Addiction
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Several countries have followed the US example in publishing national guidelines on smoking cessation interventions. Gauging responses to these guidelines can provide important lessons for future implementation and revision internationally. This study sought to assess General Practitioners' (GPs') views on recently published English smoking cessation guidelines that form the foundation of the UK National Health Service's smoking cessation strategy. ⋯ There was greater acceptance by GPs that they should assist smokers wanting to stop than that they should routinely monitor smoking status and give opportunistic advice to patients to stop. Given that opportunistic advice is a cornerstone of the national guidelines there is a need to find ways of reconciling what is being recommended and what GPs feel is appropriate.
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To identify the morbidity, type of substance used and the pattern of presentation by adolescents with problems related to alcohol or other drug (AOD) use. ⋯ Given the small window of opportunity to provide AOD treatment to youth following hospital presentation, a number of suggestions are made. From a harm-minimization perspective the focus of interventions should be on alcohol use by male youth and DSH associated with prescription/over-the-counter drug use by female adolescents. In addition, Indigenous youth are over-represented in hospital presentations, but there is currently a lack of evaluated interventions designed for them.