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Introduction 

There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary analysis...

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances –...

Background

There is a higher prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) among justice-involved children (JIC). It is critical to ensure that JIC who report current use are referred for SUD assessment and potentially life-saving treatment...

Sfondo

Il COVID-19 ha limitato drasticamente la portata e la portata del lavoro del dipartimento sanitario locale (LHD), reindirizzando le risorse alla risposta. Tuttavia, la necessità di servizi sanitari pubblici essenziali, compresa la...

Background

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health...

La Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) è una rete pan-canadese di partner comunitari coordinata dal Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). La rete ha sedi in British Columbia, Manitoba, Thunder Bay...

Sfondo

Diversi rapporti hanno descritto una crescente prevalenza del consumo di droghe illecite in Afghanistan, con il riconoscimento di un recente passaggio dalle modalità tradizionali di consumo che comportano l'inalazione e l'ingestione...

Introduzione e obiettivi

C'è un crescente interesse e prove per l'uso di farmaci cannabinoidi nel trattamento del disturbo da uso di cannabis, ma poco esame dei correlati del trattamento di successo. Questo documento è un'analisi...

Sfondo

L'emergenza COVID-19 ha messo alla prova le infrastrutture sanitarie, mediche e di pubblica sicurezza degli Stati Uniti (USA) in modi senza precedenti. Come punto focale per la salute pubblica nelle loro comunità, i dipartimenti...

Questo mese, il 9 novembre 2022, l'incontro dei partner DDR dell'International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) ha offerto una discussione sulla garanzia della qualità e ha incluso due presentazioni:

• Miglioramento della...

SFONDO:

Una stretta relazione tra un genitore e un bambino e l'accettazione dei genitori possono mediare l'appropriata auto-accettazione di un adolescente, che è una variabile importante legata alla personalità e un pilastro della salute...

Contingency management (CM) is a psychological treatment based on operant conditioning. It consists of providing incentives in exchange for achieving a target behaviour such as abstinence or other treatmentrelated variables (e.g. session...

BACKGROUND:

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) generate an aerosol by vaporising e-liquids that usually consist of propylene glycol (PG), vegetable glycerine (VG), and other ingredients (water, nicotine, and flavours). The...

BACKGROUND:

In many countries families have rarely been involved in addressing treatment and interventions for family members with substance use disorders (SUDs). The aims of this study were to measure the influence of substance use on...

BACKGROUND:

Leisure can be a context that can promote positive adolescent development, but it can also be a context that contributes to adolescents engaging in risk behaviours.

AIMS:

The aim of this study is to determine the extent to...

Summary

War in Ukraine has inevitably led to the country's health system functioning at reduced capacity. Attacks near hospitals and active military operations force people to change their place of residence and flee from the war to safer...

Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines were originally published by CCSA in November 2011 and were the result of the work of alcohol research experts in Canada. Since then, substantial new research on the association between alcohol...

The European Web Survey on Drugs1 collected data during March and May 2021 from people who use drugs, are aged 18 or older, and live in 21 EU and 9 non-EU countries including Lebanon. In this period, the populations in many European and...

Background

In somatic health care settings, interdisciplinary collaborations (where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are considered to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary...