Smoking Care intervention-a 2-year organisational capacity building strategy--for social and community service organisations (SCSOs) to provide smoking care to clients. DESIGN A...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： O'Brien J,Bonevski B,Salmon A,Oakes W,Goodger B,Soewido D

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:A combined narrative/meta-analytic review of the results of a number of well-conducted randomized controlled clinical trials indicates that there is no evidence that usual treatment delivered in an in-patient or residential setting is superior to treatment delivered on an out-patient or non-residential basis for the t...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Mattick RP,Jarvis T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2002 Buprenorphine (Subutex) was listed on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule for treatment in opioid dependence. In addition to broadening treatment options, buprenorphine has the advantage of an improved safety profile. The risk of overdose is lessened but other risks remain due to diversion. Fre...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Feeney GF,Fairweather P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Gambling research is characterised by widespread gambling industry involvement. It is likely (as with alcohol and tobacco industry influence) that this will delay or divert effective harm prevention or minimisation measures. Gambling harms are known to be significant and widespread. Effective acti...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Livingstone C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:While higher tobacco prices lead to a reduction in smoking prevalence, there is a concern that paying more for cigarettes can lead to excess financial burden. Our primary aim was to examine the association of daily cigarette expenditure with smoking-induced deprivation (SID) and financial stress (...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Siahpush M,Borland R,Yong HH,Cummings KM,Fong GT

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00