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Commentary
Needle exchange programs are safe, highly effective programs for promoting health among people who inject drugs. However, they remain poorly funded, and often illegal, in many places worldwide due to fear and ...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:15
Published on: 17 March 2017
Research
Identifying optimal, post-operative opioid management strategies is a priority of health providers and government agencies. At present, there are no studies we are aware of that have formally investigated opio...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:14
Published on: 16 March 2017
Research
People seeking care for substance use (PSCSU) experience deep social and health inequities. Harm reduction can be a moral imperative to approach these persons. The purpose of this study was to explore relation...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:12
Published on: 8 March 2017
Research
Little detailed evidence is available on how integrated policies could impact population health and under what conditions such policies could be realized. The aim of this study was to assess how youth alcohol ...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:13
Published on: 2 March 2017
Research
Syndemics of illicit drug use and HIV remain as significant public health issues around the world. There has been increasing concern regarding the rapidly growing market of new psychoactive substances, particu...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:11
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research
Given the increasing number of lead poisoning in opioids users and since no study has been conducted so far to review lead poisoning in methamphetamine (crystal) users, this study aimed to investigate blood le...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:2
Published on: 22 February 2017
Research
Job satisfaction is an important predictor for management and clinical ratios. Although it is accepted that is affected by many aspects, the influence of social capital remains to be determined. The main purpo...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:8
Published on: 15 February 2017
Research
Despite the efforts of the World Anti-Doping Agency and national anti-doping agencies at the international level, a relatively low and steady rate of positive doping tests still persists all over the world. Ev...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:7
Published on: 14 February 2017
Research
Cocaine is subject to recreational abuse as a stimulant and psychoactive agent, which poses a major worldwide health problem. The aim of the present study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of publication ...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:6
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research
Adolescents observe and imitate people to whom they are associated in their social context, and the normative factors sent out by reference groups are crucial determinants of their decision to smoke. The aim o...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:5
Published on: 21 January 2017
Research
Opioid agonist therapy using methadone, an effective treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD) for people who inject drugs (PWID), is recommended by the World Health Organization as essential to curtail the grow...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:4
Published on: 20 January 2017
Research
This study examines Jordanian special education department students’ competences and preparation relating to combating substance misuse (SM).
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:1
Published on: 14 January 2017
Research
Opioid use is a significant problem in Alaska. Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use, including buprenorphine, reduces withdrawal symptoms and the harm associated with opioid abuse. Understanding consum...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2017 12:3
Published on: 11 January 2017
Research
Celebrities are at risk for premature mortality as well as drug-related death. Despite being a vulnerable patient group, celebrities influence people’s health behaviours through biological, psychological and s...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:40
Published on: 9 December 2016
Research
Violence against women is a social and public health issue in Mexico. The aim of this article is to explore violence among an understudied group of women, who attended Mutual-Aid Residential Centers for Addict...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:39
Published on: 30 November 2016
Research
Non-medical prescription opioid (NMPO) use is a substantial public health problem in the United States, with 1.5 million new initiates annually. Only 746,000 people received treatment for NMPO use in 2013, dem...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:38
Published on: 29 November 2016
Review
Since the original Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol consumption as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study for 1990, there had been regular updates of CRAs for alcohol from the World Health Org...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:37
Published on: 28 October 2016
Research
Alcohol consumption (AC) has negative social and economic consequences, affects health, and can create dependence. As dependence is particularly difficult to cure, prevention is important. This study aimed to ...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:36
Published on: 27 October 2016
Short Report
Doping presents a potential health risk for young athletes. Prevention programs are intended to prevent doping by educating athletes about banned substances. However, such programs have their limitations in pr...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:35
Published on: 10 October 2016
Research
Illegal drug use has long been a global concern. Taiwan and Korea are geographically adjacent and both countries have experienced the illegal use problems of methamphetamine, a predominant prototype of New Psy...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:34
Published on: 23 September 2016
Research
Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PN) is a topic of increasing importance. Its prevalence rates range from 1 % to more than 20 %. Students are a group that shows exceptionally high prevalence rates. However, l...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:32
Published on: 20 September 2016
Commentary
Prescription opioid (PO) misuse is a major health concern across North America, and it is the primary cause of preventable death for the 18–35 year old demographic. Medication assisted therapy including methad...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:33
Published on: 20 September 2016
Research
South Africa continues to witness an increase in illicit poly-substance use, although a precise measurement continues to be compounded by difficulties in accessing users. In a pilot attempt to use respondent-d...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:31
Published on: 1 September 2016
Research
Compulsory drug detention is the most frequent way to control drug use in China; however, it has often been criticized. This qualitative study aimed to investigate abstinence self-efficacy and its sources of d...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:29
Published on: 31 August 2016
Research
A community pharmacy real-time electronic recording program, ProjectSTOP, enables Australian community pharmacists to verify pseudoephedrine requests. In Western Australia the program was available for volunta...
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016 11:30
Published on: 30 August 2016
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