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Aims
The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the government school‐based program #Tamojunto2.0, the third Brazilian version of the European drug prevention program, Unplugged, in preventing the use of alcohol and other drugs.
Design
A parallel, two‐arm cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 205 classes in 73 public schools (37 intervention and 36 control) with a baseline...
Background and aim
National social marketing campaigns have been shown to promote smoking cessation in England. There is reason to believe that regional and city‐wide campaigns can play a valuable role in reducing smoking prevalence over and above any national tobacco control activity. This study aimed to assess the impact of the London Smoking Cessation Transformation Programme, a multi‐component...
Aims
To test if contingency management (CM) interventions for alcohol and drug abstinence were associated with increased alcohol and drug abstinence among American Indian adults with alcohol dependence who also use drugs.
Design
In this 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial, American Indian adults with alcohol dependence who also used drugs were randomized to four conditions: (1) incentives...
Aim
To examine the specific deterrent effect of offender supervision on the risk of a further offence by persons convicted of amphetamine use and/or possession.
Design
Observational study of two groups matched on a wide range of factors using augmented inverse probability of treatment weighting.
Setting
New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Participants
A total of 2099 persons convicted of amphetamine...
Background and aims
Despite widespread negative perceptions, the prevalence of alcohol‐impaired driving (AID) in the United States remains unacceptably high. This study used a novel decision task to evaluate whether individuals considered both ride service cost and alcohol consumption level when deciding whether or not to drive, and whether the resulting strategy was associated with engagement in...
Background and aims
Recovery from alcohol problems in the absence of treatment or mutual‐aid is very common, but under‐researched. This study explores the lives of people who had resolved their alcohol problems without treatment, seeking to situate experiences of recovery in social contexts and broader life narratives.
Design
The in‐depth qualitative interviews were aided by a life‐history methodology...
Background and aims
Not all people experiencing opioid dependence benefit from oral opioid agonist treatment. The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of (supervised) injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) (described as ‘an opioid similar to heroin self‐injected at a clinic several times a day’) among people who regularly use opioids and determine how common iOAT eligibility criteria...
Background and Aims
It is widely believed that the 2018 decline in overdose deaths in the United States was attributable to a range of public health interventions, however, this decline also coincided with the regulation and decline in use of potent fentanyl analogs, especially carfentanil. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between overdose deaths and carfentanil availability...
Background and aim
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on alcohol consumption is currently unclear. This study aimed to provide early estimates of how stress and demographics will interact with shifts in harmful alcohol consumption from before the COVID‐19 outbreak to 2 months into social distancing.
Design
Cross‐sectional convenience sample.
Setting
Australia.
Participants
A total of 1684...
Aim
To assess the effects of social distancing and social isolation policies triggered by COVID‐19 on alcohol consumption using wastewater analysis in Adelaide, South Australia.
Design
Longitudinal quantitative analysis of influent wastewater data for alcohol concentration.
Setting
Adelaide, South Australia.
Participants
Wastewater catchment area representative of 1.1 million inhabitants.
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Background
Overdose deaths related to illegal drugs in North American markets are now dominated by potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, a circumstance foreshadowed by often‐overlooked events in Estonia since the turn of the century. Market transitions generate important and far‐reaching implications for drug policy.
Argument and analysis
The supplier‐driven introduction of illegally manufactured...
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