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Drinking and College Don’t Mix

Heavy drinking worsens academic performance, in part by disrupting students’ sleep schedules.

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Laws on Alcohol Availability Might Reduce Suicide Rates

If it works in Slovenia, could it work here? CME

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Schizophrenia-Associated Violence and Comorbid Substance Abuse

The risk for violence is small in the absence of substance abuse.

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Is Any Amount of Prenatal Alcohol Consumption Safe?

A community-based study and two animal studies show the detrimental effect of prenatal alcohol on development.

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Intensive Efforts Could Improve Smoking-Cessation RateFree

Both outreach programs and the intense cessation programs affect the proportion of smokers who succeed in quitting. Interview

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE WATCH

USPSTF Reaffirms Recommendations to Screen for Tobacco Use and to Intervene

For adults (and pregnant women especially) the benefits of smoking-cessation counseling far outweigh any harms.

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Cocaine-Related Chest Pain: The Year AfterFree

During 1 year after an ED visit for low-risk cocaine-related chest pain, patients had a very low rate of MI but a high rate of repeat ED visits, often for cocaine-related chest pain.

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Benefits of a Housing Intervention for Chronically Homeless Alcoholics

A housing intervention reduced use and costs of healthcare and public services; longer stays in housing were associated with greater benefits.

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Pregnant? Quitting Smoking Early MattersFree

Rates of preterm delivery and small-for-gestational-age babies were similar in women who quit smoking before 15 weeks’ gestation and in nonsmokers. CME

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Do You Drink Because You’re Depressed, or Are You Depressed Because You Drink?

Sophisticated statistical modeling of longitudinal data suggests that alcohol misuse causes depression more than depression causes alcohol misuse.

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