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The WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health claims that alcohol consumption contributes to more than 3 million deaths globally every year and is the seventh leading risk factor for premature death and disability.
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The World Health Organization defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make...
The harmful use of alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for population health worldwide and causes more than 5% of the global disease burden. Over 200 health conditions are connected to excessive alcohol use and it has been linked...
To examine the empirical basis for including the diagnostic category of “a single episode of harmful substance use” in the 11th revision of the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD...
Objetivos: Exponer las ventajas de la utilización del alfa ordinal para situaciones en que no se cumplan los supuestos del alfa de Cronbach y mostrar la utilidad del alfa ordinal con la versión chilena del AUDIT, así como...
A cânabis é a substância psicoativa sob controle internacional mais usada no mundo. Em 2013, cerca de 181,8 milhões de pessoas de 15 a 64 anos em todo o mundo usaram cânabis sem finalidade medicinal (estimativa de incerteza de 128...
El cannabis es la sustancia psicoactiva bajo control internacional que más se utiliza a nivel mundial. Se calcula que, en el 2013, 181,8 millones de personas de 15 a 64 años consumieron cannabis sin fines médicos en todo el mundo...
Los trastornos mentales, neurológicos y por consumo de sustancias (MNS) son muy frecuentes y representan una gran carga de enfermedad y discapacidad a nivel mundial. Subsiste una amplia brecha entre la capacidad de los sistemas de salud y...
This is the second version (2016) of the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialist health settings. It is for use by doctors, nurses, other health workers as...
Cannabis is globally the most commonly used psychoactive substance under international control. In 2013, an estimated 181.8 million people aged 15-64 years used cannabis for nonmedical purposes globally (UNODC, 2015). There is an...
El presente Compendio de Caracterización química de Cocaínas Fumables forma parte del Proyecto sobre Cocaínas Fumables en Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay, coordinado por el Observatorio Interamericano de Drogas de la Comisión...
The World Health Organization has released a series of briefings on violence prevention. Of particular interest is Chapter 3: Preventing Violence by Reducing Availability and Harmful Use of Alcohol.
‘Harmful use of alcohol is a major...
New research published in The British Medical Journal supports the need to increase taxes on tobacco products in South Asia, suggesting that doing so could reduce consumption by at least 1/3 and, in turn, avoid around 35 - 45 million...
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or...
Smoking and its related harms cost the world more than $1 trillion and claim the lives of around 6 million people each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute.
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