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AimsTo review three key and controversial comorbidities of cannabis use—other illicit drug use, psychosis and depression, as well as suicide, from a genetically informed perspective.
DesignSelective review.
ResultsGenetic factors play a critical role in the association between cannabis use, particularly early‐onset use and use of other illicit drugs, psychosis and depression, as well as suicide,...
Background and aimsThere is a need for more evidence on the ‘real‐world’ effectiveness of commonly used aids to smoking cessation from population‐level studies. This study assessed the association between abstinence and use of different smoking cessation treatments after adjusting for key potential confounding factors.
DesignCross‐sectional data from aggregated monthly waves of a household survey:...
Background and AimsTo review published studies on the effectiveness of combining cognitive‐behavioural therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI) to treat comorbid clinical and subclinical alcohol use disorder (AUD) and major depression (MDD) and estimate the effect of this compared with usual care.
MethodsWe conducted systematic literature searches in PubMed, PsycINFO and Embase up to June...
AimsTo examine relationships between characteristics of the local alcohol environment and adolescent alcohol use and beliefs in 50 California cities.
DesignThe study used longitudinal survey data collected from adolescents; city‐level measures of local alcohol policy comprehensiveness, policy enforcement, adult drinking and bar density; and multi‐level modeling with three levels (city, individual,...
Background and aimsElectronic cigarettes (EC) may have a potential for public health benefit as a safer alternative to smoking, but questions have been raised about whether EC should be licensed as a medicine, with accurate labelling of nicotine content. This study determined the nicotine content of the cartridges of the most popular EC brands in the United Kingdom and the nicotine levels they deliver...
AimTo determine if reduced fetal growth in infants of opioid‐dependent mothers prescribed methadone maintenance in pregnancy is explained by cigarette smoking or socio‐economic deprivation.
DesignRetrospective cohort study.
SettingInner‐city maternity unit in Scotland.
ParticipantsA total of 366 singleton infants of methadone‐prescribed opioid‐dependent mothers compared with the Scottish birth...
AimsQuantifying illicit drug loads through wastewater analysis (WWA) is an alternative approach to estimating population drug use. This study investigated the variability of daily drug loads in wastewater and their relationships to environmental factors over an extended period to: (i) explore the suitability of WWA in small populations and (ii) optimize the monitoring design for future studies.
Design,...
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