All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

Effectiveness of a New Multi-Component Smoking Cessation Service Package for Patients with Hypertension and Diabetes in Northern Thailand

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family

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Background

Smoking cessation is an achievable behavioral change, which reduces the risks of cardiovascular diseases, cancers and tobacco-related diseases. There is a need for an effective smoking cessation service for low and...

Book Unveiling Ceremony of 'The Known and Unknowns of Drug Dependence'

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family

Drug use has been identified as one of the ominous problems that the society faces nowadays. Every drug dependent person has different and complex difficulties to go through in the process of recovering from such harmful habit. Person...

Magnitude of Substance Use in India

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Book
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Policy
Ethics
Data
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
The National Survey assesses the extent and patterns of substance use in India.

Marchiafava-Bignami Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Scientific article
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Treatment
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Addiction
Populations
Family

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INTRODUCTION: Marchiafava-Bignami (MB) is a rare disease characterized by the primary degeneration of the callosum mainly associated with chronic consumption of alcohol. However, this condition can be mistaken for many other...

National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program

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Book
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Policy
Public Health

Wastewater analysis is widely applied internationally as a tool to measure and interpret drug
use within national populations, with the current national program in Australia representing world best practice. 

The National Wastewater Drug...

Addiction Journal Podcast: March 2019

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Book
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Addiction
Mental Health
Public Health

The latest Addiction Journal Podcast gives listeners a snapshot overview of the research that has been published in the March edition of the Addiction Journal.

PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN: AN EVALUATION (Collaboration with Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI) by DFPF)

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family

                                               EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Executive Summary provides an overview of research methods and procedures. Initially, research project was scheduled in short period of time. This research project...