Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence

Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence

Table of Contents: July-August 2012



INTERVENTIONS & ASSESSMENTS



Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms Increased after Bariatric Surgery

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/saitz_king.html



Interim Methadone with Limited Counseling for 4 Months Yields Similar

12-Month Outcomes as Methadone with Standard Counseling

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july1/friedmann_schwartz.html



A Retrospective Study of High-Dose Baclofen for High-Risk Drinking

Supports the Need for a Randomized Controlled Trial

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/bertholet_rigal.html



Does Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment

Work for Adolescents Presenting to Emergency Departments?

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/kraemer_yuma-guerrero.html



HEALTH OUTCOMES



Do Patients with Alcoholic Cirrhosis Require Surveillance for

Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/kraemer_jepsen.html



Even Occasional Cocaine, Opioid, or Amphetamine Use Persisting into

Middle Age Increases Mortality

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/friedmann_kertesz.html



Higher Quality of Life Seen among Regular Moderate Drinkers than among

Abstainers in Canada

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/ellison_kaplan.html



HIV AND HCV



Association between HIV Treatment Status and Alcohol Metabolism

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/tetrault_mccance-katz.html



Injection-Drug and Heavy Alcohol Use Did Not Affect Hepatitis-C

Treatment Outcomes in an Australian Study

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/tsui_gidding.html



Providing Rapid HIV Testing in Drug Treatment Centers Increased Testing

Rates, but Adding Counseling Did Not Reduce Sex-Risk Behaviors

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/rastegar_metsch.html



Entering Methadone Maintenance Treatment Has Little Impact on HIV

Sex-Risk Behaviors in Heroin-Addicted Adults

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july12/rastegar_metsch.html



Screening Tool to Identify Candidates for Pre-exposure HIV Prophylaxis

in Men Who Have Sex with Men Includes Amphetamine and Alkyl Nitrite Use

http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_july1/walley_daley_smith.html



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CALL FOR PAPERS



Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (ASCP), a peer-reviewed journal

hosted by leading open-access publisher BioMed Central and edited by

Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM, and Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH,

Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, is now

accepting manuscripts.



Founded in 2002 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and

indexed in Medline, ASCP provides a forum for clinically relevant

research and perspectives to improve the quality of care for people

with unhealthy substance use and addictive behaviors.



Visit www.ascpjournal.org to view current articles, sign up for a free

subscription, or submit a manuscript online. Email

editorial@ascpjournal.org for more information.