This briefing provides a short overview of the control of cannabis in the UK, and information about the recently announced review on the medical use of cannabis.
Public Health England (PHE) has published an update to Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE).
The LAPE interactive tool presents a range of alcohol-related indicators and allows users to view and analyse data in a user-friendly format.
This release includes an update of the alcohol-related cancer and alcohol-related road traffic accident indicators.
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Adults with serious mental illness and comorbid alcohol dependence are at high risk for both high utilization of crisis-driven health care services and criminal justice involvement. Evidence-based medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for alcohol dependence may reduce both crisis service utilization and criminal recidivism. The authors estimated the effect of MAT on behavioral health treatment utilization and criminal justice outcomes for this population.. Login at top right hand side of page using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP (legacy account)- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Open access. Review evidence for cannabinoids as adjunctive treatments for treatment-resistant epilepsy. Systematic search of Medline, Embase and PsycINFO was conducted in October 2017. Outcomes were: 50%+ seizure reduction, complete seizure freedom; improved quality of life (QoL). Tolerability/safety were assessed by study withdrawals, adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).
Open access. Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in early childhood was associated with smoking and alcohol uptake before adolescence.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have been overlooked in tobacco use research although they are likely to experience tobacco‐related health disparities. This study examined tobacco product use and smoking frequency and amount among a sample of US Special Olympics athletes with IDD.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
We summarise the evidence for an association between screening scores from the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and all-cause mortality.
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Objectives To examine whether young peoples’ risk of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use is associated with school substance-misuse policy.
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The recovery agenda coupled with a moving of the alcohol and drug budget to local authority has diminished the amount of money provided to service provision. This has been a national picture, with GP-led shared care being the victim of the financial cuts in this area. This paper argues that this is a policy that really should be challenged, as the NHS is diminishing in the field of addictions and is affecting the quality of services provided. Valuable work will be lost for good, such as flexible and effective alcohol detoxifications that enable patients to achieve abstinence from alcohol. This primary care service is important to patients, and alcohol community detoxifications being lost is an example of what is being sacrificed unless professionals recognise that this policy shift has resulted in an overall poorer service and needs to be challenged.
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Nurses and health care assistants are often first on the scene when inmates need emergency care, and under current guidance, they are expected to enter cells before the smoke has cleared. RCN members report suffering the effects of inhaling the drug for hours following exposure, with some unable to drive home after their shifts.
Researchers at the University of York have shown that there has been a 118% rise in those aged over 40 presenting to specialist drug treatment services citing cannabis as their primary health concern.
We are holding a public evidence gathering day on drug-related harms in homeless populations as part of a commission from government to report on vulnerable people and drug misuse.
The main finding was that the number of over-40s seeking treatment had more than doubled over the past 10 years for cannabis-related problems – rising from 471 to 1,008 – and from 27,092 to 64,195 for treatment for any drug.
The majority of people accessing services are still male, but there has been a large increase in the number of women attending.
However, it's worth noting that the vast majority of cannabis users will never present to services for help, so it's difficult to tell how representative these figures are of the wider UK population.
What are the latest drug market trends and what are the factors driving them? What drugs are causing the most concern today? What are the most recent developments in drug prevention, treatment and policy? These, and other, questions will be explored by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) on 7 June in its annual overview of the European drug situation
Previous research has found that area-level income inequality and individual-level relative deprivation both contribute to disordered gambling in adults. However, the socioeconomic factors that contribute to disordered gambling in youths and protective factors in their social environment have not been fully explored. This study examined the association between relative deprivation and youth disordered gambling and the potential moderating role of social support in this association.
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We estimated sexual‐orientation differences in alcohol use trajectories during emerging adulthood, and tested whether alcohol use trajectories mediated sexual‐orientation differences in alcohol use disorders (AUDs).. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai