ArticleFundamental & clinical pharmacology2022
Psychoactive substance use among students: A cross-sectional analysis.
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- Effects of online mindfulness-based interventions on the mental health of university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
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- Recreational nitrous oxide use in France in 2022: Results from a nationwide representative sample of adults.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Rare but relevant: Nitrous oxide and peripheral neurotoxicity, what do we know?Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Review
- Psychoactive substance use and associated factors among Mohammed first university students, Oujda, Morocco: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Factors associated with the use of benzodiazepine and opioid prescription drug in the student population: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Nitrous oxide abuse in a 21-year-old female: a case report and review of literature.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- An overview of the use of psychoactive substances among students at the University of Lille during the COVID-19 health crisis: Results of the PETRA study.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Nitrous Oxide Inhalant Abuse: Preliminary Results from a Cross-Sectional Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Italian Physicians (2023).Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Nitrous oxide: a unique official French addictovigilance national survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Mechanisms Involved in the Neurotoxicity and Abuse Liability of Nitrous Oxide: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Psychoactive substance use among students: A cross-sectional analysis.Fundamental & clinical pharmacology · 2022Article
- Promoting University Students' Mental Health through an Online Multicomponent Intervention during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Little is known about psychoactive substance use in students, apart from tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. This study investigated the prevalence of substance use and overlap between various psychoactive substances in students. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 10 066 students included in the i-Share cohort between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2017. The baseline questionnaire was the key source of information. Psychoactive substances of interest (PSI) were cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, nitrous oxide, poppers, and MDMA. Their patterns of use were categorized as lifetime, past year, and current use. The use of other psychoactive substances including alcohol and tobacco was described in PSI users and non-users. Most participants were female (75%), and their average age was 21 years. Lifetime use of at least one PSI was reported by 65.5% of participants. Cannabis was the most frequently used substance both over lifetime (57% of students) and past year (35%), followed by poppers and nitrous oxide (28% and 26% of students over lifetime, respectively). Among polydrug users (n = 1242), 65% used only nitrous oxide and poppers, showing a strong link between these two substances. Regular alcohol use, binge drinking, and current tobacco use were higher in PSI users than in non-users. Substance use was higher than previously found in both French and European studies in young people. Nitrous oxide use was particularly high. Regular alcohol use, binge drinking, and tobacco use could be used as markers to identify students at risk of PSI use to be targeted by prevention programs.
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