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Integrating basic research with prevention/intervention to reduce risky substance use among college students [PDF]
, 2015 Too often basic research on etiological processes that contribute to substance use outcomes is disconnected from efforts to develop prevention and intervention programming.
Dick, Danielle, Hancock, Linda C.
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2017 Background The distribution of take-home naloxone (THN) kits has been an important strategy in reducing overdose fatalities among people who use drugs. However, little is known about the use of THN among youth who are street-involved.
Julia Goldman-Hasbun +5 more
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Interpersonal relationships and drug use over time among homeless people: a qualitative study
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Homelessness is one of the most severe forms of social exclusion and is an important public health issue. It is characterized by processes of weakening of interpersonal bonds.
Marília Ignácio de Espíndola +3 more
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HIV-related risk among justice-involved young African American women in the U.S. South
Health & Justice, 2023 Incarceration rates have increased exponentially among women, and racial disparities in justice involvement persist. Coupled with disparities in HIV in the US South that begin early in the life course, it is important to explicate the relationship ...
Felicia A. Browne +3 more
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The Evolution of Substance Use Coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The media's representation of illicit substance use can lead to harmful stereotypes and stigmatization for individuals struggling with addiction, ultimately influencing public perception, policy, and public health outcomes. To explore how the discourse and coverage of illicit drug use changed over time, this study analyzes 157,476 articles published in
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Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla +9 more
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Disordered social media use and risky drinking in young adults:Differential associations with addiction-linked traits [PDF]
, 2018 Background Excessive or compulsive use of social media has been likened to an addiction, similar to other behavioural addictions such as pathological gambling or Internet addiction.
Lyvers, Michael +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Disparities in the prevalence of HIV persist in the southern United States, and young African American women have a disproportionate burden of HIV as compared with young women of other racial/ethnic backgrounds.
Felicia A. Browne +7 more
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The neurobiology of impulsivity and substance use disorders: implications for treatment
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2018 Impulsivity is strongly associated with substance use disorders (SUDs). Our review discusses impulsivity as an underlying vulnerability marker for SUDs, and treatment of co‐occurring impulsivity in SUDs. Three factors should be considered for the complex
K. Kozak +5 more
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae amino acid transporter Lyp1 has a broad substrate spectrum
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yeast Amino acid Transporter family members mediate the import of amino acids, ranging from substrate specialists to generalists. Here, we show that the specialist transporter, Lyp1, has a broader substrate spectrum than previously described, with affinity constants spanning from micromolar to millimolar.
Foteini Karapanagioti +3 more
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