ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2023
Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework.
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- Spatiotemporal clustering of state-level opioid, opioid-stimulant, and opioid-benzodiazepine polysubstance deaths across the U.S.: Hierarchical agglomerative clustering analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Mental health after compounding natural hazard exposure in New South Wales from 2019 to 2023: a cross-sectional study in Australian youth.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Environmental Scan of Tools and Frameworks Assessing Climate-Related Health Vulnerabilities in Older Populations.Environmental health insights · 2026Review
- Alcohol and substance use in extreme environment temperatures exposures, neural mechanisms, coping mechanisms, substance use disorders, and increased hospital visits.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Defining a public health approach to substance use: insights from a systematic scoping review and conceptual framework development approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Short-term variations in summer temperatures and mental health-related emergency department visits in Ontario, Canada.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Experiences of extreme weather and mental health in climate-vulnerable communities: results from a large-scale survey of women living in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- A small area analysis of acute exposure to temperatures and mental health in North Carolina.International journal of biometeorology · 2025Article
- Substance use and climate change: heating up the debate.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025Article
- Climate change and resource insecurity-related mental health stressors among young adolescents in Kenya: Qualitative multi-method insights.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Factors associated with smoking and e-cigarette use statuses among individuals with chronic diseases after hurricanes Helene and Milton.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- The United European Gastroenterology green paper-climate change and gastroenterology.United European gastroenterology journal · 2024Review
- Mental health amid climate crisis: A narrative review.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Effect of wildfire on the prevalence of opioid misuse through anxiety among young adults in the United States: a modeling study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Substance Abuse: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- A systematic review of the effects of chronic, slow-onset climate change on mental health.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- Alcohol's contribution to climate change and other environmental degradation: a call for research.Health promotion international · 2024Article
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Abstract
Climate change is undermining the mental and physical health of global populations, but the question of how it is affecting substance-use behaviors has not been systematically examined. In this narrative synthesis, we find that climate change could increase harmful substance use worldwide through at least five pathways: psychosocial stress arising from the destabilization of social, environmental, economic, and geopolitical support systems; increased rates of mental disorders; increased physical-health burden; incremental harmful changes to established behavior patterns; and worry about the dangers of unchecked climate change. These pathways could operate independently, additively, interactively, and cumulatively to increase substance-use vulnerability. Young people face disproportionate risks because of their high vulnerability to mental-health problems and substance-use disorders and greater number of life years ahead in which to be exposed to current and worsening climate change. We suggest that systems thinking and developmental life-course approaches provide practical frameworks for conceptualizing this relationship. Further conceptual, methodological, and empirical work is urgently needed to evaluate the nature and scope of this burden so that effective adaptive and preventive action can be taken.
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