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Prevalence and appropriateness of psychotropic medication prescribing in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of male and female prisoners in England. (2016)
Journal Article
Hassan, L., Senior, J., Webb, R. T., Frisher, M., Tully, M. P., While, D., & Shaw, J. J. (2016). Prevalence and appropriateness of psychotropic medication prescribing in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of male and female prisoners in England. BMC Psychiatry, 16, Article 346. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1055-7

BACKGROUND: Mental illness is highly prevalent among prisoners. Although psychotropic medicines can ameliorate symptoms of mental illness, prescribers in prisons must balance clinical needs against risks to safety and security. Concerns have been rai... Read More about Prevalence and appropriateness of psychotropic medication prescribing in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of male and female prisoners in England..

Title: Melatonin, hypnotics and their association with fracture: a matched cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Frisher, M., Gibbons, N., Bashford, J., Chapman, S., & Weich, S. (2016). Title: Melatonin, hypnotics and their association with fracture: a matched cohort study. Age and ageing, 45(6), 801-806. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw123

Objectives
although melatonin prescribing in England has been increasing in recent years, there have been no large scale studies on the safety of melatonin compared to other medical treatments for insomnia. The primary aim of this study was to exami... Read More about Title: Melatonin, hypnotics and their association with fracture: a matched cohort study.

Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., Mendonça, M., Pikhart, H., Frisher, M., de Oliveira, C., & Shelton, N. (2016). Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 70(8), 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206949

Background Older people who drink have been shown to have better health than those who do not. This might suggest that moderate drinking is beneficial for health, or, as considered here, that older people modify their drinking as their health deterio... Read More about Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Decision support in addiction: the development of an e-health tool to assess and prevent risk of fatal overdose, the ORION project (2016)
Journal Article
Baldacchino, A., Crocamo, C., Humphris, G., Neufeind, J., Frisher, M., Scherbaum, N., & Carrà, G. (2016). Decision support in addiction: the development of an e-health tool to assess and prevent risk of fatal overdose, the ORION project. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 133, 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.05.018

Background and objective
The application of e-health technology to the field of substance use disorders is at a relatively early stage, and methodological quality is still variable. Few have explored the extent of utilization of communication techno... Read More about Decision support in addiction: the development of an e-health tool to assess and prevent risk of fatal overdose, the ORION project.