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Study Identifies Cyber Millenials: High-Tech And Highly Educated Young Adults Who Drink Way Too Much "Audience segmentation" refers to categorizing people by their behaviors, attitudes, opinions, or lifestyles. It is widely used in social-marketing efforts. A new study uses this method to find high-risk drinkers in the US, leading researchers to a group dubbed the Cyber Millenials: "the nation's tech-savvy singles and couples living in fashionable neighborhoods on the urban fringe. ...more	12 May 2009
Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: Recovery Adversely Affected By Smoking Alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) can damage the brain, particularly the frontal and parietal cortices, although this damage is at least partially reversible with sustained abstinence from alcohol. Chronic smoking is extremely common among individuals with AUDs. A new study has used longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain blood flow to show that smoking makes it harder for brain blood flow to recover from long-term heavy drinking. ...more	12 May 2009
DrugScope Responds To BBC Reports On SOCA Successes In Combating Cocaine Today the BBC reports that the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has had significant success in combating the cocaine market in the UK. According to SOCA, the agency's undercover operations have contributed to a rise in the wholesale price of cocaine. ...more	12 May 2009
Study Aims To Help Preschool Age Children Of Parents With Drinking Problems Children who grow up with a parent with a drinking problem have been shown to suffer from depression, anxiety, acting out, and academic and social difficulties. Some of these problems begin as early as age 2 however, the few prevention programs that exist for children of alcoholic parents are typically aimed at students in middle school or older. Andrea Hussong, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hopes to change that. ...more	12 May 2009
HIV/AIDS Advocates Express Concern About Obama's Continuation Of Needle-Exchange Funding Ban Although President Obama previously has expressed support for needle-exchange programs as part of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, advocates recently expressed concern that the administration's 2009-2010 budget proposal intends to continue a funding ban for such programs that dates back to the 1980s, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. ...more	12 May 2009
Dual Diagnosis Licensing: The Next Wave Of Complete Mental Health And Addiction Treatment At least half of the 2 million Americans with severe mental illness also abuse illicit drugs or alcohol, compared to 15 percent of the general population, according to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. Unfortunately the vast majority of treatment centers are unable to treat both the disorder and the addiction, critically reducing the effectiveness of rehabilitation, which leaves patients vulnerable to relapse. ...more	11 May 2009
Clue To Nicotine Dependence In Skin Color Higher concentrations of melanin -- the color pigment in skin and hair -- may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobacco-related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, according to scientists. ...more	11 May 2009
One Step Closer: Novel Opioid Receptor Compound In Phase I Clinical Trials For more than 10 years, Mark Wentland, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, led a Rensselaer team in the discovery of a family of novel opioid receptor compounds with the potential to treat nervous system disorders and addiction. The family of compounds was licensed to Alkermes Inc., and the company identified a lead product candidate from the library. Clinical trials with the candidate, known as ALKS 33, began in December 2008. ...more	10 May 2009
Stigma Increases Likelihood That Drug Users Reoffend Punitive policies intended to reduce drug use by making life difficult for convicted users are counterproductive and actually lead to a vicious spiral of drug use and reincarceration. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy reveals how legal punishment, withdrawal of services and social stigmatization encourage a return to drug use, increased criminal activity and ultimately re-incarceration. ...more	08 May 2009
$3M From NIDA To Support Effective Prevention, Treatment And Service Strategies For Drug Abusing Youth And Adults The Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and the Case Center for AIDS Research at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have a received a $989,108 grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institute of Health (NIH), with the ability to receive a total of $3,007,946 by 2011. ...more	08 May 2009
Expert Panel Finds That SOAPP® Is Likely To Be Helpful For Assessing Opioid Addiction Risk Inflexxion, Inc., a company that creates scientifically validated and cost-effective solutions for critical areas of health care, is pleased to announce that its Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP) has been identified by an expert panel as likely to be helpful for assessing the risk of opioid addiction in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. ...more	07 May 2009
Australia Harm Reduction Strategies Serve As Model For Other Countries, UNAIDS Official Says The Australian government's efforts to curb the spread of HIV by advocating harm-reduction initiatives, such as needle-exchange programs and drug substitution therapy, for injection drug users serve as a model for other countries throughout the region, UNAIDS Asia Pacific Director Prasada Rao said recently, the ...more	07 May 2009
Higher Financial Burden Of Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment In The U.S. South: New Federal Study About 11 percent of people using outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment in the U.S. South used more than 5 percent of their family's annual income to cover their out-of-pocket treatment costs over the period 2001-2005, according to a new study by researchers with HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ...more	07 May 2009
Alcohol Researchers Should Reject Drinkwise Funding Scientists, universities and community organisations should refuse to take funding from Drinkwise, an organisation established and controlled by the alcohol industry, according to Deakin University's Dr. Peter Miller and Dr. Kypros Kypri from the University of Newcastle in a commentary published in the May issue of the international scientific journal, Drug and Alcohol Review. ...more	06 May 2009
PTSD, Alcohol Problems Co-Occur In Returning Troops Military service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to experience posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorders simultaneously, a serious co-morbidity that is likely to rise as troops continue to come home. These co-occurring illnesses present treatment challenges that will be addressed as part of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) track at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. ...more	06 May 2009
Drinkers Not Only Zone Out - But Also Are Unaware That They Do So A new study out of the University of Pittsburgh suggests that a moderate dose of alcohol increases a person's mind wandering, while at the same time reducing the likelihood of noticing that one's mind has wandered. The paper, titled "Lost in the Sauce: The Effects of Alcohol on Mind Wandering," explores this phenomenon and is published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. ...more	06 May 2009
Iran's Health Ministry Releases Figures On HIV/AIDS Cases At least 19,435 HIV cases have been reported in Iran, with more than 1,000 cases recorded since December 2008, according to a report recently released by the country's Ministry of Health, AFP/Google.com reports. Of the 19,435 cases, 1,875 cases have progressed to AIDS. ...more	06 May 2009
Liver Expert Calls For Worldwide Treaty On Alcohol Personal view: A dent in our sobriety, BMJ online Governments across the globe must unite and act now to develop a worldwide treaty on alcohol to reduce the growing burden of alcohol related harm, warns a liver specialist in this week's BMJ. ...more	05 May 2009
National Survey: Parents Report Increased Awareness Of Risks Of Teen Prescription Drug Abuse, But Preventative Action Lags The 14th annual national survey of parents' attitudes about teen drug and alcohol use was released by the nonprofit Partnership for a Drug-Free America and MetLife Foundation. The Partnership/MetLife Foundation Parents Attitude Tracking Study (PATS) reveals a strong increase in parental awareness of the dangers of one of the most troubling and persistent trends in teen drug use -- teen abuse of prescription medications. ...more	05 May 2009
Half A Glass Of Wine A Day May Boost Life Expectancy By Five Years Drinking up to half a glass of wine a day may boost life expectancy by five years-at least in men-suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The Dutch authors base their findings on a total of 1,373 randomly selected men whose cardiovascular health and life expectancy at age 50 were repeatedly monitored between 1960 and 2000. ...more	04 May 2009
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