Ricerche precedenti hanno dimostrato che le femmine riportano alti più intensi dall'uso di cocaina rispetto ai maschi e che i primi hanno maggiori probabilità di diventare dipendenti dalla droga, data la presenza dell'ormone femminile...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators is a publication by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
It is the second edition of the 1998 EMCDDA...
Un nuovo studio recentemente pubblicato sul Journal of Health Economics esamina i cambiamenti nei modelli di consumo di droghe e negli atteggiamenti nei confronti delle sostanze tra i giovani (15-24) in 28 paesi europei.
Di particolare...
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
Gli antidolorifici da prescrizione sono secondi solo alla marijuana come droga preferita negli Stati Uniti. Circa 91,8 milioni di americani di età pari o superiore a 18 anni hanno utilizzato antidolorifici da prescrizione nel 2014, secondo...
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes...
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2017) is a special volume that supplements the organisation’s Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, released in 2003...
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.
This is compared with around one third of the average population.
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...
The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download.
Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least...
Drug-related deaths are rising and are a major concern to councils and our health partners. Deaths have increased sharply over the past five years and are now at their highest levels since records began.
Any death related to the misuse...
Studies on contraceptive use by patients with substance use disorders (SUD) show a concerning low use of contraception. Mainly conducted in USA, they could be irrelevant to patients attending European SUD treatment...
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
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Le nuove sostanze psicoattive (NPS), a volte indicate come "legal highs", sono nuove droghe che hanno ricevuto molta attenzione da parte dei media negli ultimi tempi.
Un nuovo studio pubblicato su Public Health Research ha esaminato la...
Recenti ricerche suggeriscono che la compromissione dell'habenula laterale (LB) – la regione del cervello nota per registrare esperienze negative – può contribuire allo sviluppo della tossicodipendenza.
Lo studio, condotto su ratti di...
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Un nuovo rapporto sulle morti legate all'alcol tra i forti bevitori di Edimburgo e Glasgow è stato pubblicato da SHAAP sulla base di una ricerca finanziata da Alcohol Research UK e dal Chief Scientist Office (Scozia). Il progetto ha...
There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...