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The government is spending £17.6m on alcohol education and information in 2009-10, but this is dwarfed by the UK drinks industry’s £600-800m annual spend on promoting alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
General price increases were effective for reduction of consumption, health-care costs, and health-related quality of life losses in all population subgroups {Lancet Abstract, UK]
The proposed policies serve the industry’s interests at the expense of public health by attempting to enshrine ‘active participation of all levels of the beverage alcohol industry as a key partner in the policy formulation and implementation process’ [Addiction, UK]
One unintended consequence of current medicines legislation is to leave distributors of ‘legal highs’ unable to disclose the true purpose of their product. General commonsense precautions that apply to any psychoactive drug cannot be given without risking prosecution. The dilemma is what to do between the appearance of a problem, risk assessment and the inevitable but uncertain legislative response [Addiction Editorial, UK]
A new version of the book, ‘Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity’, provides the most compelling case yet for fiscal and regulatory measures to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and the importance of not allowing the alcohol industry to set the agenda and propose largely ineffective policies that rely on provision of information alone [Addiction Editorial, UK]
Overall, the strongest, most cost-effective strategies include taxation that increases prices, restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol, drink-driving countermeasures, brief interventions with at risk drinkers and treatment of drinkers with alcohol dependence [Addiction Abstract, UK]
Excess body weight increases the incidence of liver cirrhosis. In middle aged women in the UK, an estimated 17% of incident or fatal liver cirrhosis is attributable to excess body weight. This compares with an estimated 42% attributable to alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
Overall, these findings indicate that alcohol impacts many disease outcomes causally, both chronic and acute, and injuries. In addition, a pattern of heavy episodic drinking increases risk for some disease and all injury outcomes [Addiction Abstract, UK]
Raised BMI and alcohol consumption are both related to liver disease, with evidence of a supra-additive interaction between the two [British Medical Journal, UK]
Findings suggest that treatment completion rates of individuals from poor South African communities can be enhanced by i) improving perceptions of substance abuse treatment through introducing quality improvement initiatives into substance abuse services, ii) strengthening clients’ abstinence-oriented social networks and, iii) strengthening the counselor-client therapeutic alliance [Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Policy, USA]
We offer a theoretical, clinical and neurobiological perspective of the overlaps between these disorders, highlight common neural pathways that play a role in depression and substance use disorders and discuss how these commonalities may frame our conceptualization and treatment of co-occurring disorders [Addiction, UK]
The rise of authorized marijuana use in the U.S. means that many individuals are using cannabis as they concurrently engage in other forms of treatment, such as substance abuse counseling and psychotherapy [Harm Reduction Journal, USA]
In a study published today in the journal Addiction, researchers in the United States have discovered that accidental overdose deaths involving cocaine rise when the average weekly ambient temperature passes 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) [Addiction, UK]
This text provides a brief summary of key Brief Intervention research findings from the last three decadesand discusses a number of knowledge gaps that need to be addressed [Addiction, UK]
The evidence is weaker than given credit for in the literature. The lack of evidence for effectiveness of NSP vis-à-vis biological outcomes (HCV and HIV incidence/prevalence) reflects the limitations of studies that have been undertaken to investigate these associations [Addiction Abstract, UK]
Worldwide coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services in IDU populations is very low. There is an urgent need to improve coverage of these services in this at-risk population [Lancet Abstract, UK]
This month also marks the implementation of a new policy on tobacco papers at PLoS Medicine. While we continue to be interested in analyses of ways of reducing tobacco use, we will no longer be considering papers where support, in whole or in part, for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company. As a medical journal we do this for two reasons [PLoS Medicine, USA]
This research further indicates that physical access barriers result in treatment denials to persons with physical disabilities and that programmatic barriers may result in similar declines to persons of select disability groups [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
Recent research from Canada and the United States has found that physical and programmatic access barriers are common in substance abuse treatment facilities and that such barriers directly lead to service denials to select groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
By providing environments in which IDUs receive supervised injection and overdose management and education SIF can reduce the demand for ambulance services, thereby freeing them to attend other medical emergencies within the community [Addiction Abstract, UK]
