Ending Sales of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies Journal of the American Medical Association
The new emphasis on restricting availability and reinforcing the social unacceptability of smoking casts a harsh light on pharmacies’ sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products...
Heroin or Conventional Opioid Maintenance? The Patients' Perspective Journal of Addiction Medicine (free ASAM member resource) This region-wide anonymous survey of patients in an opioid maintenance program in Berlin, Germany, focused on the question whether patients with conventional opioid maintenance treatment would prefer a switch to heroin maintenance treatment...
Behavioral Health Barometer, 2013 SAMHSA This report presents a set of substance use and mental health indicators from population and treatment facility-based data sets. It provides point-in-time and trend data reflecting the status and progress in improving key behavioral health indicators.
Physicians Face New Requirements to Stay Certified Wall Street Journal Doctors are facing new requirements to keep up-to-date in their knowledge and care for patients in order to stay certified by medical boards. The new requirements, called maintenance of certification, are controversial among some physicians. But they reflect growing evidence that doctors, who are now recertified every 10 years...
Call for Papers: Spring 2014 Issue of The Journal of Global Drug Policy Journal of Global Drug Policy The Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice, http://www.globaldrugpolicy.org/, is an international peer-reviewed journal with the goal of bridging the information gap on drug policy issues between the medical-scientific community, policymakers, practitioners, and the lay public.
Call for Abstracts: International Society of Addiction Medicine International Society of Addiction Medicine The annual meeting for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) will be held October 2 through 6, 2014, in Yokohama, Japan. ISAM has opened registration as well as the call for abstracts on their website. Abstracts will be due April 30.
Medication for Alcohol Use Disorder: Which Agents Work Best? Current Psychiatry Historically, alcohol use disorder (AUD) has been treated with psychosocial therapies, but many patients treated this way relapse into heavy drinking patterns and are unable to sustain sobriety. Although vital for treating AUD, psychosocial methods have, to date, a modest success rate.
Neonatal Outcomes and Maternal Buprenorphine Dose During Pregnancy Drug and Alcohol Dependence Buprenorphine pharmacotherapy for opioid-dependent pregnant women is associated with maternal and neonatal outcomes superior to untreated opioid dependence.
Gender Differences in Addiction: Implications for Women's Addiction Treatment ASAM The Opening Scientific Plenary at ASAM’s Med-Sci Conference will discuss gender differences in the current prevalence of and risk factors for substance use disorders and treatment services delivery. Shelly Greenfield, MD, MPH, will deliver this address and will receive the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award at the conference.
Brazilian Tribe Plagued by Alcoholism and Depression The Guardian The Guarani community, whose total population in Brazil is estimated at 46,000, has been trying to recover a small portion of their original territories, but face violent resistance from wealthy ranchers as well as soya and sugar cane plantation owners.
Malignant Self-Regard: Accounting for Commonalities in Personality Disorders Comprehensive Psychiatry Several personality disorders have been of interest in clinical literature, yet failed to have been adequately represented in diagnostic manuals. Some of these are masochistic, self-defeating, depressive, and narcissistic personality disorders. The theoretical and empirical relationships among these disorders are reviewed.
Top 4 Issues Medical Associations Will Take to State Legislatures in 2014 Medical Practice Insider As state lawmakers prepare for this year’s legislative sessions, about 200 medical association leaders last week discussed strategies for advancing medicine’s top legislative and regulatory priorities in 2014. Four issues came out at the top of the list.
Molecular Control of δ-opioid Receptor Signaling Opioids represent widely prescribed and abused medications, although their signal transduction mechanisms are not well understood. Presented here is the 1.8Å high-resolution crystal structure of the human δ-opioid receptor (δ-OR), revealing the presence and fundamental role of a sodium ion in mediating allosteric control of receptor functional...
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