Substance Use Disorders

Journal Article

Prescription Sharing, Alcohol Use, and Street Drug Use to Manage Pain Among Veterans — May 1, 2011

About one-third of veterans report using alcohol, street drugs, or medication prescribed for others to manage pain.

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Does the Response to Alcohol Taxes Differ Across Racial/ethnic Groups? Some Evidence from 1984-2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System — Apr 1, 2011

This study examines how the effect of alcohol excise taxes on the demand for alcohol varies across different racial and ethnic groups.

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Preliminary assessment of economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK — Mar 21, 2011

This study provides evidence on potential economic impact of policies designed to increase the price of alcoholic drinks on consumers, producers and retailers in the UK. Policy-makers used recommendations to implement a new pricing policy.

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• Law and Business Research Area

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Increased Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Migratory Homeless Youth: Exploring the Role of Social Network Composition — Mar 12, 2011

Young homeless "travelers" engage in higher risk behavior than non-traveler homeless and may have different service needs and require different service approaches.

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Assessing the impacts of Revising the Tobacco Products Directive: Study to support a DG SANCO Impact Assessment — Mar 8, 2011

In order to inform the European Commission's formal Impact Assessment for a revision to the Tobacco Products Directive, this study provides an overview of evidence for tobacco product regulation and an analysis of health and economic implications.

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The Premises Is the Premise: Understanding Off- and On-Premises Alcohol Sales Outlets to Improve Environmental Alcohol Prevention Strategies — Mar 4, 2011

Outlets that sell alcohol on the premises (e.g., bars or restaurants) do more to prevent alcohol sales to minors than outlets such as convenience or liquor stores.

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Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity: RAND's Drug Policy Research Center — Feb 7, 2011

This paper provides a look back at the creation, evolution and growth of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC).

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Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law — Feb 3, 2011

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

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Heterogeneity in the Composition of Marijuana Seized in California — Feb 1, 2011

The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.

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• Public Safety Research Area

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A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative — Jan 17, 2011

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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The Impact of Buprenorphine on Treatment of Opioid Dependence in a Medicaid Population: Recent Service Utilization Trends in the Use of Buprenorphine and Methadone — Jan 1, 2011

Buprenorphine use has increased in recent years, with the greatest use in rural communities and in office based settings.

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The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking — Jan 1, 2011

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The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use — Jan 1, 2011

This study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy–5 (MET/CBT-5) when delivered in community practice settings relative to standard community-based adolescent treatment.

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Prescription Medication Abuse and Illegitimate Internet-Based Pharmacies — Jan 1, 2011

Abuse of prescription drugs represents a growing problem. This article discusses the challenge to federal and private efforts to combat the problem and outlines strategies for physicians to recognize and minimize the effects of the availability of these medications on the Internet.

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Bringing Perspective to Illicit Markets: Estimating the Size of the U.S. Marijuana Market — Jan 1, 2011

The authors review two general approaches to drug market estimation--supply-side and demand-side--before turning to a more specific analysis of studies that measure the size of the U.S. marijuana market.

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• Public Safety Research Area

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Behavioral Health and Social Normative Influence: Correlates of Concurrent Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexually-Active Homeless Men — Jan 1, 2011

Sexual concurrency poses significant HIV/STI transmission risk.

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Trends and Inequalities in Late-Life Health and Functioning in England — Jan 1, 2011

Recently, late-life disability rates have declined in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation, but no national-level trend analysis for England has been available.

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Judging Nudging: Can Nudging Improve Popuation Health? — Jan 1, 2011

Nudging has captured the imagination of the public, researchers, and policy makers as a way of changing human behaviour, with both the UK and US governments embracing it. Theresa Marteau and colleagues ask whether the concept stands up to scientific scrutiny.

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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — Jan 1, 2011

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.

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The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health — Jan 1, 2011

This paper discusses a contemporary social cognitive framework that can be used to understand the role of the self-concept in smoking.

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