AIDS 2010 To Highlight Epidemic In Eastern Europe, Central Asia Regions
AIDS 2010, the International AIDS Conference to be held July 18-23 in Vienna, Austria, will "highlight the situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, regions experiencing fast growing [HIV/AIDS] epidemics largely through unsafe injecting drug use," conference organizers announced Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports... (Source: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today)...
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12 Year Olds More Likely To Use Potentially Deadly Inhalants Than Cigarettes Or Marijuana
More 12 year olds have used potentially lethal inhalants than have used marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens combined, according to data released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in conjunction with the 18th annual National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week... (Source: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today)...
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Drug Czar Warns on Drugged Driving
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske told an international conference that driving under the influence of prescription and illicit drugs is a growing problem. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Nicotine Load Builds to Peak in Cigarette Smokers: Study
Smokers slowly build up nicotine levels to a peak, rather than receiving a burst of the drug in their brain with each drag, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Cigarette Company Sues Over Display Ban
Seeking to prevent impulse purchases, the government of Norway has prohibited retailers from publicly displaying cigarettes in stores, but tobacco company Philip Morris is going to court in an attempt to overturn the ban. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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America Honors Recovery Awards: Call for Nominations
Sponsored by Faces & Voices of Recovery and Hazelden's Center for Public Advocacy, the America Honors Recovery awards recognize 2010's most influential recovery community leaders and organizations. Nominations for individuals and organizations will be accepted until April 9. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Brain Mechanism May Explain Alcohol Cravings That Drive Relapse
New research provides exciting insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with addiction and relapse. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 11 issue of the journal Neuron, uncovers a crucial mechanism that facilitates motivation for alcohol after extended abstinence and opens new avenues for potential therapeutic intervention... (Source: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today)...
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Report Reveals Drug Diversion Success - University Of Queensland, Australia
Queensland drug-users experience significant positive outcomes from drug intervention, according to a UQ study in which almost half of the participants reduced drug use following diversionary tactics... (Source: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today)...
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Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not it may be time to get help.
Alcohol Abuse Screening Quiz
Drug Abuse Screening Quiz
Could You Be Depressed?
Is Your Child Using Drugs or Alcohol?
Is Your Child Huffing Inhalants?
Questions for Families:
Are You Troubled by Someone's Drinking?
Are You Enabling an Alcoholic or Addict?
Did You Grow Up With a Problem Drinker?
Domestic Abuse Screening Quiz
Adult Child Screening Quiz
Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem? originally appeared on About.com Alcoholism on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 00:05:17.Permalink | Comment | Email this (S......
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What are the policy lessons of National Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, 1920–1933?
National alcohol prohibition in the United States between 1920 and 1933 is believed widely to have been a misguided and failed social experiment that made alcohol problems worse by encouraging drinkers to switch to spirits and created a large black market for alcohol supplied by organized crime. The standard view of alcohol prohibition provides policy lessons that are invoked routinely in policy debates about alcohol and other drugs. The alcohol industry invokes it routinely when resisting proposals to reduce the availability of alcohol, increase its price or regulate alcohol advertising and promotion. Advocates of cannabis law reform invoke it frequently in support of their cause. This paper aims: (i) to provide an account of alcohol prohibition that is more accurate than the standard acc......
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Impact of Childhood Trauma on Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity in Alcohol-Dependent Patients
Eur Addict Res 2010;16:108114 (DOI:10.1159/000294362) (Source: European Addiction Research : Last 20 articles)...
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No Constitutional Right to Smoke, Kansas Court Rules
Smoking is not a fundamental right, the Kansas Supreme Court said in upholding the state's indoor-smoking ban. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Indiana Smoking Prevention Agency in Peril
The Indiana Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Board could be dismantled and its functions folded into the State Department of Health. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Stop Smoking Message Was British Man's Final Request
A British man who died from emphysema had a sign stating, 'Smoking Killed Me' placed on his hearse and at his grave site in hopes of encouraging others to quit their addiction. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)...
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Lotteries as Disguised, Regressive, and Counterproductive Taxes
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11469-010-9269-2Authors
Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts Amherst MA USA
Journal International Journal of Mental Health and AddictionOnline ISSN 1557-1882Print ISSN 1557-1874 (Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction)...
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U.N. Official Addresses Increasing Drug Addiction In Developing Countries
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday warned of an impending "health disaster facing developing countries if wealthy nations fail to control drugs," Agence France-Presse reports... (Source: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical News Today)...
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Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC) - development, evolution, and direction
A historical summary is provided of the evolution of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC) since its origins in 1988. Begun as an National Institutes of Health (NIH) research center within a Department of Psychiatry and focused solely upon alcohol and aging, early work emphasized treatment efficacy, differential outcome studies and characterization of the neurophysiological and behavioral manifestations of chronic alcoholism. Over the last 15 years, UMARC has extended its research focus along a number of dimensions: its developmental reach has been extended etiologically by studies of risk early in the life span, and by way of work on earlier screening and the development of early, brief treatment interventions. The addiction focus has expanded to include other drugs......
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Trajectories of resilience over 25 years of individuals who as adolescents consulted for substance misuse and a matched comparison group
Conclusions Individuals who had presented substance misuse problems in adolescence were less likely to achieve resilience over the subsequent 25 years than was a matched general population sample, and among them, four distinct trajectories of resilience were identified. The severity and type of problems presented in adolescence distinguished the four trajectories. (Source: Addiction)...
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What economics can contribute to the addiction sciences
Conclusions Economics offers tools and topical expertise that usefully complement other disciplines associated traditionally with the addiction sciences. Its value goes far beyond the ability to monetize non-monetary outcomes or to calculate a cost-benefit ratio. (Source: Addiction)...
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Seeing America—diary of a drug-focused study tour made in 1967
In 1965 the British government was forced to admit that the country had an escalating heroin problem, with the supply coming mainly from prescribing by private practitioners. Within the official responses to what was seen at that time as a very worrying public health situation was the decision to fund the setting-up of the Addiction Research Unit (ARU) at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) generously sponsored a study tour for the nominated director of the ARU shortly before the opening of the British research centre. Extensive contemporaneous diary notes of a visit included contact with administrators, researchers, clinicians, parish priests, narcotic agents and addicts themselves. From a mass of often conflicting advice, some insights c......
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