多种药物使用类型学 常规狂喜使用者 访问电子舞蹈音乐活动:潜伏类分析
Ruben Johannes Jacob van Beek1, Matthijs Blankers1,2,3, Marloes Kleinjan1,4
1Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
European addiction research
|December 28, 2023
概括
英国和荷兰的年轻人在使用狂喜时表现出类似的多种药物使用模式,尽管物质偏好和MDMA形式不同. 大多数使用者打算减少,而不是戒烟,他们的药物消费.
科学领域:
- 心理药理学 心理药理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 在使用ecstasy的年轻成年人中使用多种药物是常见的,并且有所不同.
- 这些模式与不利的健康结果有关.
- 了解这些不同国家的模式至关重要,因为在英国和荷兰,狂喜药的流行率很高.
研究的目的:
- 确定和比较来自英国和荷兰的年轻狂喜药使用者的多种药物使用模式.
- 评估这些年轻成年人愿意改变他们的多重药物使用行为.
主要方法:
- 来自电子音乐场景调查的在线调查数据的潜在类别分析.
- 包括21个过去一年的物质使用指标.
- 样本包括2,255名年轻成年狂喜药使用者 (18-34岁) 定期参加EDM活动.
主要成果:
- 在英国和荷兰发现了三个类似的多种药物使用模式:传统,兴奋剂/胺,以及广泛的多种药物使用.
- "广泛的多种药物使用"类别在荷兰 (8%) 与英国 (24%) 相比显著较小.
- 英国用户更喜欢粉末/晶体3,4-甲基二氧化甲胺 (MDMA) 的高剂量,而荷兰用户更喜欢MDMA片;大多数用户的目的是减少,而不是停止使用.
结论:
- 英国和荷兰的狂喜药使用者具有可比的多种药物使用结构.
- 在特定物质使用的频率和MDMA的首选形式存在差异.
- 大多数年轻成年狂喜药使用者表示希望减少使用,但不想完全戒除.
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