Executive summary In September, 2015, the member states of the UN endorsed Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, which aspire to human-rights-centred approaches to …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Abstract The United States is currently experiencing an opioid epidemic, with deaths due to
opioid overdoses persisting in many communities. This epidemic is the latest wave in a …

Debates about which policy initiatives can prevent or reduce the damage that illicit drugs
cause to the public good are rarely informed by scientific evidence. Fortunately, evidence …

There is a growing recognition in the fields of public health and medicine that social
determinants of health (SDOH) play a key role in driving health inequities and disparities …

Background Cognitive deficits are observed both in heroin dependence and in pathological
gambling (PG) on various tasks. PG, as a non-substance addiction, is free of toxic …

Background People who inject drugs (PWID) have increased risk of morbidity and mortality.
We update and present estimates and trends of the prevalence of current PWID and PWID …

Background and aims Randomised controlled trials in Europe and Canada have shown that
supervised heroin assisted treatment (HAT) is an effective treatment option for people with …

BACKGROUND: Previous neuroimaging studies have documented changes in the brain of
heroin addicts. However, few researches have detailed whether such changes can be …

Though almost universally criticized as overly punitive, expensive, racially disparate in
impact, and ineffective, American drug policy remained largely unchanged from 1980 to …