Background The risks associated with substance use can be framed in many ways. In
Canada, the consumption of psychoactive substances has at various times been considered …

Background Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, and one of the primary
objectives of the Cannabis Act was to protect youth by reducing their access to cannabis and …

Background Prisons often serve as high-risk environments for drug use, and incarcerated
people are at a high risk for substance use-related mental and physical harms. This study …

Background Canada has one of the highest prevalence of cannabis use globally,
particularly among young adults aged 20–24 (50%) and youth aged 16–19 (37%). In 2018 …

Background While increasingly referenced in the literature and policy discussions, a “public
health approach”(PHA) to substance use has been inconsistently defined or remained …

Community Pharmacy Needle Exchanges are a harm reduction measure that have been
established in a number of countries to provide access to sterile injecting equipment for …

The paper considers the problem of the economic feasibility of cannabis legalization in the
Russian Federation. The paper also analyzes attitudes towards cannabis legalization …

This paper identifies how experiences of alcohol use disorder (AUD) are metaphorically
framed in online alcohol support materials, using a dataset curated to isolate the language …

How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use - PMC
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Substance use disorders (SUDs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity, premature
mortality, familial and social disruption, and loss of income worldwide. At least 2–9% of the …