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U.S. National Report Shows Less Underage Drinking and Smoking, but Overall Substance Use and Mental Illness Levels Remain Constant

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Some forms of substance use, such as adolescent (aged 12 to 17) underage drinking and alcohol use among young adults (aged 18 to 25), continued to drop according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA)...

Alcohol Abuse, Adulthood and ADHD

Scientific article

6 September 2016

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the world’s most common developmental conditions. A recent collaborative study conducted in the United States and subsequently published in the journal Addiction shows that greater...

What Are Teens Vaping?

Scientific article

The use of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, has become more popular among teens in recent years and has caused concern over a rise in nicotine intake among young people. In order to learn more about the percentage of nicotine consumption...

Teen Athletes and Opioid Use

Scientific article

Previous research has shown that young athletes might be at greater risk of nonmedical prescription opioid use due to injuries. However, a new study found that sports participation might act as a protective factor against opioid as well as...

Substance Misuse: Everybody's Business

11 October 2016

London

United Kingdom

Substance misuse has a long reach into many medical specialties. Although substance misuse in patients has been managed primarily by psychiatrists, assessment and management of this should be a competency developed by all doctors. This event presents a selection of clinically relevant topics in substance misuse including:

Society for the Study of Addiction Annual Symposium

10 November 2016

York

United Kingdom

The 2016 Society for the Study of Addiction Annual (SSA) Symposium will focus on

Drunkorexia: A Dangerous Trend Among British Teens

Scientific article

the risky practice of avoiding food in order to be able to drink more

Students' Mental Health Disorders Linked to Higher Rates of Drug Use

Scientific article

A new study offers a glimpse into the link between mental health disorders and drug use among secondary school students in Brazil. Researchers at Columbia University and the Federal University of São Paulo found that students with symptoms...

Survey Sheds Light upon Students' Drug Use in the Caribbean

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The Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID) has published a comparative analysis of drug use among secondary school students in the Caribbean. The report relies on data that was collected through the use of standardised surveys among...

A Report on Students’ Drug Use in 13 Caribbean Countries

UNODC World Drug Report 2016

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23 June 2016

Around five per cent of the adult population, or nearly 250 million people between the ages of 15 and 64, used at least one drug in 2014, according to the latest World Drug Report released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and...