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Original version, in color, is here on open access:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012560/#!po=3.19149

Threats from Future Epidemics

Link to podcast of NIAID Director

Not epidemics of novel psychoactive drugs?

Can we treat our way out of this epidemic (without primary prevention and prevescalation)?

link to article

Link to article

Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016

1. Hawre Jalal1, 
2. Jeanine M. Buchanich2, 
3. Mark S. Roberts1, 
4. Lauren C. Balmert2,4, 
5. Kun Zhang5, 
6. Donald S. Burke3,*

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Science  21 Sep 2018:
Vol. 361, Issue 6408, eaau1184
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1184

Modeling opioid policies

Useful examples of how survey estimates can go wrong.

West Virginia election Sept 2018

One of Bruce Dohrenwend’s Classic Articles

Deserves careful study.

BD’s Rema LaPouse Lecture

A quibble: This “three generation” model requires us to ignore the pioneering field surveys of early Norway, which pre-dated the work of Jarvis cited here as ‘first generation’ work. (They are dismissed as key informant surveys.) As well as the work of A.J. Rosenau (1916-17), which was not just a key informant survey. It had a two-stage design of the type we laid out for Mini-Mental and DIS studies of the 1980-85 era (following clues from Scott Henderson and Paul Duncan-Jones Australia study of life events), but Rosenau had no rigorous random sample of all participants.

e-health assessment tool collection

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Still more on cannabis

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Link to this article.

More on cannabis: A different qualitative research approach

Link to Bing queries approach

More on cannabis: A different qualitative research approach

Link to Bing queries approach

Qualitative research on cannabis

Link to full open access article.

Useful for several reasons, including the set and setting concepts that resonate with public health’s host and environment elements of the ‘epidemiological triad.’

The NIH project abstract:

Cannabis videos - not exactly a balanced curation

Videos link

Recovery article

New York Times September 1, 2018