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

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 …

Non-medical use of nitrous oxide (N2O) is becoming increasingly popular globally, yet little
data exists regarding N2O in Aotearoa New Zealand. We aimed to explore patterns of use …

Racial disparities have been found in outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment
completion rates. Improvements in access to treatment have sought to decrease these …

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 …

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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