Hiruni Jayaratne

The Substance Abuse of Adolescents and Youth: The risk of Unintended Pregnancy and Mental Health Disorders

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The use of illicit or illegal drugs or alcohol is as “Substance Use” and the counter of drugs or alcohol for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts simply defined as “Substance Abuse”. Drug addiction became major public health and social problem in...
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Hiruni Jayaratne

The Substance Abuse of Adolescents and Youth: The risk of Unintended Pregnancy and Mental Health Disorders

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The use of illicit or illegal drugs or alcohol is as “Substance Use” and the counter of drugs or alcohol for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in excessive amounts simply defined as “Substance Abuse”. Drug addiction became major public health and social problem in...
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Cundill Centre Online Tool for the Treatment of Youth Depression

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The Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is proud to launch its free, interactive online tool that summarises best practices for supporting youth as they manage their depression. This is a recording from a session providing for ACAMH on...
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Adolescent Suicide Research Screening, Risk Assessment, and Intervention

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Abstract: Adolescent suicide continues to be an urgent, public health concern. This presentation will discuss selected studies from a research program focused on developing evidence-based strategies for suicide risk screening, suicide risk assessment, and preventive intervention. Findings related to...
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Effects of family history of substance use disorder on reward processing in adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

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Source: Paraskevopoulou, M., van Rooij, D., Schene, A. H., Batalla, A., Chauvin, R. J., Buitelaar, J. K., & Schellekens, A. F. (2022). Effects of family history of substance use disorder on reward processing in adolescents with and without attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Addiction Biology...
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Rasha Abi Hana

Enhanced Alcohol Container Labels: A Systematic Review (Report at a Glance)

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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...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Prospective Development and Validation of the Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth

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Source: King CA, Brent D, Grupp-Phelan J, et al. Prospective Development and Validation of the Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth. JAMA Psychiatry. 2021;78(5):540–549. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4576 Key Points Question Can use of a computerized adaptive screen reliably predict a...
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Rasha Abi Hana

Inter-GLAM video contest

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Inter-GLAM is a European project, co-funded by the European Union’s DG Justice Programme "Drugs Policy Initiatives - Supporting initiatives in the field of drugs policy” (JUST-2019-AG-DRUGS). The project aims to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to elaborate on global perspectives and trends shaping addictions and drug markets, and will co-produce a strand of the 4th European Conference on addictive behaviours and dependencies (LxAddictions22, 23-25 November 2022).

Within the frame of the collaboration with LxAddictions22, Inter-GLAM is organising a video contest for...

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Rasha Abi Hana

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Concept (ACE) in a Research Sample of Imprisoned Children of Addicted Parents

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Juhásová, A., Pavelová, Ľ., & Lulei, M. (2021). The Adverse Childhood Experiences concept (ACE) in a research sample of imprisoned children of addicted parents. Adiktologie, 21 (3), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2021-003-0003

INTRODUCTION

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) concept is based on the results of an American population-based cohort study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 1998. ACE is classified into three groups: abuse, neglect, and household challenges. The main goal of our work is the identification and description of factors affecting the psychosocial development of an individual in a family with a parent with a long-term addiction in relation to the development of a criminal career.

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The main research method was represented by the life stories of the...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

How Youth Get Engaged: Grounded-Theory Research on Motivational Development in Organized Youth Programs

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Source: Dawes, N. P., & Larson, R. (2011). How youth get engaged: Grounded-theory research on motivational development in organized youth programs. Developmental psychology, 47(1), 259. For youth to benefit from many of the developmental opportunities provided by organized programs, they need to not...
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How Adolescents Come to See Themselves as More Responsible Through Participation in Youth Programs

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Source: Wood, D., Larson, R. W., & Brown, J. R. (2009). How adolescents come to see themselves as more responsible through participation in youth programs. Child Development, 80(1), 295-309. This qualitative study was aimed at developing theory about the process underlying the development of...
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Physical Activity as a Regulatory Variable between Adolescents’ Motivational Processes and Satisfaction with Life

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Source: Vaquero Solís, M., Sánchez-Miguel, P. A., Tapia Serrano, M. Á., Pulido, J. J., & Iglesias Gallego, D. (2019). Physical activity as a regulatory variable between adolescents’ motivational processes and satisfaction with life. International journal of environmental research and public health...
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Rasha Abi Hana

Alcohol and illicit drug use among young people living with HIV compared to their uninfected peers from the Kenyan coast: prevalence and risk indicators

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Moses K. Nyongesa, Paul Mwangi, Michael Kinuthia, Amin S. Hassan, Hans M. Koot, Pim Cuijpers, Charles R. J. C. Newton & Amina Abubakar

There is a scarcity of research on drug use patterns among HIV-positive young individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa (YLWH). To fill the gap, the following was set out:

  1. compare the prevalence of substance use, specifically alcohol and illicit drug use, among YLWH to their HIV-uninfected peers;
  2. look into the independent relationship between HIV infection status and substance use among these young people;
  3. look into the risk indicators for substance use among these young people.

Between November 2018 and September 2019, a cross-sectional study was conducted at the Kenyan coast recruiting 819...

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Edie

Alcohol Availability, Use, and Harms Among Adolescents in Three Mexican Cities.

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Ringwalt, C. L., Paschall, M. J., Grube, J. W., Miller, T. R., Warren, K. R., Gidi, V., Fisher, D. A., & Goldberg, A. (2020). Alcohol Availability, Use, and Harms Among Adolescents in Three Mexican Cities. Journal of Drug Education, 49(1–2), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047237920929331

Alcohol consumption contributes to 3 million deaths each year globally as well as to the disabilities and poor health of millions of people. 

Alcohol use among adolescents can be harmful to neurodevelopment and has been linked to an increased risk of suicide ideation, depression, and risky sexual behaviour.

In Mexico, alcohol use has steadily increased among youth over the last decade, prompting an investigation into the link between perceived availability of alcohol, heavy episodic drinking, and alcohol-related harms among 12-17-year-olds.

This study is based on survey data obtained in...

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Diana Crossan

Desafíos en prevención y tratamiento en la post-pandemia (Argentina-Chile-México-Perú)

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ISSUP Argentina invites you to participate in a webinar that addresses the increased impact of isolation and social distancing resulting from the pandemic on the quality of life of vulnerable populations in Latin America, including children...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Actitudes hacia el consumo, búsqueda de sensaciones y consumo de alcohol. Modelo de mediación parcial en adolescentes ecuatorianos

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Fuente: Herrera, R. M., Lascano, M. M., Reyes, C., & Rodríguez, T. D. (2021). Actitudes hacia el consumo, búsqueda de sensaciones y consumo de alcohol. Modelo de mediación parcial en adolescentes ecuatorianos. Revista española de drogodependencias, (46), 58-71. RESUMEN Objetivo: Determinar el efecto...
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Rasha Abi Hana

Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Health approach

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Public Health Agency of Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada developed The Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Approach with a policy paper. 

These new resources for preventing substance-related harms among youth are now available for administrators, school board officials, teachers, guidance counsellors, healthcare professionals and community organizations that support youth.

The Blueprint combines evidence-based prevention and intervention approaches with the Comprehensive School Health framework, an internationally recognized approach to building...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Trends and Disparities in Treatment for Co-occurring Major Depression and Substance Use Disorders Among US Adolescents From 2011 to 2019

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Source: Lu W, Muñoz-Laboy M, Sohler N, Goodwin RD. Trends and Disparities in Treatment for Co-occurring Major Depression and Substance Use Disorders Among US Adolescents From 2011 to 2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(10):e2130280. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.30280 Key Points Question What was the...
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Risk and resource factors of antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents: results of the longitudinal BELLA study

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Source: Otto, C., Kaman, A., Erhart, M. et al. Risk and resource factors of antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents: results of the longitudinal BELLA study. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 15, 61 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00412-3 Abstract Background Antisocial...
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