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Hard drug use in Norway
(Journal article, 2010)Background: Hard drug use has a variety of heavy personal, social and economic costs. Knowing the size of the hard drug use population, the types of drugs consumed and modes of consumption can help policy makers design ... -
Heavy episodic drinking and deliberate self-harm in young people: a longitudinal cohort study
(Journal article, 2014)The aim was to assess the association between heavy episodic drinking (HED) and deliberate self-harm (DSH) in young people in Norway. We analysed data on past-year HED and DSH from the second (1994) and third (1999) waves ... -
Heroin smoking and heroin using trends in Norway
(Journal article, 2010)Background: Hard drug use has a variety of heavy personal, social and economic costs. Knowing the size of the hard drug use population, the types of drugs consumed and modes of consumption can help policy makers design ... -
How has the availability of snus influenced cigarette smoking in Norway?
(Journal article, 2014)In Norway, low-nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (snus) is allowed to compete with cigarettes for market share. We aimed to study how the availability of snus influenced overall tobacco consumption, smoking initiation and ... -
Hva er avhengighet? Et forsøk på en begrepsavklaring
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Illicit use of opioid substitution drugs: Prevalence, user characteristics, and the association with non-fatal overdoses
(Journal article, 2014)Diversion of opioid substitution drugs (OSD) is of public concern. This study examined the prevalence, frequency, and predictors of illicit OSD use in a group of injecting drug users (IDUs) and assessed if such use was ... -
Is drinking with parents associated with high-risk drinking among adolescents
(Journal article, 2015)What are the implications of drinking with parents (DWP) on adolescents' drinking behavior? We expanded the meagre body of research on this controversial issue by assessing the association between the frequency of DWP and ... -
Is opioid substitution treatment beneficial if injecting behaviour continues?
(Journal article, 2013)Opioid substitution treatment (OST) is recognised as an effective treatment for opioid dependence. Still, a subgroup of OST users continues to inject drugs. This study examines health risks and criminal activity in a ... -
Is video gaming, or video game addiction, associated with depression, academic achievement, heavy episodic drinking, or conduct problems?
(Journal article, 2014)While the relationships between videogame use and negative consequences are debated, the relationships between videogame addiction and negative consequences are fairly well established. However, previous studies suffer ... -
Limited cash flow on slot machines : effects of prohibition of note acceptors on adolescent gambling behaviour
(Journal article, 2010)This study addresses the impact of prohibition of note acceptors on gambling behaviour and gambling problems among Norwegian adolescents. Data comprised school surveys at three time points; 2004 and 2005 (before intervention) ... -
Liver fibrosis progression at autopsy in injecting drug users infected by hepatitis C: A longitudinal long-term cohort study
(Journal article, 2014)There is a paucity of unbiased data on the natural history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in injecting drug users (IDUs). The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of developing advanced fibrosis associated ... -
Mortality among drug users after discharge from inpatient treatment: An 8-year prospective study
(Journal article, 2010)Background: Drug users who are leaving/completing inpatient medication-free treatment may, like drug users released from prison, have an elevated risk of dying from fatal overdoses. This is mainly explained by their low ... -
Narkotikastraffens verdiregnskap
(Journal article, 2009)Straff er påføring av lidelse og krever en moralsk begrunnelse. Skjælaaen drøfter i artikkelen om dagens strenge narkotikastraffer kan forsvares ut fra etiske teorier, og har et særlig fokus på teorier som legger vekt på ... -
Norsk rusmiddelforskning - styrt eller styrende?
(Journal article, 2010)Bakgrunnen for Bakliens artikkel er en debatt om avkriminalisering av cannabis som startet høsten 2009. Her ble SIRUS anklaget for å ha vært unnvikende når det gjelder å ta tak i narkotikapolitiske spørsmål. Forklaringen ... -
Not Early Drinking but Early Drunkenness Is a Risk Factor for Problem Behaviors Among Adolescents from 38 European and North American Countries
(Journal article, 2013)Many studies have reported that the earlier the age at first drink (AFDrink) the higher the later drinking levels and related problems. However, unless adolescents proceed into drunkenness, it is unclear why consuming small ... -
Overlap in attitudes to policy measures on alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs
(Journal article, 2015)Effective alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug policies reduce the harm to users and third parties. Knowledge about determinants and interrelations between attitudes held by the general public to different types of policy ... -
Perceptions of relative risk of disease and addiction from cigarettes and snus
(Journal article, 2014)The public is largely unaware of the lower global risk associated with snus compared to that of cigarettes, but little is known of perceptions of relative risks for specific diseases. Inveterate, daily and non-daily smokers’ ... -
Persistence motives in irrational decisions to complete a boring task
(Journal article, 2014)We explored a novel task paradigm where participants from the online work marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk were given the choice to quit or continue an unfinished boring task for identical economic rewards. In Studies ... -
Personality, risk cognitions and motivation related to demand of risk mitigation in transport among Norwegians
(Journal article, 2014)There is insufficient knowledge regarding the role of personality traits, transport-related risk cognitions and safety motivation for demand for transport risk mitigation. The aim of this study is to test a model aimed to ... -
Predicting attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy: using a model of distal and proximal predictors
(Journal article, 2014)Previous research on attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy has mainly focused on variables such as demographics and own drinking as possible predictors. The present article adds to the existing literature by examining ...