Open Access: Co-Designing AI-Generated Vaping Awareness Materials With Adolescents & Young Adults: A Qualitative Study @tianzesun.bsky.social @garyckchan.bsky.social Daniel Stjepanović, @y-tm.bsky.social Giang Thu Vu et al doi.org/10.1111/dar.... @ncysur.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @griffith.edu.au

Drug decriminalization in British Columbia reduced police-reported drug possession incidents without affecting drug-related hospitalizations or deaths. ja.ma/3T9zdSL

The US Food and Drug Administration is aiming to eliminate synthetic food dyes from foods sold in the US by 2026 due to concerns about their impact on children's behavior, seeking voluntary cooperation from the industry instead of legislation. #MedSky

Cannabis retail expansion in Canada came with only a small uptick in the number of consumers theconversation.com/cannabis-ret... @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social

Just out: Ruth Gibson and colleagues use econometric analysis to estimate that ODA reductions as a result of aid sanctions imposed between 1990 and 2019 increased infant, under-5, and maternal mortality rates by 3·1%, 3·6%, and 6·4%, respectively, on an annual basis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Short term remission in untreated #Depression is rare Key insight: depression warrants treatment when sufficiently severe and or disabling pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34583099/

🔓Tobacco smoking in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis Habte Belete, Tesfa Mekonen, Jason P. Connor, @garyckchan.bsky.social, Leanne Hides, Janni Leung onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The adverse public health effects of non-medical cannabis legalisation in Canada and the USA - doi.org/10.1016/S246... @thelancetph.bsky.social

In New Zealand, parental hazardous drinking appears to be associated with child maltreatment. Read the full study by Jose Romeo and colleagues https://buff.ly/3OLM1wH

"Although the evidence for associations between cannabis use and tobacco use is mixed, a majority of studies to date have found that cannabis use is associated with prior nicotine use and vice versa."

The relationship between cannabis and nicotine use. Full text: doi.org/10.1111/add....