Drug and alcohol use among teenagers is down in the U.S. The good news from a survey from Monitoring the Future at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center shows record numbers of teens ...

The presence of coexisting conditions with alcohol use disorder is the rule rather than the exception and may entail other substance use ... frequently overlooked problem associated with alcohol ...

A team at the University of Cordoba has analyzed more than 8,000 scientific papers on substance use and adolescence to ... the separate consumption of alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis, but it does ...

According to the Health Ministry's Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education in Spain (ESTUDES 2023), the average at which young people begin to consume alcohol is 13.9 years of age; tobacco ...

most investigations of SUDs examine drug use in isolation, rather than in the more prevalent context of comorbid substance histories. Indeed, 11.3% of individuals diagnosed with a SUD have concurrent ...

Studies of heterosexual adults routinely find that partnered people – particularly those in high quality relationships – are less likely to use drugs than those who are single (Angulski et al.

One tool used worldwide to identify AUD is the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Tool (AUDIT), developed by WHO ... 2021), demonstrating the first time FDA cleared indication for any substance use ...

trends in alcohol use among Canadians. Short and long-term health risks of alcohol, dangers of alcohol use during pregnancy, alcohol use disorder and how to reduce your risks. What to do if you don’t ...

Below is a list of drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, and how each one affects the brain and contributes to substance use disorders. Alcohol interferes in the areas controlling balance, memory, ...

which often reflects a caregiver’s more relaxed attitudes about alcohol, can lead to more frequent drinking and riskier behaviors among youth, said Tim Grisby, PhD, a substance-use prevention ...