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March-April 2017

Interventions and Assessments

  • Two Versions of Brief Intervention for Drug Use: No Better Than Usual Care In Facilitating Treatment Receipt
  • Patient-Centered Methadone Treatment: More Evidence that Mandated Counseling Is Unnecessary
  • Effects Of A National Program To Encourage Alcohol Screening And Brief Intervention

Health Outcomes

  • Heavy Episodic Drinking and Frequent Marijuana Use Can Cause Depressive Symptoms In Adolescents
  • “Your Bones Are Going To Pot”: Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use And Poor Bone Health
  • The Association of Alcohol Consumption with the Risk of Prostate Cancer
  • Risk For Alcoholic Cirrhosis After First Alcohol-Related Hospital Contact
  • Long-Term Alcohol Use and Mortality Among Swedish Women

HIV and HCV

  • Alcohol Use Has Little, If Any, Effect on Hepatitis C Treatment Response
  • Providing HIV Treatment To Those Who Are Known To Be Infected Is Not Enough To Prevent Its Spread Among People Who Inject Drugs
  • PrEP In People Who Inject Drugs: Factors Associated with Patient Uptake And Adherence

Prescription Drugs and Pain

  • Observational Study of Medicinal Cannabis for Chronic Pain Finds Reductions in Pain, Disability, and Prescribed Opioid Use

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