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Auteur J. MACLEOD |
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R. MELOTTI ; J. HERON ; M. HICKMAN ; J. MACLEOD ; R. ARAYA ; G. LEWIS |Objective: To examine the association between use of alcohol and cigarettes among adolescents and their early socioeconomic background. Methods: Members of a longitudinal birth cohort (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children [ALSPAC], Un[...]![]()
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A. I. STIBY ; M. HICKMAN ; M. R. MUNAFO ; J. HERON ; V. L. YIP ; J. MACLEOD |Aims: To investigate the relationship between cannabis and tobacco use by age 15 and subsequent educational outcomes. Design: Birth cohort study. Setting: England. Participants: The sample was drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents[...]![]()
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J. MACLEOD ; A. WHITTAKER ; J. R. ROBERTSON | 1998FRANÇAIS : Les prescriptions de méthadone et de dihydrocodéïne ont été évaluées entre 1990 et 1995, dans un groupe de 200 toxicomanes, 170 d'entre eux faisant l'objet d'une prescription d'opiacés ou de benzodiazépines. On n'observe pas de diff[...]![]()
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R. ROBERTSON ; A. McAULEY ; J. MACLEOD ; J. STRANG ; A. McCALLUM |The Royal College of Physicians calls for drug policy to shift from criminal justice to public health, but the recent response from the Home Office to the government's own advisory committee refuses to contemplate the introduction of safe inject[...]![]()
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SCHIER J. G. ; L. S. NELSON ; R. S. HOFFMAN ; P. CUMMINGS ; J. MACLEOD ; M. HICKMAN ; G. D. SMITH ; K. J. S. ANAND ; M. T. LYNSKEY ; D. J. STATHAM ; N. G. MARTIN ; HEATH A. C. ; K. K. BUCHOLZ ; P. A. F. MADDEN ; E. C. NELSON ; W. S. SLUTSKE | 2003FRANÇAIS : Lettres à l'éditeur à propos de l'étude de "Escalation of drug use in early-onset cannabis users vs co-twins controls" publié dans JAMA, 2003, 289, 427-433, remettant en cause les résultats de cette étude.![]()
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In the United Kingdom, as in many places, cannabis use is considered substantially within a criminal justice rather than a public health paradigm with prevention policy embodied in the Misuse of Drugs Act. In 2002 the maximum custodial sentence [...]![]()
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J. MACLEOD ; R. OAKES ; OPPENKOWSKI T. ; H. STOKES-LAMPARD ; A. COPELLO ; I. CROME ; G. D. SMITH ; M. EGGER ; M. HICKMAN ; A. JUDD | 2004ENGLISH : Recreational use of illicit drugs (i.e. use not associated with a diagnosed drug problem) may cause psychological and social harm. A recent systematic review found that evidence for this was equivocal. Extensive evidence was only ava[...]![]()
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J. HERON ; J. MACLEOD ; M. R. MUNAFO ; R. MELOTTI ; G. LEWIS ; K. TILLING ; M. HICKMAN |AIMS: Teenagers in the UK report some of the highest rates of alcohol use in Europe. We identify patterns of alcohol use in early adolescence and relate these to hazardous and harmful alcohol use at age 16. METHODS: In a UK birth cohort, we an[...]![]()
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M. TAYLOR ; S. M. COLLIN ; M. R. MUNAFO ; J. MACLEOD ; M. HICKMAN ; J. HERON |Background: Evidence on the role of cannabis as a gateway drug is inconsistent. We characterise patterns of cannabis use among UK teenagers aged 13-18 years, and assess their influence on problematic substance use at age 21 years. Methods: We u[...]![]()
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J. MACLEOD ; R. OAKES ; A. COPELLO ; I. CROME ; M. EGGER ; M. HICKMAN ; OPPENKOWSKI T. ; H. STOKES-LAMPARD ; G. DAVEY SMITH |BACKGROUND: Use of illicit drugs, particularly cannabis, by young people is widespread and is associated with several types of psychological and social harm. These relations might not be causal. Causal relations would suggest that recreational d[...]![]()
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R. CORNISH ; J. MACLEOD ; J. STRANG ; P. VICKERMAN ; M. HICKMAN |Objective To investigate the effect of opiate substitution treatment at the beginning and end of treatment and according to duration of treatment. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting UK General Practice Research Database Participants Pri[...]![]()
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M. FRISHER ; I. CROME ; J. MACLEOD ; D. MILLSON ; CROFT P. |Objectives: To quantify the relation between substance misuse and psychiatric illness in the UK general practice population in terms of (a) the relative risk of developing one condition given prior exposure to the other and (b) the proportion of[...]![]()
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M. HICKMAN ; C. STEER ; K. TILLING ; A. G. LIM ; J. MARSDEN ; T. MILLAR ; J. STRANG ; M. TELFER ; P. VICKERMAN ; J. MACLEOD |AIMS: To estimate whether opioid substitution treatment (OST) with buprenorphine or methadone is associated with a greater reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality (ACM) and opioid drug-related poisoning (DRP) mortality. DESIGN: Cohort stud[...]