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European Drug Report 2017

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The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...

Tobacco and the Emergence of E-Cigarettes: Addressing the Unmet Needs in Mental Health

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United States

Tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, and disproportionately affects people with mental illness. E-cigarette use is increasing in the United States and people with mental illness are reporting use that is greater than the general population. Psychiatrists are being faced with questions about use and risks regularly or are often unsure what to recommend to patients.

The Societal Cost of Heroin Use Disorder in the United States

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ABSTRACT Objective Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars. Methods An analytic...

Personality-Targeted Substance Use Interventions: Do They Work?

Scientific article
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Do high-risk pupils benefit more so from psychological interventions than standard drug education initiatives? Much research suggests there are, in fact, a number of significantly positive effects associated with the former. What is more...

Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders. Its intent...

High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances

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‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...