All Resources for 'Public Health'

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Law Enforcement

This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...

Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician’s Guide

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

Introduction

This Guideis written for primary care and mental health clinicians. It has been produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),a component of the National Institutes of Health, with guidance from...

Systematic Review of Screening Instruments for Psychosocial Problems in Children and Adolescents with Long-Term Physical Conditions

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Scientific article
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Populations
Family
Public Health

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Children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions (LTPCs) are at greater risk of developing psychosocial problems. Screening for such problems may be undertaken using validated psychometric instruments to facilitate...

Cannabis and Schizophrenia: Systematic Review of the Last 15 Years

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Scientific article
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Public Health

ABSTRACT

After the recent enactment in Uruguay of Law 19172 regarding the regulation of cannabis market and use, many questions arise about the impact of this law on psychiatric patients with comorbid cannabis use disorder, with specific...

Acculturation and Drug Use Disorders among Hispanics in the U.S.

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Scientific article
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Public Health
Statistics

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The authors’ objective was to examine the relationship between degree of acculturation across five different dimensions of acculturation and risk of drug use disorders (DUD) among US Hispanics.

Data were derived from a large...

What’s New in Addiction Prevention for Young People?

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Prevention
Assessing the latest knowledge of addiction prevention programmes for young people.

Contrasting Trends of Smoking Cessation Status

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Scientific article
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Public Health
Theories and Science

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Objective

The World Health Organization recommends that smokers be offered help to quit. A better understanding of smokers’ interest in and commitment to quitting could guide tobacco control efforts. We assessed temporal...

New Data on Opioid Use and Prescribing in the United States

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Scientific article
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Public Health
Statistics

The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Between 1999 and 2010, prescription opioid–related overdose deaths increased substantially in parallel with increased prescribing of opioids.

In 2015, opioid-involved drug...