Women have unique, currently unmet, needs that impact their substance use initiation, SUD
development trajectories, and harms related to drug and alcohol use. Implementing and …

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and
many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative book, now revised and …

Background Within the quality use of medicines (QUM)—which entails timely access to, and
the rational use of, medicines—medicine safety is a global health priority. In multicultural …

To deepen understanding of efforts to consider addiction a “brain disease,” we review critical
appraisals of the disease model in conjunction with responses from in-depth semistructured …

Free will has been the object of debate in the context of addiction given that addiction could
compromise an individual's ability to choose freely between alternative courses of action …

There is a need to improve the integration of substance use and mental health care for
children and youth. This study examines risk and protective factors for substance use among …

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.(2016). World Drug Report 2016. Report no. E.
16. XI. 7, Vienna, Austria 2016. Retrieved from https://www. unodc. org/doc/wdr2016 …

Neuroscience has substantially advanced the understanding of how changes in brain
biochemistry contribute to mechanisms of tolerance and physical dependence via exposure …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2020 Special Committee on Substance Use and Pharmacy
Education was charged to update the work of the 2010 Special Committee on Substance …

Tobacco smoking is a significant determinant of preventable morbidity and mortality
worldwide. It is now possible to modulate the activity of the neurocircuitry associated with …