Characterising the increasing prevalence of crystal methamphetamine use in Vancouver, Canada, from 2006-2017: A gender-based analysis.

abstract：:During April to November 1986 and May to October 1987, a systematic survey of patterns of use of alcohol, kava, tobacco and analgesics by Northern Territory Aboriginal people aged 15 years and older was conducted. The objectives of the study were to ascertain the prevalence of drug use, the frequency of drug use and t...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Fleming J,Watson C,McDonald D,Alexander K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:At present there is little research into the use of drug detection dogs. The present study sought to explore the use of detection dogs in Sydney, Australia, utilising multiple data sources. DESIGN AND METHODS; Data were taken from interviews with 100 regular ecstasy users and 20 key experts as par...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Dunn M,Degenhardt L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Impulsivity may be a risk factor that increases vulnerability to nicotine dependence. However, nicotine exposure itself may directly increase impulsivity. This is a secondary analysis of the first study in a controlled laboratory setting, which assessed the effects of nicotine administration (acut...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Martinez S,Jones JD,Vadhan NP,Brandt L,Comer SD,Bisaga A

更新日期：2020-11-02 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：:This presentation draws on recent New Zealand and international research to examine a number of questions about the possible public health impact of policy which allows alcohol to be advertised on the broadcast media. The relevant public health questions include: the contribution of alcohol advertising to aggregate le...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Casswell S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on illicit drug production, trafficking and transit routes found in the Asia Pacific region. The report is based on the 'Situational analysis of illicit drug issues and responses in Asia and the Pacific', commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs Asia Pacific Drug Issues Committee. The si...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Reid G,Devaney ML,Baldwin S

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：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:Findings in the literature show mixed support for adolescent self-medication. Following recent reformulations of the self-medication hypothesis, we tested within-person effects of daily fluctuations in sadness and worry on daily substance use, and explored the moderating role of the peer context on self-me...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Shadur JM,Hussong AM,Haroon M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) are a putative cause of stroke with high abuse potential. We aim to systematically review the association between use of ATS and stroke. DESIGN AND METHODS:To assure a sensitive search strategy, a broad definition of ATS was used. Cochrane Plus, EMBASE, IBECS/Lil...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Indave BI,Sordo L,Bravo MJ,Sarasa-Renedo A,Fernández-Balbuena S,De la Fuente L,Sonego M,Barrio G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholarship indicates that gender norms influence drinking behaviours, yet the consequences of this for health professionals and health promotion remains neglected. To address this gap, we discuss the implications of gender and alcohol consumption for Australian health promotion and practice. We convey how a more inte...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Merlino A,Clifford S,Smith JA

更新日期：2020-09-21 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：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：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：: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:Drug craving is considered to be an essential component of substance dependence. We aimed to characterise drug-dependent inpatients reporting continuous absence of subjective spontaneous drug craving. DESIGN AND METHODS:This is a 3 year chart-review study designed to compare drug-dependent inpati...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： De Los Cobos JP,Siñol N,Trujols J,Bañuls E,Batlle F,Tejero A

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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:Over the past two decades, alcohol consumption of Icelandic adolescents has decreased dramatically. The aim of this study was to quantify the extent of this reduction and compare it with the trend in cannabis use over a 20 year period and to identify possible explanations. METHODS:We used data from the Ic...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Arnarsson A,Kristofersson GK,Bjarnason T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Binge drinking is a major public health issue in Australia, particularly among young people. There has been a considerable focus on alcohol advertising, among both researchers and policy makers, resulting in efforts to bring about some level of regulation of unacceptable advertising practices. How...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Jones SC,Lynch M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:Previous studies have suggested that methadone is associated with prolonged corrected-QT (QTc) interval, but published prospective research studies in this area are relatively scarce. This study investigates QTc interval change among methadone maintenance patients and possible associated risk fact...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Lin NC,Huang CL,Chen CY,Lin TY,Wang HY,Lu YH,Chen LM,Chen VC,Gossop M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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:Take-home naloxone (THN) programs commenced in Australia in 2012 in the Australian Capital Territory and programs now operate in five Australian jurisdictions. The purpose of this paper is to record the progress of THN programs in Australia, to provide a resource for others wanting to start THN pr...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Dwyer R,Olsen A,Fowlie C,Gough C,van Beek I,Jauncey M,Lintzeris N,Oh G,Dicka J,Fry CL,Hayllar J,Lenton S

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：: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：:The family plays a key part in both preventing and intervening with substance use and misuse, both through inducing risk, and/or encouraging and promoting protection and resilience. This review examines a number of family processes and structures that have been associated with young people commencing substance use and...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol review

authors： Velleman RD,Templeton LJ,Copello AG

更新日期：2005-03-01 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