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World drug report
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This article is published in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.The article was published on 1998-09-01. It has received 1651 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: World Drug Report.read more
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The alcohol, smoking and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST): development, reliability and feasibility
Robert Ali,Elia Awwad,Thomas F. Babor,Fiona Bradley,Tecla Butau,Michael Farrell,Maria Lucia O. Souza-Formigoni,Richard Isralowitz,Roseli Boerngen de Lacerda,John Marsden,Bonnie McRee,Maristela Monteiro,Hemraj Pal,Maritza Rubio-Stipec,Janice Vendetti +14 more
TL;DR: The ASSIST items are reliable and feasible to use as part of an international screening test and can serve as the basis for more extensive validation research.
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Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: a systematic review
Bradley Mathers,Louisa Degenhardt,Louisa Degenhardt,Benjamin Phillips,Lucas Wiessing,Matthew Hickman,Steffanie A. Strathdee,Alex Wodak,Alex Wodak,Alex Wodak,Samiran Panda,Mark W. Tyndall,Abdalla Toufik,Richard P. Mattick,Richard P. Mattick +14 more
TL;DR: The high prevalence of HIV among many populations of injecting drug users represents a substantial global health challenge and existing data are far from adequate, in both quality and quantity.
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Traditions of sustainability in tourism studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how these limits are approached and evaluated in discussions on a local scale and recognize that behind the different understandings of them lie distinct traditions that are different in their focuses.
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Estimating community drug abuse by wastewater analysis.
TL;DR: Searching the sewage for excreted compounds relevant to public health issues appears to have the potential to become a convenient source of real-time epidemiologic information.
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An overview of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of opiate maintenance therapies: available evidence to inform clinical practice and research.
Laura Amato,Marina Davoli,Carlo A. Perucci,Marica Ferri,Fabrizio Faggiano,Richard P. Mattick +5 more
TL;DR: These findings confirm that MMT at appropriate doses is the most effective in retaining patients in treatment and suppressing heroin use but show weak evidence of effectiveness toward other relevant outcomes.