Prevention

Rosie Myint, Wah Wah Lwin Background: There is a sustained downward trend in HIV prevalence among the sentinel groups which include People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) reflecting the effectiveness of programme for safer sexual behaviors and harm...

Salman Shahzad, Wendy Leigh Kliewer, Muzafar Ali, Nasreen Begum Substance use is a significant problem in Pakistan, particularly among male adolescents, yet there are few studies of the correlates of use in this population. As a first step...

Nicole Johnson, Sri Handayani, John Parrish-Sprowl Introduction: Within the past few years, Indonesia Ministry of Health and government have begun to push toward more anti-tobacco initiatives by sponsoring mass media campaigns and...

Jinsong Tang, Yanhui Liao Introduction: Generally, the prevalence of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption in male Chinese is higher than that in female Chinese. However, little is known about the regional differences in prevalence of...

Yanhui Liao Introduction: Chronic use of both Ketamine (“K powder”) and methamphetamine (MA, “ice”) can induce psychiatric symptoms. This study aimed at exploring drug-induced psychiatric symptoms in chronic ketamine users and MA users...

Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Renette J Blignaut, Innocent Karangwa, Elizabeth Weybright, Linda Lee Caldwell, Edward Allan Smith South African youth experience many challenges including unemployment, poverty, disorganised families, health...

Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...

Abstract Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to reducing substance use in adolescents. An emerging literature shows the promise of school-based SBIRT. However, most school-based...

Los factores de riesgo/protección (fRP) representan elementos fundamentales para el análisis, comprensión y formulación de respuestas preventivas de las drogodependencias. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar una revisión de la...

Abstract Background: Tobacco smoking is a growing concern for health care systems as it is projected to become the leading cause of death in the developing world. Knowledge of how smoking behavior differs across socioeconomic groups is...