Obiettivo: Descrivere la percezione della popolazione adulta della pubblicità delle sigarette nei punti vendita, in base al loro stato di utilizzo del tabacco e alle caratteristiche socio-demografiche come sesso, età, razza /...
Previous reports have shown that physicians who smoke underestimate the effects of smoking on health and this influences their practice. This study was designed to investigate the views of Estonian physicians on the...
The abuse of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) has been increasing dramatically worldwide since late 2000s. By the end of 2015, more than 560 NPS had been reported to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Although...
Background: Tobacco using among women is more prevalent in Nepal as compared to other South-East Asian countries. The effect of its use is seen not only on the pregnant women, but also health of the growing fetus is compromised. Currently...
E-cigarettes are less addictive than traditional cigarettes, according to a new study published in the journal Preventative Medicine.
That said, around 75% of e-cigarette smokers still consider themselves to be dependent on their use.
Mor...
Acupuncture is an ancient therapeutic tool known to be the core of traditional Chinese medicine. Two theories suggest positive outcomes in patients treated with acupuncture:
Sport participation can play an important and positive role in the health and development of children and youth. One area that has recently been receiving greater attention is the role that sport participation might play in...
OBIETTIVI: Ricerche precedenti hanno scoperto che gli atleti adolescenti possono essere ad aumentato rischio di uso di oppioidi da prescrizione non medica (NPOU) a causa di lesioni. Sebbene gli atleti adolescenti siano ad...
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges...
This Guideis written for primary care and mental health clinicians. It has been produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),a component of the National Institutes of Health, with guidance from...
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Dopo la recente promulgazione in Uruguay della legge 19172 riguardante la regolamentazione del mercato e dell'uso della cannabis, sorgono molte domande sull'impatto di questa legge sui pazienti psichiatrici con disturbo da uso di...
Children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions (LTPCs) are at greater risk of developing psychosocial problems. Screening for such problems may be undertaken using validated psychometric instruments to facilitate...
The authors’ objective was to examine the relationship between degree of acculturation across five different dimensions of acculturation and risk of drug use disorders (DUD) among US Hispanics.
Data were derived from a large...
Introduction: Adolescence and young adulthood are periods of continued biological and psychosocial maturation. Thus, there may be deleterious effects of consuming large quantities of alcohol on neural development and associated cognition...
The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Between 1999 and 2010, prescription opioid–related overdose deaths increased substantially in parallel with increased prescribing of opioids.
In 2015, opioid-involved drug...
Objective
The World Health Organization recommends that smokers be offered help to quit. A better understanding of smokers’ interest in and commitment to quitting could guide tobacco control efforts. We assessed temporal...
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
The Surgeon General has concluded that there is a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and the initiation of smoking among young persons. The more frequently youths...
Nel 1989 un vortice di preoccupazione fu suscitato da un ufficiale antidroga statunitense che predisse per la Gran Bretagna una "esplosione" di violenza in stile americano associata alla versione crack "quasi istantaneamente coinvolgente"...
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Introduzione: L'uso di marijuana tra la popolazione studentesca è aumentato in Messico e in America Latina. Ci sono fattori sociali, interpersonali e individuali associati all'inizio e alla continuazione dell'uso di marijuana...
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Le recessioni economiche possono influenzare il consumo di droghe illegali attraverso diversi meccanismi, ad esempio un aumento del consumo dovuto a un maggiore disagio psicologico o una diminuzione del consumo a causa del reddito...