Drug trafficking at an All-Time High
This article from Sri Lanka highlights increasing drug trade throughout Asia. In particular, Sri Lanka is seeing a dramatic increase in heroin trafficking which is causing serious health and security challenges.
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Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
ABSTRACT
Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
Teachers and Coaches in Adolescent Social Networks Are Associated with Healthier Self-Concept and Decreased Substance Use
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BACKGROUND
Poor academic (eg. “I am a bad student”) and behavioral (eg. “I am a troublemaker”) self-concepts are strongly linked to adolescent substance use. Social networks likely influence self-concept. However, little is...
Uso di sostanze tra gli studenti transgender nelle scuole medie e superiori pubbliche della California
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SFONDO
Gli adolescenti transgender affrontano un tremendo stress sociale nelle famiglie e nelle scuole, che spesso porta a disparità di salute comportamentale. Questo studio ha valutato se i tassi di uso di sostanze fossero più...
Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
Synthetic Cannabinoids: What Health Risks Do They Pose?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...
Posizione socioeconomica e consumo di alcol da parte degli adolescenti: qual è il legame?
In che misura la posizione socioeconomica influisce sui comportamenti di consumo degli adolescenti?
Un nuovo articolo recentemente pubblicato sulla rivista accademica BMC Public Health affronta questa domanda nel contesto di sei diversi...
Perché molti adulti americani abusano di antidolorifici da prescrizione?
Gli antidolorifici da prescrizione sono secondi solo alla marijuana come droga preferita negli Stati Uniti. Circa 91,8 milioni di americani di età pari o superiore a 18 anni hanno utilizzato antidolorifici da prescrizione nel 2014, secondo...
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...
¿Es posible una lucha real?
Geraldine González Willim es experta en la prevención y el tratamiento de adicciones de drogas legales o ilegales. En esta entrevista, detalla sobre los planes de acción aplicables al Paraguay para luchar contra un flagelo que cada día...
Line Up Live Up Trainer Manual: Preventing Drug Use by Promoting Active Lifestyles
Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.
It looks to promote sport and...
Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
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Background
There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...
Effect of Marijuana Use on Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Mortality
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Background
Reports associate marijuana use with cardiovascular emergencies. Studies relating marijuana use to cardiovascular mortality are scarce. Recent advance towards marijuana use legalization emphasizes the importance of...
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
The Licensing Act (2003): Its Uses and Abuses 10 Years on
Seen as excluding health concerns and requiring an individualistic and ‘premises by premises’ approach, interviews with stakeholders and a revisiting of the 2003 Licensing Act for England and Wales suggest it could nevertheless be used to...
Job Opportunity: Consultant for the Pan American Journal of Public Health
The Pan American Journal of Public Health is currently looking for a Consultant to work in the editorial office at Washington, D.C., supporting editorial tasks related to the implementation of new editorial features, translation requests...
Screening dell'alcol e breve intervento: un potenziale ruolo nella prevenzione del cancro per i giovani adulti
L'uso eccessivo o rischioso di alcol è una causa prevenibile di morbilità e mortalità significative negli Stati Uniti e in tutto il mondo. L'uso di alcol è un comune fattore di rischio di cancro prevenibile tra i giovani adulti; È associato...
Gli effetti della cannabis tra gli adulti con dolore cronico e una panoramica dei danni generali
Astratto
La cannabis è sempre più disponibile per il trattamento del dolore cronico, ma la sua efficacia rimane incerta.
Scopo: Rivedere i benefici dei preparati di cannabis a base vegetale per il trattamento del dolore cronico negli...
Mancano prove sui benefici della cannabis per il trattamento del dolore cronico o PTSD
Di Kelly Young
A cura di David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH e Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Le prove sono limitate sui benefici dell'uso di cannabis per il trattamento del dolore cronico e del disturbo da stress post-traumatico, secondo due...
EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse
Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...
