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Editorials

The impact of alcohol-related presentations in the emergency department and the wider policy debate

Taisia Huckle, Sally Casswell, Sarah Greenaway

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Off-label use of quetiapine in New Zealand—a cause for concern?

Paul Glue, Chris Gale

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Original Articles

How do intoxicated patients impact staff in the emergency department? An exploratory study

Fiona Imlach Gunasekara, Shaun Butler, Taisia Cech, Elizabeth Curtis, Michael Douglas, Lynda Emmerson, Rachel Greenwood, Sara Huse, Julia Jonggowisastro, Camilla Lees, Yang Li, Daniel McConnell, Andreea Mogos, Nur I M Azmy, Scotty Newman, Kirstie O’Donnell

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Off-label use of atypical antipsychotic medications in Canterbury, New Zealand

Erik Monasterio, Andrew McKean

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Five-year follow-up of an acute psychiatric admission cohort in Auckland, New Zealand

Amanda Wheeler, Stuart Moyle, Carol Jansen, Elizabeth Robinson, Jane Vanderpyl

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Quetiapine for the treatment of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD): a meta-analysis of randomised placebo-controlled trials

Gary Cheung, Janli Stapelberg

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Narcolepsy in New Zealand: pathway to diagnosis and effect on quality of life

Angela J Campbell, T Leigh Signal, Karyn M O’Keeffe, Jessie P Bakker

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Patterns of prescription drug misuse presenting to provincial drug clinics

Geoffrey Robinson, Graeme Judson, Richard Loan, Timothy Bevin, Patrick O’Connor

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Controlled intoxication: the self-monitoring of excessive alcohol use within a New Zealand tertiary student sample

Brett McEwan, David Swain, Maxine Campbell

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Alcohol’s harm to others: self-reports from a representative sample of New Zealanders

Sally Casswell, Jessica F Harding, Ru Q You, Taisia Huckle

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Viewpoint

The benefits and harms of alcohol use in New Zealand: what politicians might consider

Nick Wilson, Fiona Imlach Gunasekara, George Thomson

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Clinical Correspondence

Medical image. A case with refractory wheezes

Hsiao-Li Lo, Sheng-Hsiang Lin

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Medical image. Bilateral diffuse cystic, cavitary lung metastasis of adenocarcinoma

Talha Dumlu, Bekir Sami Karapolat, Ümran Yıldırım, Adem Güngor, Leyla Yılmaz Aydın

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Letters

Lifetime cardiovascular risk

Ben Gray

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Important questions about healthcare expenditure and the allocation of resources in the last year of life

Phillipa J Malpas

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Use of Asthma Control Test (ACT) affects New Zealand primary care doctors' perception of asthma control

Shaun Holt, Davitt Sheahan, Bill Mackey, Carl Jacobsen

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Advocacy for General Practice

Bill Douglas

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Can many anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures heal without surgery?

Andrew Montgomery

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Revenge of the ACL

Nicholas Cooper

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Consequences of a flawed epidemiological approach to air quality regulation

John Hoare

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Nicotine replacement therapy in grocery stores; but wait, there’s more

Stephen Vega

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Editorial. Our scale of fees

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2012

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Book Review

Why we get fat—and what to do about it (Gary Taubes)

Jeffrey Barron

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