Associations between doses of fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) and falls of hospitalized patients - Yang YK, Kor CT, Sun YW, Wang HY, Yang YT, Liu SY.
Falls are a serious public health problem in the aging population because of the associated clinical and socioeconomic impact. Although previous studies have investigated fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs), few studies have focused on dosage among adult in...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Binge drinking, other substance use up in midlife adults - Harris E.
Continuing a years-long upward trend, the proportion of US adults aged 35 to 50 years who reported binge drinking reached a "historic" high in 2022, with almost a third of people stating that they had consumed 5 or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks....
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Cannabis use in context: relations among impulsive personality traits, context, and cannabis problems - Waddell JT, Okey SA, McDonald A, Quiroz SI, Woods-Gonzalez R, Corbin WR.
INTRODUCTION: Impulsive personality traits are associated with cannabis problems. Person-Environment Transactions Theory suggests that highly impulsive individuals behave differently in certain contexts, however little research has focused on the context i...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Car accident & alcohol detector & black box conference abstract - Jain RK, Jajoo V, Jain V, Sethia Y, Jain Y.
The primary goal of this study is to dismantle a prototype accident detection device using a black field. If an accident occurred and the driver or passengers suffered injuries, there may be fatalities as a result of a delay in medical attention. This prot...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Characterizing Twitter chatter about temporary alcohol abstinence during "Dry January" - Russell AM, Montemayor BN, Chiang SC, Milaham PJ, Barry AE, Lin HC, Bergman BG, Massey PM.
With roots as a public health campaign in the United Kingdom, "Dry January" is a temporary alcohol abstinence initiative encouraging participants to abstain from alcohol use during the month of January. Dry January has become a cultural phenomenon, gaining...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Daily naltrexone use does not adversely affect physical, cognitive or marksmanship performance in  U.S. Army soldiers - Carreno-Davidson JT, Castellani CM, Carreno JJ, DeLuca JP, Selig DJ, Vuong CV, Pasiakos SM, Ritland BM.
INTRODUCTION: Considering the potential of weaponized opioids, evaluating how prophylactic countermeasures affect military-relevant performance is necessary. Naltrexone is a commercially available Food and Drug Administration-approved medication that block...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Disparities in Alcoholics Anonymous participation from 2000-2020 among U.S. residents with an alcohol use disorder in the National Alcohol Survey - Zemore SE, Mericle AA, Martinez P, Bergman BG, Karriker-Jaffe KJ, Patterson D, Timko C.
OBJECTIVE: Mutual-help groups (MHGs) like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are effective for resolving alcohol use disorders (AUDs), but few studies have examined disparities in MHG participation, particularly recently. We used five waves of National Alcohol Surv...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Distressed drinking: the moderating impact of distress tolerance on the relation between anxiety sensitivity, panic symptoms, and alcohol use and problems - Geyer RB, Dreyer-Oren SE, Das A, Clerkin EM.
OBJECTIVE: Undergraduate students are at particular risk for greater alcohol use, which is linked to anxiety disorders among a variety of other negative consequences. Understanding transdiagnostic factors underlying alcohol use problems and other disorders...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Drug use in fatal collisions 2000 - 2020 - Brown S, Vanlaar WGM, Robertson RD.
In recent years, a greater percentage of fatally injured drivers tested positive for drugs other than alcohol in Canada. While some of this growth may be due to improvements in data collection, dealing with drugged driving has become more of a priority in ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Drug-facilitated sexual assault: a systematic review - Recalde-Esnoz I, Prego-Meleiro P, Montalvo G, Del Castillo H.
Since the last two decades, the scientific community has made an effort to analyze drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA). However, a lack of understanding remains about the DFSA problem, particularly concerning the opportunistic variant. Facing this situa...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Drugs involved in Kentucky drug poisoning deaths and relation with antecedent controlled substance prescription dispensing - Freeman PR, McAninch J, Dasgupta N, Oyler DR, Slavov K, Collins C, Hargrove S, Freeman E, Miracle D, Slavova S.
In this study,...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Interrupted time series analysis of drug overdose fatalities in service-related industries versus non-service-related industries during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2018-2021 - Bunn TL, Costich JF, Mirzaian M, Daniels LK, Wang D, Quesinberry D.
The objectives of this study were to compare drug overdose decedent demographics, annual drug overdose fatal...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Neurotrophic factors in cannabis-induced psychosis: an update - Ricci V, De Berardis D, Martinotti G, Maina G.
BACKGROUND: Cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance. Numerous scientific evidence confirm the strong association between cannabis and psychosis. Exposure to cannabis can induce the development of psychosis and schizophrenia in vulnerable individ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Parallel development: medicalization and decriminalization in the changing media framing of the opioid overdose crisis - Wu X.
Drawing on content analysis of 517 New York Times news reports published between 1995 and 2016, the author examines the institutionalization of opioid responses in terms of changing media framing of opioid use. The findings indicate that news frames were s...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Pharmacokinetic properties of an fda-approved intranasal nalmefene formulation for the treatment of opioid overdose - Crystal R, Ellison M, Purdon C, Skolnick P.
Nalmefene is a high-affinity, long-duration opioid antagonist that was approved in 1995 as an injection for the treatment of opiate overdose, but subsequently withdrawn (2008) for reasons other than safety or effectiveness. The dramatic rise in opioid over...
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

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