Contemporary Drug Problems articles from September 2007

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from September 2007

Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders in Mexico.
September 22, 2007... Alcohol consumption alone accounts for 9% of the total burden of illness in Mexico (Gonzalez-Pier, Gutierrez, Stevens, et al., 2006). According to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) for the year 2002, alcohol was responsible...

Women in prison with alcohol problems: why gender-responsive policies matter.
September 22, 2007... Interest in health inequalities has grown in recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines them as variations in health status between social categories that are unnecessary, avoidable, and unfair. The extent of a society's...

Gender differences in heavy alcohol use: a general population survey (The Genacis Project) of Sao Paulo City, Brazil.
September 22, 2007... Disorders associated with alcohol use have been widely investigated in the community because of several associated social and health problems. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO 2002), 4% of all morbidity and mortality...

Advances in the determination of alcohol and other drug consumption during pregnancy: a study of 900 births in Montevideo, Uruguay.
September 22, 2007... Background For a long time numerous studies have shown that alcohol and other drug consumption during fetal gestation causes diverse health problems for the mother and child (American Academy of Pediatrics [AAP] Committee on Substance...

Population-level cohort studies on alcohol and health harm: what we know and what we don't know.
September 22, 2007... Epidemiological studies of the health effects of the use of alcohol have been widespread (see reviews in Corrao, Rubbiati, Bagnardi, Zambon & Poikolainen 2000; Holman, English, Milne & Winter 1996). They have often demonstrated protective...

US time series evidence regarding alcohol-related risk of oral cancers and protection against stomach cancers: are higher concentration beverages different?
September 22, 2007... One aspect of beverage-specific alcohol consumption that generally receives little attention in research but may be important for particular outcomes is the concentration at which the alcohol is drunk. In the United States (US), popular beers...

Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality in the United States, 1950-2002.
September 22, 2007... This study addresses the relationship between population drinking and all-cause mortality in the United States during the postwar period. The work can be seen as a continuation and empirical broadening of a series of similar studies (see...

Poor man's smack: a qualitative study of buprenorphine injecting in Melbourne, Australia.
September 22, 2007... Introduction Buprenorphine, a partial mu receptor agonist, has been available as a substitution therapy for opiate dependence in Australia since 2001 (Ali, Biggs, Dorlego, Gill, Larkins, Moyle, et al. 2001). Since its introduction...