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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510019

Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Asian Substance-Dependent Patients: MMSE versus MoCA

Victoria Manning, Brenda Gomez, Song Guo, Kim Eng Wong, Pryseley N Assam and Edwin Shih-Yen Chan

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: June 20, 2016

Cognitive Impairment (CI) is common and associated with poor outcomes among substance-dependent patients. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a screening tool for CI has demonstrated superiority over the routinely used Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) in multiple clinical populations, yet is rarely used in addiction settings or studies. The current study describes the performance of the two instruments in a sample of Asian substance-dependent patients....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510018

Alcoholism and Alcoholic Psychoses Trends in Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Y E Razvodovsky

Article Type: Letter to the Editor | First Published: April 19, 2016

The aim of the present paper was to discuss the trends in the incidence of alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses in late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia in relation to social changes, quality of health care and the laws regulating production and sales of alcohol. Here we specified the number of alcohol dependent patients without alcoholic psychoses and the number of alcohol dependent patients with alcoholic psychoses, witches was admitted to hospital for the first time as incidence of alcoholism and ...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510017

Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax: A Rare Presentation of Synthetic Cannabinoids Toxicity

Marvin Louis Roy Lu, Sana Mazher, Andres Mora Carpio and Anita Govil

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 07, 2016

Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) are chemically produced analogs of natural cannabinoids and are blended with herbs to appear as a natural product. They are typically marketed as "Cloud 9", "k2", "spice", "chill X", and "crazy monkey" among many others depending on their herbal blend....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510016

Free from Homelessness: Is 'Housing First' the Solution? - A Comparison with the 'Staircase Model'. A Feasibility Study

Hakan Kallmen and Mats Blid

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 28, 2016

Homelessness is as large political question globally as it is in Sweden with a growing number of homeless. "Housing First" is a municipality based program aiming to offer stable and enduring housing to homeless people immediately. This model was imported to Sweden and was tried in Stockholm and Helsingborg, a provincial town in the southwest of Sweden. This prevailing study is to test the feasibility of making longitudinal studies on homeless individuals....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510015

Missed Opportunities: The Limited Utilization of Alcohol Abstinence Medications

Gwen Levitt

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: March 01, 2016

There is a high rate of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in the United States and this poses a substantial burden on the medical system due to health complications. Medications to treat AUDs have been proven to have efficacy in reducing the number of drinking days, amount of alcohol consumed at a time, and in achieving overall abstinence from alcohol. Medicare studies, as well as other researchers, have shown that alcohol abstinence medications (AAMs) are underutilized....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3631/1510014

Clustering Alcohol Use Behavior: State Socioeconomic Conditions, Alcohol Policy and Individual Regular Alcohol Use in the US

Tulshi D Saha, Roger Pickering, Bridget F Grant

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: February 29, 2016

This multilevel study examined whether state-level variations existed in the prevalence of regular alcohol use in the US after controlling for individual characteristics, evaluating the contribution of both individual socio-economic status, and state economic and alcohol policy in explaining alcohol use behavior using data from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions and data from the U.S. Census and National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism State P...

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