Prevalence of Substance Use Down in Youth During Pandemic
The prevalence of youth substance use largely declined during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
The prevalence of youth substance use largely declined during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
While actions against physician licenses related to substance use have declined, they remain markedly higher than actions related to physical health.
This study was a secondary analysis of the public-use data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health which was a cross-sectional survey focusing on social and economic determinants of mental health.
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There were significant reductions in self-reported cigarette smoking among US adults with major depressive episode, substance use disorder, or both between 2006 and 2019.
Compared with cisgender youth, transgender and gender-questioning youth have increased risk factors and worse outcomes in 5 health domains.
A deep dive into clinical efficacy and safety of using psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorder, and other mental health disorders.
For a majority of adolescents with severe substance use disorder (SUD), symptomatic substance use will persist in middle age.
Nonfatal firearm injuries lead to increases in diagnoses of pain disorders, psychiatric disorders, and substance use disorders, with coincident increases in health care spending and use among survivors.
Nitin K. Sethi, MD, MBBS, and Gaston C. Baslet, MD, discuss the importance of distinguishing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) from epilepsy and the challenges of managing PNES.