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  1. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): reliability and validity of the Greek version
    George Moussas, Georgia Dadouti, Athanassios Douzenis, Evangelos Poulis, Athanassios Tzelembis, Dimitris Bratis, et al. in Annals of General Psychiatry (2009)
    Background: Problems associated with alcohol abuse are recognised by the World Health Organization as a major health issue, which according to most recent estimations is responsible for 1.4% of the total world burden of morbidity and has been proven…
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  2. Myocardial antioxidant status in chronic alcoholism.
    Francesc Fatjó, Joaquim Fernández-Solà, Meritxell Lluís, Montserrat Elena, Eva Badía, Emilio Sacanella, et al. in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (2005)
    BACKGROUND: Excessive ethanol intake is one of the most frequent causes of acquired dilated cardiomyopathy in developed countries. The pathogenesis is multifactorial, with the antioxidant imbalance of cardiac muscle being a potential factor. The…
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  3. Status of methamphetamine users 2-5 years after outpatient treatment.
    Richard A Rawson, Alice Huber, Paul Brethen, Jeanne Obert, Vikas Gulati, Steven Shoptaw, in Journal of Addictive Diseases (2002)
    Increasing numbers of methamphetamine users sought treatment during the decade of the 1990s. Little is known about the post treatment status of methamphetamine users who enter treatment. The data presented in this paper describe the outcome status…
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  5. Smoking cessation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial.
    D Tashkin, R Kanner, W Bailey, S Buist, P Anderson, M Nides, et al. in Lance (2001)
    BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in more than 80% of cases. Our aim was to investigate the effect of sustained-release bupropion (amfebutamone) (SR) in promoting abstinence from smoking in…
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  6. The effect of alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on drinking behaviour in young people: systematic review of prospective cohort studies
    Lesley A Smith, David R Foxcroft in BMC Public Health (2009)
    Background: The effect of alcohol portrayals and advertising on the drinking behaviour of young people is a matter of much debate. We evaluated the relationship between exposure to alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on subsequent drinking…
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  7. The smoking cessation efficacy of varying doses of nicotine patch delivery systems 4 to 5 years post-quit day.
    D M Daughton, S P Fortmann, E D Glover, D K Hatsukami, S A Heatley, E Lichtenstein, et al. in Preventive Medicine (1999)
    BACKGROUND: This study was undertaken to evaluate the long-term smoking cessation efficacy of varying doses of transdermal nicotine delivery systems 4 to 5 years post-quit day. METHODS: A follow-up study was conducted 48 to 62 months after quit day…
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  8. No health without mental health
    Martin Prince, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena, Mario Maj, Joanna Maselko, Michael R Phillips, in The Lancet (2007)
    About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Such…
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  10. Cognitive coping skills and depression vulnerability among cigarette smokers.
    David A F Haaga, Frances P Thorndike, Dara G Friedman-Wheeler, Michelle Y Pearlman, Rachel A Wernicke in Addictive Behaviors (2004)
    Cigarette smokers vulnerable to depression experience considerable difficulty in quitting smoking, possibly because they use smoking to manage negative affect and possess underdeveloped alternative coping skills for doing so. Efforts to adapt…
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  12. The effects of alcohol on the heart.
    C D Spies, M Sander, K Stangl, J Fernandez-Sola, V R Preedy, E Rubin, et al. in Current Opinion in Critical Care (2001)
    We have discussed in this review many features and possible mechanisms responsible for the development of alcoholic cardiomyopathy. The evidence suggests that defects in myofibrillar protein turnover occur in both acute and chronic alcohol studies.…
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  13. Integrating smoking cessation into mental health care for post-traumatic stress disorder.
    Miles McFall, Andrew J Saxon, Surai Thaneemit-Chen, Mark W Smith, Anne M Joseph, Timothy P Carmody, et al. in Clinical trials London England (2007)
    BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a high prevalence of smoking, heavy cigarette consumption and low cessation rates. PURPOSE: This manuscript describes the design of a randomized, multisite effectiveness trial to…
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  14. Primary and secondary substance misusers: do they differ in substance-induced and substance-independent mental disorders?
    K Bakken, A S Landheim, P Vaglum in Alcohol and alcoholism Oxford Oxfordshire (2003)
    AIMS: This study evaluated the primary/secondary distinction among substance misusers according to comorbid mental disorders. METHODS: A consecutive sample (n = 287) of DSM-IV substance dependents from public treatment facilities in two counties in…
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  15. Evidence of real-world effectiveness of a telephone quitline for smokers.
    Shu-Hong Zhu, Christopher M Anderson, Gary J Tedeschi, Bradley Rosbrook, Cynthia E Johnson, Michael Byrd, in The New England Journal of Medicine (2002)
    BACKGROUND: Telephone services that offer smoking-cessation counseling (quitlines) have proliferated in recent years, encouraged by positive results of clinical trials. The question remains, however, whether those results can be translated into…
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  20. Smoking cessation approaches for persons with mental illness or addictive disorders.
    Nady El-Guebaly, Janice Cathcart, Shawn Currie, Diane Brown, Susan Gloster in Psychiatric services Washington DC (2002)
    OBJECTIVE: Persons with psychiatric illnesses are about twice as likely as the general population to smoke tobacco. They also tend to smoke more heavily than other smokers. This critical review of the literature identified 24 empirical studies of…
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