Introduction: Mental and substance use disorders (MD) are highly prevalent and have a high social and economic cost. Objective: To describe the burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders in Brazil and Federated Units in 1990 and 2015. Methods: Descriptive study of the burden of mental and substance use disorders, using age-standardized estimates from the Global Bur...

Introduction The intentional use of drugs before or during sexual intercourse (chemsex) is a phenomenon special importance in the MSM (men who have sex with men) population due to its impact on mental, physical and health. Objectives objective this study was compare psychopathological characteristics between users whith sexualized intravenous substance (slamsex) versus those did not slamsex att...

BACKGROUND A high prevalence of lifetime psychiatric disorders among help-seeking substance abusers has been clearly established. However, the long-term course of psychiatric disorders and mental distress among help-seeking substance abusers is still unclear. The aim of this research was to examine the course of mental distress using a six-year follow-up study of treatment-seeking substance-dep...

Comorbidity among various disorders complicates research and practice. Comorbidity among emotional disorders and substance use disorders is a particularly thorny problem due to the dearth of relevant clinical research. This chapter reviews what is known about the comorbidity of substance use and anxiety disorders and presents recent data collected in the context of comorbid anxiety and mood dis...

Substance use disorders are widely recognized as one of the most pressing global public health problems, and recent research indicates that environmental factors, including access and exposure to substances of abuse, neighborhood disadvantage and disorder, and environmental barriers to treatment, influence substance use behaviors. Racial and socioeconomic inequities in the factors that create r...

OBJECTIVE The current paper aims to review findings from developmental research that are related to adolescent substance-use and are considered key for improving theory and developing effective prevention. METHOD A selective literature review of relevant developmental studies on adolescent substance-use was conducted. RESULTS Studies in epidemiology and developmental science focusing on dev...