Responding to the opioid crisis in North America and beyond: recommendations of the Stanford–Lancet Commission

K Humphreys, CL Shover, CM Andrews, ASB Bohnert… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The Stanford–Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis
was formed in response to soaring opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the USA and …

Opioid use disorder

J Strang, ND Volkow, L Degenhardt… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by
activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that …

Assessing the public health impacts of legalizing recreational cannabis use: the US experience

W Hall, M Lynskey - World Psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The sale of cannabis for adult recreational use has been made legal in nine US states since
2012, and nationally in Uruguay in 2013 and Canada in 2018. We review US research on …

The increasing global health priority of substance use in young people

L Degenhardt, E Stockings, G Patton, WD Hall… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Substance use in young people (aged 10–24 years) might disrupt key periods of transition
that occur as the adolescent brain undergoes cognitive and emotional development, and …

Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of substance use in young people

E Stockings, WD Hall, M Lynskey, KI Morley… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
We did a systematic review of reviews with evidence on the effectiveness of prevention,
early intervention, harm reduction, and treatment of problem use in young people for …

Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

L Degenhardt, HA Whiteford, AJ Ferrari, AJ Baxter… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background No systematic attempts have been made to estimate the global and regional
prevalence of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine, and opioid dependence, and quantify their …

[图书][B] Evidence-based policy: A practical guide to doing it better

N Cartwright, J Hardie - 2012 - books.google.com
Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base
their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of …

Extent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the global burden of disease

L Degenhardt, W Hall - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
This paper summarises data for the prevalence, correlates, and probable adverse health
consequences of problem use of amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, and opioids. We …

[HTML][HTML] Opioid-related treatment, interventions, and outcomes among incarcerated persons: a systematic review

M Malta, T Varatharajan, C Russell, M Pang… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Worldwide opioid-related overdose has become a major public health crisis.
People with opioid use disorder (OUD) are overrepresented in the criminal justice system …

What can we learn from the Portuguese decriminalization of illicit drugs?

CE Hughes, A Stevens - The British Journal of Criminology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-
based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the …