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ArticleInternational journal of mental health and addiction2023

Trends of the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Cannabis Use Disorder in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2019: Results from the Disease Burden Study 2019.

Heng Shao, Heyue Du, Quan Gan, Dequan Ye, Zhuangfei Chen, Yanqing Zhu, Shasha Zhu, Lang Qu, Junyan Lu, Yutong Li and 3 more

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Article in International journal of mental health and addiction, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Heng Shao *Department of Geriatrics, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Yunnan, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4923-4628
Heyue Du *Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Quan Gan *Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Saclay, Paris, France.
Dequan YeDepartment of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Zhuangfei ChenMedical Faculty, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan China.
Yanqing ZhuThe Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan China.
Shasha ZhuThe Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan China.
Lang QuWest China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Junyan LuInstitute of Medical Biology Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Kunming, China.
Yutong LiDepartment of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA USA.
Jing DuanYunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, China.
Yingqi GuYunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, China.
Meiling ChenThe Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan China.ORCID 0000-0003-1600-3428
Kunming University of Science and Technology · CNSichuan University · CNYunnan Center for Disease Control And Prevention · CNChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNMount Holyoke College · USSecond Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University · CNUniversité Paris-Saclay · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cannabis is the fourth psychoactive substance to be legalized which are of far-reaching significance to the world. We analyzed data from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) to estimate the incidence and prevalence of cannabis use disorder (CUD) and calculated the disease burden of CUD in 204 countries and territories and 21 regions over the past three decades. We reported disease burden due to CUD in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized rate (ASR), estimated annual percentage change (EAPC), and analyzed associations between the burden of CUD and sociodemographic index (SDI) quintiles. Globally, the number of incidence cases of CUD was estimated to be increasing by 32.3% from 1990 to 2019 and males are nearly double higher than that of female. DALYs increase 38.6% from 1990. Young people aged 20-24 years old with cannabis use disorder have the highest DALYs in 2019, followed by those younger than 20 years old. India, Canada, USA, Qatar, Kenya, and high SDI quintile areas showed a high burden of disease. Nearly 200 million individuals are cannabis users worldwide, and CUD is a notable condition of GBD. The global cultivation of cannabis, rooted in different cultures, diversified access to cannabis, legalization in controversy, the promotion of medical cannabis, and many other factors promote the global cannabis industry is constantly updated and upgraded. It deserves more discussion in the future in terms of pathophysiological mechanisms, socioeconomics, law, and policy improvement. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-022-00999-4.

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Age-standardized rateCannabis use disorderDisability-adjusted life yearsEstimated annual percentage changeGlobal burden of disease

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