Global burden of disease and the impact of mental and addictive disorders

J Rehm, KD Shield - Current psychiatry reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This contribution reviews the newest empirical evidence
regarding the burden of mental and addictive disorders and weighs their importance for …

[HTML][HTML] Global burden of alcohol use disorders and alcohol liver disease

J Rehm, KD Shield - Biomedicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Alcohol use is a major risk factor for burden of mortality and morbidity. Alcoholic liver
disease (ALD) and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are important disease outcomes caused …

Rates of emergency department visits attributable to alcohol use in Ontario from 2003 to 2016: a retrospective population-level study

DT Myran, AT Hsu, G Smith, P Tanuseputro - Cmaj, 2019 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: Alcohol use causes a large burden on the health of Canadians, and
alcohol-related harms appear to be increasing in many high-income countries. We sought to …

Societal development and the alcohol‐attributable burden of disease

KD Shield, J Rehm - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study aimed to examine if there is an interaction between alcohol use and human
development in terms of their associations with alcohol‐attributable health harms. Design …

Trends in premature deaths from alcoholic liver disease in the US, 1999–2018

YH Yoon, CM Chen, ME Slater, MK Jung… - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction So-called deaths of despair—those involving drug overdoses, alcohol-related
liver disease, and suicide—have been rising in the US among middle-aged white, non …

[HTML][HTML] Enduring problems in the offspring of depressed parents followed up to 38 years

MM Weissman, A Talati, MJ Gameroff, L Pan… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background while the increased risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) in offspring of
depressed parents is one of the best-replicated findings in psychiatry, their long-term …

Tracing the origins of midlife despair: association of psychopathology during adolescence with a syndrome of despair-related maladies at midlife

GM Brennan, TE Moffitt, A Ambler… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMidlife adults are experiencing a crisis of deaths of despair (ie deaths from
suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease). We tested the hypothesis that a …

[HTML][HTML] A retrospective cohort study evaluating correlates of deep tissue infections among patients enrolled in opioid agonist treatment using administrative data in …

KA Morin, CR Prevost, JK Eibl, MT Franklyn… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between individual
characteristics and deep tissue infections in patients enrolled in opioid agonist treatment in …

[HTML][HTML] The contributions of avoidable causes of death to gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in the US and Canada: 2001–2019

S Pandey, M Hajizadeh, A Kiadaliri - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives This study measures public health policies' and healthcare system's influence, by
assessing the contributions of avoidable deaths, on the gender gaps in life expectancy and …

Comparing mortality from covid-19 to mortality due to overdose: a micromort analysis

Y Lee, LMW Lui, E Brietzke, Y Liao, C Lu, R Ho… - Journal of affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To compare the mortality risk due to covid-19 with death due to overdose in British
Columbia, Canada. The opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency in 2016 …