BACKGROUND This article focuses on examining drug abuse treatment (DAT) in El Salvador highlighting gang vs. non-gang membership differences in drug use and treatment outcomes. METHODS Cross-sectional and prospective cohort designs were employed to examine the study aims. The 19 centers that met the study's inclusion criteria of one year or less in planned treatment offered varying treatment ...

The article describes organized crime in the field of illegal trafficking narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues as an object criminological research. It was established that sphere Ukraine is characterized by a hierarchy, strictly and clearly organized, planned system interconnected criminal activity individuals, groups, syndicates, cartels, which carried out with division ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this article is to review recent research on the health consequences of illegal drug use and possible risk factors, with a particular focus on prospective evidence. RECENT FINDINGS Mortality studies have revealed qualitative and quantitative changes in causes of death among heroin and injecting drug users (IDUs), probably due to increasing exposure to harm reducti...

BACKGROUND Low socioeconomic position predicts risk of substance abuse, yet few studies tested the role of preexisting familial and individual characteristics. METHODS Data come from the TEMPO (Trajectoires Epidémiologiques en Population) study (community sample in France, 1991-2009, n=1103, 22-35 years in 2009) set up among offspring of participants of an epidemiological study (GAZEL). Past ...

Party networks of young people are very important for socialization, but can also influence their involvement in risk behaviours or they can be protective. The influence of nightlife network of friends in using alcohol/ drugs is investigated through a survey. We explore the individual-centred networks (7.360 friends) of 1.363 recreational nightlife users in 9 European cities in 2006, through 22...

We conducted a prevalence study of current substance misuse amongst acute general medical admissions, and compared the sociodemographic profile of this group of patients with total admissions and the local catchment population. Patients were included in the study if they were resident in the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (LSL) Health Commission catchment area and were aged between 18 and 85 y...

To evaluate the consistency of the relationship between early drug use in adolescence and illegal drug use in adulthood as proposed in the "gateway theory" and to determine whether pre-existing depressive symptoms modifies this relationship. We used contractual data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult health data spanning a 14 year period. We assessed the relationship be...

Acute pancreatitis is a frequently encountered disorder in patients presenting to emergency units. Biliary system disorders, alcohol consumption, infections, and drugs are among the causes of acute pancreatitis. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine the etiology of this disorder, particularly if the patient does not wish to disclose his consumption of cannabis, the use of which is ill...

Abstract This work illustrates the accelerated decline in illegal drug use during COVID‐19 pandemic China. We first reviewed global effects of on situation drugs. then compared data pre‐pandemic (2016–2019) and period (2020–2022) for seizures, individuals identified as using drugs, registered newly discovered users number community‐treated to demonstrate fast drugs discussed possible reasons ad...

Our society looks upon psychiatric drugs with such naive trust that it raises the moral, societal and "therapeutic" status of an illegal drug when it can be compared to a psychiatric drug. Thus Matthew Klam's personal account in the January 21, 2001 New York Times Magazine praised the amphetamine Ecstasy as a ''whooper of an antidepressant" that is better than Prozac®. Although illegal in the U...