Addiction
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To identify in-patient emergency admissions to acute hospitals of residents from a health board region in the Republic of Ireland with an acute alcohol intoxication diagnosis; to profile the admissions and to assess whether the increase in alcohol consumption in Ireland has been mirrored by an increase in alcohol related emergency admissions over the same time period. ⋯ This study shows that alcohol intoxication accounted for a substantial number of emergency in-patient admissions to acute hospitals in one health board region in Ireland and that the age standardized recorded acute alcohol related emergency admission rate increased significantly over the 5-year period, 1997-2001. This increase mirrored the national increase in alcohol consumption over the same time period.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Randomized controlled trial of brief cognitive-behavioural interventions for insomnia in recovering alcoholics.
To test the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural approach to treating disturbed sleep in abstinent alcoholics. ⋯ Recovering alcoholics with insomnia can achieve better sleep by applying cognitive-behavioural strategies.
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To identify the prevalence, patterns and trends of illicit drug use in the general population of selected high-prevalence areas in China between 1993 and 2000. ⋯ At least for the time being, illicit drug use may have plateaued in these selected high-prevalence areas.