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Ekhtiari, Hamed and Khojasteh Zonoozi, Arash and Rafei, Parnian and Abolghasemi, Fateme Sadat and Pemstein, Dan and Abdelgawad, Tarek and Achab, Sophia and Ghafri, Hamad Al and Al'Absi, Mustafa and Bisch, Michaël and Conti, Aldo Alberto and Ambekar, Atul and Arunogiri, Shalini and Bhad, Roshan and Bilici, Rabia and Brady, Kathleen and Bunt, Gregory and Busse, Anja and Butner, Jenna L and Danesh, Ahmad and El-Khoury, Joseph and Omari, Fatima El and Jokūbonis, Darius and de Jong, Cor and Dom, Geert and Ebrahimi, Mohsen and Fathi Jouzdani, Ali and Ferri, Marica and Galea-Singer, Susanna and Parker, Dario Gigena and Higuchi, Susumu and Kathiresan, Preethy and Khelifa, Emira and Kouimtsidis, Christos and Krupitsky, Evgeny M and Long, Jiang and Maremmani, Icro and McGovern, Garrett and Mohaddes Ardabili, Hossein and Rahimi-Movaghar, Afarin and Rataemane, Solomon Tshimong and Sangchooli, Arshiya and Sibeko, Goodman and Vella, Anna Maria and Vista, Salvador Benjamin D and Zare-Bidoky, Mehran and Zhao, Min and Javed, Afzal and Potenza, Marc N and Baldacchino, Alexander Mario (2024) World addiction medicine reports: formation of the International Society of Addiction Medicine Global Expert Network (ISAM-GEN) and its global surveys. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1230318. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1230318.

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Addiction medicine is a dynamic field that encompasses clinical practice and research in the context of societal, economic, and cultural factors at the local, national, regional, and global levels. This field has evolved profoundly during the past decades in terms of scopes and activities with the contribution of addiction medicine scientists and professionals globally. The dynamic nature of drug addiction at the global level has resulted in a crucial need for developing an international collaborative network of addiction societies, treatment programs and experts to monitor emerging national, regional, and global concerns. This protocol paper presents methodological details of running longitudinal surveys at national, regional, and global levels through the Global Expert Network of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM-GEN). The initial formation of the network with a recruitment phase and a round of snowball sampling provided 354 experts from 78 countries across the globe. In addition, 43 national/regional addiction societies/associations are also included in the database. The surveys will be developed by global experts in addiction medicine on treatment services, service coverage, co-occurring disorders, treatment standards and barriers, emerging addictions and/or dynamic changes in treatment needs worldwide. Survey participants in categories of (1) addiction societies/associations, (2) addiction treatment programs, (3) addiction experts/clinicians and (4) related stakeholders will respond to these global longitudinal surveys. The results will be analyzed and cross-examined with available data and peer-reviewed for publication.


Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
General / Comprehensive
Date
2024
Identification #
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1230318
Publisher
Frontiers Research Foundation
Volume
15
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