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Around the globe there are children at risk because they live in homes where a parent or other adult misuses drugs or alcohol. Identifying at risk youth requires cultural knowledge, understanding, awareness, and empathy. This event will...

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Pains experienced as a result of negative recovery capital are often thought to stimulate motivations for positive behavioural change, usually through a ‘rock bottom’ type moment. Whilst recovery capital and barriers to recovery...

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Background: Patients with addiction are a vulnerable group in which there is little data on the infection and severity of COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in users in...

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Introducción: Las guías actuales para el manejo del dolor en pacientes con adicciones no contemplan el tratamiento del dolor agudo. Objetivo: Describir los esquemas de tratamiento analgésico y la dosis promedio de opioide requerida...

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Introduction. Migration has an effect on the individual, social and family spheres, these effects will require adaptation processes that affect lifestyles, will be reflected in the processes of health, disease and risk behaviors...

The devastating consequences of stigma on youth:

In February, Starling's Community released a first-of-its-kind report highlighting the deeply rooted ways stigma harms children exposed to the stress of a parent's unaddressed trauma and...

Alcohol use by people under the legal drinking age of 21 has decreased over the past few decades, but the decreases were more pronounced for males than for females. In 2020, more girls and young women reported past-month alcohol use than...

Authors:  Ms. Patricia Martínez-Redondo and Dª. Elisabete Arostegui Santamaria

Edit and distribute:  Ministry of Health. Secretary of State for Health. Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs

Year of edition: 2021

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It has been a long-standing debate in the research and medical societies whether alcohol consumption is linked to the risk of prostate cancer (PCa). Many comprehensive studies from different geographical areas and nationalities...

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Mental health encompasses a range of mental, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning and occurs along a continuum from good to poor. Previous research has documented that mental health among children and adolescents is...

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Addictions are a social and public health problem whose latest trends in Latin America show an increase in women. The objective of this study was to compare the family variables and the consumption of harmful substances of women...

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We aimed to characterize the availability and promotion of alcohol at alcohol outlets in Madrid and to compare them according to the type of outlet and area-level socioeconomic status. We used the OHCITIES instrument to...

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The objective was to characterize the availability and promotion of alcohol associated with the premises of sale and consumption of alcohol in Madrid, as well as to explore the differences in its distribution depending on the...

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Importance  Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youths worldwide, but no available means exist to identify the risk of suicide in this population.

Objective  To assess whether genome-wide polygenic scores for...

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Importance  Some selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) inhibit the enzymes responsible for the metabolism of oxycodone, a potent prescription opioid. The clinical consequences of this interaction on the risk of opioid...

Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs have become increasingly prevalent in implementation research. As hybrid designs enter their second decade of widespread use, the Frontiers in Health Services’ Implementation Science section...

The Ohio Attorney General selected experts from a number of academic fields to the Scientific Committee on Opioid Prevention and Education (SCOPE) to help the State of Ohio in tackling the opioid crisis in the United States. The focus of...