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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 ... -
Premeditated automaticity: the role of explicit cognition in the development of obsessive smoking
(Journal article, 2010)Abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of explicit cognitions in relation to the development of obsessive smoking passion. Data derives from a longitudinal internet survey conducted among 939 ... -
Self-reports of consumption of amphetamines, cocaine and heroin in a survey among marginalized drug users
(Journal article, 2014)Scientific literature offers few measurements of the quantities consumed by individual drug users. Such measurements are used for calculating the total drug consumption by the quantity-frequency method, and are extremely ... -
Sigaretter, snus og status: om livstilssforskjeller mellom brukergrupper av ulike tobakksprodukter
(Journal article, 2013)Røyking har i løpet av noen tiår gått fra å være en utbredt vane til å bli en avvikerhandling, og dagens tobakkspolitikk preges av løpende denormalisering av alle former for tobakksbruk. Likevel fortsetter mange å bruke ... -
Skole, barnehage, barneverntjeneste - bilder av ”de andre” hindrer samarbeid
(Journal article, 2009)Barnevernet mottar få bekymringsmeldinger fra skoler og barnehager. Denne artikkelen går bakenfor spørsmålene om hvem som har skylden eller ansvaret, og ser på samarbeidsbarrierene, hva de består i, og hvordan de kan bygges ... -
Smoking and snus use onset: Exploring the influence of snus debut age on the risk for smoking uptake with cross-sectional survey data
(Journal article, 2014)Snus use has become increasingly prevalent among young people in Norway, while smoking has declined. Little is known about the transitions between snus and other tobacco products, particularly for younger users. A major ... -
Street-level alcohol policy: Assessing intoxication at drinking venues in Oslo
(Journal article, 2014)This article examines liquor inspectors' assessment of intoxication at drinking establishments in Norway. It draws upon Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucrats (1980) to study a situation where laws and informal norms ...