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This study aimed to describe the profile of women seeking treatment for the use of psychoactive substances in the city of Madrid. The study used a sample of 1968 women who sought treatment at the Addiction Care Centers (CAD) of the Madrid City Council in the year 2022, which accounted for 22.9 % of the total population attended. This quantitative study used secondary data provided by the Institute of Addictions (General Subdirectorate of Addictions, Madrid Salud). The analyses included bivariate analysis, correspondence analysis, K-means clustering, and ANOVA. Bivariate analysis was conducted to determine the association between the principal psychoactive substance and sociodemographic characteristics. Statistically significant results were employed to develop a correspondence analysis and used to conduct a K-means clustering analysis. The objective was to determine the profile of the women who sought treatment at the CAD of the Institute of Addictions (General Subdirectorate of Addictions of Madrid Salud). The results revealed three profiles of women: 1) women who use cocaine and heroin, were unemployed with children, and had lower education; 2) women who used cannabis were not working, had no children, and had intermediate education; 3) women who used alcohol had children, higher education, and were working. All three profiles were associated with situations of domestic violence, where the percentages were very high in each of the profiles, regardless of the principal substance of use and the sociodemographic and health characteristics. The results highlight the need for tailored addiction treatment approaches that address the distinct social and health profiles of women in Madrid, including challenges such as motherhood, drug-related infections, and violence. These findings emphasize the importance of providing specialized services to approach the complex needs of women undergoing addiction treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

In the Mediterranean culture the young consumption of alcohol represents a practice associated with a recreative culture tied to processes of group interaction and identity. Our aim is to offer a descriptive and differential analysis for levels of age and ingestion realized of the trends of consumption of alcohol, as well as the perceptions of risk and motivations of consumption in a group of 845 Spanish teenagers of the Principado de Asturias. The emergent trends are confirmed on habits of consumption of alcohol and the representative bosses of use/abuse of the style of juvenile leisure, as well as motivations and differential perceptions of risk by virtue of the mentality of the user. There are advanced market lines of prevention based on psychosocial interventions and socio community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The biological damages caused by the use of illicit psychoactive substances can result not only from the illegal substances themselves, but can also be due to substances that dealers had to the mixtures in order to increase the overall volume of drug {cutting substances). The central aim of the present study was analysing illegal psychoactive substances and their contaminants/adulterants, through the conjugation of efforts by CHECK-IN/APDES and Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal do Porto.This cooperation allowed the comparison of Portuguese data with the data that were collected in Spain by Energy Control, a project that has been working in risk reduction for the past 10 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures adopted for its control have had a significant impact, both in and at health, social and personal levels. The Spanish Observatory of Drugs and Addictions designed a survey to study the change in the pattern of consumption of psychoactive substances and other behaviors with addictive potential, such as the use of the Internet and gambling with money, in the Spanish population during the pandemic COVID-19. A random sample of 7,886 people aged 15 to 64 was interviewed by a telephone survey. The results show a decrease in the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis and non-internet gambling, along with an increase in the use of non-prescription hypnosedatives and the number of hours spent using the internet for recreational purposes, while online gambling remained unchanged. This overall decline in use occurs in a context of reduced access to illicit drugs, a consequence of the control measures adopted in the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. The control measures also affected leisure environments, and this has possibly contributed to the changes observed, especially in heavy episodic alcohol consumption among young people, showing the impact of environmental prevention in tackling this problem. more...