How does climate change impact people who use alcohol and other drugs? A scoping review of peer reviewed literature.

Background: The world has experienced devastating extreme weather events, alongside slow-onset processes including increasing temperature means, that scientists agree are manifestations of human-induced climate change. Even with radical action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, effects of climate change will become increasingly severe.

Objectives: The aim of this review was to classify impacts of climate change for people who use alcohol and other drugs (AoD), as reflected in peer reviewed literature.

A Scoping Review of Global Literature on Alcohol and Other Drug-Facilitated Sexual Violence.

The use of alcohol or other drugs to facilitate sexual violence (AOD-facilitated sexual violence) is a public health concern. There are significant gaps in knowledge on victimization, perpetration, contexts, impacts, and attitudes. Using a scoping review method, we mapped existing peer-reviewed, global literature to examine what is known about AOD-facilitated sexual violence to inform the development of AOD-facilitated sexual violence targeted interventions.

Utility of iron concentration two to four hours post ingestion in predicting toxicity.

Introduction: Iron products are widely available over the counter and have the potential to cause serious toxicity. Iron concentrations can be used to prognosticate and guide treatment during acute ingestions. Traditionally, a concentration of 350 μg/dL with symptoms, or 500 μg/dL without symptoms, is considered toxic and will likely need treatment to prevent decompensation.

Insect vision: A steady gaze over different landscapes.

To gather visual information effectively, animals must stabilize images when they move. But closely related fruit fly species sometimes occupy strikingly diverse visual habitats. A new study shows that they have adopted gaze strategies tailored to their different visual worlds.

Day-night gene expression reveals circadian gene as a candidate for diel-niche evolution in moths.

Temporal ecological niche partitioning is an underappreciated driver of speciation. While insects have long been models for circadian biology, the genes and circuits that allow adaptive changes in diel-niches remain poorly understood. We compared gene expression in closely related day- and night-active non-model wild silk moths, with otherwise similar ecologies.