The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries…

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Blog Watch: Dartmouth Critique Sparks Controversy Kaiser Health News Controversy erupted across several blogs yesterday following a critical New York Times article of the Dartmouth Atlas Project, an influential body of research that shows huge geographic variations in the amount of care that hospitals and doctors provide…

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that all the states and the District of Columbia have continued to meet their goals of curtailing sales of tobacco to underage youth (those under 18)…

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Jo Webber, deputy director of policy and director of the Ambulance Service Network at the NHS Confederation, responds to NICE guidance on reducing alcohol-related harm. She said: “Given the facts it is hard to ignore the call made by NICE for a national minimum unit price for alcohol. “Treatment available on the [...] Read more »

A new study from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA suggests that increasing cigarette taxes could be an effective way to reduce smoking among individuals with alcohol, drug or mental disorders. The study, published online in the American Journal of Public Health, found that a 10 percent increase in cigarette pricing resulted in [...] Read more »

On an average day, 508,000 adolescents aged 12-17 in the United States drink alcohol; 641,000 use illicit drugs; and more than 1 million smoke cigarettes, according to a national survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)…

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There have been reports in the media that Head Shop owners may seek to circumvent the new controls by importing other substances that are currently not subject to the Misuse of Drugs Act. The Minister for Health & Children has indicated that she will not hesitate to seek Government approval to ban additional substances if [...] Read more »

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and regulations made thereunder regulate and control the import, export, production, supply and possession of a range of named narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances listed in the Schedules to the Act. An Order of the Government is necessary to declare additional substances to be “controlled drugs” for the purposes [...] Read more »

Alcohol needs to be less affordable and less easy to buy if we are to save thousands of lives each year, says new guidance from NICE. Around 1 in 4 men and women are currently drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol that are causing, or have the potential to cause, physical and mental damage…

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The NHS must improve how it treats people with physical health problems caused by alcohol misuse, says the organisation responsible for setting the standards for good healthcare…

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