… estimating and comparing substance use and related burden geographically … drug use was
defined as use of a substance where consumption has been prohibited by international drug …

… (GBD) 2016 to calculate global and regional estimates of the … global disease burden
attributable to alcohol and drug use … In this Article, we will refer to all use of drugs as drug use. …

… , and mortality in illicit drug users, and evidence for acute and chronic effects of illicit drug
use. We outline the regional and global distribution of use and estimated health burden from …

… To provide global estimates of the prevalence of injecting drug use (IDU) and HIV prevalence
among IDU, in particular to provide estimates for developing and transitional countries. …

… many populations of injecting drug users represents a substantial global health challenge. …
increasing importance of injecting drug use as a mode of HIV transmission in many regions. …

… for illicit drug use as a risk factor for other health outcomes. We aim to present the global …
to each of these forms of drug dependence; and summarise additional burden due to illicit …

… In cohort studies of treated drug users the problematic use of illicit drugs has been … and
cannabis use disappeared after multivariate statistical adjustment for alcohol and other …

… It is estimated that there are 15.2 million injecting drug users globally, 10.3 million in low-income
countries [27]. It is estimated that there are 15.3 million people worldwide with drug use …

… It provided regional and global estimates of the burden of disease … we provide a brief summary
of the work for illicit drug use. … and injecting drug use were important risk factors for global …

… individuals use illicit drugs [1] and illicit drug use directly accounts for 0.8% of global disability-…
to conduct a global scientometric study on drug addiction and drug-use disorder during 2 …