adults

Use of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Among Adults With Past-Year Opioid Use Disorder in the US, 2021

Scientific article

7 August 2023

Discussion Despite guidelines recommending MOUD, approximately 1 in 5 adults with past-year OUD received any MOUD. Furthermore, some groups were substantially less likely to receive MOUD, in particular Black adults, women, those unemployed...

Parents’ Experiences of Abuse by their Adult Children with Drug Problems

Scientific article

11 November 2019

Research on abuse linked with substance use has tended to focus on child abuse and intimate partner violence. There have been considerably fewer studies on the nature of abuse committed by children against their parents. In a recent...

International Conference on Prevention: Addictions and Other Problematic Behaviors

17 October 2019

Sevilla

Spain

On October 17 and 18, 2019 the International conference on prevention: addictions and other problematic behaviors will be held at the Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Sevilla in Spain.

The main objetives are:

Incubation of Cue-Induced Craving in Adults Addicted to Cocaine Measured by Electroencephalography

Scientific article

7 September 2016

Key Points Question: Does cue-induced craving follow a parabolic trajectory as a function of duration of abstinence in humans with cocaine use disorders, as previously shown in preclinical studies? Findings: The results of this laboratory...

Longitudinal Patterns of Marijuana Use across Ages 18-50 in a US National Sample

Scientific article

1 February 2017

Background This descriptive study identified latent classes of longitudinal marijuana use from ages 18 through 50 among a national sample; examined covariate associations with class membership regarding use/non-use, use intensity, and use...

State-Specific Prevalence of Tobacco Product Use among Adults

Scientific article

26 January 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States. Despite recent declines in cigarette smoking prevalence, the tobacco product landscape has shifted...

Current Cigarette Smoking among US Adults

Scientific article

19 January 2018

Summary What is already known about this topic? The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that the burden of death and disease from tobacco use in the United States is overwhelmingly caused by cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products...

Webinar: Trends in Mental Health and Substance Use among Ontario Adults

10 August 2017

Webinar

Canada

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Monitor is the longest ongoing adult substance use and mental health survey in Canada. The survey describes trends in substance use, mental health, physical health, and other risk behaviors among adults across Ontario. This webinar will introduce the latest CAMH Monitor results (2015).

Higher Numbers Getting High

Scientific article

15 September 2016

Marijuana use amongst adults in the United States is increasing. A study of over half-a-million people carried out between 2002 – 2014 and subsequently published in The Lancet suggests that this is because fewer perceive the drug to be...