World addiction medicine reports: formation of the International Society of Addiction Medicine Global Expert Network (ISAM-GEN) and its global surveys.
           
            Journal: Frontiers in psychiatry
            Volume: 15
            Issue: 
           
            Year of Publication:  
            Affiliated Institutions: 
             
                Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
                                
                                
                Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
                                
                                
                Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
                                
                                
                Political Science and Public Policy & Challey Institute, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine, Sociological and Psychological Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
                                
                                
                National Rehabilitation Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
                                
                                
                Pôle Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie d'Adultes et d'Addictologie du Grand Nancy, Centre Psychothérapique de Nancy, Laxou, France.
                                
                                
                Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
                                
                                
                National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
                                
                                
                Monash Addiction Research Centre, Eastern Health Clinical School, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychology, Istanbul Ticaret University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
                                
                                
                School of Medicine, New York University, New York City, NY, United States.
                                
                                
                Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria.
                                
                                
                Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
                                
                                
                Division of Prevention Science, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
                                
                                
                Lebanese Psychiatric Society, Beirut, Lebanon.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine, University Mohammed Vth of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.
                                
                                
                Republican Center for Addictive Disorders, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
                                
                                
                Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
                                
                                
                Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
                                
                                
                European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal.
                                
                                
                DigitAS Project, Population and Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.
                                
                                
                School of Public Health, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina.
                                
                                
                National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Yokosuka, Japan.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
                                
                                
                National Office for Addressing Drugs, Athens, Greece.
                                
                                
                Department of Addictions, Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia.
                                
                                
                Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
                                
                                
                Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
                                
                                
                Irish Chapter of International Society of Addiction Medicine (IRE-ISAM), Dublin, Ireland.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa.
                                
                                
                Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
                                
                                
                Foundation for Social Welfare Services (FSWS), Sedqa, Santa Venera, Malta.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine and Philippines General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.
                                
                                
                Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
                                
                                
                Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan.
                                
                                
                Department of Psychiatry and Child Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
                                                       
          
            
              
            Abstract summary 
			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.
           
            
Authors & Co-authors: 
             
                Ekhtiari
                
                Khojasteh Zonoozi
                
                Rafei
                
                Abolghasemi
                
                Pemstein
                
                Abdelgawad
                
                Achab
                
                Ghafri
                
                Al'Absi
                
                Bisch
                
                Conti
                
                Ambekar
                
                Arunogiri
                
                Bhad
                
                Bilici
                
                Brady
                
                Bunt
                
                Busse
                
                Butner
                
                Danesh
                
                El-Khoury
                
                Omari
                
                Jokūbonis
                
                de Jong
                
                Dom
                
                Ebrahimi
                
                Fathi Jouzdani
                
                Ferri
                
                Galea-Singer
                
                Parker
                
                Higuchi
                
                Kathiresan
                
                Khelifa
                
                Kouimtsidis
                
                Krupitsky
                
                Long
                
                Maremmani
                
                McGovern
                
                Mohaddes Ardabili
                
                Rahimi-Movaghar
                
                Rataemane
                
                Sangchooli
                
                Sibeko
                
                Vella
                
                Vista
                
                Zare-Bidoky
                
                Zhao
                
                Javed
                
                Potenza
                
                Baldacchino
                           
            
            
 
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