Alcohol-attributable death rates were highest in Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and countries with low human development indices (HDIs). Across countries, alcohol use disproportionately affected young people and men.
Investigators extracted data from 8 waves of the Monitoring the Future study, which annually surveyed approximately 17,000 US high school students starting in 1975.
The center has received $17 million in funding from group of private donors.
The convenience and confidentiality of computer-based and mobile technologies may encourage more individuals with substance use disorders to access treatment.
A total of 35% of heroin smokers screened positive for COPD.
Stigmatizing terms used to describe individuals who have a substance addiction, including “addict,” alcoholic,” and “substance abuser,” may be associated with negative explicit and implicit biases and should be replaced with positive terms that still describe the conditions accurately.
Much like opioids, benzodiazepines can be highly addictive over a short period of time and can result in the use of analogue drugs.
Smartphone addiction is increasingly recognized as a type of behavioral addiction, and recent research has identified criteria that help establish a diagnosis.
It really shouldn’t take a jarring New Yorker piece to make the opioid epidemic, or my role in it, real.
This specific gene affects patients with African ancestry.
