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  1. Social support has been considered one of the most important factors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) evaluations among different populations; however, few studies have explored the relationships of b...

    Authors: Kaina Zhou, Hengxin Li, Xiaoli Wei, Juan Yin, Peifeng Liang, Hongmei Zhang, Lingling Kou, Mengmeng Hao, Lijuan You, Xiaomei Li and Guihua Zhuang

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:33

    Content type: Research

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  2. Heavy drinking among university students has been globally recognized as a major public health burden. In the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, studies on this issue have been scant, count...

    Authors: Siyan Yi, Chanrith Ngin, Karl Peltzer and Supa Pengpid

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:32

    Content type: Research

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  3. Medication adherence is essential to achieve successful methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). However, treatment adherence among MMT patients in the mountainous setting in Vietnam has not been yet investigate...

    Authors: Long Hoang Nguyen, Huong Thu Thi Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Bach Xuan Tran and Carl A. Latkin

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:31

    Content type: Research

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  4. This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Mandarin Chinese version of the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20) among adolescents, as well as examining the test’s predictability with re...

    Authors: Jung-Yu Liao, Hsueh-Yun Chi, Jong-Long Guo, Chiu-Mieh Huang and Shu-Fang Shih

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:30

    Content type: Research

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  5. People who inject drugs (PWID) often have poor health and lack access to health care. The aim of this study was to examine whether PWID engage in self-treatment through nonmedical prescription opioid use (NMPO...

    Authors: Disa Dahlman, Alex H. Kral, Lynn Wenger, Anders Hakansson and Scott P. Novak

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:29

    Content type: Research

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  6. Drug use-related visits to the emergency department (ED) can undermine discharge planning and lead to recurrent use of acute services. Yet, little is known about where patients go post discharge. We explored t...

    Authors: Jennifer I. Manuel and Jane Lee

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:28

    Content type: Research

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  7. Medicaid has become the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment and may enhance access to quality care and reduce disparities. We tested whether treatment programs’ acceptance of Medicaid payments wa...

    Authors: Erick G. Guerrero, Bryan R. Garner, Benjamin Cook, Yinfei Kong, William A. Vega and Lillian Gelberg

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:27

    Content type: Research

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  8. Co-occurring severe mental and substance use disorders are associated with physical, psychological and social complications such as homelessness and unemployment. People with severe mental and substance use di...

    Authors: Stéphane Morandi, Benedetta Silva, Philippe Golay and Charles Bonsack

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:26

    Content type: Research

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  9. To test whether there are gender differences in treatment outcomes among patients receiving injectable opioids for the treatment of long-term opioid-dependence. The study additionally explores whether men and ...

    Authors: Heather Palis, Kirsten Marchand, Daphne Guh, Suzanne Brissette, Kurt Lock, Scott MacDonald, Scott Harrison, Aslam H. Anis, Michael Krausz, David C. Marsh, Martin T. Schechter and Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:25

    Content type: Research

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  10. The STTR treatment cascade provides a framework for research aimed at improving the delivery of services, care and outcomes of PLWH. The development of effective approaches to increase HIV diagnoses and engage...

    Authors: Redonna Chandler, Michael S. Gordon, Bridget Kruszka, Lauren N. Strand, Frederick L. Altice, Curt G. Beckwith, Mary L. Biggs, William Cunningham, J.A. Chris Delaney, Patrick M. Flynn, Carol E. Golin, Kevin Knight, Alex H. Kral, Irene Kuo, Jennifer Lorvick, Robin M. Nance…

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:24

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  11. Previous research has found strong associations between adolescents’ hazardous alcohol use and their perception of peer behavior, as well as own spending money and a range of antisocial behaviors. However, the...

    Authors: Camilla Jalling, Tobias H. Elgán, Anders Tengström and Andreas Birgegård

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:23

    Content type: Research

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  12. Opioids can impair psychomotor performance, and driving under the influence of opioids is associated with an increased risk of accidents. The goals of this study were i) to determine the prevalence of opioids ...

    Authors: Inmaculada Fierro, Mónica Colás, Juan Carlos González-Luque and F. Javier Álvarez

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:22

    Content type: Short Report

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  13. Alcohol-related problems at professional sporting events are of increasing concern and alarming reports are often reported in international media. Although alcohol consumption increases the risk for interperso...

    Authors: Charlotte Skoglund, Natalie Durbeej, Tobias H. Elgán and Johanna Gripenberg

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:21

    Content type: Research

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  14. Within alcohol and other drug (AOD) services, staff attitudes and beliefs are important influences determining provision of smoking cessation care. This study of AOD staff aimed to examine: a) current attitude...

    Authors: Eliza Skelton, Flora Tzelepis, Anthony Shakeshaft, Ashleigh Guillaumier, Adrian Dunlop, Sam McCrabb, Kerrin Palazzi and Billie Bonevski

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:20

    Content type: Research

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  15. There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other ...

    Authors: Michael Savic, David Best, Victoria Manning and Dan I. Lubman

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:19

    Content type: Review

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  16. Illicit drug use among university students has been recognized as a global public health issue in recent years. It may lead to poor academic performance that in turn leads to poor productivity in their later l...

    Authors: Siyan Yi, Karl Peltzer, Supa Pengpid and Indri Hapsari Susilowati

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:9

    Content type: Research

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  17. Alcohol use and subsequent consequences are harmful for individual college students. Other students and the university can also be negatively impacted by the consequences of alcohol use.

    Authors: Julie M. Croff, Eleanor Leavens and Kathleen Olson

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:10

    Content type: Research

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  18. Against the background that crystal methamphetamine (colloquially known as “tik”) is extensively used by the emerging working class Coloured youth in Cape Town, South Africa, this exploratory qualitative study...

    Authors: Kwaku Oppong Asante and Antonio G. Lentoor

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:18

    Content type: Research

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  19. Khat is a psycho-stimulant herb, which has been in use in traditional societies in East Africa and the Middle East over many centuries. Although khat is reported to cause various health problems, what constitu...

    Authors: Awoke Mihretu, Solomon Teferra and Abebaw Fekadu

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:17

    Content type: Research

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  20. Sleep disturbance is common and may adversely affect treatment outcome, mental health, and quality of life in heroin-dependent patients.

    Authors: Vincent Chin-Hung Chen, Hua Ting, Meng-Huan Wu, Tsang-Yaw Lin and Michael Gossop

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:16

    Content type: Research

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  21. Needle exchange programs are safe, highly effective programs for promoting health among people who inject drugs. However, they remain poorly funded, and often illegal, in many places worldwide due to fear and ...

    Authors: Kyle Barbour, Miriam McQuade and Brandon Brown

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:15

    Content type: Commentary

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  22. Identifying optimal, post-operative opioid management strategies is a priority of health providers and government agencies. At present, there are no studies we are aware of that have formally investigated opio...

    Authors: Chad E. Cook, Daniel I. Rhon, Brian D. Lewis and Steven Z. George

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:14

    Content type: Research

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  23. People seeking care for substance use (PSCSU) experience deep social and health inequities. Harm reduction can be a moral imperative to approach these persons. The purpose of this study was to explore relation...

    Authors: Rozilaine Redi Lago, Elizabeth Peter and Cláudia Maria Bógus

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:12

    Content type: Research

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  24. Little detailed evidence is available on how integrated policies could impact population health and under what conditions such policies could be realized. The aim of this study was to assess how youth alcohol ...

    Authors: Moniek C. M. de Goeij, Janneke Harting and Anton E. Kunst

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:13

    Content type: Research

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  25. Syndemics of illicit drug use and HIV remain as significant public health issues around the world. There has been increasing concern regarding the rapidly growing market of new psychoactive substances, particu...

    Authors: Kanna Hayashi, Chihiro Wakabayashi, Yuzuru Ikushima and Masayoshi Tarui

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:11

    Content type: Research

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  26. Given the increasing number of lead poisoning in opioids users and since no study has been conducted so far to review lead poisoning in methamphetamine (crystal) users, this study aimed to investigate blood le...

    Authors: Babak Mostafazadeh, Shahin Shadnia, Mohammad Ali Tavakkoli and Hamid Reza Khoddami Vishteh

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:2

    Content type: Research

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  27. Job satisfaction is an important predictor for management and clinical ratios. Although it is accepted that is affected by many aspects, the influence of social capital remains to be determined. The main purpo...

    Authors: Andreas Tsounis, Dimitris Niakas and Pavlos Sarafis

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:8

    Content type: Research

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  29. Cocaine is subject to recreational abuse as a stimulant and psychoactive agent, which poses a major worldwide health problem. The aim of the present study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of publication ...

    Authors: Sa’ed H. Zyoud, W. Stephen Waring, Samah W. Al-Jabi and Waleed M. Sweileh

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:6

    Content type: Research

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  30. Adolescents observe and imitate people to whom they are associated in their social context, and the normative factors sent out by reference groups are crucial determinants of their decision to smoke. The aim o...

    Authors: Francesca Scalici and Peter J. Schulz

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:5

    Content type: Research

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  31. Opioid agonist therapy using methadone, an effective treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD) for people who inject drugs (PWID), is recommended by the World Health Organization as essential to curtail the grow...

    Authors: Bulat Idrisov, Sean M. Murphy, Tyler Morrill, Mayada Saadoun, Karsten Lunze and Donald Shepard

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:4

    Content type: Research

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  33. Opioid use is a significant problem in Alaska. Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use, including buprenorphine, reduces withdrawal symptoms and the harm associated with opioid abuse. Understanding consum...

    Authors: Valerie M. Hewell, Angel R. Vasquez and Inna D. Rivkin

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:3

    Content type: Research

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  34. Celebrities are at risk for premature mortality as well as drug-related death. Despite being a vulnerable patient group, celebrities influence people’s health behaviours through biological, psychological and s...

    Authors: Johannes M. Just, Markus Bleckwenn, Rieke Schnakenberg, Philipp Skatulla and Klaus Weckbecker

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:40

    Content type: Research

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  35. Violence against women is a social and public health issue in Mexico. The aim of this article is to explore violence among an understudied group of women, who attended Mutual-Aid Residential Centers for Addict...

    Authors: Ignacio Lozano-Verduzco, Martha Romero-Mendoza and Rodrigo Marín-Navarrete

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:39

    Content type: Research

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  36. Non-medical prescription opioid (NMPO) use is a substantial public health problem in the United States, with 1.5 million new initiates annually. Only 746,000 people received treatment for NMPO use in 2013, dem...

    Authors: Elliott J. Liebling, Jesse L. Yedinak, Traci C. Green, Scott E. Hadland, Melissa A. Clark and Brandon D. L. Marshall

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:38

    Content type: Research

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  38. Alcohol consumption (AC) has negative social and economic consequences, affects health, and can create dependence. As dependence is particularly difficult to cure, prevention is important. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Cornelia Rada and Alexandru Teodor Ispas

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:36

    Content type: Research

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  39. Doping presents a potential health risk for young athletes. Prevention programs are intended to prevent doping by educating athletes about banned substances. However, such programs have their limitations in pr...

    Authors: Pia-Maria Wippert and Michael Fließer

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:35

    Content type: Short Report

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  40. Illegal drug use has long been a global concern. Taiwan and Korea are geographically adjacent and both countries have experienced the illegal use problems of methamphetamine, a predominant prototype of New Psy...

    Authors: Ling-Yi Feng, Wen-Jing Yu, Wei-Ting Chang, Eunyoung Han, Heesun Chung and Jih-Heng Li

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:34

    Content type: Research

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  41. Prescription opioid (PO) misuse is a major health concern across North America, and it is the primary cause of preventable death for the 18–35 year old demographic. Medication assisted therapy including methad...

    Authors: Joseph K. Eibl, Kristen A. Morin-Taus and David C. Marsh

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:33

    Content type: Commentary

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  42. Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PN) is a topic of increasing importance. Its prevalence rates range from 1 % to more than 20 %. Students are a group that shows exceptionally high prevalence rates. However, l...

    Authors: Andreas G. Franke, Sophie Lehmberg and Michael Soyka

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:32

    Content type: Research

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  43. South Africa continues to witness an increase in illicit poly-substance use, although a precise measurement continues to be compounded by difficulties in accessing users. In a pilot attempt to use respondent-d...

    Authors: Nadine Harker Burnhams, Ria Laubscher, Simon Howell, Mark Shaw, Jodilee Erasmus and Loraine Townsend

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:31

    Content type: Research

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  44. Compulsory drug detention is the most frequent way to control drug use in China; however, it has often been criticized. This qualitative study aimed to investigate abstinence self-efficacy and its sources of d...

    Authors: Yan Zhang, Bing Feng, Wenxiu Geng, Laurence Owens and Juzhe Xi

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:29

    Content type: Research

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  45. A community pharmacy real-time electronic recording program, ProjectSTOP, enables Australian community pharmacists to verify pseudoephedrine requests. In Western Australia the program was available for volunta...

    Authors: Hendrika Laetitia Hattingh, Janki Varsani, Leila Ataei Kachouei and Richard Parsons

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:30

    Content type: Research

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  46. Substance use is associated with numerous undesirable short and long term consequences. The individual not only suffer from physical and psychological problems but also loses the ability to interact with famil...

    Authors: Anju Poudel, Chandrakala Sharma, Sital Gautam and Amrit Poudel

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:28

    Content type: Research

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  47. An influential study from the United States generated considerable discussion and debate. This study documented rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century,...

    Authors: Sameer Imtiaz and Jürgen Rehm

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:27

    Content type: Commentary

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  48. A common alternative treatment for substance abuse is auricular acupuncture. The aim of the study was to evaluate the short and long-term effect of auricular acupuncture on anxiety, sleep, drug use and addicti...

    Authors: Rickard Ahlberg, Kurt Skårberg, Ole Brus and Lars Kjellin

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:24

    Content type: Research

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  49. In recent years, research within the field of health psychology has made significant progress in terms of advancing and standardizing the science of developing, evaluating and reporting complex behavioral chan...

    Authors: Stephanie Dugdale, Jonathan Ward, Jan Hernen, Sarah Elison, Glyn Davies and Daniel Donkor

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:26

    Content type: Research

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  50. The involvement of service users in health care provision in general, and specifically in substance use disorder treatment, is of growing importance. This paper explores the views of patients in a therapeutic ...

    Authors: Paula Cristina Gomes Alves, Célia Maria Dias Sales and Mark Ashworth

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:25

    Content type: Short Report

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