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Brief intervention to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Russian physicians’ skills demonstrated in an educational and a clinical trial in Russia

Authors: Tatiana Balachova, Barbara Bonner, Vladimir Shapkaitz, Galina Isurina, Larissa Tsvetkova and Irina Grandilevskaya

Relationship between organizational climate and activities to prevent the risky use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs among professionals in primary health care

Authors: Erica Cruvinel, Telmo Ronzani and Ronaldo Bastos

Com-BI-ne: preliminary results of a feasibility trial of brief intervention to improve alcohol consumption and comorbid outcomes in hypertensive or depressed primary care patients

Authors: Ruth McGovern, Graeme Wilson, Catherine Wray, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Elaine McColl, Chris Speed, Anne Crosland, Paul Cassidy, Dave Tomson, Shona Haining and Eileen Kaner

Brief interventions for drink-driver offenders in Slovenia

Authors: Marko Kolšek

Early detection and brief intervention for hazardous and harmful drinkers in primary health care in Italy: evaluation of the strategies, activities and experiences of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)

Authors: Emanuele Scafato, Silvia Ghirini, Aula Rossi, Lucia Galluzzo, Sonia Martire, Lucilla Di Pasquale and Claudia Gandin

Predictive value of readiness, importance, and confidence in ability to change drinking and smoking

Authors: Nicolas Bertholet, Jacques Gaume, Mohamed Faouzi, Jean-Bernard Daeppen and Gerhard Gmel

Do research assessments make college students more reactive to alcohol events?

Authors: Molly Magill, Christopher Kahler, Peter Monti and Nancy Barnett

Early data from project engage: a program to identify and transition medically hospitalized patients into addictions treatment

Patients with untreated substance use disorders (SUDs) are at risk for frequent emergency department visits and repeated hospitalizations. Project Engage, a US pilot program at Wilmington Hospital in Delaware,...

Authors: Anna Pecoraro, Terry Horton, Edward Ewen, Julie Becher, Patricia A Wright, Basha Silverman, Patty McGraw and George E Woody

Levamisole-induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis and neutropenia in a patient with cocaine use: An extensive case with necrosis of skin, soft tissue, and cartilage

Levamisole-induced vasculitis is a relatively new entity in people who use cocaine. We describe a 44-year-old woman with a history of cocaine use who presented with a complaint of a painful rash of 2-3 month’s...

Authors: Natasha Purai Arora, Tania Jain, Ravinder Bhanot and Suganthini Krishnan Natesan

Performance measures for substance use disorders – what research is needed?

In 2010, the Washington Circle convened a meeting, supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), for a multidisciplinary g...

Authors: Deborah W Garnick, Constance M Horgan, Andrea Acevedo, Frank McCorry and Constance Weisner

Feedback from recently returned veterans on an anonymous web-based brief alcohol intervention

Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) are at increased risk for alcohol misuse, and innovative methods are needed to improve their access to alcohol screening and brief i...

Authors: Gwen T Lapham, Eric J Hawkins, Laura J Chavez, Carol E Achtmeyer, Emily C Williams, Rachel M Thomas, Evette J Ludman, Kypros Kypri, Stephen C Hunt and Katharine A Bradley

Study design to examine the potential role of assessment reactivity in the Screening, Motivational Assessment, Referral, and Treatment in Emergency Departments (SMART-ED) protocol

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) approaches to reducing hazardous alcohol and illicit drug use have been assessed in a variety of health care settings, including primary care, t...

Authors: Dennis M Donovan, Michael P Bogenschutz, Harold Perl, Alyssa Forcehimes, Bryon Adinoff, Raul Mandler, Neal Oden and Robrina Walker

Can screening and brief intervention lead to population-level reductions in alcohol-related harm?

A distinction is made between the clinical and public health justifications for screening and brief intervention (SBI) against hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption. Early claims for a public health benefi...

Authors: Nick Heather

Screening and brief intervention (SBI): has it hit the tipping point?

Authors: Richard Saitz

Screening for adolescent alcohol and drug use in pediatric health-care settings: predictors and implications for practice and policy

This paper used data from a study of pediatric primary care provider (PCP) screening practices to examine barriers to and facilitators of adolescent alcohol and other drug (AOD) screening in pediatric primary ...

Authors: Stacy Sterling, Andrea H Kline-Simon, Charles Wibbelsman, Anna Wong and Constance Weisner

Pellagrous encephalopathy presenting as alcohol withdrawal delirium: A case series and literature review

Alcohol withdrawal delirium (AWD) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Pellagra (niacin deficiency) can be a cause of delirium during alcohol withdrawal that may often be overlooked.

Authors: Mark A Oldham and Ana Ivkovic

Testing for amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use to ascertain validity of self-reported ATS use among young female sex workers in Cambodia

To assess concordance between self-reported amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use and toxicology results among young female sex workers (FSW) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Authors: Vannda Kab, Jennifer Evans, Neth Sansothy, Ellen Stein, Marie Claude-Couture, Lisa Maher and Kimberly Page

Just call it “treatment”

Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term “medication-assisted treatment” to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrate...

Authors: Peter D Friedmann and Robert P Schwartz

A randomized trial evaluating an mHealth system to monitor and enhance adherence to pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorders

Nonadherence to prescribed medication regimens is a substantial barrier to the pharmacological management of alcohol use disorders. The availability of low-cost, sustainable interventions that maximize medicat...

Authors: Susan A Stoner and Christian S Hendershot

Motivation rulers for smoking cessation: a prospective observational examination of construct and predictive validity

Although popular clinically, the psychometric properties of motivation rulers for tobacco cessation are unknown. This study examined the psychometric properties of rulers assessing importance, readiness, and c...

Authors: Edwin D Boudreaux, Ashley Sullivan, Beau Abar, Steven L Bernstein, Adit A Ginde and Carlos A Camargo Jr

A qualitative study of anticipated barriers and facilitators to the implementation of nurse-delivered alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for hospitalized patients in a Veterans Affairs medical center

Unhealthy alcohol use includes the spectrum of alcohol consumption from risky drinking to alcohol use disorders. Routine alcohol screening, brief intervention (BI) and referral to treatment (RT) are commonly e...

Authors: Lauren Matukaitis Broyles, Keri L Rodriguez, Kevin L Kraemer, Mary Ann Sevick, Patrice A Price and Adam J Gordon

Risk of future trauma based on alcohol screening scores: A two-year prospective cohort study among US veterans

Severe alcohol misuse as measured by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test–Consumption (AUDIT-C) is associated with increased risk of future fractures and trauma-related hospitalizations. This study ex...

Authors: Alex H S Harris, Anna Lembke, Patricia Henderson, Shalini Gupta, Rudolf Moos and Katharine A Bradley

Prevalence and co-use of marijuana among young adult cigarette smokers: An anonymous online national survey

There is elevated prevalence of marijuana use among young adults who use tobacco, but little is known about the extent of co-use generated from surveys conducted online. The purpose of the present study was to...

Authors: Danielle E Ramo and Judith J Prochaska

Patient preferences for emergency department-initiated tobacco interventions: a multicenter cross-sectional study of current smokers

The emergency department (ED) visit provides a great opportunity to initiate interventions for smoking cessation. However, little is known about ED patient preferences for receiving smoking cessation intervent...

Authors: Esther K Choo, Ashley F Sullivan, Frank LoVecchio, John N Perret, Carlos A Camargo Jr and Edwin D Boudreaux

Return to drug use and overdose after release from prison: a qualitative study of risk and protective factors

Former inmates are at high risk for death from drug overdose, especially in the immediate post-release period. The purpose of the study is to understand the drug use experiences, perceptions of overdose risk, ...

Authors: Ingrid A Binswanger, Carolyn Nowels, Karen F Corsi, Jason Glanz, Jeremy Long, Robert E Booth and John F Steiner

Comment on the case for considering quality of life in addiction research and clinical practice

Authors: Robert G Newman

Science to improve care for people affected by unhealthy alcohol and other drug use

Authors: Richard Saitz and Jeffrey Samet