ReviewISRN Addiction2013
The destructive capacity of drug abuse: an overview exploring the harmful potential of drug abuse both to the individual and to society.
Review in ISRN Addiction, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Factors Influencing Illicit Drug Substance Abuse and Its Perceived Psychosocial Impact Among Individuals Undergoing Deaddiction Treatment at Male Drug Rehabilitation Centers of Eastern Nepal.Addiction & health · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Complications of Substance Abuse: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management Strategies.Addiction & health · 2025Review
- Prevalence of Drugs of Abuse and Cognitive Enhancer Consumption Monitored in Grab Samples and Composite Wastewater via Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry Analysis.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Work engagement, impulsivity and, self-efficacy among Polish workers. Moderating role of impulsivity.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Clinico-epidemiological Aspects of Cutaneous Lesions in Injecting Drug Users Visiting an Oral Substitution Therapy Centre in Northern India: A Cross-Sectional study.Dermatology practical & conceptual · 2022Article
- The SEEKING Drive and Its Fixation: A Neuro-Psycho-Evolutionary Approach to the Pathology of Addiction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
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- Koori voices: self-harm, suicide attempts, arrests and substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents following residential treatment.Health & justice · 2020Article
- Refining Measurement of Substance Use Disorders Among Women of Child-Bearing Age Using Hospital Records: The Development of the Explicit-Mention Substance Abuse Need for Treatment in Women (EMSANT-W) Algorithm.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
- Treatment outcomes for substance use disorder among women of reproductive age in Massachusetts: a population-based approach.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Drug use among Teenagers and Young Adults in Bhutan.Indian journal of psychological medicineArticle
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
From a public health perspective, substance abuse has long been a source of major concern, both for the individual's health and for wider society as a whole. The UK has the highest rates of recorded illegal drug misuse in the western world. In particular, it has comparatively high rates of heroin and crack cocaine use. Substances that are considered harmful are strictly regulated according to a classification system that takes into account the harms and risks of taking each drug (see the tables) (Nutt et al. (2007)). The adverse effects of drug abuse can be thought of in three parts that together determine the overall harm in taking it: (1) the direct physical harm of the substance to the individual user, (2) the tendency of the drug to induce dependence, and (3) the effect of abuse of the drug on families, communities, and society (Gable (2004, 1993)). In this report, we discuss published evidence relating to the harm of substance misuse and consider the neuropsychopharmacological mechanisms behind addiction in an attempt to gain an improved picture of the potential devastation that abuse of these substances may evoke.
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