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July-August 2009

Resource Alert

  • Welcome to Our New Associate Editors

Interventions and Assessments

  • Are Brief Alcohol Interventions Likely to be Effective in Routine Primary Care Practice?
  • Do Biomarkers Improve the Accuracy of Alcohol Screening in Acutely Injured Adults?
  • Does Clonidine Reduce the Duration of Opioid Therapy for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
  • Initiating Acamprosate during Alcohol Detoxification Is Not Beneficial and May Be Harmful
  • Implantable Naltrexone for Opioid Dependence
  • Effect of a Case Management Intervention as Part of a Needle Exchange Program on Opioid Agonist Treatment Retention

Health Outcomes

  • Treatment of Hepatitis C within a Methadone Maintenance Program Yields Results Comparable to Treatment via Other Models of Care
  • Alcohol Consumption Increases the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Next 12 Hours
  • Alcohol and Pancreatic Cancer
  • Heavy Drinking and Smoking Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Chronic Pancreatitis
  • More Evidence Heavy Episodic Drinking Heightens HIV/STI Risk
  • Alcohol and HIV Disease Progression: Is Liquor Quicker (than Beer and Wine)?
  • Alcohol, Other Lifestyle Factors, and Mortality
  • Increases in Methamphetamine-Related Treatment Admissions for Pregnant Women

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  • Journal Club July-Aug 2009
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