Defining opioid na ïve and implications for monitoring opioid use: a population-based study in Alberta, Canada - Lee C, Ye M, Weaver O, Jess E, Gilani F, Samanani S, Eurich DT.
The objective is to summarize current definitions and evaluate their i...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Differences in smoking behaviors and readiness to change for patients with COPD and differing categories of depressive symptoms: a descriptive cross-sectional design - Floyd J, Mallow J, Wang K, Davis SM, Carpenter R, Theeke L.
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the world with nearly 90% of cases caused by tobacco smoking. Nearly 40% of people with COPD are diagnosed with depression which impacts quality of life and smo...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Driver alcohol detection system for safety (DADSS) – risk based approach to alcohol sensing outcomes modeling - Allen T, Campbell M, Ozdemir K, Pirooz K, Willis M, Zaouk AK, Ferguson SA, Bahouth GT, Spicer RS, Lukas SE, Strassburger R.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000291.pdf A large number of fatal crashes ev...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Driving-related behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions among Australian medical cannabis users: results from the CAMS 20 survey - Arkell TR, Abelev SV, Mills L, Suraev A, Arnold JC, Lintzeris N, McGregor IS.
Road safety is an important concern amidst expanding worldwide access to legal cannabis. The present study reports on the driving-related subsection of the Cannabis as Medicine Survey 2020 (CAMS-20) which surveyed driving-related behaviors, attitudes, and ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Efficacy and safety of the traditional herbal medication Chai-Ling-Tang (in China), Siryung-tang (in Republic of Korea) or Sairei-To (in Japan) - Bailly C.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The herbal medicine designated Chai-Ling-Tang in China, Siryung-tang in South Korea, and Sairei-To (or Tsumura Saireito extract granules, TJ-114) in Japan is a complex polyherbal formulations with 12 plant components. It is ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Epidemiology of psychoactive substance use in Togo: results of WENDU data collection from 2015 to 2019 - Saliou S, Wenkourama D, Kanekatoua S, Affo C, Bawi G, Dassa Kolou S.
INTRODUCTION: Addiction to psychoactive substances (PAS) is nowadays a public health problem. In Togo, data on the use of PAS are scattered, and do not give the national scope of the phenomenon. AIM: To describe the epidemiological characteristics ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Ethanol kinetics in the human brain determined by magnetic resonance spectroscopy - Thierauf-Emberger A, Schuldis D, Dacko M, Lange T.
In many parts of the world, ethanol is a widely consumed substance that displays its effect in the brain, the target organ for desired, but also negative impact. In a previous study, the ethanol concentrations were analyzed in different regions of the brai...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Health-related quality of life in patients accessing medicinal cannabis in Australia: the QUEST initiative results of a 3-month follow-up observational study - Tait MA, Costa DSJ, Campbell R, Norman R, Warne LN, Schug S, Rutherford C.
AIMS: Patients with chronic health conditions not responding to conventional treatment can access medicinal cannabis (MC) prescriptions from clinicians in Australia. We aimed to assess overall health-related quality of life (HRQL), pain, fatigue, sleep, an...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Illicit drugs in the emergency department: can we determine on clinical grounds if patients are intoxicated? Results from the Western Australian Illicit Substance Evaluation (WISE) study - McCutcheon D, Soderstrom J, Raghavan M, Oosthuizen F, Douglas B, Burrows S, Smith JL, Fatovich D.
Introduction Presentations related to illicit drugs are a feature of emergency department practice. Clinicians may form a belief that a patient is intoxicated with illicit drugs based on patient self-report, clinical features on presentation and the local ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Implementing suicide risk screening in a virtual addiction clinic - Glasner S, Wei AX, Ryan PC, Michero DN, Monico LB, Pielsticker PE, Horowitz LM.
The purpose of this study was to describe the feasibility of implementing suicide risk screening in a virtual addiction clinic. Suicide risk screening was implemented in a virtual addiction clinic serving individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) usin...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Mediators of effects of a digital alcohol intervention for online help-seekers: findings from an effectiveness trial - Bendtsen M, Åsberg K, McCambridge J.
The objective of this study was to estimate natural direct an...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Moral injury is a risk factor for substance use and suicidality among US military veterans with and without  traumatic brain injury - McDaniel JT, Redner R, Jayawardene W, Haun J, Clapp J, Che D, Renzaglia K, Abou-Jabal D.
A national survey of United States veterans was conducted, yielding 252 veterans with Traumatic  Brain Injury (TBI) and 1235 veterans without TBI. Participants were asked questions about moral injury, suicidality, substance use, and other sociodemographic ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

New perspectives on how to formulate alcohol drinking guidelines - Shield K, Paradis C, Butt P, Naimi T, Sherk A, Asbridge M, Myran D, Stockwell T, Wells S, Poole N, Heatley J, Hobin E, Thompson K, Young M.
BACKGROUND: Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines (LRDGs) aim to reduce the harms caused by alcohol. However, considerable discrepancies exist in the 'low-risk' thresholds employed by different countries. ARGUMENT/ANALYSIS: Drawing upon Canada's LRDGs updat...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Non-invasive blood alcohol detection using near infrared spectroscopy and chemometric techniques - Brauer S, Ritchie G, Cech L, Ciurczak E, Coates J.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000279.pdf This paper presents an update on t...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Pattern of alcohol consumption among workers at a public market - Arag ão JA, Filho ALB, Trindade JGS, Aragão FMSA, Aragão ICSA, Lourenço BC, Reis FP.
Context: The consumption of alcoholic beverages in excess is characterized as a chronic disease, and is more associated with death than all illicit psychoactive substances combined. The consumption of alcohol in large quantities, constantly, can bring imme...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

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