The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In April 2019, CCENDU published a bulletin on changes in stimulant use and related harms, which focused on methamphetamine and cocaine* based on data collected by CCENDU sites in November 2018: Changes in Stimulant Use and Related Harms: Focus on Methamphetamine and Cocaine.1 The...

BACKGROUND:

Leisure can be a context that can promote positive adolescent development, but it can also be a context that contributes to adolescents engaging in risk behaviours.

AIMS:

The aim of this study is to determine the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics, the frequency of adolescent participation in structured leisure activities (SLA), and the type of SLA contribute to adolescent alcohol use and to examine the moderating effects of gender, age, and type of SLA on the relationship between the frequency of adolescent participation in SLA and adolescent alcohol use.

METHODS

Embora mais de 1 em cada 3 indivíduos dos EUA desenvolvam um transtorno de uso de substâncias durante a vida, relativamente pouco se sabe sobre os padrões de longo prazo dos sintomas do transtorno do uso de substâncias desde a adolescência até a idade adulta.

Pontos-chave

Pergunta  Quais são os padrões de longo prazo dos sintomas do transtorno do uso de substâncias desde a adolescência até a idade adulta?

Achados  Neste estudo nacional multicohort de 5317 indivíduos seguidos de idades entre 18 e 50 anos, a maioria dos adolescentes com sintomas de transtorno de uso de substâncias mais graves...