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The Independent: "Smoked out: tobacco giant's war on science"
| Date added: | 11/12/2011 |
| Date modified: | 01/28/2013 |
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Author: Steve Connor (The Independent)
Research by Sterling University into young people and smoking is being demanded by tobacco company Philip Morris under UK 'Freedom of Information' legislation.
Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence and attributable burden of disease in Europe
| Date added: | 05/10/2012 |
| Date modified: | 01/28/2013 |
| Filesize: | 4.35 MB |
| Downloads: | 2914 |
Authors: Jürgen Rehm, Kevin D. Shield, Maximilien X. Rehm, Gerrit Gmel and Ulrich Frick (CAMH)
This report provides a timely and comprehensive review of the relationship between alcohol consumption and harm in Europe. While European alcohol strategies have typically focused on reducing alcohol misuse through controls on availability, marketing and price, and drunk‐driving countermeasures, this report highlights the considerable potential to reduce alcohol‐related harm through wider implementation of individually directed interventions for people with alcohol dependence. There is now a considerable evidence base which supports the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of brief interventions, and a range of specialist treatment for people with alcohol use disorders. However, this report highlights the current gap between evidence and practice. Less than 10% of people with alcohol dependence receive treatment in Europe; and yet alcohol dependence accounts for a substantial proportion of all harm associated with alcohol.
Effectiveness of a Selective, Personality-Targeted Prevention Program for Adolescent Alcohol Use
| Date added: | 01/29/2013 |
| Date modified: | 01/29/2013 |
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Authors: Patricia J. Conrod, Maeve O’Leary-Barrett, Nicola Newton, Lauren Topper, Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, Clare Mackie, Alain Girard.
Selective school-based alcohol prevention programs targeting youth with personality risk factors for addiction and mental health problems have been found to reduce substance use and misuse in those with elevated personality profiles.
The findings of this article further support the personality-targeted approach to alcohol prevention and its effectiveness when provided by trained school staff. Particularly novel are the findings of some mild herd effects that result from this selective prevention program.
The Dangerous Professor: Interview with David Nutt (2014)
| Date added: | 02/03/2014 |
| Date modified: | 02/03/2014 |
| Filesize: | 600.28 kB |
| Downloads: | 2794 |
Feature in Science Magazine on David Nutt - reducing alcohol-related harm through sound politics, evidence-based policy and the potential of a synthetic substitute for alcohol.
Public Health, Academic Medicine, and alcohol industry's corporate social responsibility activities
| Date added: | 01/22/2013 |
| Date modified: | 01/29/2013 |
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Authors: TF Babor and K Robaina (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
In this article the emerging relationships are explored among the alcohol industry, academic medicine, and the public health community in the context of public health theory dealing with corporate social responsibility. To the extent that the scientific evidence supports the reduction of alcohol consumption through regulatory and legal measures, the academic community has come into increasing conflict with the views of the alcohol industry. It was concluded that the alcohol industry has intensified its scientific and policy-related activities under the general framework of corporate social responsibility initiatives, most of which can be described as instrumental to the industry's economic interests.