All Resources for 'Public Health'

Licit and Illicit Substance Use Patterns among University Students in Germany Using Cluster Analysis

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

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Background

The use of multiple licit and illicit substances plays an important role in many university students’ lives. Previous research on multiple substance use patterns of university students, however, often fails to examine...

Fentanyl and its Analogues - 50 years on

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Book
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Public Health
Partner Organisation

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Fentanyl and its analogues are potent synthetic opioids, which are liable to abuse. They are often sold under the guise of heroin or prescription medicines, such as oxycodone, and this exacerbates the risk of overdose and...

Needle Acquisition Patterns, Network Risk and Social Capital among Rural PWID in Puerto Rico

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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Background

People who inject drugs (PWID) take on significant risks of contracting blood-borne infection, including injecting with a large number of partners and acquiring needles from unsafe sources. When combined, risk of...

Illicit Drug Use, Illicit Drug Use Disorders, and Drug Overdose Deaths in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas — United States

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

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Problem/Condition: Drug overdoses are a leading cause of injury death in the United States, resulting in approximately 52,000 deaths in 2015. Understanding differences in illicit drug use, illicit drug use disorders, and overall...

PLGF, a Placental Marker of Fetal Brain Defects after in Utero Alcohol Exposure

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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Most children with in utero alcohol exposure do not exhibit all features of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and a challenge for clinicians is to make an early diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) to avoid lost...

Like Sugar for Adults: The Effect of Non-Dependent Parental Drinking on Children & Families

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Book
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Populations
Family
Public Health

This study set out to explore the effect of non-dependent parental drinking on children, making a direct link between parental drinking habits and the attitudes, behaviours and impacts reported by their children.

It explores the effect of...

“Gestaltomics”: Systems Biology Schemes for the Study of Neuropsychiatric Diseases

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Scientific article
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Public Health

The integration of different sources of biological information about what defines a behavioral phenotype is difficult to unify in an entity that reflects the arithmetic sum of its individual parts. In this sense, the challenge of Systems...

Elements regulatory marijuana, to consideration for the effective protection of the health of the population

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Scientific article
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Psychoactive Substances
Public Health
Regulatory Control of Substances

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When discussing the public health approach to the use of marijuana, the complexity of rigorous regulatory interventions for population protection is omitted. Using the experience of governments where these practices already exist...

School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works?

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Book
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Prevention
School-Based

School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works? is a new briefing paper published by Mentor-Adepis. It outlines several approaches that have been shown to work effectively, and issues cautions about those that have not...