Purpose To explore the impact of having relatives with addiction problems on students’ health, substance use, social life, and cognitive functioning, and to establish possible contributions of the participants’ gender, type of relationship, and type of addiction of the relative(s). Methods A qualitative, …

Already for some decades lateral flow assays (LFAs) are ‘common use’ devices in our daily life. Also, for forensic use LFAs are developed, such as for the analysis of illicit drugs and DNA, but also for the detection of explosives and body fluid identification. Despite their advantages, including ease-of-use, …

Middelengebruik komt veel voor in Nederland en is het meest gangbaar onder studenten (Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, z.d.). Er is kwantitatief onderzoek gedaan naar de prevalentie van alcohol, cannabis, cocaïne, ecstasy, amfetamine en paddo’s. Ook is de risicoperceptie van deze middelen …

Wie middelengebruik wil begrijpen mag zich niet beperken tot biologie en psychologie. De betekenis van de middelen die gebruikt worden hangt af namelijk nogal af van de sociale omgeving waarin die middelen gebruikt worden. Gebruik en betekenis van opioïden in een operatiekamer is bijvoorbeeld anders …

Drug consumption estimates are of relevance because of public health effects as well as associated criminal activities. Wastewater analysis of drug residues enables the estimation of drug consumption and drug markets. Short-term and long-term trends of cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), amphetamine (speed) and …

Inspiratiedag Studenten, mentale gezondheid en middelengebruik

The aim of this cross-sectional study is (1) to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of students with relatives with problematic substance use and to examine differences between students with and without relatives with problematic substance use in (2) health, (3) substance use and (4) study …

BACKGROUND: Visceral obesity is associated with the metabolic syndrome. The metabolic risk differs per ethnicity, but reference values for visceral obesity for body composition analyses using Computed Tomography (CT) scans in the Caucasian population are lacking. Therefore, the aim of this study was …

The last decades have seen an increase in the use of illicit recreational drugs. In this article we take a detailed look at the current state of normalisation of the three most popular illicit recreational drugs among Dutch university students in the Netherlands (MDMA/Ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamine) …

Background & aim: Malnutrition adversely influences a broad range of physical and psychological symptoms. Although polypharmacy is often mentioned to be associated with malnutrition, especially in older people it is unclear to what extent. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the extent of …