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  1. Benzodiazepines are the first-line choice for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. However, several hospitals continue to provide alcoholic beverages through their formulary for the treatment of alcoh...

    Authors: S Pirzada Sattar, S Faiz Qadri, Mustafa K Warsi, Cordelia Okoye, Amad U Din, Prasad R Padala and Subhash C Bhatia

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:30

    Content type: Short Report

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  2. Simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis predicts increased negative consequences for users beyond individual or even concurrent use of the two drugs. Given the widespread use of the drugs and common simultane...

    Authors: Sara Smucker Barnwell and Mitch Earleywine

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:29

    Content type: Research

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  3. Peer use of take home naloxone has the potential to reduce drug related deaths. There appears to be a paucity of research amongst homeless drug users on the topic. This study explores the acceptability and pot...

    Authors: Nat Wright, Nicola Oldham, Katharine Francis and Lesley Jones

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:28

    Content type: Research

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  4. Comorbid psychiatric illness can undermine outcomes among homeless persons undergoing addiction treatment, and psychiatric specialty care is not always readily available. The prognosis for nonsubstance abuse p...

    Authors: Stefan G Kertesz, Alok Madan, Dennis Wallace, Joseph E Schumacher and Jesse B Milby

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:27

    Content type: Research

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  5. Despite the importance of identifying co-occurring psychiatric disorders in substance abuse treatment programs, there are few appropriate and validated instruments available to substance abuse treatment staff ...

    Authors: Alisa K Lincoln, Jane M Liebschutz, Miriam Chernoff, Dana Nguyen and Hortensia Amaro

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:26

    Content type: Research

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  6. The only national drug abuse prevention delivery system that supports the rapid diffusion of new prevention strategies and includes uniform training and credentialing of instructors who are monitored for quali...

    Authors: Jeffrey C Merrill, Ilana Pinsky, Ley A Killeya-Jones, Zili Sloboda and Tracey Dilascio

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:25

    Content type: Research

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  10. Previous studies have found that even limited prevention-related interventions can affect health behaviors such as substance use and risky sex. Substance abuse treatment providers are ideal candidates to provi...

    Authors: Rebecca Wells, Christy Harris Lemak and Thomas A D'Aunno

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:21

    Content type: Research

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  11. To reduce criminal recidivism and drug use, it has been proposed that the substance abuse treatment delivery system cut across different components of the criminal justice continuum. Arrest, at the front end o...

    Authors: Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Cynthia L Arfken, James A Swartz and Alison L Koch

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:20

    Content type: Research

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  12. Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy uses a medium that provides the broadest possible worldwide readership. Anyone in the world can read articles without charge. Since the articles published here w...

    Authors: Stephan Arndt

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:19

    Content type: Editorial

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  13. In many European countries, medical education on alcohol remains inadequate in terms of both quantity and quality. The expansion of GP training and care protocols would improve the management and outcome of al...

    Authors: Laurent Malet, Michel Reynaud, Pierre-Michel Llorca and Bruno Falissard

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:18

    Content type: Research

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  14. Use of alcohol and illicit drugs by adolescents remains a problem in the U.S. Case identification and early treatment can occur within a broad variety of healthcare and non-healthcare settings, including acute...

    Authors: Deena J Chisolm and Kelly J Kelleher

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:17

    Content type: Research

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  15. Deaths from liver cirrhosis have increased at least 8 fold since the 1970's in the UK and further increases are anticipated, whereas in the rest of Europe liver deaths are decreasing. In the UK, we urgently ne...

    Authors: Clare Verrill, Stewart Smith and Nick Sheron

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:16

    Content type: Research

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  16. Non-medical/illegal use of prescription stimulants popularly have been referred to as "study drugs". This paper discusses the current prevalence and consequences of misuse of these drugs and implications of th...

    Authors: Steve Sussman, Mary Ann Pentz, Donna Spruijt-Metz and Toby Miller

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:15

    Content type: Review

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  17. Absinthe, a bitter spirit containing wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.), was banned at the beginning of the 20th century as consequence of its supposed unique adverse effects. After nearly century-long prohibitio...

    Authors: Stephan A Padosch, Dirk W Lachenmeier and Lars U Kröner

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:14

    Content type: Review

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  18. North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a migration of...

    Authors: Evan Wood, Mark W Tyndall, Calvin Lai, Julio SG Montaner and Thomas Kerr

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:13

    Content type: Short Report

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  19. The drug treatment field tends to place emphasis on the individual rather than the individual in social context. While there are a growing number of studies indicating that drug-using intimate partners are lik...

    Authors: Janie Simmons

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:12

    Content type: Research

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  20. Heroin use causes considerable harm to individual users including dependence, fatal and nonfatal overdose, mental health problems, and blood borne virus transmission. It also adversely affects the community th...

    Authors: Louisa Degenhardt, Carolyn Day, Stuart Gilmour and Wayne Hall

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:11

    Content type: Commentary

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  21. Head and neck cancers are a major cancer burden in Pakistan. They share a common risk factor profile including regular consumption of products of betel, areca and tobacco. Use of paan, chaalia, gutka, niswar a...

    Authors: Samia Mazahir, Rabia Malik, Maria Maqsood, Kanwal AliRaza Merchant, Farida Malik, Atif Majeed, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad Rizwanulhaq Khawaja and Shehzad Ghaffar

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:10

    Content type: Research

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  22. Objectives of this study are (a) to develop a comprehensive and economic tool to estimate tobacco control (TC) activities in single EU member states, (b) to compare TC activities between member states of the E...

    Authors: Jochen René Thyrian and Ulrich John

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:9

    Content type: Research

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  23. As the United States population ages, an unprecedented proportion of the population will be aged 70 and older. Knowledge of alcohol use and its consequences in this age group is not well known. In light of the...

    Authors: Carolyn L Turvey, Susan K Schultz and Dawn M Klein

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:8

    Content type: Research

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  25. A well designed randomized clinical trial rates as the highest level of evidence for a particular intervention's efficacy. Randomization, a fundamental feature of clinical trials design, is a process invoking the...

    Authors: Sarra L Hedden, Robert F Woolson and Robert J Malcolm

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:6

    Content type: Research

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  26. In France outpatient centres for the care of alcoholics are healthcare establishments providing medical, psychological and social support. Although they meet the practical needs of these patients, their degree...

    Authors: Bertrand Nalpas, Florence Matelak, Sandrine Martin, Isabelle Boulze, Jean-Louis Balmes and Corinne Crouzet

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:5

    Content type: Research

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  27. Establishing more sensible measures to treat cocaine-addicted mothers and their children is essential for improving U.S. drug policy. Favorable post-natal environments have moderated potential deleterious pren...

    Authors: Harvey J Ginsburg, Paul Raffeld, Kelly L Alanis and Angela S Boyce

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:4

    Content type: Research

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  28. This paper addresses the growing phenomena of therapeutic community (TC) treatment approaches for women in correctional settings. Although rapidly increasing in number across the country, there is very little ...

    Authors: Michele J Eliason

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:3

    Content type: Review

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  29. Although little evidence supports cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome, sources continue to assert that the drug saps motivation [1], which may guide current prohibitions. Few studies report low motivation in ...

    Authors: Sara Smucker Barnwell, Mitch Earleywine and Rand Wilcox

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:2

    Content type: Research

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  30. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (SATPP) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal of original research and scholarship that focuses on policy issues in the treatment and prevention ...

    Authors: Stephan Arndt

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2006 1:1

    Content type: Editorial

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