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1. Multiple psychological senses of community and community influences on personal recovery processes from substance use problems in later life: a collaborative and deductive reflexive thematic analysis

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Nina Kavita Heggen Bahl, Emil Øversveen, Morten Brodahl, Hilde Eileen Nafstad, Rolv Mikkel Blakar, Anne Signe Landheim, and Kristin Tømmervik

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community, later life, psychological sense of community, recovery, substance use problems, qualitative methodology, Medicine (General), R5-920
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Purpose There is a pressing need for substance use services to know more about how to promote recovery from substance use problems, particularly in later life. Psychological sense of community (PSOC) is an important recovery dimension. This study aims to clarify in what ways PSOC and communities influence later life recovery processes. Method A collaborative and deductive reflexive thematic approach was used to analyse 23 interviews with older adults in recovery from different substance use problems. Results The findings suggest that PSOC and recovery in later life include multiple communities (relational, geographical, substance use-related, ideal and service-related) and affective states (PSOC and NPSOC). Older adults’ recovery, moreover, can be described as personal and heterogenic (with respect to community relationships, individual needs, type of substance use problem, age of onset and meaningful activities). Conclusions The findings confirm age of onset, type of substance use problem and community memberships as essential to later life recovery. They also supplement prior evidence on community resources and challenges to later life recovery. Importantly, the new findings extend and nuance current understandings of later life recovery. Taken together, the article illustrates MPSOC as a useful concept, with central practical and theoretical implications for later life recovery.

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2023
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2. Phosphatidylethanol as blood biomarker of alcohol consumption in early pregnancy: An observational study in 4067 pregnant women

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Kristin Finserås, Trine N Løkken, Rolf W. Gråwe, Kristin Tømmervik, Ragnhild Bergene Skråstad, Trine Finanger, Olav Spigset, Kjell Å. Salvesen, Trine Naalsund Andreassen, Vibeke S Langaas, Trond Aamo, and Guro E Bratt

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Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Alcohol Drinking, Population, Fetal alcohol syndrome, 030508 substance abuse, Medicine (miscellaneous), Glycerophospholipids, Toxicology, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Prevalence, medicine, Humans, education, Whole blood, education.field_of_study, Norway, business.industry, Obstetrics, medicine.disease, Pregnancy Complications, Psychiatry and Mental health, chemistry, Biomarker (medicine), Gestation, Female, Observational study, Phosphatidylethanol, Pregnancy Trimesters, 0305 other medical science, business, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Background: The teratogenic effects of alcohol are well documented, but there is a lack of screening methods to detect alcohol use during pregnancy. Phosphatidylethanol 16:0/18:1 (PEth) is a specific and sensitive biomarker reflecting alcohol intake up to several weeks after consumption. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of positive PEth values as an indicator of early prenatal alcohol exposure in a general population of pregnant women. Methods: Rhesus typing is routinely performed in Norway in all pregnancies around gestational week 12. Rhesus-negative women have an additional test taken around week 24. Blood samples submitted to St. Olav University Hospital in Trøndelag, Norway, for Rhesus typing during the period September 2017 to October 2018 were collected. A total of 4,533 whole blood samples from 4,067 women were analyzed for PEth (limit of quantification of 0.003 µM). Results: Fifty-eight women had a positive PEth sample. Of these, 50 women were positive around gestational week 12, 3 women were positive around week 24, and in 5 cases, the timing was unknown. There were no significant differences in proportions of women with positive PEth values related to age, or rural versus urban residency. Conclusion: In an unselected pregnant population in Norway, 1.4% had a positive PEth sample around gestational week 12, whereas 0.4% had a positive sample around week 24. The use of PEth as an alcohol biomarker should be further investigated as a diagnostic tool in the antenatal setting. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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2021

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