Portugal’s remarkable public health strides after changing its approach to drugs may not be replicable in other countries absent broader systemic reforms.
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This is just one example of an online trend with real-world health consequences.
Most people credit policing or the lack of it, but the real story tracks three trends that rose and fell together.
Two experts explain why we must view addiction as a health condition, not a moral failure.
Despite growing evidence of alcohol’s harms, it remains deeply embedded in social norms and cultural rituals, both in the US and abroad.
Nearly 1,500 healthcare professionals completed the training in hospitals, birth centers and community organizations across the state.
A new cross-Canada standard sets out what evidence-informed substance use prevention, education and intervention should look like from kindergarten through Grade 12.
Supervised consumption sites have real shortcomings. But the government’s case for closing them relies on a narrow definition of success and abandons the people the sites were designed to reach.
Many cities are considering involuntary substance use treatment as a solution to drug use among the homeless. But research doesn’t support this strategy.
The opioid reversal drug is distributed directly to new moms at many of Colorado’s birthing hospitals.
Substance use disorders are widespread in the US, but many people wrongly equate detoxing with being cured.
Though well-intentioned, abstinence-based resolutions can result in a return to use because these approaches reduce complex human behaviour to an on-off switch.
Police reported more drug and alcohol impairment after 2018. The growth seemed more due to enforcement changes and pandemic restrictions than to legalized cannabis.
Liver harm caused by alcohol is a public health problem. Collectively, we need to take better care of our livers by taking steps to reduce alcohol consumption in the population.
The Health To Go machines in Pennsylvania are in a YMCA in Reading and outside an emergency department in Harrisburg.
The steepest rise in opioid overdose deaths is among those aged 40 to 69.
Running may offer an organizing lifestyle structure that supports a non-linear recovery process for people living with addiction.
After a day, you’ll feel less dehydrated. After a week, your mood and sleep improves – and the benefits keep going.
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome — with severe vomiting, abdominal pain and temporary relief through compulsive hot bathing — is increasingly affecting adolescents and young adults.
Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.
Top contributors
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Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria
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Director, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research; Professor, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria
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Clinical assistant professor, University of Colorado Anschutz; Oregon Health & Science University
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Doctoral Student in Counselor Education and Supervision, The Ohio State University
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Assistant professor, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, Psychology, University of British Columbia
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Doctor of Social Sciences Candidate, Royal Roads University
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Master of Arts student, Social Dimensions of Health Program, University of Victoria
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Montana
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research; Director, Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research; Director, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria
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Assistant Professor of Indigenous Health, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Psychology, Texas State University