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People in the United States who use opioids frequently use emergency department (ED) services. Some hospitals have begun placing peer recovery support specialists (PRSS) in EDs to support and advocate for pati...
A new transitional housing program was established in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, in response to the escalating prevalence of substance use and homelessness, and the specific challenges faced in Northern Ontario...
Methamphetamine use is a pressing public health concern among people who inject drugs (PWID) worldwide. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of methamphetamine use and its correlates in a nationwide sur...
Smoking is a major preventable cause of death, associated with cancers and chronic diseases. Nurse-initiated smoking cessation programs have proven effective, providing counseling, education, and mental health...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is highly prevalent among jail and prison populations in the United States, including in Wisconsin. Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), including long-acting injectable naltre...
Public authorities use a variety of control policies, with varying degrees of severity, to reduce the prevalence of health-damaging habits. Since these policies can only succeed if people understand and approv...
Underutilization of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) remains a persistent obstacle to addressing the opioid epidemic. This study explores MOUD agency experiences with patient census growth as well as...
Rumination is an essential trans-diagnostic process associated with substance use disorders (SUDs) in psychopathology. In China, methamphetamine and heroin have become major illegal drugs, but the role of rumi...
Binge drinking constitutes a significant public health concern. Defined as the consumption of five or more alcoholic beverages on a single occasion, binge drinking leads to acute cognitive and motor impairment...
Cognitive deficits are prevalent among substance use disorder (SUD) patients and affect treatment retention and outcome. The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a well...
The Drug User Liberation Front led an evaluation of a non-medicalized model of safer supply known as a “Compassion Club.” This club sourced, rigorously tested, packaged, and accurately labeled certain illicit ...
Heavy consumption of alcohol increases the risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), contributes to delayed diagnosis and affects adherence to treatment. Within a large urban case-finding project, we aimed ...
Canada continues to experience an epidemic of toxic drug-related overdose deaths. Public health messaging emphasizes the dangers of using drugs alone as it restricts timely overdose response or renders it impo...
The opioid epidemic contributes to increasing morbidity and mortality due to drug overdoses in the US, but barriers to traditional opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment prevent a vast majority of patients from a...
Early identification of potential alcohol-problems is central for timely intervention and treatment referral. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and AUDIT-Consumption (AUDIT-C) serve as glob...
Substance use disorders are prevalent among youth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), yet treatment resources are scarce. Peer provider delivered brief interventions (BIs) represent an affordable and potentially scal...
Little is known about mortality from four disorder combinations: fully attributable to alcohol or tobacco, partly attributable to both alcohol and tobacco, to tobacco only, to alcohol only.
Alternative payment models (APMs) are methods through which insurers reimburse health care providers and are widely used to improve the quality and value of health care. While there is a growing movement to ut...
Global demand for the treatment of cannabis use disorder has increased significantly, prompting a need to understand effective strategies for addressing concurrent cannabis and tobacco use. This study focuses ...
Legitimate androgen use, such as testosterone replacement therapy, requires a legal prescription. Off-label use for reasons like wellness and aesthetics continues to grow. Recent regulatory changes in Australi...
Given the changes in trends of cannabis use (e.g., product types), this study examined latent classes of young adult use and associations with use-related outcomes.
The widely implemented prevention program in Brazil, PROERD (a translated version of the DARE-kiR program), showed no evidence of effect in preventing drug use in a recent trial. The lack of cultural adaptatio...
Section 1262 Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 eliminates the federal DATA waiver registration requirement to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), along with patient limits, perhaps as ...
There is an increased demand for quality treatment and rehabilitation services for people who use drugs (PWUDs) in the Philippines. In response, the Philippines Government’s Department of Health (DOH) has esta...
With the broad recognition of increased U.S. opioid overdose (OOD) rates between 2020 and 2021, media, public health, and healthcare organizations have raised significant concerns over the emergence of a simul...
In March 2020, British Columbia, Canada, introduced prescribed safer supply involving the distribution of pharmaceutical grade alternatives to the unregulated toxic drug supply. Prior research has demonstrated...
Previous research has investigated the association between attachment styles and smoking behaviors, indicating a positive association of insecure attachment styles with nicotine dependence. However, these link...
Widespread health service disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a dramatic increase in overdose deaths among people who use drugs (PWUD) in Vancouver, Canada. Those with a history of ...
Risky behaviours, including tobacco use, are highly prevalent among adolescents worldwide. Although these behaviours are largely influenced by various sociodemographic factors, including sex, there is a paucit...
Examining support for substance use policies, including those for harm reduction, among the general public and policy influencers is a fundamental step to map the current policy landscape and leverage policy o...
Veterans with substance use disorder (SUD) are at high risk for cognitive problems due to neurotoxic effects of chronic drug and alcohol use coupled in many cases with histories of traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
The prevalence and influence of gangs on adolescents and young adults remain a concern in Western Cape, South Africa—particularly as they have one of the largest gang presence. While less attention has been fo...
To identify faith-based leaders’ (FBLs’) knowledge, perceptions, and questions about syringe services programs (SSPs).
Some people with substance use disorders (SUD) can experience multiple co-occurring social problems. Digital solutions have been developed to support effective and cost-effective social welfare and healthcare ...
The aim of the current study was to assess the accuracy of expert predictions, which were derived using a Delphi panel foresight study between 2009 and 2011, on a variety of drug-related topics in Finland in 2...
Evaluating the risk of relapse is a pivotal step in the treatment of patients with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). The 30-item Stimulant Relapse Risk Scale (SRRS) was originally developed in Japan to meet ...
The COTAT (Collaborative Opioid Taper After Trauma) Study was a randomized trial of an opioid taper support program using a physician assistant (PA) to provide pain and opioid treatment guidance to primary car...
Research demonstrates gaps in medications for opioid use disorder uptake (MOUDs; methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone) especially among adolescents. These gaps may be partly attributable to attitudes about...
Sub-Saharan Africa is important to the future of alcohol and global health because the alcohol market there is expanding rapidly in a relatively young population. This entails a corresponding contest about whe...
Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, and one of the primary objectives of the Cannabis Act was to protect youth by reducing their access to cannabis and providing public education. Canada has the hi...
Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased to historic levels in recent years, with provisional estimates indicating more than 111,000 deaths in the 12 months ending July 2023. In 2019, the Centers fo...
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Physical or mental health comorbidities are common among people with substance use disorders undergoing opioid agonist therapy. As both a preventive and treatment strategy, exercise offers various health benef...
There is little study of lifetime trauma exposure among individuals engaged in medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD). A multisite study provided the opportunity to examine the prevalence of lifet...
Since 1996, an urban community-based organization whose primary mission is to serve diverse94 and emerging community health needs has provided screening, testing, overdose prevention and training, referrals, a...
In Singapore, where drug use is a highly stigmatized and criminalized issue, there is limited understanding of the challenges faced by individuals, particularly sexual minority men, in their journey towards re...
Research has established natural recovery (NR) as an important pathway to substance use recovery. Studies investigating correlates of NR have mainly focused on demographic and substance use variables rather th...
Persons with opioid use disorders (OUD) and persons with substance use disorders (SUD) who inject substances have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared with the general population. Chronic liver...
Withdrawal management and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) programs help to reduce some of the harms experienced by people who use substances (PWUS). There is literature on how features of drug treatment program...
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