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Wine glass capacity in England has increased sevenfold in 300 years. Can downsizing reduce wine consumption? Theresa Marteau and colleagues investigate.

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Background: With the rapid development of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and changes in the use of more traditional drugs, it is increasingly difficult for researchers and public health practitioners to keep up with emerging...

Helen Baker-Henningham, Marsha Bowers, Taja Francis, Susan Walker

Introduction: Violence is a leading global public health problem and makes a substantial contribution to the burden of disease at the global level. Interventions in early...

Merete Aasheim

Introduction: Students, who show early onset of risk factors linked to behavior problems, are in increased risk for academic underachievement, school failure and dropout, as well as duration of mental health problems...

Bonnie Leadbeater, Kara Thompson, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin, Megan E Ames

Introduction: Compared to other countries, Canadian youth are the highest users of marijuana in the developed world, with 28% of youth under 15 reporting marijuana use...

Marion Sue Forgatch

To improve the reach of evidence based interventions, we require science-based implementation systems and a way to ensure that programs are delivered with sustained model fidelity. Direct observation of intervention...

Silje Hukkelberg

Introduction: Brief Parent Training (BPT) and Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) are interventions that both are proven effective in reducing emerging/existing conduct problem behaviors in children...

Introduction: Lack of family resources, social risk, has been found to negatively impact development of child behavior problems. Thus, improving families’ access to resources, and thereby reducing social risk, would certainly benefit...

Mojdeh Motamedi, Linda Lee Caldwell, Damon Evan Jones, Lisa Wegner, Edward Allan Smith

Introduction: Building on the previous findings that boredom is a predictor of sexual debut, this study examines how targeting youth’s leisure, a...

Eric K Layland, Linda Lee Caldwell, Nilam Ram, Lisa Wegner

Introduction: Early and risky sex in adolescence are related to transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs and unintended pregnancy. Sexual debut often co-occurs with other risky...

Phylicia T Bediako, Linda Lee Caldwell, Stephanie T. Lanza, Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Jacqueline A. Miller

Introduction: Black and Coloured (i.e., mixed race, or multiracial) South Africans represent a substantial proportion of...

Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lana Wells

While the implementation of evidence-based programs within classrooms is an important piece of school-based prevention, creating healthy communities requires a more comprehensive approach: as...

Deinera Exner-Cortens, Vanja Spiric, Maisha Syeda

Promoting healthy relationships is increasingly recognized as a major prevention strategy for preventing youth violence and promoting youth well-being. In Alberta, Canada, the promotion...

Lana Wells, Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lynn Corcoran

The promotion of social-emotional learning (SEL) represents a key prevention strategy for youth violence, including bullying and dating violence. As identified by CASEL...

Background: Opioid use, abuse, and adverse consequences, including death, have escalated at an alarming rate since the 1990s. In an attempt to control opioid abuse, numerous regulations and guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing have...

"Our long time dream of gathering professionals and people interested in addiction recovery is now very real," said Eddie L. Castillo at the opening of the 1st ISSUP National Chapter Philippines Conference. The conference was held in Quezon...

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Inclusion health focuses on people in extremely poor health due to poverty, marginalisation, and multimorbidity. We aimed to review morbidity and mortality data on four overlapping populations who experience...

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Novel synthetic opioids (NSOs) include various analogs of fentanyl and newly emerging non-fentanyl compounds. Together with illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF), these drugs have caused a recent spike in overdose deaths...