Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center - Tobacco Research Genetics of nicotine addiction and Smoking Behavior Transdisciplinary TobaccoUse Research Center Molecular Epidemiology of secondary Lung Cancer Risk http://lombardi.georgetown.edu/research/tobacco/
Extractions: Tobacco Research at Lombardi Tobacco Investigators at Lombardi Georgetown University Collaborators Tobacco Research Resources ... Research Tobacco research at Lombardi spans behavioral, genetic, epidemiology, basic science and policy, with a specific focus on harm reduction. We adopt a transdisciplinary approach to the biobehavioral model for smoking behavior and harm. An important area of Lombardi's tobacco research is harm reduction as a method of reducing risk. What is harm reduction? Following are brief descriptions of the ongoing tobacco research studies at Lombardi. ADHD and Smoking Behavioral Research in the National Lung Screening Trial The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is a national study site for both the Prostate, Lung, Colon, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO) and the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). Both trials address major research questions about screening for lung cancer in current and former smokers. The principle investigator for the PLCO and NLST trials is Edward Gelmann, MD. Matthew Freedman, MD, MBA, is lead radiology investigator for PLCO and principal co-investigator of NLST at Georgetown University. The PLCO Trial is closed to accrual, but has randomized 155,000 men and women to screening versus observation. Included in the screening arm is an annual chest X-ray for lung cancer detection. NLST addresses the risks and efficacy of a new approach to lung cancer screening, use of spiral computerized tomography (CT). Participants in this trial were randomized to annual chest X-ray or spiral CT examinations for 3 years. This trial is also closed to accrual and screening of 50,000 participants is ongoing at Lombardi and other centers a cross the country.
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Extractions: The Healthy Schools Programme is a key part of the Government's drive to improve standards of health and education and to tackle health inequalities. Its aim is to make children, teachers, parents and communities more aware of the opportunities that exist in schools for improving health. The Government signaled its intention to help all schools become healthy schools in the White Paper, 'Excellence in Schools', produced by the Department for Education and Skills (DFES) in 1997. The Healthy Schools Programme was announced in the Department of Health's (DH) Green Paper 'Our Healthier Nation', and launched on 14th May 1998 by Ministers Tessa Jowell (Public Health) and Estelle Morris (School Standards). The National Healthy School Standard (formerly known as the National Healthy Schools Scheme) was proposed in the Green Paper 'Our Healthier Nation' in 1998. In this paper, the government identified the school as a setting to improve the health of children. In the government's view, a healthy school is in a key position to improve children's health and educational achievement, with the support of other agencies.
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Extractions: HealthHints topic index HealthHints issue date index Health Information for Texans FCS Home Volume 1, Number 9 - November, 1997 Editors: Carol A. Rice, Ph.D., RN, Professor and Extension Health Specialist, and Janet M. Pollard, MPH, Extension Associate-Health This month's health observance is the Great American Smokeout scheduled for Thursday, November 20, 1997. The Great American Smokeout, facilitated by the American Cancer society, is the day each year when smokers and non-smokers alike commit to keeping our society and our children smoke-free. For smokers, the Great American Smokeout is a day to prove to themselves that they can quit by putting up their cigarettes and other tobacco products for the day. Nonsmokers can join in the Smokeout by adopting relatives, friends, and co-workers to help them quit for the day. Students can join in the Great American SmokeScream in schools across the U.S.
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Public Policy Of ASAM: Nicotine Dependence And Tobacco The nicotine addiction epidemic is fueled in part by the low price of on wayshealth care professionals can help counter these influences. c) Teaching http://www.asam.org/ppol/Nicotine Dependence and Tobacco.htm
Extractions: Public Policy of ASAM Nicotine is the psychoactive drug in tobacco. Regular use of tobacco products leads to addiction in a high proportion of users. Nicotine dependence is the most common form of chemical dependence in the United States. This addiction is especially prevalent among those who suffer from alcoholism and from other drug dependencies. Nicotine dependence most often begins as a pediatric disease. In 1994, four million young people, aged 12-17 years, were current users of cigarettes. Three thousand youth become regular users each day, one-third of whom will eventually die from a cigarette- caused disease. The nicotine addiction epidemic is fueled in part by the low price of tobacco products, their ready availability to the underage (despite laws to the contrary), and the enormous marketing campaigns for these products (campaigns that are often very seductive and attractive to the young). In 1993, the cigarette industry spent $6.03 billion, or 25 cents per pack, on marketing, which makes this industry among the largest, if not the largest, provider of health-related information in the country. Cigarettes cause an enormous burden of illness, disability and death. In 1989, the cigarette caused more than 400,000 premature deaths in the United States and more than 3 million worldwide.
Public Policy Statements 1986-1990 b) Teaching of youth in the schools about the risks of addiction, The AmericanSociety of addiction Medicine (ASAM) recognizes nicotine dependence is http://www.asam.org/ppol/pubpol2.htm
Extractions: Public Policy Statements 1986-1990 How to Identify a Physician Recognized for Expertness in Diagnosis and Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependence February 1986 Mandatory Insurance Coverage April 1986 Clean Air Policy September 1986 Children of Parents Suffering from Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies February 1987 Transplantation February 1987 Highway Safety in Relation to Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies February 1987 Marijuana April 1987 April 1997 and October 1997 Nicotine Dependence and Tobacco April 1988, September 1989 and April 17, 1996 The Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs During Pregnancy November 1988 Measures to Counteract Prescription Drug Diversion February 1989 Nicotine Dependence: Documentation of Nicotine Dependence on Death Certificates, and Hospital Discharge Sheets April 1989 Returning to Work People Treated for Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies April 1989 Medical Care in Recovery September 1989 Chemically Dependent Women and Pregnancy September 1989 The Definition of Alcoholism (NCADD/ASAM) February 1990 Methadone Treatment April 1990 and November 1990 and October 1991 Reimbursement for the Treatment of Nicotine Dependence November 1990 Third-Party Coverage for Addiction Treatment November 1990 Managed Care and Addiction Medicine November 1990 How to Identify a Physician Recognized For Expertness in Diagnosis and Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependence A physician specialist in the treatment of alcoholism and other drug dependencies must: 1. Possess a current M.D. or D.O. license.
Tobacco And Smoking American Academy Of Family Physicians nicotine, a key ingredient in tobacco products, is an addictive drug. Treatment of and Reimbursement for Tobacco Use The AAFP supports health plan http://www.aafp.org/x7112.xml?printxml
Extractions: Substance and Alcohol Abuse and Addiction Tobacco use (cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, and other tobacco products) is documented as the leading preventable cause of death and illness in our nation. The number of deaths (more than 400,000 annually) caused by tobacco use is greater than the combined number of deaths due to AIDS, alcohol, automobile accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires. Nicotine, a key ingredient in tobacco products, is an addictive drug. Tobacco use by and around children and adolescents is of particular concern due to increased risk for addiction and passive exposure. Smoking is a known cause of cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Special dangers exist for specific subpopulations of smokers such as pregnant women who suffer higher rates of spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, premature births and low birth weight babies. The American Academy of Family Physicians: urges members to save lives by working toward elimination of all tobacco use;
THE FIGHT AGAINST TOBACCO ABUSE time teach youth about the traditional use of tobacco. and smokeless tobaccoaddiction and health hazards for themselves and their children. CESSATION http://www.niichro.com/Tobacco/Tobac4.html
Extractions: by Colette Vidal [Intro] [Protection] [Prevention] [Cessation] ... [Bibliography] Whereas the prevalence of tobacco use has declined in the general Canadian population in the last decade, the trends among the Native population are alarming . Apart from having much higher consumption rates for both smoke and smokeless tobacco, Native people also tend to start smoking earlier than non-Natives. In addition, there seems to be a certain lack of concern or awareness concerning the serious tobacco-related risks to the present and future health of many Native communities. Given the current levels of tobacco use among Native people, any effective reduction strategy will have to include at least three components, namely Protection, Prevention and Cessation. Since Environmental Tobacco Smoke (E.T.S.) is a serious health hazard to which non-smokers as well as smokers are continuously exposed, the first step is to ensure that the community has as many
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Extractions: Summary INTRODUCTION Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States (1). Illnesses caused by tobacco use increase demands on the U.S. health-care system; lost productivity amounts to billions of dollars annually (2-3). Because four out of every five persons who use tobacco begin before they reach adulthood (1), tobacco-prevention activities should focus on school-age children and adolescents. Evidence suggests that school health programs can be an effective means of preventing tobacco use among youth (4-7). The guidelines in this report have been developed to help school personnel plan, implement, and assess educational programs and school policies to prevent tobacco use and the unnecessary addiction, disease, and death tobacco use causes. Although these guidelines address school programs for kindergarten through 12th grade, persons working with youth in other settings also may find the guidelines useful. The guidelines are based on a synthesis of results of research, theory, and current practice in tobacco-use prevention. To develop these guidelines, CDC staff convened meetings of experts from the fields of tobacco-use prevention and education, reviewed published research, and considered the conclusions of the National Cancer Institute Expert Advisory Panel on School-Based Smoking Prevention Programs (4) and the findings of the 1994 Surgeon General's Report, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People (8).
1999 Curriculum nicotine addiction is as difficult, if not more difficult, The fact thathealth providers, class action, and individual litigation have been more and http://www.cfep.uci.edu/uci-sati/faculty/elizabeth_odasso_full.html
Extractions: Law and Morality Tobacco And Our Youth - Elizabeth "Nancy" Odasso, Saddleback High School Tobacco use leads to the death of more than four hundred thousand individuals each year in America. Life expectancy, which was 72.5 for males and 79.3 for females in the year 1995, was shortened by diseases such as cancer, pulmonary, heart and cerebrovascular disease. These diseases can be directly associated with cigarette smoking. An estimated 4.5 million children and adolescents are now smoking. Nadelmann feels, According to the Chronic Disease Preservation (CDC) the average age at which children try cigarettes is 11.6 years with children as young as eight years of age planning to or already having experimented with smoking. The National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse estimates that six thousand or more young people try their first cigarette daily, and three thousand become daily smokers each day. A student who is not a smoker by age 18 is unlikely to start as an adult. It seems that smokers in their teen years regret their decision to smoke and 66% say they want to quit, but it is too hard.
Prof. Anthony Rauhut, Ph.D. Awarded Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching from the ContinuingEducation Bupropion and secondary Motivational Effects of nicotine http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/rhp-vita.htm
Extractions: [ advanced search ] Mental Health Jobs Uk As a mental health nurse you are likely to be dealing with people of all ages and from a wide range of backgrounds. As your career develops you may choose to specialise in areas such as drugs and alcohol misuse or working with offenders. You could also become involved in education, research, or management roles. The key challenge for you as a mental health nurse is to use your specialist skills, and personal strengths, to help people come to terms with their problems. The important factors in this therapeutic relationship are the ability to listen and draw information out, and then to help people find means of coping with their problems. Involving family, friends and other contacts will often be part of your role. Another challenge is to identify if and when a person may be at risk of harming themselves or others; so one of the skills you'll learn is spotting the build-up of tension and ways of defusing it. Mental health nurses are also the most likely to be responsible for co-ordinating a patient's care in the community. You'll therefore find yourself liaising professionally with a wide range of other services including social workers, police, charities, local government and housing officials.
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Extractions: The Use Of Acupuncture To Treat Drug Addiction and The Development of an Acupuncture Training Program presented to the National Drug Abuse Conference, May 1977 by Mutulu Shakur, D. Ac Michael Smith, MD. Lincoln Detox Program 349 E. 140th St, Bronx N.Y. The Lincoln Detox Program has been using acupuncture to treat drug abuse problems for three years. We have helped more than one thousand patients. Acupuncture allows people addicted to heroin and methadone to detoxify more comfortably, more quickly, and with far less narcotic intake than with the standard method of methadone detoxification. Severe prolonged withdrawal symptoms of methadone addiction -such as insomnia, bone pain, depression are untreatable by any other means. Acupuncture also reduces craving for drugs by strengthening normal physiological processes and helping the person cope with anxiety in a relaxed manner. Acupuncture is considered a method of natural healing, because it works by stimulating the flow of natural health-giving energies in the body. In contrast, medication such as penicillin or methadone act by altering certain biological cells. Often the lightest touch of a finger is just as effective or more effective as an acupuncture treatment than relatively strong electrical stimulation. We cannot explain or understand acupuncture in the same way that we explain Western medical treatments. 10mg. of morphine has a predictable effect on the perception of pain all over the body. Stimulation of the Ho Ku point on the hand does not have the same kind of predictable effect. Differences in the balance of body energy flow will have a great effect on the results of Ho Ku stimulation. Acupuncture therapists can never rely on standardized treatment plans but always must discover the day-to-day changes in the patients energy flow.
Extractions: Finally, after a time, the new habit becomes dispensible and as strong and habitual as the placed previous undesirable habit was. The Stimulation and Depression Mechanism The key which unlocks the mystery of why most habits are difficult to break lies in the understanding of the stimulation and depression mechanism. Once this is thoroughly grasped, we are greatly strengthened to cope with the reactions and feelings which occur as soon as we begin to try to change a habit.
RISE / Programs & Resources View animated clip of nicotine and ion channels (3.8MB) NIDA teaching packetsfor teachers, neuroscientists, and other health care professionals http://www.rise.duke.edu/resources.html
Extractions: PEP is a partnership with Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and biology and chemistry teachers to produce and share standards-based inquiry teaching materials and activities with high school teachers. The purpose is to provide biology and chemistry teachers with practical applications of basic concepts from both biology and chemistry disciplines using pharmacology topics of interest to high school students. Funded by a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse , this curriculum has been tested nationwide in over 15,000 students; results show that students perform better when they use the modules. Professional development for teachers to use the program is provided by the RISE staff. A-PEP is a parallel curriculum to PEP, but devoted to alcohol. This high school program includes a series of modules that presents basic concepts of biology and chemistry in the context of alcohol pharmacology. Funded by a science education award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , recruitment for high school teachers to contribute to development and field-testing begins next year.
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