West coast and East coast of the U.S. are very different, people always told me. West coast was my home for 6 months - spring and summer. At the
Saying bye slowly makes parting easier
Last days of my INVEST fellowship Visiting research scholars make new friends quickly and parting is not always easy for them. I said bye in
Doing research with busy doctors – an open space world
Family doctors are notoriously busy. Lack of their time is the number #1 barrier of doing anything outside their patient workload, including research.
Relationships of drug users change, but slowly
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Helping agonist patients with alcohol problems: A NEW guide for primary care staff
What should doctors do differently when screening for alcohol use and delivering brief interventions for agonist patients in primary care? General
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I was in San Diego (CA) 9 years ago. We went there with my wife, then a girlfriend, on a J1 Student work & travel programme. We worked as pedicab
Square peg in a round hole: You can’t always do a meta-analysis.
"As they say in the West of Ireland, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole*. If some trials in your systematic review are like that round hole
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Among the Top 5 conferences in the Addiction field worldwide, the SSA symposium (http://www.addiction-ssa.org/) came to pass last week in York (UK).
Submitting ethics for new research: killing so many trees
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