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Effect of screening and brief intervention for illegal drug use in Southern California
The California Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (CASBIRT) program provided services to over 120,000 emergency/trauma patients throughout ethnically diverse San Diego County from 2007–2010. This study examined outcomes for drug users screened in emergency departments (ED) throughout the county. Universal screening using the ASSIST was offered to all capable adult patients...
متن کاملHealth consequences of illegal drug use.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this article is to review recent research on the health consequences of illegal drug use and possible risk factors, with a particular focus on prospective evidence. RECENT FINDINGS Mortality studies have revealed qualitative and quantitative changes in causes of death among heroin and injecting drug users (IDUs), probably due to increasing exposure to harm reducti...
متن کاملA Geographic Analysis of Illegal Drug Markets
Past research has established two important geographic principles concerning the retail sales of illegal drugs: (1) illegal drug markets tend to be spatially concentrated, and (2) the location and marketing characteristics of these markets will vary depending on whether the customers are local or regional. The present research will build on these principles and determine whether the location of...
متن کاملIllegal Drug Use and Labor Supply
This paper investigates the relationship between labor supply and the consumption of marijuana and cocaine using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Previous studies have yielded mixed evidence but have used potentially inadequate measures to account for the simultaneity between drug consumption and labor supply. I implement an instrumental variable procedure that utilizes a se...
متن کاملPublic Attitudes toward Illegal Drug Use
Here we discuss the common attitudes toward illegal drug use, showing how they are based to a large extent on inadequate information, poor arguments, and extraordinary examples—the chronic heroin user with his destroyed veins, the suicidal barbiturate addict with gangrened limbs. We go on to explain the social and psychological functions of these attitudes and show that they maintain themselves...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: YAKUGAKU ZASSHI
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0031-6903,1347-5231
DOI: 10.1248/yakushi.12-00247-5