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La marihuana es la sustancia ilegal más usada, pero crece consumo de ‘popper’.

Al menos 520 mil estudiantes de colegio, cuyas edades están entre los 12 y los 18 años, han consumido drogas por lo menos una vez en su vida. Esa cifra...

The South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU) have produced a short report on alcohol and other drug trends for 2018. 

SACENDU is operational in 9 South African provinces, monitoring trends in alcohol and other...

The document National Report on Drug Situation in Lebanon offers an insight into the coordinated approach taken by the Department of Public Health, academic stakeholders and other ministerial departments in reducing the prevalence and impact of substance use disorders in Lebanon. 

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Background: Binge drinking prevalence rates are highest in young adults; however, little is known about the effects of binge drinking on blood pressure (BP) and other cardiovascular health metrics in individuals between 18 and 45...

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Background: Although it is well established that heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk of hypertension, the risk associated with low levels of alcohol intake in men and women is unclear.

Methods and Results: We searched...

The 2018 World Drug Report was launched on 26th June. The report covers a range of topics with the booklets split into drug demand and supply, drug markets, drugs and age, and women and drugs. 

The booklets are all available free to access...

The 2018 theme of the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime was "Listen First".

In our third Student Membership Update we have sourced some funding and research opportunities, and events that we are sure will be of interest. 

One great way to be more active in this field is to join ISSUP as a member and to contribute...

The 26th of June marks the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

Many news outlets are reporting on a newly introduced feature of Facebook to help support people who use opiate drugs. 

It's been a decade since the financial crisis drove up the unemployment rate in the U.S. and forced people in the prime of their careers to give up looking for work.

Even today, as employers add jobs at a furious pace, the workforce...

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Objectives: Many smokers use e-cigarettes and licensed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), often in an attempt to reduce their cigarette consumption. We estimated how far changes in prevalence of e-cigarette and NRT use while...

The rapid adoption of e-cigarettes has been driven, at least in part, by a huge jump in the potency of e-liquids.

CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG teenagers is on the wane. While data show smoking among teenagers has dropped over the past few years...

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Previous studies on high-risk opioid use have only focused on patients diagnosed with an opioid disorder. This study evaluates the impact of various high-risk prescription opioid use groups on healthcare costs and...

If you are searching for a simple format way to communicate the key issues around drugs then the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website may offer a multi-media solution. 

The Easy to Read Drug Facts section of the NIDA website...

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Objectives: To examine (1) the association between household socioeconomic status (SES) and whether a household spends money on cigarettes and (2) socioeconomic variations in proportion of total household expenditure spent on...

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Services to treat tobacco dependence are not readily available to smokers in low-middle income countries (LMICs) where smoking prevalence remains high. We are conducting a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing...