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Daily‐Life, Sensor‐Derived Tremor Measures Are Sensitive to Progression in Early Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Sensitive outcome measures are critical for evaluating the efficacy of novel treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we assess the sensitivity to change of sensor‐derived daily‐life tremor measures over 2 years in unmedicated and medicated persons with early PD.
Nienke A. Timmermans   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Drug Policy

2022
There are important gender differences in the use, experience, and consequences of substance use. Accordingly, drug policies formulated to address problems related to substance use often either implicitly or explicitly contain gendered assumptions about drugs and their effects and harms, and when implemented these policies have gendered impacts – that ...
Natalie Thomas, Jennifer Juckel
openaire   +3 more sources

Drug Policy in Slovakia

Value in Health Regional Issues, 2017
Slovak law sets clear rules and timelines in the process of approving the price and reimbursement of drugs. During the last decade, the Ministry of Health adopted several cost-containment measures in the price and reimbursement policy. The most effective measures were the implementation of the external referencing of drug prices in 2008 and the ...
Maria, Bucek Psenkova   +3 more
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Drug Policy in Bulgaria

Value in Health Regional Issues, 2017
Bulgaria has a mixed public-private health care financing system. Health care is financed mainly from compulsory health insurance contributions and out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments constitute a large share of the total health care expenditure (44.14% in 2014).
Antoniya, Dimova   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Drugs and Drug Policy

2011
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and ...
Mark A.R. Kleiman   +2 more
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Drug Policy: An Oxymoron?

HealthcarePapers, 2002
The use of the words "drug" and "policy" together highlights some of the inconsistencies and ironies in healthcare delivery in Canada. Not that the legislators and the government mandarins don't try to create and implement policy, but events (and the pharmaceutical industry) are always one step ahead so the policy-makers find themselves in the role of "
openaire   +2 more sources

The need for dynamic drug policy

Addiction, 2006
Drug use in a population varies dramatically over time in no small measure due to nonlinear feedback among factors endogenous to the drug system. This suggests that drug policy ought likewise to be dynamic, varying the mix of strategies over time as drug use waxes and wanes. A growing literature that models drug “epidemics” mathematically supports this
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Drug Policy

Abstract This chapter provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how substances and the people that use them were criminalized over time and the current efforts to reverse that trend. It begins with an overview of the outcomes of the prohibition-based model.
Amanda V. Chen, Stephanie Tabashneck
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