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- The associations of smoking dependence motives with depression among daily smokers. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 24 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: Depression appears to be associated with smoking dependence and smoking dependence motives related to heavy, automatic use and use to regulate affective states. The associations appear to be confounded or mediated by neuroticism but are independent of shared familial influences.
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- Genetic architecture of four smoking behaviors using partitioned SNP heritability. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A biobank study of smoking behaviour traits suggested that the phenotypic variance of smoking initiation, age of initiation, cigarettes per day, and smoking cessation is modest overall.
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- Orbitofrontal cortex thickness and substance use disorders in emerging adulthood: Causal inferences from a cotwin control/discordant twin study. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A confounder adjusted analysis of the Minnesota Twin Family Study appeared to indicate that, beyond a substance use disorders general familial risk effect, the experience of an alcohol or cannabis use disorder in emerging adulthood reduces the thickness of the medial orbitofrontal cortex, a region associated with value-guided decision making.
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- Sex-Specific Risk Profiles for Suicide Among Persons with Substance Use Disorders in Denmark. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: In Denmark, prior poisoning and comorbid psychiatric disorders may be among the most important indicators of suicide risk among persons with substance use disorders, particularly among women.
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- Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination strategies among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Tijuana, Mexico. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A combination of high-coverage harm reduction and hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is the optimal cost-effective strategy to achieve the HCV incidence elimination goal in Mexico.
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- Impact of cumulative incarceration and the post-release period on syringe sharing among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico: A longitudinal analysis. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A longitudinal community cohort study among people who inject drugs, suggested that the effects of incarceration on increased injecting risk, measured through syringe sharing, are cumulative and persist in the post-release period.
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- Reward drinking and naltrexone treatment response among young adult heavy drinkers. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: Naltrexone has pronounced effects in reducing risky drinking among young adult reward drinkers (high reward/low relief) by reducing urges on days when individuals have higher positive affect and are exposed to a drinking event. Naltrexone also appears to reduce risky drinking among young adult high reward/high relief drinkers, but not via the same mechanism.
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- Supporting smoking cessation and preventing relapse following a stay in a smokefree setting: A meta-analysis and investigation of effective behaviour change techniques. [Review]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A systematic review and meta-analyses indicate that behavioural and pharmacological support is effective in maintaining smoking abstinence following a stay in a smokefree institution. Several behaviour change techniques may help to maintain smoking abstinence up to 18 months post-discharge.
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- Evaluating the effects of the Licensing Act 2003 on the characteristics of drinking occasions in England & Wales: A theory of change-guided evaluation of a natural experiment. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: The Licensing Act 2003 in England and Wales appears to have had only limited effects on the characteristics of drinking occasions. This may help to explain its lack of substantial impacts on alcohol harms.
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- A Meta-Analysis of Problem Gambling Risk Factors in the General Adult Population. [Review]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A meta-analysis of 104 studies of gambling prevalence indicated that the most frequently assessed problem gambling risk factors with the highest effect sizes are associated with continuous play format gambling products.
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- Safety of ibogaine administration in detoxification of opioid dependent individuals: a descriptive open-label observational study. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 23 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: An open-label observation study found that ibogaine treatment of patients with opioid use disorder can induce a clinically relevant but reversible QTc prolongation, bradycardia, and severe ataxia.
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- New synthetic drugs require new policies. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 21 [Online ahead of print]A
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- The EVALI outbreak makes a strong case for better regulation of all vaporizer products. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 16 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Harm to others from alcohol or other drug use is an inclusive frame for an important dimension: a response to Wilkinson & Ritter. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 15 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Commentary on Thomas et al.: Are simple solutions to complex problems possible? [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 15 [Online ahead of print]A
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- How do labels using lower strength verbal descriptors, %ABV, or their combination impact wine consumption? A bar laboratory adaptive randomised controlled trial. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: This bar laboratory study estimated that a greater quantity of 'lower' strength wine was consumed when the label included a numerical strength descriptor compared with a verbal only strength descriptor.
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- Do dual purchasers behave differently? An analysis of purchasing data for households that buy both alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: Dual purchasers of alcohol and tobacco in the United Kingdom appear to be concentrated evenly among income groups. However, dual purchasers may experience particularly large effects from pricing policies, as they spend a substantially higher proportion of their overall household expenditure on alcohol and tobacco than do households that purchase only one of the commodities.
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- Support can increase use of the AUDIT-C in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: a cluster randomized trial. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: Providing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services with training and support can improve alcohol (AUDIT-C) screening rates.
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- Adding vaping restrictions to smoke-free air laws: associations with conventional and electronic cigarette use. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: From 2014 to 2018, increased adoption of smoke-free worksite laws in the United States was associated with reductions in both current smoking and recent vaping, as well as increases in smoking cessation. Adding vaping restrictions to smoke-free worksite laws, however, was not associated with a reduction in recent vaping among emerging adults and may have attenuated the smoke-free policy's impact on current smoking in this age group.
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- Societal development and the alcohol-attributable burden of disease. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Comparison of e-cigarette use prevalence and frequency by smoking status among youth in the United States, 2014-19. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: E-cigarette use prevalence and frequency among youth vary by smoking status, with highest levels of use among current smokers. However frequent e-cigarette use among never smokers and former smokers has increased.
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- Modelling the number of avoidable new cancer cases in France attributable to alcohol consumption by following official recommendations: a simulation study. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: This simulation study of the French general population predicted that perfect adherence to the French government's alcohol consumption guidelines (no more than 10 standard alcoholic drinks per week and two per day) would prevent almost 16 000 cancer cases per year.
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- Availability of medical cannabis dispensaries and cannabis abuse/dependence-related hospitalizations in California. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: In California, USA, the increasing density of medical cannabis dispensaries appears to be positively associated with same-year but not next-year hospitalizations for cannabis use disorder.
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- Who would be targeted by increasing the legal age of sale of cigarettes from 18 to 21? A cross-sectional study exploring the number and characteristics of smokers in England. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 10 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: Increasing the age of sale of cigarettes to 21 years in England would currently target approximately 364 000 lower dependent smokers from more disadvantaged backgrounds aged 18-20, who have less motivation to quit.
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- Content analysis of cannabis vaping videos on YouTube. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 09 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: A large number of videos on cannabis vaping are available on-line without age-restriction. Videos that portrayed risky behaviour appear to be prevalent.
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- Co-using drugs-what do we need to know? [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Commentary on Kelly et al.: The struggle to define or be defined. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 07 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Commentary on Henssler et al.: The public health case for promoting and valuing drinking reductions in the treatment of alcohol use disorder. [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 07 [Online ahead of print]A
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- Social norms as a predictor of smoking uptake among youth: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of prospective cohort studies. [Review]Addiction. 2021 Feb 04 [Online ahead of print]A
- CONCLUSIONS: In this systematic review (narrative and meta-analysis), descriptive norms of parents' and close friends' smoking behaviour appeared to be consistent predictors of youth smoking initiation, more so than the descriptive norms of more distal social networks and injunctive norms.
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- How can we optimally channel therapeutic optimism to advance pharmacotherapy research on cocaine use disorder? [Journal Article]Addiction. 2021 Feb 03 [Online ahead of print]A
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