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  1. Patients’ unhealthy alcohol use is often undetected in primary care. Our objective was to examine whether physicians’ attitudes and their perceived self-efficacy for screening and counseling patients is associ...

    Authors: A Rani Elwy, Nicholas J Horton and Richard Saitz

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:17

    Content type: Research

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  2. The Housing First Model (HFM) is an approach to serving formerly homeless individuals with dually diagnosed mental health and substance use disorders regardless of their choice to use substances or engage in o...

    Authors: Dennis P Watson, John Orwat, Dana E Wagner, Valery Shuman and Randi Tolliver

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:16

    Content type: Research

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  3. This exploratory trial examines the feasibility of implementing a social norms marketing campaign to reduce student drinking in universities in Wales, and evaluating it using cluster randomised trial methodology.

    Authors: Graham F Moore, Annie Williams, Laurence Moore and Simon Murphy

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:15

    Content type: Research

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  4. Motivation to change has been proposed as a prerequisite for behavioral change, although empirical results are contradictory. Traumatic experiences are frequently found amongst patients in alcohol treatment, b...

    Authors: Michael Odenwald and Peter Semrau

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:14

    Content type: Research

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  5. Quitting smoking improves health and drug use outcomes among people in treatment for substance abuse. The twofold purpose of this study is to describe tobacco treatment provision across a representative sample...

    Authors: A Paula Cupertino, Jamie J Hunt, Byron J Gajewski, Yu Jiang, Janet Marquis, Peter D Friedmann, Kimberly K Engelman and Kimber P Richter

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:13

    Content type: Research

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  6. Over-indebtedness is an increasing phenomenon in industrialised nations causing individual hardship and societal problems. Nonetheless, few studies have explored smoking among over-indebted individuals.

    Authors: Heiko Rueger, Heide Weishaar, Elke B Ochsmann, Stephan Letzel and Eva Muenster

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:12

    Content type: Research

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  7. The purpose of this study was to investigate which factors affected the implementation of a multicomponent Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) program in 290 Swedish municipalities and whether the amount of suc...

    Authors: Björn Trolldal, Ulrika Haggård and Karin Guldbrandsson

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:11

    Content type: Research

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  8. This study examines whether alcohol-related hospitalization predicts survey non-response, and evaluates whether this missing data result in biased estimates of the prevalence of hazardous alcohol use and absti...

    Authors: Kozma Ahacic, Ingemar Kåreholt, Asgeir R Helgason and Peter Allebeck

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:10

    Content type: Research

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  9. Although screening and brief intervention (SBI) are effective in reducing unhealthy alcohol use, major challenges exist in implementing clinician-delivered SBI in primary care settings. This 2006–2007 pilot st...

    Authors: James Aaron Johnson, James Paul Seale, Sylvia Shellenberger, Maribeth Hamrick and Robert Lott

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:9

    Content type: Research

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  10. To date, all investigations on the relationship between smoking and perceived level of meaning in life have used cross-sectional designs. Therefore, the purpose of the present prospective study, conducted with...

    Authors: Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Róbert Urbán and Mária S Kopp

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:8

    Content type: Research

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  11. Non-medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and prescription opioid (PO) related harms have become major substance use and public health problems in North America, the region with the world’s highest PO use le...

    Authors: Benedikt Fischer, Anca Ialomiteanu, Paul Kurdyak, Robert E Mann and Jürgen Rehm

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:7

    Content type: Short Report

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  12. The increasing focus on achieving a sustained recovery from substance use brings with it a need to better understand the factors (recovery capital) that contribute to recovery following treatment. This work ex...

    Authors: Paul Duffy and Helen Baldwin

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:6

    Content type: Research

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  13. Numerous studies have documented a profound reduction in alcohol use among pregnant women, whereas research on expectant fathers has been scarce. The aim of this study was to measure changes in alcohol consump...

    Authors: Sonja Mellingen, Torbjørn Torsheim and Frode Thuen

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:5

    Content type: Research

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  14. The literature has been mixed regarding how parent–child relationships are affected by the acculturation process and how this process relates to alcohol use among Latino youth. The mixed results may be due to,...

    Authors: Ronald B Cox Jr, Martha Zapata Roblyer, Michael J Merten, Karina M Shreffler and Kami L Schwerdtfeger

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:4

    Content type: Research

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  15. The main objective of our study was to assess the impact of a board game on smoking status and smoking-related variables in current smokers. To accomplish this objective, we conducted a randomized controlled t...

    Authors: Yasser Khazaal, Anne Chatton, Roberto Prezzemolo, Fadi Zebouni, Yves Edel, Johan Jacquet, Ornella Ruggeri, Emilie Burnens, Grégoire Monney, Anne-Sylvie Protti, Jean-François Etter, Riaz Khan, Jacques Cornuz and Daniele Zullino

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:3

    Content type: Research

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  16. Data on mental health among injecting drug users in South Asia is scarce yet poor mental health among users has significant implications for the success of HIV prevention and treatment programmes. A cohort of ...

    Authors: Enisha Sarin, Basant Singh, Luke Samson and Michael Sweat

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:2

    Content type: Research

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  17. Insecure early attachment experiences have been reported to play an important role in the manifestation in alcoholism. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of attachment styles with an...

    Authors: Dirk Wedekind, Borwin Bandelow, Soren Heitmann, Ursula Havemann-Reinecke, Kirsten R Engel and Gerald Huether

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2013 8:1

    Content type: Research

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  18. The prevalence of maternal drug use during pregnancy in North America has been estimated to be as high as 6-10%. The consequences for the newborn include increased risk for perinatal mortality and ongoing phys...

    Authors: Patricia A Janssen, Louise C Demorest, Anne Kelly, Paul Thiessen and Ron Abrahams

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:48

    Content type: Research

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  19. Health policies and programs are increasingly being driven by people from the community to more effectively address their needs. While a large body of evidence supports peer engagement in the context of policy...

    Authors: Lianping Ti, Despina Tzemis and Jane A Buxton

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:47

    Content type: Review

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  20. HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are strongly related to injection drug use in the Republic of Georgia. Little information is available about HIV and HCV status, sexual risk, support for their partne...

    Authors: Ingunn O Lund, Irma Kirtadze, David Otiashvili, Kevin E O’Grady and Hendrée E Jones

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:46

    Content type: Research

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  21. Cognitive deficits and multiple psychoactive drug regimens are both common in patients treated for opioid-dependence. Therefore, we examined whether the cognitive performance of patients in opioid-substitution...

    Authors: Pekka Rapeli, Carola Fabritius, Hely Kalska and Hannu Alho

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:45

    Content type: Research

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  22. Methamphetamine (METH) use, especially in females, has become a growing public health concern in China. In this study, we aimed to characterize the factors that contributed to drug craving in female METH users...

    Authors: Wenwen Shen, Yu Liu, Longhui Li, Yisheng Zhang and Wenhua Zhou

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:44

    Content type: Research

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  23. Research on substance abuse treatment services in general reflects substantial attention to the notion of treatment process. Despite the growing popularity of process studies, only a few researchers have used ...

    Authors: Ilse Goethals, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Stijn Vandevelde and Eric Broekaert

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:43

    Content type: Research

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  24. Alcohol problems are a major health issue in Nepal and remain under diagnosed. Increase in consumption are due to many factors, including advertising, pricing and availability, but accurate information is lack...

    Authors: Bickram Pradhan, François Chappuis, Dharanidhar Baral, Prahlad Karki, Suman Rijal, Antoine Hadengue and Pascal Gache

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:42

    Content type: Research

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  25. Responsible beverage service (RBS) training designed to improve the appropriate service of alcohol in commercial establishments is typically delivered in workshops. Recently, Web-based RBS training programs ha...

    Authors: Brian G Danaher, Jack Dresser, Tracy Shaw, Herbert H Severson, Milagra S Tyler, Elisabeth D Maxwell and Steve M Christiansen

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:41

    Content type: Methodology

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  26. Many studies reported that brief interventions are effective in reducing excessive drinking. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of a protocol of brief intervention for college students (BASICS), delivered...

    Authors: Alexandre Fachini, Poliana P Aliane, Edson Z Martinez and Erikson F Furtado

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:40

    Content type: Research

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  27. Perception of neighborhood social environment can influence an individual’s susceptibility to drug dependence. However, this has never been examined with a jailed sample, where frequent transitions between loc...

    Authors: Jessica D Rogers, Megha Ramaswamy, Chin-I Cheng, Kimber Richter and Patricia J Kelly

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:39

    Content type: Research

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  28. The aim of the present study was to investigate epidemiological data about cigarette smoking in relation with risk and preventive factors among Greek adolescents.

    Authors: Dionisios G Spyratos, Despoina T Pelagidou, Diamantis Chloros, Anna-Bettina Haidich, Eleni Karetsi, Christina Koubaniou, Stavros Konstantopoulos, Konstantinos Gourgoulianis and Lazaros T Sichletidis

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:38

    Content type: Research

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  30. Sweden has had a restrictive alcohol policy, but there are gender and geographical differences in alcohol consumption and injury rates within the country. Whether and how the Swedish alcohol environment influe...

    Authors: Richard A Dale, Marie Hasselberg, Max Petzold and Gunnel Hensing

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:36

    Content type: Research

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  31. Adaptations to evidence-based substance abuse treatment programs may impact their effectiveness. A qualitative study of MET/CBT-5 implementation in community agencies treating adolescents found that the majori...

    Authors: Katherine J Riley, Priya Srikanth, Dongseok Choi and Dennis McCarty

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:35

    Content type: Research

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  32. Increasing evidence suggests that culturally and linguistically responsive programs may improve substance abuse treatment outcomes among Latinos. However, little is known about whether individual practices or ...

    Authors: Erick G Guerrero, Michael Campos, Darren Urada and Joy C Yang

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:34

    Content type: Short Report

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  33. High risk drinking is linked with high rates of physical harm. The reported incidence of alcohol - related trauma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory is the highest in ...

    Authors: Rama Jayaraj, Mahiban Thomas, Valerie Thomson, Carolyn Griffin, Luke Mayo, Megan Whitty, Peter d’Abbs and Tricia Nagel

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:33

    Content type: Review

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  34. Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) is one of the popular choices for drug substitution therapy and is fairly new in Malaysia. Aside from its role in harm reduction against HIV infection, MMT programme may pot...

    Authors: Nizam Baharom, Mohd Rohaizat Hassan, Norsiah Ali and Shamsul Azhar Shah

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:32

    Content type: Research

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  35. General practitioners (GPs) and nurses are ideally placed to address the significant unmet demand for the treatment of cannabis-related problems given the numbers of people who regularly seek their care. The a...

    Authors: Melissa M Norberg, Peter Gates, Paul Dillon, David J Kavanagh, Ramesh Manocha and Jan Copeland

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:31

    Content type: Research

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  36. Research suggests that ACEs have a long-term impact on the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive development of children. These disruptions can lead to adoption of unhealthy coping behaviors throughout the life...

    Authors: Tara W Strine, Valerie J Edwards, Shanta R Dube, Morton Wagenfeld, Satvinder Dhingra, Angela Witt Prehn, Sandra Rasmussen, Lela McKnight-Eily and Janet B Croft

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:30

    Content type: Research

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  37. The literature indicates that peer relations are an important aspect of the treatment and recovery of adolescents with substance use disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, no standard measure of peer relations exists....

    Authors: Ping Yao, James R Ciesla, Kathryn D Mazurek and Sherilynn F Spear

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:29

    Content type: Research

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  38. Raising prices through taxation on tobacco and alcohol products is a common strategy to raise revenues and reduce consumption. However, taxation policies are product specific, focusing either on alcohol or tob...

    Authors: Deborah L McLellan, Dominic Hodgkin, Pebbles Fagan, Sharon Reif and Constance M Horgan

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:28

    Content type: Research

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  39. Among military personnel alcohol consumption and binge-drinking have increased but cigarette smoking has declined in the recent past. Although there is a strong association between smoking and PTSD the associa...

    Authors: Varuni Asanka de Silva, Nicholas ELW Jayasekera and Raveen Hanwella

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:27

    Content type: Research

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  40. We pursue two primary goals in this article: (1) to test a methodology and develop a dataset on U.S. local-level alcohol policy ordinances, and (2) to evaluate the presence, comprehensiveness, and stringency o...

    Authors: Sue Thomas, Mallie J Paschall, Joel W Grube, Carol Cannon and Ryan Treffers

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:26

    Content type: Research

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  41. Information on the impact of available interventions that address adolescent substance use and delinquency can inform investment choices. This article aims to identify and evaluate early interventions that tar...

    Authors: Tara Carney and Bronwyn Myers

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:25

    Content type: Review

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  42. Alcohol misuse is more prevalent among military populations. Association between PTSD and heavy drinking have been reported in many studies. Most of the studies on alcohol use among military personnel are from...

    Authors: Raveen Hanwella, Varuni Asanka de Silva and Nicholas E L W Jayasekera

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:24

    Content type: Research

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  43. Children from substance-affected families show an elevated risk for developing own substance-related or other mental disorders. Therefore, they are an important target group for preventive efforts. So far, suc...

    Authors: Sonja Bröning, Karol Kumpfer, Katja Kruse, Peter-Michael Sack, Ines Schaunig-Busch, Sylvia Ruths, Diana Moesgen, Ellen Pflug, Michael Klein and Rainer Thomasius

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:23

    Content type: Review

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  44. In South Africa, district social service offices are often the first point of entry into the substance abuse treatment system. Despite this, little is known about the profile of people presenting with substanc...

    Authors: Nadine Harker Burnhams, Siphokazi Dada and Bronwyn Myers

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:22

    Content type: Research

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  45. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of perceived stress, depressive symptoms and religiosity with frequent alcohol consumption and problem drinking among freshmen university students from ...

    Authors: Rene Sebena, Walid El Ansari, Christiane Stock, Olga Orosova and Rafael T Mikolajczyk

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:21

    Content type: Research

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  46. To date, no study on smoking behavior of medical students in Inner Mongolia has been reported. The aim of the present study was to determine the 1-month prevalence of and factors associated with daily smoking ...

    Authors: Jiang Bian, Maolin Du, Zhiyue Liu, Yancun Fan, Yuki Eshita and Juan Sun

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:20

    Content type: Research

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  47. There is significant interest in the value of motivational approaches that enhance participant readiness to change, but less is known about clients’ self-reports of problematic behavior when participating in s...

    Authors: David B Rosengren, Blair Beadnell, Mark Nason, Pamela A Stafford and Ray Daugherty

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:19

    Content type: Research

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  48. Football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports in the world, including Europe. It is associated with important betting activities. A common belief, widely spread among those who participate in gambling ac...

    Authors: Yasser Khazaal, Anne Chatton, Joël Billieux, Lucio Bizzini, Grégoire Monney, Emmanuelle Fresard, Gabriel Thorens, Guido Bondolfi, Nady El-Guebaly, Daniele Zullino and Riaz Khan

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:18

    Content type: Short Report

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  49. Cognitive factors associated with drinking behavior such as positive alcohol expectancies, self-efficacy, perception of impaired control over drinking and perception of drinking problems are considered to have...

    Authors: Toru Sawayama, Junichi Yoneda, Katsutoshi Tanaka, Norihito Shirakawa, Enami Sawayama, Taichiro Ikeda, Susumu Higuchi and Hitoshi Miyaoka

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:17

    Content type: Research

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  50. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) aims to provide affordable health insurance and expanded health care coverage for some 32 million Americans. The PPACA makes provisions for using technolo...

    Authors: Todd Molfenter, Victor A Capoccia, Michael G Boyle and Carol K Sherbeck

    Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012 7:16

    Content type: Short Report

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