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Is expected substance type associated with timing of drug checking service utilization?: A cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Drug checking is a harm reduction intervention aiming to reduce substance use-related risks by improving drug user knowledge of the composition of unregulated drugs.
Tara Beaulieu, Evan Wood, Samuel Tobias, Mark Lysyshyn, Priya Patel, Jennifer Matthews, Lianping Ti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption and Hazardous Drinking, Tobacco and Drug use in urban Tanzania, and Their associated Risk Factors. [PDF]

, 2009
Evidence suggests substance abuse in Tanzania is a growing public health problem. A random sample of 899 adults aged 15-59 in two urban sites of differing levels of poverty surveyed alcohol, tobacco and illicit substance use.
Araya, Bethany White, Breeze, Brugha, Brugha, Chagas Silva, Chande, Davis, Ezzati, Farrell, Flisher, Grant, Green, Gureje, Jenkins, Jenkins, Joseph Mbatia, Kilonzo, Kilonzo, Kitange, Kitange, Lewis, Lima, Lynskey, McCurdy, Meltzer, Meltzer, Mitsunaga, Mswia, Ngoma, Nicola Singleton, Nikander, Parry, Parry, Patel, Rachel Jenkins, Rahim, Rehm, Rijken, Room, Saunders, Shayo, Singleton, Timpson, Unwin, van Oers, Wickramasinghe, Wolff   +47 more
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Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Alcohol or Substance Use Disorders

JAMA Network Open, 2020
This meta-analysis and systemic review assess combined cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy for alcohol or other substance use disorders in adults.
L. Ray, Lindsay R Meredith, Brian D. Kiluk, J. Walthers, K. Carroll, M. Magill   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Police seizure of drugs without arrest among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, before provincial ‘decriminalization’ of simple possession: a cohort study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Several jurisdictions in Canada have recently considered decriminalizing possession of illicit drugs for personal use (henceforth, simple possession) as part of their responses to the ongoing drug toxicity/overdose crisis.
Kanna Hayashi, Tyson Singh Kelsall, Caitlin Shane, Zishan Cui, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, M.-J. Milloy, Kora DeBeck, Thomas Kerr   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detecting a signal in the noise : Monitoring the global spread of novel psychoactive substances using media and other open source information [PDF]

, 2015
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no ...
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network On Drug Use, Center for Substance Abuse Research, European Monitoring Centre For Drugs And Drug Addiction, Sumnall H   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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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Internalizing Symptoms, Peer Substance Use, and Substance Use Initiation [PDF]

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2015
This study used longitudinal survey and social network data covering sixth through ninth grades to test whether internalizing symptoms make early adolescents more prone to (1) exposure to and (2) influence by substance‐using peers. Random effects regressions revealed that increases in symptoms were significantly associated with increases in the ...
Sonja E, Siennick, Alex O, Widdowson, Mathew, Woessner, Mark E, Feinberg   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorders: recommendations and rationale. [PDF]

, 2013
Since DSM-IV was published in 1994, its approach to substance use disorders has come under scrutiny. Strengths were identified (notably, reliability and validity of dependence), but concerns have also arisen.
Auriacombe, Marc, Borges, Guilherme, Bucholz, Kathleen, Budney, Alan, Compton, Wilson M, Crowley, Thomas, Grant, Bridget F, Hasin, Deborah S, Ling, Walter, O'Brien, Charles P, Petry, Nancy M, Schuckit, Marc   +11 more
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Stress, Coping, and Context: Examining Substance Use Among LGBTQ Young Adults With Probable Substance Use Disorders.

Psychiatric Services, 2020
OBJECTIVE The authors qualitatively examined how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) young adults with probable substance use disorders conceptualized their substance use vis-à-vis their LGBTQ identities. METHODS Individual, in-depth,
Jennifer K. Felner, J. Wisdom, T. Williams, L. Katuska, S. Haley, Hee-Jin Jun, Heather L. Corliss   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Women’s multiple uses of an overdose prevention technology to mitigate risks and harms within a supportive housing environment: a qualitative study

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background North America is amidst an opioid overdose epidemic. In many settings, particularly Canada, the majority of overdose deaths occur indoors and impact structurally vulnerable people who use drugs alone, making targeted housing-based ...
Geoff Bardwell, Taylor Fleming, Ryan McNeil, Jade Boyd   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source