abstract：:During the academic year 1983-1984, a survey on drug consumption was conducted among medical students in Barcelona. There was a high proportion of smokers in both sexes. Alcohol consumption was four times higher among men than women; high proof beverages were becoming the most common drinks. Coffee was the caffeine dr...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Rodriguez ME,Cami J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol stimulates the spontaneous transmitter release from motor nerve endings, as shown by the increase of miniature end plate potential (m.e.p.p.) frequency at the neuro-muscular junction. The stimulation of acetylcholine spontaneous quantal release by ethanol is greater in regenerating than in mature nerve endings...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Bruno C,Cuppini R,Cuppini C

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on religion and alcohol has produced conclusive results with regard to the relationship between religion and alcohol consumption but ambiguous findings with regard to more general attitudes towards alcohol use. This paper considers these issues in depth by a secondary analysis of data collected in the Western...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Mullen K,Blaxter M,Dyer S

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the results of group therapy for the wives of alcoholics where the alcoholics themselves were offered no treatment. The reason for running such a group is based on the idea that wives might seek help before their husbands, might attend sessions regularly and by acquiring better knowledge of alcoh...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Farid B,el Sherbini M,Raistrick D

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propylhexedrine, a sympathomimetic with varied medicinal uses, is one of the compounds to be reviewed by the Expert Committee convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) to determine whether the compound should be scheduled under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances. This paper reviews the pharmacology, medic...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Wesson DR

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phenylethylamines are under consideration for international control. The effects of repeated administration of these compounds, including tolerance, physical dependence and central nervous system (CNS) toxicity, are reviewed here. The compounds can be divided into two major chemical groups: those with substitu...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Woolverton WL

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of subchronic nicotine treatment on the development of tolerance and on two nicotinic ligand binding sites were investigated. After subcutaneous injection of nicotine (0.45 mg nicotine base/kg) or saline twice a day for 14 days the body weight of rats was significantly lower than that of control animals. A...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Larsson C,Nilsson L,Halén A,Nordberg A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on ethanol-exposed animals have revealed changes in anionic phospholipids in brain membranes. The intention of this study was to investigate whether there was a similar effect on man. Assuming platelets to be an adequate model for CNS synaptosomes, concentration and fatty acid composition of anionic phospholip...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Alling C,Jönsson G,Gustavsson L,Jensen L,Simonsson P

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test-retest reliability of the Family Tree Questionnaire to detect drinking problems of family members was examined in a sample of 60 male volunteer university undergraduates. The Questionnaire was completed twice. The first occasion employed a group administration procedure, and an average of 4 months later it wa...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Vogel-Sprott M,Chipperfield B,Hart DM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that studying the drinking patterns of adolescents can add much to our understanding of alcohol use. The present paper hypothesises that heavy drinkers will be experiencing more stress than light, moderate or non-drinkers and that consequently, they will perceive themselves as doing worse in school and wi...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Budd RJ,Eiser JR,Morgan M,Gammage P

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The information on drinking habits contained in medical records with that obtained through the CAGE alcoholism screening test was compared for 124 inpatients of a teaching general hospital. This survey was followed by testing the possibility of introducing the CAGE test into the routine clinical interview. A second an...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Jorge MR,Masur J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new 'Betäubungsmittelgesetz' (Narcotic drugs law) of the Federal Republic of Germany is analyzed from the viewpoint of punishment vs. treatment. ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Müller B

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug dependence units (DDUs) form the cornerstone of government policy response to problem drug taking. Yet we know surprisingly little about the facilities that they can provide and what treatment policies they adopt. This paper constitutes a modest attempt to fill some of the gaps in our knowledge and points to the ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Smart C

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research suggests that attention deficit disorder (ADD) may persist into adulthood, perhaps predisposing certain individuals to stimulant abuse. The authors describe two adults with chronic cocaine abuse and apparent residual ADD. After failing to respond to conventional treatment modalities, these patients were admin...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Weiss RD,Pope HG Jr,Mirin SM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xorphanol is a new mixed agonist-antagonist from the morphinan class of analgesics. On the basis of animal experiments, the physical dependence liability of xorphanol is predicted to be of a low order in man. Conceptually, xorphanol is of interest since in vitro experiments have revealed anti-naloxone properties and r...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Howes JF,Villarreal JE,Harris LS,Essigmann EM,Cowan A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buprenorphine is a mixed agonist-antagonist with high affinity at both mu and kappa opiate receptors. Its pharmacological profile is determined primarily by partial agonism at mu-receptors and unusually slow kinetics at these receptors. Its intrinsic activity is such that in nearly all clinical situations it is as eff...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Lewis JW

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigators on fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) both clinical and experimental, have generally concentrated attention on chronic alcoholism. In an attempt to elucidate the effects of binge drinking on pre- and postnatal development, single doses of 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03 ml/g body weight of alcohol solutions (25% v/v of et...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Padmanabhan R,Hameed MS,Sugathan TN

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By systematic sampling of households after two stage proportionate random sampling of villages, a total of 4670 persons above 15 years of age were selected from the rural areas of Ajmer district in Rajasthan, India, to estimate the prevalence rate of alcohol abuse and to study its socio-demographic correlates (Part I)...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Sundaram KR,Mohan D,Advani GB,Sharma HK,Bajaj JS

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper has three foci. First, it examines the developing area of clinical sociology. Second, it demonstrates how, in reality, deviants in general and drug addicts in particular should be treated using theories of deviance and symbolic interactionism. The treatment itself is based on group experiences and is geared...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Ben-Yehuda N

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally thought that loss of data for a substantial portion of subjects in alcohol treatment follow-up studies positively biases outcome results. However, the data upon which this claim has been based relates to subjects who are initially difficult to locate but who were later found, and not subjects who were ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Sobell LC,Sobell MB,Maisto SA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred thirty-nine male veterans receiving treatment for alcoholism were administered the Cornell Medical Index (CMI), neuropsychological tests comprising the Brain Age Quotient (BAQ) and the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). Patients endorsing items on scale J (frequency of illness) of the CMI comprised a freq...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Calsyn DA,Roszell DK,Walker RD,O'Leary MR

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the results of an alcohol education course given to 2166 high school students in the area of Padua, Italy. An evaluation was performed, utilizing a before and after technique: it was shown that baseline knowledge of relevant information on alcohology was similar among younger and older teenagers; ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Salvagnini M,Gallimberti L,Benussi G,Del Borello A,Dell'Oro A,Orlandini D,Piccoli A,Ricci GP,Sciarrone R,Naccarato R

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study substantiates previous reports that low platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity is associated with alcoholism. Catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) activity in erythrocytes of alcoholics did not differ from that of controls. In 20 male alcoholics low platelet MAO activity was found during the first 3 days ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Agarwal DP,Philippu G,Milech U,Ziemsen B,Schrappe O,Goedde HW

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature termination of treatment by the client has been a pervasive problem in the alcohol treatment field. This drop-out problem is compounded in conjoint therapy for alcoholic couples since most clients typically do not view the drinking problem from a systemic, interactional perspective. Within a short-term commu...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Zweben A,Pearlman S,Li S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fishbein and Ajzen's methodology can predict behaviour on the basis of questionnaire measures of attitudes toward the specific act and the subjective norms with respect to that behaviour which the individual experiences. In the present study this methodology was used to differentiate between the non-users, experimente...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Budd R,Bleiker S,Spencer C

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary prevention in drug abuse has been, most of the time, reduced to its informational aspect. This paper points out some of the errors made in this field, both by contributing to the 'inflation' of the drug problem and by using scare tactics as preventive arguments. It invites consideration of drug addiction not a...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Bergeret J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep duration and indices of disturbed sleep, such as night-time waking and day-time sleep, were investigated in amphetamine users following hospital admission and withdrawal from the drug. Compared to controls, the amphetamine group showed an initial period of oversleeping and, towards the end of the first week, the...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Gossop MR,Bradley BP,Brewis RK

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample survey of 712 Iranian male adolescents, aged 14-18, it was found that drugs users differed in only some of theirs beliefs about drug substances and their use from their non-drug-using contemporaries; and that both sub-samples had, in their agreement about the drug problem in post-revolutionary Iran, been e...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Agahi C,Spencer C

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude synaptic membrane fluidity (checked by fluorescence polarization) together with (Na+ + K+) ATPase activity were examined 18 hours after a single oral ethanol administration (5 g/kg bwt.) to naive rats and to rats previously intubated with ethanol repeatedly during 4 days. The sensibility of both parameters to di...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Beaugé F,Fleuret-Balter C,Barin F,Nordmann J,Nordmann R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective double-blind placebo-controlled trial of intramuscular Naftidrofuryl was carried out on 32 randomly selected hospitalized male alcoholic patients with clinical, biochemical and histological evidence of hepatic damage. Seventeen patients received the drug (40 mg in 5 ml i.m. three times daily for 6 days) ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Majumdar SK,Shaw GK,O'Gorman P,Thomson AD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from research on traffic accident populations clearly indicate that a large proportion of accidents involve drivers under the age of twenty-five. Even after differential exposure to traffic accidents has been controlled for, young drivers remain over-represented in both alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related tra...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Cameron TL

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathinone, the principal alkaloid of Khat, was compared to the psychomotor stimulant d-amphetamine on a number of neurochemical measures. Like d-amphetamine, d,l-cathinone released and blocked the uptake of tritiated dopamine (DA) in synaptosomal preparations. In addition, repeated high doses of d,l-cathinone produced...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Wagner GC,Preston K,Ricaurte GA,Schuster CR,Seiden LS

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample survey of 712 Iranian youths aged 14 - 18 years, attending secondary schools in the city of Isfahan, indicated that 11% had had experience of drug abuse. The most common pattern was the experimental use of opium, with a minority of users having also used hashish or heroin. No other drugs were reported, but a ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Agahi C,Spencer C

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken in order to estimate the frequency of occurrence of alcohol problems among female and male employees in selected large work settings with ongoing occupational alcoholism/employee assistance programs. Randomly selected employees provided information through a survey about their alcohol related be...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Cahill MH,Volicer BJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of the effect of 26 psychoactive drugs on the complex of mouse behaviour changes caused by acetaldehyde it was found that tranquillizers, hypnotics, sodium oxybutyrate and ethanol are the most efficient. The differences in teh drug effects were determined by a tan alpha criterion. Antidepressants and neurol...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Andronova LM,Barkov NK

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the problem of effective treatment for alcoholic patients with concurrent psychopathology. The subjects were 131 male veterans admitted to the Coatesville Veterans Administration Medical Center. They remained in an alcohol rehabilitation program at least five days following detoxification and were ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： McLellan AT,Erdlen FR,Erdlen DL,O'Brien CP

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four drug addicts, aged 20 - 24 years, with a history of 4 - 8 years of intravenous heroin abuse, were randomly assigned either to a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) (17) or to an untreated group (17). The untreated controls could not apply for entrance to the program until two years later. It was found th...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Gunne LM,Grönbladh L

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a study of drug use among non-students in three countries: Mexico, Canada and India. In all three countries core items from a World Health Organization questionnaire were used. The results were generally consistent with the expectation that non-students would show greater use than students. The stro...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Smart RG,Mora ME,Terroba G,Varma VK

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine (9.2%) of 750 consecutive persons entering a chemical-dependence treatment hospital had urinary evidence of benzodiazepines, a somewhat higher proportion than in the general adult American population. The 54 subjects in whose urine benzodiazepines, but not the other commonly abused psychoactive drugs, were ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Cushman P,Benzer D

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of chronological and a daily drinking record are compared. The chronological record was completed by interviewers who probed for information on all drinking episodes during the last week. The daily record covered only the last day and was completed by the respondent without interviewer assistance. Because ...

journal_title：Drug and alcohol dependence

authors： Gerstel EK,Harford TC,Pautler CC

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00