Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence

 

Table of Contents: July-August 2013

INTERVENTIONS & ASSESSMENTS

Screening and Brief Intervention: USPSTF Update Affirms Recommendations and Highlights Evidence Gapshttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/saitz_moyer.html

Smoking During Medically Managed Opioid Withdrawal is Associated with Increased Craving for Opioids and Nicotinehttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/walley_mannelli.html

Trends in Ambulatory Care for People with Substance Use Disordershttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/kraemer_frank.html


HEALTH OUTCOMES

Alcohol Use Disorders: More Deadly Than Previously Thoughthttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/friedmann_roerecke.html

Heavy Episodic Drinking in Young, Healthy Adults Increases Risk for Cardiovascular Diseasehttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/tetrault_goslawski.html

Participation in Football and Wrestling is Associated with Nonmedical Use of Opioid Medications Among Adolescentshttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/rastegar_veliz.html

Reporting of Methadone-Associated Cardiac Arrhythmias has Increasedhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/kraemer_kao.html

Relation of Alcohol Intake to the Risk of Dying from Cancerhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/ellison_jin.html

Systematic Review of Opioids for Pain and Opioid Dependence: The Risks Cannot be Estimatedhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/friedmann_minozzi.html

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage after Cocaine Use Associated with Aneurysm Re-Rupture and Deathhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/fairbairn_chang.html


HIV AND HCV

Daily Tenofovir Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Reduces HIV Transmission among People with Injection Drug Use in Drug Treatmenthttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/walley_choopanya.html

Persons Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C have Liver Fibrosis Measures Equal to Those with Hepatitis C Only who are Nearly a Decade Olderhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/rastegar_kirk.html

Response to HCV Treatment Among People with Heavy Alcohol Use is Similar to Those Who Abstainhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/bertholet_costentin.html


FEATURE ARTICLE: ETHICAL CONDUCT OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG RESEARCH

Confidentiality Protections in Research Involving People with Substance Use Disordershttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july13/feature072013.html


SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

Update on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Healthhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/update.html

Journal Clubhttp://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/club/therapy.html



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