Background: Substance use disorder (SUD) is a common comorbidity in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, there have been few studies on cognitive profiles of these patients. Impulsivity is also commonly...
Background: Smoking contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, but the extent to which this contribution has changed over time and driven widening or narrowing inequalities in total mortality remains unknown. We...
Methamphetamine (MA) is a highly addictive psychostimulant used by approximately 52 million people worldwide. Chronic MA abuse leads to detrimental physiological and neurological changes, as well as increases in...
Alcohol-impaired driving remains the deadliest and costliest danger on U.S. roads today. Every day in the United States, 29 people die in an alcohol-impaired driving crash—one death every 49 minutes. After decades of progress, alcohol...
Background: Medical student wellness has emerged as an important issue in medical education. The purpose of the present study was to obtain a comprehensive assessment of substance use, psychological distress, and help-seeking...
Anthony Shakeshaft
Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is known...
Jenny Doubt
Background: There is an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing and reducing violence in our societies. Children in developing countries experience higher levels of abuse, and less than 12% of abused children receive...
Marit Loetveit Pedersen, Solveig I Holen, Simon-Peter Neumer, Kristin Martinsen, Lene-Mari Potulski Rasmussen, Frode Adolfsen, Joshua Patras, Mona Elisabeth Løvaas, Anne Mari Sund
Introduction: Several studies have shown a reciprocal...
Tobias H. Elgan, Anna K Strandberg, Johanna Gripenberg
Introduction: Depending on how the problem is defined, between 5-20% of all Swedish children grow up with parents having substance use and/or mental health problems, which puts the...
Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Cui Yang, Nickolas Zaller, Hongo Zhang
Introduction: In China, the proportion of HIV cases attributed to men who have sex with men (MSM) behavior has rapidly increased in recent years, with over one-quarter of...
