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To battle deadly overdose epidemic, Philly considers safe injection sites

To battle deadly overdose epidemic, Philly considers safe injection sites

If users get too much heroin, or product that’s boosted by a synthetic opioid like … Sarah Evans, who was one of the managers of North America’s first …
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To Help Newborns Dependent On Opioids, Hospitals Rethink Mom’s Role

Carolyn Rossi has been a registered nurse for 27 years, and she’s been fiercely protective of infants in her intensive care unit — babies born too soon, babies born with physical and cognitive abnormalities and, increasingly, babies born dependent on opioids. As clinical manager of the nurseries at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, Rossi works in the neonatal intensive care unit. Like many h
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An Effective Web Presence for Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities.

CONCLUSIONS: The low mean scores on these dimensions indicate that that substance abuse centers have significant room for improvement of their website’s. Efficiently spending marketing funds to increase the effectiveness of a treatment center’s website can be a low cost way for even small facilities to increase market competitiveness.
PMID: 27010991 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source:
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Separating the Association Between Inhibitory Control and Substance Use Prevalence Versus Quantity During Adolescence: A Hurdle Mixed-Effects Model Approach.

Inhibitory control is a critical component to the self-regulation of affect and behavior. Research consistently demonstrates negative associations between inhibitory control and several problem behaviors including substance misuse during early adolescence. However, analytic approaches previously used have often applied ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to non-normal count data with an exces
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Alcohol-Induced Blackouts as Predictors of Other Drinking Related Harms Among Emerging Young Adults.

CONCLUSIONS: Because blackouts indicate drinking at levels that result in significant cognitive and behavioral impairment, questions about blackouts could serve as important, simple screeners for the risk of experiencing other alcohol related harms. Additional work on this subject is warranted.
PMID: 27012148 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Re
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