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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide and is often co‐used with tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death. Although cannabis and tobacco have distinct neurobiological actions, their associations with brain volumes are unclear.
Katherine Sawyer +16 more
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Tackling methamphetamine: indicators and progress report October 2012 [PDF]
This report provides a progress update on the records changes against the Action Plan\u27s baseline data, and details progress on the Action Plan\u27s activities.When the Action Plan was launched, Chief Executives from DPMC, Health, Customs, Justice ...
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Overdose Prevention and Response A guide for people who use drugs and harm reduction staff in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [PDF]
, 2009 Provides an overview of the drug overdose problem in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; describes overdose symptoms, factors that affect overdose risk, prevention methods, and step-by-step responses to an overdose.
Curtis, Matt, Guterman, Lydia
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Historical trends in self‐reported US heroin initiation
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Illegal opioids create challenges for public health and safety. There is imperfect understanding of when use of illegally manufactured opioids increased. This paper examined data on self‐reported year of first heroin use in the United States. Design Secondary analysis of general population survey data. Setting United States.
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Bishu Giri
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Substance abuse in rural and small town America [PDF]
, 2006 Alcohol abuse exceeds illicit drug abuse in rural America and is a serious problem among rural youth, as highlighted here. The report also confirms that the abuse of stimulants, including methamphetamine, is high among certain rural populations ...
Van Gundy, Karen T.
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Nitazenes are a novel subclass of synthetic opioids that have been increasingly implicated in the United States (US) overdose crisis. Despite their growing presence in the illicit drug supply, national trends have not been systematically evaluated.
David T. Zhu +3 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual‐level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer overdose prevention site (OPS) in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled for closure, with operations ceasing
Nathaniel Day +10 more
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A call for action: Closing the evidence gap in management of stimulant‐induced psychosis
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Stimulant‐induced psychosis (StIP) is emerging as one of most pressing health challenges. Over the past two decades, stimulant‐related harms and psychiatric care demands have risen sharply. Individuals with StIP often present with severe agitation and high suicide risk, and up to half progress to chronic psychotic illness within two
Anne Bouthillier +3 more
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Exploring the Epistemology of Illicit Drugs [PDF]
, 2015 In this essay I explore the epistemology of drugs in America. That is, how Americans come to know and define drugs and their users; and, in turn, how those definitions manifest in social institutions.
Linseman, Holly
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What anabolic–androgenic steroids reveal about the limits of current harm reduction models
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Harm reduction has largely been shaped by responses to psychoactive drug use where the most urgent harms are acute. These models focus on overdose, blood‐borne viruses, and rapid‐onset toxicity related harms. When applied wholesale to anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), they obscure the distinctive pharmacology, consumer typologies,
Timothy Piatkowski +2 more
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