Current Issue: May-June 2007

Welcome to Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence

Health Outcomes

• Marijuana Smoking and Pulmonary Complications
• Patients on Methadone With Unhealthy Alcohol Use Have Poor Quality of Life
• Persistent Pain Increases Risk of Relapse
• Alcohol Increases Breast Cancer Risk in Certain Women
• Drinking Levels and Death: How Much Is Safe?
• Cardiomyopathy Is More Common in Methamphetamine Users
• How Much Can Older People Safely Drink?
• Does Moderate Drinking Lower Risk of Heart Failure?

Assessments and Interventions

• Treating Back Pain With Opioids
• Brief Intervention Is Insufficient for Medical Inpatients With Unhealthy Drinking
• Video of Patient's Own Delirium Tremens Decreases Relapse Risk
• Higher Quality of Primary Care May Lower Addiction Severity
• Substance Use Screening Does Not Need to Be Subtle
• Benzodiazepine Use in Patients Receiving Opioid Treatment

Slide Presentations

• Update on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health
• Journal Club

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