Conducting cross-cultural, multi-lingual or multi-country scale development and validation in health care research: A 10-step framework based on a scoping review

Y Zhao, R Summers, D Gathara… - Journal of Global …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Valid, reliable and cross-cultural equivalent scales and measurement
instruments that enable comparisons across diverse populations in different countries are …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing the use trends of new psychoactive substances using wastewater-based epidemiology in Europe: A systematic review

G Gatica-Bahamonde, EA Godynyuk, J Neicun… - Emerging Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and Aims: new psychoactive substances (NPS) pose challenges not only due to
their harms to users but also because they are difficult to monitor with traditional …

New psychoactive substances in Eurasia: a qualitative study of people who use drugs and harm reduction services in six countries

E Kurcevič, R Lines - Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 - Springer
Background This study examines the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and the
harm reduction response in six Eurasian countries: Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Kazakhstan …

Nationale drug monitor

MW Van Laar, AAN Cruts, MMJ van Ooyen-Houben… - 2013 - repository.wodc.nl
De Nationale Drug Monitor (NDM) geeft sinds 1999 jaarlijks een cijfermatig overzicht van
wat bekend is over het gebruik van drugs en problemen rond drugs in Nederland. 1 De …

Why do people use new psychoactive substances? Development of a new measurement tool in six European countries

A Benschop, R Urbán… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: New psychoactive substances (NPS) pose a public health threat. Many studies
have tried to identify the reasons of NPS use; however, none of them have so far used any …

Prevalence and concentrations of new designer stimulants, synthetic opioids, benzodiazepines, and hallucinogens in postmortem hair samples: A 13‐year …

A Niebel, L Westendorf, F Krumbiegel… - Drug testing and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hair samples are frequently analyzed in order to characterize consumption patterns of
drugs. However, the interpretation of new psychoactive substance (NPS) findings in hair …

[PDF][PDF] Analytical challenges for identification of new psychoactive substances: a literature-based study for seized drugs

A Bruni, C Rodrigues, C dos Santos… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2021 - kar.kent.ac.uk
Correct identification of substances is essential to understand drug use and trafficking trends
and guide measures for harm reduction and treatment. Two steps are needed to verify the …

Where, when and with whom: cannabis use, settings and self-regulation rules

K Skliamis, A Benschop… - Contemporary Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines to what extent and how cannabis users in different countries, with
different cannabis legislation and policies practice normalization and self-regulation of …

Analysis of Google Trends to monitor new psychoactive substance. Is there an added value?

FK Batistic, D Rhumorbarbe, E Lefrancois… - Forensic science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen an increase in the development and availability of a broad
category of drugs, known as new psychoactive substances (NPS). NPS are challenging for …

The scale of intoxications with new psychoactive substances over the period 2014–2020—characteristics of the trends and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the …

A Garus-Pakowska, A Kolmaga, E Gaszyńska… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Legal highs are new psychoactive substances (NPSs) which pose a high risk for human
health, and the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has changed peoples' behaviours …