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Substance Use Harm Reduction

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Tobacco Settlement Payout Supports Arkansas Health Programs

Arkansas has used its $1.6 billion share of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement to address health issues and focus on reducing smoking rates. With continued support, the services and programs created should be on track to meet their long-term goals.

Dec 11, 2004
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Visies op Financiering van Ondersteuning bij Stoppen met roken : [Perceptions on a Reimbursement Scheme for Quitting Smoking Support]

The Dutch Health Care Insurance Board commissioned RAND Europe to perform a qualitative review of the wishes, needs and opinions of smokers on the merits and implementation procedures for a reimbursement program to support quit smoking.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Improving Contingency Management Programs for Addiction

Contingency management interventions effectively reduce or eliminate some individuals' problem substance use.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Shaping Smoking Cessation Using Percentile Schedules

Behavioral interventions that provide incentives contingent upon abstinence are effective addiction treatments.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Smoking-cessation Interventions by Type of Provider: A Meta-Analysis

To synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of smoking-cessation interventions by type of provider.

Jan 1, 2004
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Interventions to Promote Smoking Cessation in the Medicare Population

Reviews the effectiveness of interventions used to promote smoking cessation among persons age 65 or older.

Jan 1, 2003
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Law Enforcement's Role in a Harm Reduction Regime

Law enforcement can play a valuable role within a harm reduction paradigm, but this possibility is often overlooked.

Jan 1, 2002
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Predictors of Late-Onset Smoking and Cessation Over 10 Years

The author try to identify predictors of smoking onset and cessation between early (age 13 years) and late adolescence (age 18 years) and between late adolescence (age 18 years) and young adulthood (age 23 years).

Jan 1, 2002
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Smoking Cessation During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

The psychosocial and behavioral determinants of smoking cessation from late adolescence to early adulthood were investigated.

Jan 1, 2002
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Sex Differences in Predictors of Adolescent Smoking Cessation

Sex differences in predictors of smoking cessation were investigated among 337 male and 490 female participants in the RAND adolescent panel study.

Jan 1, 2001
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Needle Exchange Program Attendance and Injection Risk in Providence, Rhode Island

NEPs represent a valuable and underexploited opportunity to promote risk reduction efforts beyond the avoidance of needle sharing.

Jan 1, 2001
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Development of the Smoking Cessation Quality of Life Questionnaire

This paper describes the development of the Smoking Cessation Quality of Life (SCQoL) questionnaire.

Jan 1, 1999
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Toward a Psychology of Harm Reduction

This article discusses three different strategies for dealing with the harmful consequences of drug use and other risky behaviors.

Jan 1, 1999
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What does mathematical modeling tell us about harm reduction?

What does mathematical modeling tell us about harm reduction?

Jan 1, 1997
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Harm Reduction and Social Policy: Should Addicts Be Paid?

This paper considers whether income supports for the drug-dependent poor might be harm reducing, given that a principle harm related to drug dependence is crime committed to finance drug use.

Jan 1, 1997
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The Psychology of Harm Reduction: Comparing Alternative Strategies for Modifying High-Risk Behaviors

Harm reduction focuses on minimizing the adverse consequences of drug use through interventions such as needle exchange, ''safe use'' education, and the use of treatment as an alternative to incarceration.

Jan 1, 1997
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Lessons From the Absence of Harm Reduction in American Drug Policy

Lessons From the Absence of Harm Reduction in American Drug Policy

Jan 1, 1996
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Addictive Drugs: The Cigarette Experience

This article looks at smoking behavior along with the social trend towards quitting, characteristics of cigarettes and the cigarette industry, and nicotine addiction.

Jan 1, 1992

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