Methods In 2006-2007, 631 patients aged 18-30 were admitted for alcohol intoxication at the ED of a tertiary Swiss hospital. In 2014, they were re-contacted and interviewed to complete: demographics, alcohol use disorders identification test-consumption (AUDIT-C), Mini International Neuropsychiatric interview (MINI) for AUD, SF12 mental and physical component summary scores (MCS, PCS), Patient ...

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

Prohibition of illegal drugs is a failed social policy and new models of regulation of these substances are needed. This paper explores a proposal for a post-prohibition, public health based model for the regulation of the most problematic drugs, the smokable and injectable stimulants. The literature on stimulant maintenance is explored. Seven foundational principles are suggested that could su...

The federal government's investment in the war on drugs has grown to over $15 billion in fiscal year 1997. Yet the availability of drugs on U.S. streets and the number of persons using illegal drugs continue to be serious problems. We have reported many times over the past decade on federal antidrug efforts. This report responds to your October 30, 1996, request that we provide information to h...

This paper investigates options available to policy makers responding the challenges of drug use in modern society, focussing on UK. It failings prohibition that has driven historic reactions drugs, and users globally, nationally locally. paradigm been largely destructive counter-productive led a whole host health social problems. The authors have approached their investigation from public pers...

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...

We examine whether the genetic basis for religious involvement is common to the genetic basis for drug use/abuse, helping to explain the inverse relationship between religiosity and drug use. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed data on 2,537 young adult siblings participating in Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on whom both genetic characteristics and religious ...