Proyek Penggunaan Alkohol dan Kesehatan Mental ECHO adalah program virtual tanpa biaya untuk para profesional perawatan kesehatan yang mencari informasi terkini dan berbasis penelitian tentang bekerja dengan orang-orang yang menggunakan alkohol. 

Program ini, yang baru di tahun pertama, memiliki potensi untuk meningkatkan perawatan melalui peningkatan skrining untuk konsumsi alkohol berat dan penerapan terapi berbasis bukti, seperti perilaku dan farmasi. Penggunaan Alkohol dan Kesehatan Mental ECHO telah mengadakan 11 sesi per Januari 2023, rata-rata 197 peserta per sesi dengan standar...

N-SUMHSS adalah survei tahunan sukarela terhadap semua penggunaan zat aktif dan fasilitas kesehatan mental di Amerika Serikat, wilayahnya, dan D.C. Laporan tahunan menyajikan temuan tentang profil umum penggunaan zat dan fasilitas kesehatan mental, penggunaan farmakoterapi / obat-obatan, bantuan bahasa yang disediakan, dan layanan pencegahan bunuh diri.

Laporan ini mencakup data dan temuan dari 20.6223 fasilitas, yang terdiri dari 14.010 fasilitas penggunaan zat (75,3% dari 18.615 fasilitas penggunaan zat yang memenuhi syarat), 9.050 fasilitas kesehatan mental (71,1% dari 12.723 fasilitas...

LATAR BELAKANG: Masa remaja merupakan salah satu tahapan terpenting dalam kehidupan manusia. Periode ini penuh dengan rangsangan dan jenis pengaruh yang berbeda - dari orang tua, teman sebaya, dan masyarakat. Ini terkait dengan kerentanan yang lebih besar terhadap perilaku bermasalah dan impulsif. Karena itu, penting untuk mengeksplorasi topik impulsif dan perilaku impulsif.

METODE: Penelitian ini membahas impulsivitas pada remaja menggunakan metode survei kuesioner Ceko, Skala Impulsivitas Dolejš &; Skopal (SIDS). Ini juga secara empiris memverifikasi fungsionalitas skala dan menunjukkan...

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In April 2019, CCENDU published a bulletin on changes in stimulant use and related harms, which focused on methamphetamine and cocaine* based on data collected by CCENDU sites in November 2018: Changes in Stimulant Use and Related Harms: Focus on Methamphetamine and Cocaine.1 The...

Background

Several reports have described a growing prevalence of illicit drug use in Afghanistan, with recognition of a recent shift from traditional modes of consumption involving inhalation and oral ingestion to injecting drug use.

Objective

Conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature to map the injecting drug use situation in Afghanistan. The review intends to describe risk factors and impacts of injecting drug use, drug use characteristics and risk behaviours among people who inject drugs (PWID), and access to harm reduction and treatment .

Methods

We searched Embase, Global...

Introduction and aims

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 of a randomised placebo-controlled trial of nabiximols for the treatment of cannabis use disorder (CUD), aiming to identify which client and treatment characteristics impact treatment engagement and outcomes.

Method

Bayesian multiple regression models were used to examine the impact of age, gender, duration of regular cannabis use, daily quantity...

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 – has been implemented in some jurisdictions to provide safer alternatives to the unregulated drug supply, yet no studies to date have explored professional stakeholder perspectives on this approach.

Methods

We used purposive sampling to recruit professional stakeholders (n = 17) from four locations in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, including...

Background

The COVID-19 emergency has tested the public health, medical, and public safety infrastructure of the United States (U.S.) in unprecedented ways. As the focal point for public health in their communities, local health departments (LHDs) were particularly impacted by the pandemic’s onset. The pandemic limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not reduced.

Methods

Six quantitative data sources were examined, collected between...

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 attendance, adherence to medication). The objective of this article was to introduce the rationale of CM for substance use and, more specifically, for smoking cessation. A growing body of empirical literature supports CM as an effective treatment for quitting smoking both in the general population and among other hard-to-treat smokers (e.g. pregnant women or...

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 chemical and physical properties of these components have a significant effect on aerosol formation and must be identified in order to improve product attractiveness and assess the degree of health risks.

AIM:

The aim of this article is to provide a description of the composition of the e-liquid base and its impact on the physical properties of the liquid used...

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 which sociodemographic characteristics, the frequency of adolescent participation in structured leisure activities (SLA), and the type of SLA contribute to adolescent alcohol use and to examine the moderating effects of gender, age, and type of SLA on the relationship between the frequency of adolescent participation in SLA and adolescent alcohol use.

METHODS