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Aims To stimulate debate by examining ethical issues raised by Project Prevention, a US‐based organization that offers $US300 to addicted individuals who agree to either undergo surgical sterilization or use long‐acting forms of contraception.
Method An analysis of key ethical questions raised by Project Prevention.
Results The important issues for debate are: (i) what are the reproductive rights...
Objective: To examine cancer mortality in a population‐based cohort of opioid‐dependent persons.
Methods: New South Wales opioid substitution therapy (OST) program registrants from 1985 to 2005 (n=43,789) were probabilistically linked to the National Death Index. Crude and standardised mortality rates and standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated.
Results:...
Aims To describe the prevalence, phenomenology and correlates of ‘impulse control disorders’ (ICDs) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) treated with dopamine replacement therapy (DRT); to assess the strength of the evidence that DRT plays a contributory causal role in these disorders; and to highlight the implications of these disorders for research in the addiction field.
Methods PubMed and...
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