Elevated Substance Use Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Possible Explanations and Intervention Implications for an Urgent Public Health Concern

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1268-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Rosario
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Bisexual Women ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
And Bisexual

Substance Use Disorders in Later Life: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature of an Emerging Public Health Concern

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Yarnell ◽  
Luming Li ◽  
Brian MacGrory ◽  
Louis Trevisan ◽  
Paul Kirwin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern

scholarly journals The role movies play in alcohol consumption by youths

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah R. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Real People ◽  
The Media

Alcohol use and misuse among young people continue to be a major public health concern, despite decades of initiatives aimed at educating young people about the hazards of alcohol. Yet where do young people learn about alcohol use? How do they form attitudes about the effects and risks of drinking? Increasing evidence suggests that young people learn not only from real people (e.g. peers and parents) in their everyday lives but also from characters whose lives they witness through the media. In fact, the mass media have been recognised as significant sources of information about substance use that can influence young people's beliefs and expectations (Bahk, 2001; Sargent et al, 2002).

scholarly journals Medications against drugs: Development of medications to prevent and treat substance use disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Dario Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Safety And Efficacy ◽  
Significant Public Health Concern ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
New Compounds

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a significant public health concern. Unfortunately, there are few safe and effective medications to treat SUD and efficacy is suboptimal. There are important financial and scientific obstacles to develop new compounds, but recent advances in the discovery of new brain receptors and neurocircuits are offering opportunities to develop new pharmacotherapies. A systematic scientific approach to develop medications is required to demonstrate their safety and efficacy, bring it to market, and prescribe it to patients. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a general overview of the challenges and opportunities in medications development for SUD, describe the phased approach of this development, the medications approved, and those that appear most promising.

scholarly journals Therapeutic options and challenges for substances of abuse

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-445 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Pharmacological Treatments ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Significant Public Health Concern ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Substances Of Abuse

Addiction to substances continues to be a significant public health concern in the United States. The following review of current pharmacological treatments discusses a range of substances: nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, and opioids. The goal is to provide an overview of currently available and new pharmacological treatments for substance use disorders, while also addressing the pharmacotherapeutic challenges remaining. The significant advances in pharmacotherapy have had limited utilization, however. For example, naltrexone for alcoholism is infrequently prescribed, buprenorphine for opiates still has relatively few qualified prescribers, and stimulants have no Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmacotherapy. These pharmacotherapies are needed, with the rate of even the relatively uncommon abuse of opiates now rising sharply.

Mandatory Aids Testing: Factors Influencing Public Opinion

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tintinger ◽  
Lawrence Simkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Legal Sanctions ◽  
Mandatory Testing ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

A survey of 341 persons, 82% of whom were university students whose median age was 27.0 yr., was conducted to investigate the relationship between their attitudes regarding mandatory AIDS testing for various groups, attitudes toward the disease, sexual orientation and behavior, and attitudes toward homosexuals. Homosexual and bisexual respondents were less supportive of mandatory testing for anyone than were heterosexual respondents. Greater homophobia and attitudes in favor of legal sanctions against persons with AIDS were correlated for heterosexual respondents, with attitudes supporting mandatory testing for everyone and homosexuals in particular. However, concern about contracting AIDS was unrelated to heterosexual attitudes favoring mandatory testing. Social and political considerations in an era of growing and potentially militant public health concern are discussed.

Adolescent Risk and Protective Factors for the Use of Electronic Cigarettes

2021 ◽  
pp. 263207702098073
Author(s):  
Jason J. Burrow-Sánchez ◽  
Benjamin R. Ratcliff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Electronic Cigarettes ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescent Risk

The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) by adolescents is a serious public health concern. The major aim of the current study is to conduct a comprehensive examination of adolescent e-cigarette use in relation to risk and protective factors for a school-based sample. The present study is based on a secondary data analysis of the 2017 Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) Survey that is administered every 2 years in the state of Utah to a large sample of students ( n = 54,853) in Grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 from more than 400 schools. The PNA Survey measures substance use, mental health symptoms, and antisocial behavior as well as their associated risk and protective factors. Almost 9% of adolescents in this study reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days. Adolescents who reported infrequent (1–5 days) and frequent (6+ days) use of e-cigarettes also indicated lower levels of protection (e.g., perceived harm) and higher levels of risk (e.g., favorable attitudes) compared with students who did not report using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days. The frequency of adolescent e-cigarette use can distinguish between risk and protective factors. Findings suggest that the risk and protective factors relevant for adolescent alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use extend to the use of the e-cigarettes. Certain risk factors (e.g., favorable attitudes toward substance use) and protective factors (e.g., perceived risk for use of e-cigarettes) hold promise for preventive interventions in addressing this public health concern.

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

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