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May-June 2009

Resource Alert

  • NIDA Launches Web-based Substance Use Tools for Physicians
  • Australia Releases Revised Guidelines for Reducing Alcohol- Associated Health Risks
  • NIAAA’s “Rethinking Drinking” Web Site Offers Tools to Assess Risky Drinking

Interventions and Assessments

  • Repeated Brief Counseling Decreases Recurrence of Alcohol-Related Pancreatitis
  • Impact of Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless People with High Use of Alcohol-related Crisis Services
  • Quarterly Recovery Management Checkups to Treat Chronic Substance Use Disorders
  • Computer versus Therapist-delivered Treatment for Co-occurring Depression and Alcohol/ Cannabis Use

Health Outcomes

  • Marijuana Associated with Testicular Cancer
  • QT Prolongation and Mortality among Patients on Methadone
  • Outcomes in Patients Discharged from a Primary Care-based Opioid Prescribing Clinic
  • Alcohol and Cancer in Women: Results of a Large Prospective UK Study
  • Genetic Polymorphisms and Alcohol-Related Cancers
  • Antiretroviral Treatment Interruptions Are Common in Injection Drug Users
  • Does Light Drinking during Pregnancy Relate to Behavioral or Cognitive Problems in the Child?
  • Is There a Causal Link between Alcohol Abuse or Dependence and Depression?
  • Do Racial and Ethnic Minority Drinkers Have More Alcohol Consequences than White Drinkers?

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  • Update May-June 2009
  • Journal Club May-June 2009
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