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Pictorial warning labels as deterrents of alcohol abuse [PDF]

open access: bronzeBritish Food Journal, 2021
PurposeThe purpose of this research is to demonstrate the effectiveness of pictorial warning labels that leverage the risk of obesity as a deterrent against alcohol abuse. It evaluates the impact of three different kinds of warning labels that can potentially discourage alcoholic drinking: (1) a claim, in text format, that cautions consumers about the ...
Luigi Piper   +3 more
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3D printed opioid medicines with alcohol-resistant and abuse-deterrent properties [PDF]

open access: greenInternational Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020
In the past decade, prescriptions for opioid medicines have been exponentially increasing, instigating opioid abuse as a global health crisis associated with high morbidity and mortality. In particular, diversion from the intended mode of opioid administration, such as injecting and snorting the opioid, is a major problem that contributes to this ...
Jun Jie Ong   +6 more
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Investigating Whether Bereavement by Suicide and Other Unnatural Causes Has a Deterrent Effect on Alcohol or Drug Use in Young Adults [PDF]

open access: goldInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Bereavement by suicide and other unnatural causes is associated with suicide but evidence regarding risk of substance misuse is inconsistent. This may be due to heterogeneity in patterns of alcohol or drug use after traumatic bereavement; some increasing use to cope with the loss and others reducing use.
Alexandra Pitman   +2 more
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Treating alcohol dependence with an abuse and misuse deterrent formulation of sodium oxybate: Results of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

open access: hybridEuropean Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021
Sodium oxybate (SMO) has been approved in Italy and Austria for the maintenance of abstinence in alcohol dependent (AD) patients. Although SMO is well tolerated in AD patients, cases of abuse and misuse have been reported outside the therapeutic setting.
Julien Guiraud   +16 more
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Repurposing the alcohol-deterrent drug Disulfiram for the radiotherapy of glioblastoma using an in vitro model of fractionated γ-radiation

open access: green, 2020
Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common primary brain tumor in adults. It is also one of the most lethal and devastating malignancy with a median patient survival of 14 months despite surgical resection and radiochemotherapy. Recent data has suggested that radiotherapy may trigger treatment resistance by promoting the diffuse invasive phenotype of GB ...
Sebastien Stroh
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Follow‐up of 180 Alcoholic Patients for up to 7 Years After Outpatient Treatment: Impact of Alcohol Deterrents on Outcome

open access: closedAlcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2006
Objective: (1) To perform a 9‐year study of abstinence, lapse, and relapse in 180 chronic alcoholic patients, participants of the Outpatient Longterm Intensive Therapy for Alcoholics (OLITA); (2) To investigate the role of supervised alcohol deterrents (AD) in relapse prevention and as an adjunct for maintenance of long‐term abstinence.Method: This ...
Henning Krampe   +7 more
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Alcohol and Drug Use During Adolescence: Problems and Solutions that Youth Professionals Need to Know

open access: yesEDIS, 2005
Adolescents use and abuse of a variety of substances is an increasingly common concern for Extension agents. Youth professionals must be made aware of this problem and anticipate how the teens and their families they work with may be affected.
Kate Fogarty, Mark A. Brennan
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Alcohol Use Disorders: Implications for the Clinical Toxicologist [PDF]

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2015
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a health problem of high prevalence in most communities and such problems account for 5% of the total burden of disease worldwide.
Michael McDonough
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Potential risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and associated sociodemographic characteristics: A cross-sectional evaluation of a large cohort of women living with HIV in north-central Nigeria.

open access: yesPLOS Global Public Health, 2023
Males have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors such as alcohol use, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, obesity, and smoking based on limited data available from two tertiary health centers in Nigeria.
Olufemi Ajumobi   +4 more
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