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Tipo e contesto di lesioni correlate all'alcol tra i pazienti che si presentano ai dipartimenti di emergenza in un paese caraibico
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Esiste un'associazione tra consumo di alcol e lesioni in America Latina e nei Caraibi. Questo studio trasversale esplora i fattori socio-contestuali delle lesioni legate all'alcol a Trinidad e Tobago. I dati sui modelli di...
Il catinone sintetico e i farmaci designer cannabinoidi rappresentano un grave rischio per la salute pubblica
Come parte di un crescente uso mondiale di droghe di design, l'uso recente di composti contenenti catinoni e cannabinoidi sintetici è particolarmente diffuso. Qui, abbiamo esaminato la letteratura corrente sulla prevalenza, l'epidemiologia...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
W...
Predicting the Size and Characteristics of the Drug Treatment Population – Technical Methods
Aim and data specification
This analysis was based on monthly data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from December 2005 to November 2016. NDTMS is taken to be a comprehensive description of drug treatment...
Acculturation and Drug Use Disorders among Hispanics in the U.S.
Abstract
The authors’ objective was to examine the relationship between degree of acculturation across five different dimensions of acculturation and risk of drug use disorders (DUD) among US Hispanics.
Data were derived from a large...
New Data on Opioid Use and Prescribing in the United States
The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Between 1999 and 2010, prescription opioid–related overdose deaths increased substantially in parallel with increased prescribing of opioids.
In 2015, opioid-involved drug...
World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the Sustainable Development Goals
The World Health Statistics series is the World Health Organization's (WHO) annual compilation of health statistics for its member states. The latest World Health Statistics provides data on 21 health-related Sustainable Development Goals...
Orientamento sessuale e stime del consumo di sostanze negli adulti e della salute mentale
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La ricerca suggerisce che le minoranze sessuali (ad esempio le persone che si identificano come lesbiche, gay o bisessuali) sono a maggior rischio di uso di sostanze e problemi di salute mentale rispetto alla popolazione della...
The European Drinking Table: Who Tops the List?
The recently published results from the European Social Survey provide us with an indication of who in Europe consumes the most alcohol.
Among the findings, notable are:
- The more well-off you are, the more you drink.
- The worse-off...
Flavours Play Important Role in E-cigarette Uptake Among Younger Populations, Study Finds
New findings published in the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science suggest that flavoured e-cigarettes appeal particularly to youth and young adults.
From the study's sample population, 99% of 12-17-year-olds and 95% of young adults...
Estimation of National, Regional and Global Prevalence of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Background
Alcohol use during pregnancy is the direct cause of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). We aimed to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and FAS in the general population and, by linking these two indicators...
Attività sportiva e abuso di sostanze tra gli adolescenti: qual è il collegamento?
Un recente sondaggio che ha esaminato le abitudini di droga di oltre 20.000 atleti delle scuole superiori statunitensi ha rilevato che coloro che praticano sport ad alto contatto, come l'hockey, hanno maggiori probabilità di usare eroina e...
Public Health Strategies to Prevent Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: CDC Grand Rounds
Public Health Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...
Oltre le sigarette: i rischi dei prodotti a base di nicotina non sigaretta e le implicazioni per il controllo del tabacco
SFONDO
Mentre si sa molto sugli effetti dell'uso del tabacco, lo stato attuale delle conoscenze relative ai prodotti a base di nicotina non da sigaretta, come i sistemi elettronici di rilascio della nicotina (sigarette elettroniche e...
Illuminare il Dark Web
L'Economist riferisce che il traffico di droga si sta spostando dalla strada ai cosiddetti "criptomercati" online, o vetrine segrete di negozi virtuali.
I mercati online attualmente facilitano una quantità relativamente piccola di...
Crime and Social Impacts of Alcohol
Alcohol-related crime and social disorder is estimated to cost UK taxpayers £11bn per year, at 2010/11 prices.[1]
Alcohol-related crime makes up a substantial portion of violent offences across the UK (47% in England and Wales in 2014/15...
A Sip as a Kid, Alcohol Problems as an Adult?
Introducing children to alcohol by way of their parents allowing them sips or tasters of their own drinks is typically viewed as the presiding method used in European countries.
Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, a new...
Key Points from EMCDDA’s 2016 European Drug Report
As we welcome in the New Year it seems an ideal time to take stock and present the key points from the 2016 European Drug Report (EDR), the European Monitoring Centre for Drug and Addiction’s (EMCDDA) annual review of the European drug...
Is There a Link Between Body-Image and Alcohol Consumption among Teenage Girls?
A study published in the latest volume of Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has sought to identify whether weight and body-image misconception is associated with alcohol use and heavy consumption.
The investigation found that among...
Maltreatment and Marijuana Use
Is the maltreatment of children linked with marijuana use later in life? Are behavioural problems and tobacco and alcohol consumption during adolescence associated with smoking marijuana?
These are questions that an Australian study...