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1 month ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Shane Darke |Michael Farrell |Wayne Hall |Julia M Lappin
The term ‘deaths of despair’ has gained a great deal of currency. Although postulated from concern and with good intent, the term is misguided in theory, unsupported in fact and misinforming in its implications. The term ‘deaths of despair’ gained a great deal of currency as shorthand for three causes of death—drug overdoses, suicides and alcohol-related liver disease [1].
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Carmen Lim |Hannah Wilson |Wayne Hall |Eloise Lawrie
Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. ReferencesAustralian Government (2016) Narcotic Drugs Amendment Act 2016. Available at: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2016A00012/latest/text (accessed 7 September 2024). Australian Government (2017) Guidance for the Use of Medicinal Cannabis in Australia: Patient Information.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
pumpsandsystems.com | Wayne Hall |Amin Almasi
It is imperative to know what materials are being used for equipment repair. According to the International Energy Agency, globally, the combination of all kinds of motor electricity demand is estimated to be about 45%, with the United States, China and the European Union leading the way. Recognizing the significance of high-quality electric motors in production raises the question: How does rewinding an electric motor impact its efficiency and longevity?
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Wayne Hall
Australia's prescription model should be replaced by a more practicable, tightly regulated consumer sales model that restricts sales to adults. I thank the commentators for their thoughtful responses to my article [1]. Sharon Cox [2] agrees that Australia's prescription model has not achieved its aims. She highlights its adverse effects on social equity because smoking in Australia and other countries is increasingly concentrated among the most socially disadvantaged.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Wayne Hall
INTRODUCTION In 2011 Australia used pre-existing poisons regulations to ban the retail sale and use of e-cigarettes that contained nicotine without a medical prescription [1]. The aims of the policy were to prevent youth uptake of vaping that may serve as a gateway to smoking, to protect the health of vapers and to ensure that e-cigarettes did not threaten the success of Australia's tobacco control policies [2].
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tianze Sun |Daniel Stjepanovic |Giang Vu |Wayne Hall
INTRODUCTION Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered by many applied researchers as the gold standard for causal inference [1]. With a sufficiently large sample size, randomizing participants to treatment or control (placebo) conditions ensures that, in a probabilistic sense, all pre-treatment variables, measured or unmeasured, are similarly distributed across conditions up to the time of randomization. This theoretically allows the treatment effect to be isolated.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Wayne Hall |Shane Darke |Michael Farrell
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Do we need clinical trials of high dose stimulant agonist treatment for stimulant use disorders? Wayne Hall, Corresponding Author Wayne Hall The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Correspondence Wayne Hall, The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
tdworld.com | Wayne Hall
In recent years, power grids and utility networks across the globe have undergone unparalleled amounts of stress and are today experiencing issues never seen before to this degree. Extreme temperatures, unprecedented natural disasters, increased global energy consumption and aging utility networks are just a few of the many elements causing major issues within power grid networks worldwide.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Wayne Hall
Bradford Hill’s 1965 paper on environment and disease is widely cited in the addiction and public health fields as an authoritative source on how to draw causal inferences from evidence of associations provided by observational studies. It is an historically important paper, but it is often used in ways that Bradford Hill disavowed.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
adn.com | Wayne Hall
Alaska Fish and Game, or ADFG, said its proposal to shoot bears from helicopters was available in January 2022, that their Proposal 21 was legal public notice for their aerial killing of 94 brown bears. But Proposal 21 was to kill wolves, with no mention of brown and black bears. That proposal’s purpose: “Establish a second predation control area for Mulchatna caribou on federal lands.” But predator control is prohibited on federal land. No way would that happen.
