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Clustering of sex and substance use behaviours in adolescence [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND Adolescents often experiment with substance use and sexual activity, which can impact upon their health and well-being, and establish harmful patterns of behavior which continue into adulthood.
McAloney, Kareena
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Inability to contact opioid agonist therapy prescribers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Canadian setting: a cross-sectional analysis among people on opioid agonist therapy

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent public health response may have undermined key responses to the protracted drug poisoning crisis, including reduced access to opioid agonist therapy (OAT) among people with opioid use disorder.
Soroush Moallef, Kora DeBeck, Nadia Fairbairn, Zishan Cui, Rupinder Brar, Dean Wilson, Cheyenne Johnson, M.-J. Milloy, Kanna Hayashi   +8 more
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Cross-sectional study of risky substance use by injured emergency department patients [PDF]

, 2017
INTRODUCTION: Survey data regarding the prevalence of risky substance use in the emergency department (ED) is not consistent. The objective of this study was to identify the prevalence of risky substance use among injured ED patients based on the Alcohol,
Baird, Janette, Lee, Christina S., Mello, Michael J., Strezsak, Valerie   +3 more
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Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Vancouver, Canada, and Lisbon, Portugal, are both celebrated for their world-leading harm reduction policies and programs and regarded as models for other cities contending with the effects of increasing levels of drug use in the context of growing urban
Joana Canêdo, Kali-olt Sedgemore, Kelly Ebbert, Haleigh Anderson, Rainbow Dykeman, Katey Kincaid, Claudia Dias, Diana Silva, Youth Health Advisory Council, Reith Charlesworth, Rod Knight, Danya Fast   +11 more
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Substance Use and Depression Symptomatology: Measurement Invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) among Non-Users and Frequent-Users of Alcohol, Nicotine and Cannabis [PDF]

, 2016
Depression is a highly heterogeneous condition, and identifying how symptoms present in various groups may greatly increase our understanding of its etiology.
Moore, Ashlee A., Neale, Michael C., Silberg, Judy L., Verhulst, Brad   +3 more
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Disordered social media use and risky drinking in young adults:Differential associations with addiction-linked traits [PDF]

, 2018
Background Excessive or compulsive use of social media has been likened to an addiction, similar to other behavioural addictions such as pathological gambling or Internet addiction.
Lyvers, Michael, Narayanan, Shreas S., Thorberg, Fred A.   +2 more
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Illicit substance use among university students from seven European countries: A comparison of personal and perceived peer use and attitudes towards illicit substance use [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: To compare European students' personal use and approval of illicit substance use with their perceptions of peer behaviours and attitudes, and investigate whether perceptions of peer norms are associated with personal use of illicit substances ...
Ali, Arbour-Nicitopoulos, B. Vriesacker, B.M. Bewick, Berkowitz, Boot, Borsari, Buckner, C. Stock, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs, Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs, Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs, Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), F. Guillen-Grima, F. Salonna, G. Van Hal, H. Zeeb, Humeniuk, J. McAlaney, Kilmer, Kypri, Larimer, Lintonen, Martens, McAlaney, Neighbors, Neighbors, Page, Perkins, Perkins, Perkins, Perkins, Perkins, Pischke, Prince, R.C. Dempsey, R.T. Mikolajczyk, S.M. Helmer, UN Office on Drugs, Crime (UNODC), Wolfson, Y. Akvardar   +39 more
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Housing-based syringe services programs to improve access to safer injecting equipment for people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: a spatially oriented qualitative study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Housing environments shape injection drug-related risks and harms and thus represent a critical implementation setting for syringe services programs (SSPs).
Koharu Loulou Chayama, Cara Ng, Taylor Fleming, Will Small, Kimberly L. Sue, Ryan McNeil   +5 more
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Lines in the sand: Social representations of substance use boundaries in life narratives [PDF]

, 2012
This study identifies social representations in interviews about alcohol and substance use in the discourse of 129 young adults, who were interviewed for 2.5 to 3.5 hr each for their life histories and use or nonuse of alcoholic beverages and drugs ...
Drabble, Laurie A, Michalak, L. O., Trocki, K. F.   +2 more
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Substance Use

, 2023
AbstractThis chapter starts out with a theoretical discussion of the meaning of “drug”. As it turns out, three different kinds of psychoactive drugs can be distinguished. Central to this distinction is the understanding of appropriate medical use, which is subject to change.
David A. Leon, Arvin K. Jundoria, Andrew Stolbach   +2 more
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