To investigate how alcohol container labels can be used to build public awareness, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction commissioned Enhanced Alcohol Container Labels: A Systematic Review and developed a summary of the report’s highlights. These findings will be useful for public health stakeholders, researchers and policy makers considering the evidence on alcohol container labels.

Key findings include: 

• In Canada, alcohol containers are not required to display information like the nutrition information on food or the health warnings on medications and other regulated...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in substantial burden of disease in Canada. Daily cannabis use is most strongly implicated in the cannabis-attributable burden of disease. In the context of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada, the trends were characterised in daily cannabis use in the overall sample and various population subgroups, and examined risk characteristics associated with daily cannabis use.

The specific objectives of this study were as follows:

1. Characterise trends in daily cannabis use in the overall sample and various...

El Organismo de Salud Pública del Canadá elaboró el Plan de acción: prevención de los daños relacionados con las sustancias entre los jóvenes a través de un enfoque escolar integral con un documento de política. 

Estos nuevos recursos para prevenir los daños relacionados con las sustancias entre los jóvenes ahora están disponibles para administradores, funcionarios de juntas escolares, maestros, orientadores, profesionales de la salud y organizaciones comunitarias que apoyan a los jóvenes.

El Plan combina enfoques de prevención e intervención basados en la evidencia con el marco de Salud...

El Centro Canadiense sobre el Uso de Sustancias y la Adicción (CCSA) y los Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), la organización nacional que representa a los inuit en todo Canadá, han resumido las últimas estadísticas sobre el uso de sustancias y la salud mental entre los inuit en el uso de sustancias, la salud mental y el suicidio entre los inuit en Canadá. Las estadísticas provienen del informe técnico completo, Factores de riesgo y protección para el suicidio entre los inuit en Canadá.

El nuevo informe arroja más luz sobre los factores de riesgo y protección para el suicidio entre los inuit en...

El movimiento Alcohólicos Anónimos (AA) creó el término "en recuperación" para expresar el requisito continuo de vigilancia para mantener la sobriedad (que incluye la abstinencia del consumo de alcohol) y evitar un retorno al consumo peligroso de alcohol. Este término, o identidad, puede ser adoptado por alguien que se considera en recuperación por el resto de sus vidas. Se considera que la recuperación implica ganancias en salud y bienestar, y se ha descrito como un proceso social en el que los individuos aprenden a absorber nuevas normas y valores como parte de una identidad orientada a la...

The high dropout rate (75%) in opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment among women and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States necessitates a better knowledge of the factors that contribute to treatment success. While therapy and medication for OUD are considered the top standard of care in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, many people with OUD receive just counseling or methadone-only therapies. This study compares gender inequalities in methadone-based treatment plan progress to counseling-based programs in one of the biggest SUD treatment systems in the United States.

The...

In response to the rising efficacy of the illicit opioid drug supply and often observed delays in access to follow-up therapy, emergency departments (EDs) occasionally utilize a high-dose buprenorphine induction method for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). The objective of this study is to investigate the safety and tolerability of high-dose (>12 mg) buprenorphine induction for patients with OUD presenting to an ED.

Data were manually extracted from electronic health records for all ED patients with OUD treated with buprenorphine at a single, urban, safety-net hospital in Oakland...

2021 INCSR–Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control (As submitted to Congress)

To read the full report, please visit: https://www.state.gov/2021-incsr-volume-i-drug-and-chemical-control-as-submitted-to-congress/

The Global Synthetic Drugs Assessment 2020 provides an analysis of the global synthetic drugs market.

• The first part of this report provides options for responses to counter the synthetic drug problem.
• The second part presents a global thematic analysis of the key trends and emerging developments of the synthetic drugs market as well as the recent trends in the manufacture of synthetic drugs, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The third part provides the key findings of the synthetic drug situation in the different regions of the world.

Global Synthetic Drugs Assessment