Obiettivo: Esplorare il problema della metanfetamina in Europa.

In questo webinar, l'OEDT esaminerà il problema della metanfetamina in Europa, il suo profondo radicamento nella storia del nostro continente e la sua evoluzione.

L'adolescenza è una delle fasi più importanti della vita umana. Questo periodo è pieno di stimoli e tipi di influenza diversi: da parte dei genitori, dei coetanei e della società. È correlato a una maggiore suscettibilità a comportamenti problematici e all'impulsività. Per questo motivo è importante esplorare il tema dell'impulsività e del comportamento impulsivo.

METODI: Questo studio affronta l'impulsività negli adolescenti utilizzando un metodo di indagine basato su un questionario ceco, la Scala dell'impulsività Dolejš & Skopal (SIDS). Inoltre, verifica empiricamente la funzionalità della...

INTRODUCTION: The trajectory and nature of depression in patients with alcohol use disorder as they enter treatment needs to be understood better. This study assessed the nature and course of depressive features among male patients with alcohol use disorder.

METHODS: Adult male patients with alcohol use disorders seeking treatment at an addiction treatment facility were recruited. They were assessed for depressive features using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD), a clinicianrated instrument, and the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms – Self Report (IDS-SR), a self-rated instrument...

BACKGROUND: As a theoretical base we used Jessor’s concept of the Syndrome of Risk Behaviour in Adolescence, the self-concept, and the concept of body image.

AIM: The main aim of the contribution was research on the relations between the self-schema, specifically the physical proportions represented by BMI, and risk behaviour. The secondary aims were research on the relations between the self-schema, specifically the physical proportions represented by BMI, and sex and age.

METHOD: In the research we used the 46-item modified version of the Risk Behaviour Questionnaire (Čerešník, 2016).

SAM...

INTRODUCTION: Individuals who visit nightclubs and electronic dance music (EDM) festivals tend to use psychoactive substances, often multiple substances, in this setting and are at risk of serious negative health effects. This paper aims to explore respondents’ experiences and perceptions in order to have a better understanding of patterns and motives related to psychoactive substance use and high-risk behaviours in EDM event attendees.

METHODS: In-depth and focus group interviews with 30 EDM event attendees who reported psychoactive substance use at nightlife events. The data was analysed...

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

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

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 prevenzione dell'uso di sostanze, non è stata ridotta.

Metodi

Sono state esaminate sei fonti di dati quantitativi, raccolte tra il 2016 e il 2021, per esplorare l'impatto della pandemia di COVID-19 sui servizi relativi all'uso di sostanze con LHD.

Risultati

Prima della pandemia, la percentuale di LHD che fornivano un certo livello di servizi di...

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 impact of COVID-19 on frontline workers and calls to provide psychosocial support for them. However, little attention has so far been paid to understanding the impact of working on a pandemic from healthcare workers’ own perspectives or what their views are about support.

Methods

Key healthcare databases (Medline, PsychINFO and PubMed) were checked, from...

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, Toronto, Quebec, Nuova Scozia e Terranova e Labrador.

Nell'aprile 2019, il CCENDU ha pubblicato un bollettino sui cambiamenti nell'uso di stimolanti e sui danni correlati, incentrato su metanfetamina e cocaina* sulla base dei dati raccolti dai siti CCENDU nel novembre 2018: Cambiamenti nell'uso di stimolanti e danni correlati: focus su metanfetamina e...

Abstract

Background and aims

Among European countries, France is particularly concerned by adolescent tobacco smoking, especially in disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds (SES). We measured the respective contributions of parental smoking and family living arrangements to social disparities in smoking during adolescence.

A total of 13 314 adolescents answered a pen-and-paper questionnaire about their own tobacco consumption and the smoking of their parents.

Findings

Adolescents living within very privileged and privileged SES were significantly less likely to report daily tobacco...