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CALL FOR PAPERS: Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (see below)
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Dear Readers,

The latest issue of Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence, a free NIH-funded newsletter summarizing up-to-date, clinically relevant research on alcohol, illicit drugs, and health, has been posted online at http://www.aodhealth.org. The site includes free Continuing Education credits for physicians as well as downloadable and modifiable teaching presentations and curricula.

We hope you enjoy the issue.

The Editors
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Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence
Table of Contents: May-June 2012

INTERVENTIONS & ASSESSMENTS

Illicit-Drug Brief Intervention Reduced Risk Score among Some Patients in a Randomized Trial
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/saitz_humeniuk.html

Brief Intervention Reduces Drinking among Emergency Department Patients with Nondependent Unhealthy Use
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/saitz_donofrio.html

Alcohol and Other Drug Discussions in Primary Care: Not Rare, but Numerous Challenges
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/kunins_moriarty.html

Naloxone Distribution Programs for Opioid Overdose Prevention: Time to Scale Up?
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/kunins_wheeler.html

Naltrexone Implants Reduced Opioid Use in People with Co-occurring Heroin and Amphetamine Dependence
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/walley_tiihonen.html

Adding Telephone Support to Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Dependence Has Modest Effects
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/rastegar_reutsch.html

HEALTH OUTCOMES

Ongoing Use of Analgesics after Low-Risk Surgery
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/kraemer_alam.html

Severity of Alcohol Problems Predicts Recurrence and Persistence of Alcohol Dependence
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/friedmann_boschloo.html

Change in Heavy Drinking among Alcohol-Dependent Individuals
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/bertholet_sarsour.html

Light Alcohol Consumption Prior to and Following Myocardial Infarction Is Associated with Lower Risk of Mortality
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/ellison_pai.html

HIV AND HCV

Rates of HCV Reinfection Are Low among People with Injection Drug Use Who Receive HCV Treatment
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/tsui_grebely.html

Availability of Viral Hepatitis Services in US Drug Treatment Programs
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/tetrault_bini.html

Providing Directly-Observed Hepatitis C Treatment at a Methadone Maintenance Program is Feasible and May Improve Treatment Outcomes
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/rastegar_bruce.html

People with Injection Drug Use Who Also Use Noninjecting Routes of Drug Administration Are Less Likely to Be HIV Positive
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/tetrault_vorobjov.html

RESOURCE ALERT

BAP Releases New Guidelines on the Pharmacologic Management of Substance Use Disorders
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/issues/issue_may12/alert52012.html

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

Update on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/update.html

Journal Club
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/club.html

Free CME Opportunities
http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/cme.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.

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