The Alcohol Use and Mental Health Project ECHO is a no-cost virtual program for health care professionals who are looking for up-to-date and research-based information on working with people who use alcohol. 

The program, which is only in its first year, has the potential to improve care through enhanced screening for severe alcohol consumption and the application of evidence-based therapies, such as behavioural and pharmaceutical ones. The Alcohol Use and Mental Health ECHO has held 11 sessions as of January 2023, averaging 197 participants per session on a standard deviation of 90.2 (Mean...

The N‑SUMHSS is a voluntary annual survey of all active substance use and mental health facilities in the United States, its territories, and D.C. The annual report presents findings on the general profile of substance use and mental health facilities, use of pharmacotherapies/medications, language assistance provided, and suicide prevention services.

This report includes data and findings from 20,6223 facilities, which comprised of 14,010 substance use facilities (75.3% of 18,615 eligible substance use facilities), 9,050 mental health facilities (71.1% of 12,723 eligible mental health...

L’adolescence est l’une des étapes les plus importantes de la vie humaine. Cette période est pleine de stimuli et de types d’influence différents – de la part des parents, des pairs et de la société. Elle est liée à une plus grande susceptibilité aux comportements problématiques et à l’impulsivité. Pour cette raison, il est important d’explorer le sujet de l’impulsivité et du comportement impulsif.

MÉTHODES : Cette étude porte sur l’impulsivité chez les adolescents à l’aide d’une méthode d’enquête par questionnaire tchèque, l’échelle d’impulsivité de Dolejš et Skopal (SMID). Il vérifie...

Le Réseau communautaire canadien d’épidémiologie contre l’usage de drogues (CCENDU) est un réseau pancanadien de partenaires communautaires coordonné par le Centre canadien sur les dépendances et l’usage de substances (CCDUS). Le réseau a des sites en Colombie-Britannique, au Manitoba, à Thunder Bay, à Toronto, au Québec, en Nouvelle-Écosse et à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.

En avril 2019, le CCENDU a publié un bulletin sur les changements dans la consommation de stimulants et les méfaits connexes, qui portait sur la méthamphétamine et la cocaïne* en se fondant sur les données recueillies par les...

Background

Several reports have described a growing prevalence of illicit drug use in Afghanistan, with recognition of a recent shift from traditional modes of consumption involving inhalation and oral ingestion to injecting drug use.

Objective

Conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature to map the injecting drug use situation in Afghanistan. The review intends to describe risk factors and impacts of injecting drug use, drug use characteristics and risk behaviours among people who inject drugs (PWID), and access to harm reduction and treatment.

Methods

We searched Embase, Global...

Introduction and aims

There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary analysis of a randomised placebo-controlled trial of nabiximols for the treatment of cannabis use disorder (CUD), aiming to identify which client and treatment characteristics impact treatment engagement and outcomes.

Method

Bayesian multiple regression models were used to examine the impact of age, gender, duration of regular cannabis use, daily quantity...

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances – has been implemented in some jurisdictions to provide safer alternatives to the unregulated drug supply, yet no studies to date have explored professional stakeholder perspectives on this approach.

Methods

We used purposive sampling to recruit professional stakeholders (n = 17) from four locations in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, including...

Background

The COVID-19 emergency has tested the public health, medical, and public safety infrastructure of the United States (U.S.) in unprecedented ways. As the focal point for public health in their communities, local health departments (LHDs) were particularly impacted by the pandemic’s onset. The pandemic limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not reduced.

Methods

Six quantitative data sources were examined, collected between...

La gestion des contingences (GC) est un traitement psychologique basé sur le conditionnement opérant. Il consiste à fournir des incitations en échange de l’atteinte d’un comportement cible tel que l’abstinence ou d’autres variables liées au traitement (par exemple, la participation aux séances, l’observance du traitement). L’objectif de cet article était d’introduire la justification de la MC pour la consommation de substances et, plus précisément, pour l’abandon du tabac. Un nombre croissant de publications empiriques soutient la MC comme un traitement efficace pour cesser de fumer à la fois...

BACKGROUND:

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) generate an aerosol by vaporising e-liquids that usually consist of propylene glycol (PG), vegetable glycerine (VG), and other ingredients (water, nicotine, and flavours). The chemical and physical properties of these components have a significant effect on aerosol formation and must be identified in order to improve product attractiveness and assess the degree of health risks.

AIM:

The aim of this article is to provide a description of the composition of the e-liquid base and its impact on the physical properties of the liquid used...

ARRIÈRE-PLAN:

Les loisirs peuvent être un contexte qui peut favoriser le développement positif des adolescents, mais ils peuvent aussi être un contexte qui contribue à l’adoption de comportements à risque chez les adolescents.

VISE:

L’objectif de cette étude est de déterminer dans quelle mesure les caractéristiques sociodémographiques, la fréquence de la participation des adolescents à des activités de loisirs structurées (ALS) et le type d’ALS contribuent à la consommation d’alcool chez les adolescents et d’examiner les effets modérateurs du sexe, de l’âge et du type d’ALS sur la relation...

The European Web Survey on Drugs1 collected data during March and May 2021 from people who use drugs, are aged 18 or older, and live in 21 EU and 9 non-EU countries including Lebanon. In this period, the populations in many European and neighbouring countries were experiencing COVID-19-related lockdown or restrictions. Unless otherwise indicated, the data presented here refer to the 274 respondents who reported having used at least one illicit drug in the 12 months prior to the survey (last 12 months of use) and live in Lebanon.

In summary

• Most survey respondents (93 %) reported using...