Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder

JP Connor, D Stjepanović, B Le Foll, E Hoch… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is an underappreciated risk of using cannabis that affects~
10% of the 193 million cannabis users worldwide. The individual and public health burdens …

Associations of smoking and alcohol consumption with healthy ageing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

C Daskalopoulou, B Stubbs, C Kralj, A Koukounari… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The number of older people is growing across the world; however, quantitative
synthesis of studies examining the impact of lifestyle factors on the ageing process is rare …

Alcohol intake as a risk factor for acute stroke: the INTERSTROKE study

A Smyth, M O'Donnell, S Rangarajan, GJ Hankey… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives There is uncertainty about the association between alcohol
consumption and stroke, particularly for low-moderate intake. We explored these …

New approach for the measurement of long-term alcohol consumption trends: Application of wastewater-based epidemiology in an Australian regional city

Q Zheng, BJ Tscharke, C Krapp, JW O'Brien… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) provides complementary information to
traditional self-report methods for estimating substance use within a population. WBE was …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence and context of alcohol use, problem drinking and alcohol-related harm among youth living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda

MH Swahn, R Culbreth, LF Salazar… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and context of
alcohol use, problem drinking and alcohol-related harm among boys and girls in the slums …

Social media use and alcohol consumption among students in Uganda: a cross sectional study

E Atusingwize, M Nilsson, AE Sjölander… - Global Health …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Globally, alcohol use significantly contributes to the disease burden. Alcohol
consumption in Uganda is related to several health consequences among young people …

Efficacy of brief interventions in reducing hazardous or harmful alcohol use in middle-income countries: systematic review of randomized controlled trials

J Joseph, D Basu - Alcohol and alcoholism, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims The aim of this paper is to systematically review the efficacy of alcohol brief
intervention in middle-income countries. Methods Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of …

Alcohol consumption and consequences in adolescents in 68 low and middle-income countries–a multi-country comparison of risks by sex

J Leung, V Chiu, JP Connor, A Peacock… - Drug and alcohol …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aims Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for disease burden among youth. This study
estimated sex differences in the prevalence of alcohol use and consequences among …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions targeting hazardous and harmful alcohol use and alcohol-related symptoms in low-and middle-income countries …

M Preusse, F Neuner, V Ertl - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background In low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), the mismatch between the number
of individuals needing and those receiving treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUD) is …

[HTML][HTML] Alcohol–attributed disease burden and alcohol policies in the BRICS–countries during the years 1990–2013

R Rabiee, E Agardh, MM Coates, P Allebeck… - Journal of Global …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background We aimed to assess alcohol consumption and alcohol–attributed disease
burden by DALYs (disability adjusted life years) in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia …