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SUBMITTER: Degenhardt L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7370948 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Degenhardt Louisa L Bharat Chrianna C Glantz Meyer D MD Sampson Nancy A NA Scott Kate K Lim Carmen C W CCW Aguilar-Gaxiola Sergio S Al-Hamzawi Ali A Alonso Jordi J Andrade Laura H LH Bromet Evelyn J EJ Bruffaerts Ronny R Bunting Brendan B de Girolamo Giovanni G Gureje Oye O Haro Josep Maria JM Harris Meredith G MG He Yanling Y de Jonge Peter P Karam Elie G EG Karam Georges E GE Kiejna Andrzej A Lee Sing S Lepine Jean-Pierre JP Levinson Daphna D Makanjuola Victor V Medina-Mora Maria Elena ME Mneimneh Zeina Z Navarro-Mateu Fernando F Posada-Villa José J Stein Dan J DJ Tachimori Hisateru H Torres Yolanda Y Zarkov Zahari Z Chatterji Somnath S Kessler Ronald C RC
The International journal on drug policy 20190628
<h4>Background</h4>Illicit drug use and associated disease burden are estimated to have increased over the past few decades, but large gaps remain in our knowledge of the extent of use of these drugs, and especially the extent of problem or dependent use, hampering confident cross-national comparisons. The World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys Initiative involves a standardised method for assessing mental and substance use disorders via structured diagnostic interviews in representative community sa ...[more]